| Well, where are these muslims who support us? How do I keep in contact when they refuse to show themselves and STAND UP against the radicals? I mean, on a personal level I KNOW and have worked with muslims who seemed to be good people. BUT where is the group that is speaking out AGAINST the terrorists? Who is their leader? How can I support them?
Because the ONLY muslims one sees in the drive-by media are the terrorists or their supporters (CAIR and CNN itself are just two examples).
Also "hate speech". I have a real problem with that term as it has been used to justify THOUGHT crime. So let me be clear. If the speech in question is "my god says you unbelievers will burn in hell" I DON"T have a problem with that and don't think it should be punished. If the speech is "my god commands all good believers to go out and kill the unbelievers" THAT is encitement to violence and not free speech and it should be punished. As I've indicated above, I believe that a religion "crosses the line" when they start telling their followers to go out and kill non-believers.
But you are correct in that we DO need to investigate those who are threatening us.
I don't think all muslims are evil. I judge them on a person by person basis. I DO think their religion has been hijacked by radicals and the mainstream is too COWARDLY to stand up to their radicals and the drive-by media hates America so much that THEY coddle the terrorists with whom they agree. If those "terrorists" were white male southerners who hated black people do you think ABC, CBS, NBC etc might do a few stories about the Jewhater Cartoon Network that the "terrorists" had funded and were running in Tenn, Miss, and Alabama? Do you think that Sixty Minutes, for example, might do a story on the "compounds" being operated by the Church of the White Southern Male? (We actually KNOW that answer because during the early 1990's the drive-by did EXTENSIVE "reporting" on the "militia movement"!) Well now I'm digressing so I'll end by noting that unless I'm misreading (it is possible) your words, your suggestion is even more far reaching and damaging to religious freedom than even mine. You seem to be suggesting (and I agree) that we monitor speech emanating from the church, temple, mosque etc. Where I would restrict "problem speech" (ie that which triggers investigation) to encitement to violence you would cast a wider net by viewing as "problem speech" a category you call "hate speech". Either I misunderstand you OR I'm not as radical in my attack on religious freedom as I previously thought. |