Can America Lose Her Soul?An American Kristalnacht on the Way?

This ruined my day. I love how the Islamics are hiding behind the skirts of the chador. The same chador that covers the bruises of Koran sanctioned beatings.
I can hear the bells. These bells toll for you too. hat tip Bruce

Next They'll Demand an American Kristalnacht Examiner.com

The Justice Department has been asked by the National Association of Muslim American Women to take action against "the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), better known as the 'Jewish lobby,' American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Congress B’Nai B’rith, and also the Jewish Council on Public Affairs..."

Muslim women. They can't pee without authorization. Lies.

NAMAW says those groups, as well as numerous prominent individual American Jews, have committed "hate speech" in an effort to stir up discrimination against Muslims in America.

All the hate speech has been directed at the Jews and Israel. Stand up Jews!

You should read the whole complaint because it epitomizes the inevitable result of creating classes of "hate speech" in which the government is asked to judge the acceptability of particular statements and to suppress statements that aren't acceptable, according to somebody's definition.

In this case, NAMAW is demanding that the government suppress political and religious speech with which it disagrees by branding it "hate speech." This is exactly the kind of abuse of government power that led the Founders to support the First Amendment.

Is there any difference between a Muslim activist group seeking to use an allegation of hate speech to induce the legal system to suppress political and religious speech it dislikes and university administrators using speech codes to suppress political and religious expression judged to be "inappropriate" or "unacceptable"?

In case you are wondering about the Kristalnacht reference, that was the disgraceful event in Nov. 9, 1938, during which Hitler's Gestapo assaulted Jews throughout Germany, wreaking officially sanctioned destruction on their synagogues and businesses.

According to the official order from Hitler to the Gestapo, "preparations are to be made for the arrest of about 20,000 to 30,000 Jews in the Reich. Above all well-to-do Jews are to be selected."

It is a very short step from claiming that certain groups and individuals are guilty of "hate speech" to manufacturing reasons why those same groups and individuals must be proscribed from full participation in the political system.

From there, the road leads demands for the proscribed group's removal from any participation in the political or economic system and thence directly to the Holocaust.

I wonder if NAMAW denies that historical reality?

HT: The Volokh Conspiracy

Comments

[John Sobieski]

It's the same thing, just packaged clever. Ban criticism of religion. But who decides what is a religion, and does this prevent me from saying what I believe to be facts based on the verses of their books and the writings of their scholars, not to mention the action of their fellow nutcakes? Of course it does, and the leftists will get to decide what is hate speech against a religion. Yep, Europe's nutty restrictions on freedom of speech, coming to America through the back door.

[Machiavelligz]

Hi,

Did a little more digging on the good Dr., and found some pretty good stuff. I linked to your site and here is my post:
http://thevirtuousrepublic.com/C20070109031723/E20070118220954/index.html

[JCL154]

I agree with John Sobieski about the restrictions being placed on our free speech. But I don't think they are coming through the back door. McCain/Feingold came through the main doors of our republic. What will it take to wake up the public?