The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

[4est_4est_Gump]

"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
Barack Hussein Obama, September 2012

Criminalizing the Defamation of Islam
Amil Imani, The American Thinker
September 30, 2012

Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. With the slightest hint from their vested-interest clergy and politicians, mobs of Muslims pour into the streets in a frenzy, burning things, destroying buildings, and killing people they consider, however remotely, complicit in defaming Islam.

Concurrently, Islamic diplomats flood international forums such as the United Nations demanding that the international community adopt so-called blasphemy laws that would make criticism of their religion a criminal offense. Islamic heads of government such as Muhammad Morsi of Egypt, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and Ayatollah Khamenei of the Islamic Republic of Iran are raising a hue and cry about how Islam has been defamed in the West and claiming that urgent action is needed to stem the tide of anti-Islam expressions. These defenders of Islam, also billed as the religion of peace, call the expressions that the free world considers part and parcel of freedom of speech blasphemy. And committing blasphemy in many Islamic lands can cost people their lives.

The annual spectacle of the United Nations, where heads of state or their high representatives flock to New York to address the General Assembly on matters of great import to the world community, often lives up to the appellation "circus." It is in this forum that the Hitler-wannabe clown, Ahmadinejad, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, lectured the international body on the civility of his government and the need for the rest of the world to follow its example. Among the things the world must do is expunge Israel from the map and send the Jews to wherever they came from, if not to where Ahmadinejad's idol Adolf sent millions of them. And naturally, his government's around-the-clock race to acquire nuclear weapons capability is a fabrication of Jews and Americans. The Islamic government is pursuing a peaceful nuclear program and has no intention of developing nuclear weapons. When asked why is it that the Islamic government does not allow the international atomic energy commission to inspect its facility, Ahmadinejad has the audacity to say that there is no need for so doing. Just take our word for it.

This business of criminalizing blasphemy, demanded by a raft of Islamic politicians and high clerics, reached its highest pitch when the head of the Arab League, Nabil Alaraby, formally proposed it in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly this week. He said that in the same manner that the West has criminalized actions that physically harm people, it should also criminalize acts that harm people psychologically and spiritually.

Fascinating proposal indeed! Should only the West adopt laws that would suffocate freedom of expression in order to protect Muslim sensibilities? Don't Muslims need to do the same? Alaraby indeed proposes that these laws should criminalize insulting the sanctity of religions. It is very civil of him to make it inclusive by using the plural term "religions." But to him and one and a half billion Muslims, there are, according to the Quran, only three belief systems that qualify as religion: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What about the billions who are Hindus, Buddhists, and members of other faiths? What about agnostics? What about atheists, who don't believe in a deity? Not believing in a deity, in itself, is also a belief system. These people are fair game and can be vilified without any penalty under the proposed blasphemy law?

Interestingly enough, Muslims lash out in savagery when the sanctity of their faith is affronted in the form of a cartoon, a video, a book, or an individual burning of a Quran. Yet they feel free not only to insult other peoples' religions, but also to wreak all kinds of horrific acts upon those people. Defaming, insulting, and desecrating others' beliefs is in the fabric of Islam itself.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Atrocities committed across the Muslim world by Muslims against other faiths are legend. Egypt's Coptic Christians are fleeing their ancestral home in droves; ditto for Christians in Iraq. Mali's Ansar Dine, overrun by jihadist Muslims, is experiencing the destructions of Sufi temples and Christian churches. Bombing Christian churches and killing Christians in Nigeria is all in a day's work for people of the religion of peace.

It stands to reason that the Muslims who feel so offended by the uncomplimentary portrayal of Islam need to take a close look at their own individual as well as collective treatment of non-Muslims. Muslims do not have the right to engage in atrocities against others while demanding that no one in any form or shape offend their religious sensibilities.

Mohammad Morsi, a card-carrying lifelong member of the Muslim Brotherhood presently presiding over Egypt, has no credibility lecturing us on civility and respect for other people and their religion when in his own country minority citizens are at the mercy of Muslim mobs. Ahmadinejad, who time and again has publicly proclaimed his aim to destroy Israel, should not be allowed to sully the soil of the land of the free and promote Hitlerism in close proximity to the Statue of Liberty, which symbolizes America and what America stands for and reveres.

Nabil Alaraby, the head of the Arab League, and his ilk need to learn the elemental lesson of civility by granting to others what they shamelessly demand exclusively for themselves. It is long overdue for these purveyors of hate and intolerance toward non-Muslims to mend their own ways before appearing in international forums and shamelessly preaching the need for respect. These Muslim pseudo-populists thrive among the masses of gullible Muslims, but they certainly have no standing among the people who judge them by their deeds rather than by their rhetoric.

My advice to these pretenders of civility and devotees of respect: please go home and grant your own minority citizens a modicum of respect and tolerance before pressuring the world body to enact laws that would criminalize the defamation of Islam. Islam must first end its longstanding practice of defaming, imprisoning, and killing religious minorities before it can hope to earn reciprocity from non-Muslim people.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/criminalizing_the_defamation_of_islam.html

 

[RobDownSouth]

President Obama is urging the Muslim world not to allow religious extremists to dictate the future of their country.

 

[Bert Notorius]

if only jesus had had that kind of govt support.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

if only jesus had had that kind of govt support.

Jesus is separated from government.

Allah is government.

Allahu Akbar!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Jesus is separated from government.

Allah is government.

Allahu Akbar!

Pat Robertson disagrees with AJ.

 

[lovecraft68]

He should have added

And the future should belong to those who apologize to and for those who do.

 

[RobDownSouth]

He should have added

And the future should belong to those who apologize to and for those who do.

 

[lovecraft68]

Thanks Bro!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Thanks Bro!

不客气!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He should have added

And the future should belong to those who apologize to and for those who do.

Translation anyone?

 

[renard_ruse]

Its about time political correctness be extended to protect religion from hate speech. If you lose your job just for saying you think two dudes buttf*cking is disgusting, at the very very least it should be unacceptable to blaspheme people's deepest held and cherished faith values. Blasphemy used to be illegal in most western countries anyway, what's the big deal?

 

[renard_ruse]

Liberals and dare I say it, many liberal secular Jewish organizations such as the ADL, are the ones who concocted the "hate" speech concept in the first place.

How can they complain now if its extended to protect religions they don't like?

 

[HAL_9000]

People can say whatever they want.

And other people are also free to call them idiots.

The difference, clearly, is that *most* religions don't issue death sentences for blasphemy.

Well, at least for a hundred years or so, now, in the modern age.

It seems the standard barometer for fanaticism is the regular use of kamikaze attacks.

Case in point: some religions use self-immolation to protest. An absolutely horrific way to make a statement. But they aren't hurting anyone but themselves.

In sharp contrast is a suicide bomber blowing up a cafe or nightclub or market full of innocent bystanders.