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But I would freely agree that the preponderance of recent ACLU stances seem biased in favor of appeasing Islamism

Even anti-american commie lawyers can be afraid of having their heads lopped off.

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Do you get that the ACLU will not defend those who’s freedom of speech is being attacked by Islamofascists?

I wouldn’t venture to say that they’ve never done so, because I simply don’t know for sure. But I would freely agree that the preponderance of recent ACLU stances seem biased in favor of appeasing Islamism. . .which is very disturbing.

You should be aware that Mr. Spencer, a well-known purveryor of hatred and bigotry against Muslims, has a history of false and fefamatory statements.

is scandalous.

Then there is the statement made by Ibrahim Hooper, aired on CNN(see marker 4:44) a couple of nights ago with Paula Zahn asking whether it was racist to fear an entire religious group based on the definition of islamophobia as provided by Dennis Prager:

ISLAMOPHOBIA

“…the term ‘Islamophobia’ has one purpose — to suppress any criticism, legitimate or not of Islam.” Dennis Prager July 31 Townhall.com

Quoting Mr. Hooper’s response: “Mr. Praeger sets up a false premise and then tries to defend it.

First of all that the use of the term is an attempt to suppress criticism. No one is saying you cannot criticize any faith, discuss things openly, be critical of certain beliefs but what we’re talking about is hatred of Islam and muslims and we don’t, again the second part of his false premise is that we call it racist. Islam is an ideology. It’s not a race. You can be a bigot. Maybe we should discuss whether Mr. Prager is a, believes in anti-Muslim bigotry. But, I mean, we got, we get on a daily basis things like, ‘kill Mecca monkeys” (raises paper with image), (raises second paper) ‘Islamonazi ragheads’, you know, uh, a message on a website supporting Mr. Pragers column said, “muslims are al-qaeda and al-qaeda are muslim, let’s be done with it and kill them all.’ Is he now ready to repudiate Robert Spencer and JihadWatch, one of his top supporters?

heroyalwhyness wonders how much CAIR was involved with placing that particular comment at Jihadwatch – as I was online when that comment was removed by the JW staff and the commenter banned when notified by other JW readers )

To Hooper’s maligning innuendo Prager responds without hesitation, “Jihadwatch is one of the most honorable websites that I know of. . .”

Both of these public attacks on Robert Spencer appear as a co-ordinated effort to publicly link his name with accusations of unfounded bigotry and hatred against Muslims. Those familiar with Robert Spencer’s work know this effort to malign him is intentionally malicious defamation.

As CAIR picks up steam with this malicious rhetoric and threatens additional lawsuits, keep in mind

Congress passed the thought crime legislation, 237-180,

also would make it easier for federal law enforcement to take part in or assist local prosecutions involving bias-motivated attacks. Similar legislation is also moving through the Senate, setting the stage for a possible veto showdown with President Bush.

Recall the PACE koran dunk resulted in not one but TWO felony charges based on “hate crimes”.

Do you get that the ACLU will not defend those who’s freedom of speech is being attacked by Islamofascists?

They oppose everything about our Judeo-Christian, Free Market system. Get it?

Everything. . .except for the numerous examples cited in just the one link I provided.

So don’t sit there and tell me the ACLU has my best interests at heart

I didn’t do any such thing, so if you don’t sit there and tell me I did, I promise I won’t tell you the ACLU has your best interests at heart. Deal?

All I have done, in response to a misleading comment about how the ACLU never defends Christians, is point out the error of that statement. Now I am demonized for it. Usually I only see this sort of behavior on liberal ‘blog comment areas. . .a behavior that we here usually condemn as ’stifling dissent’. Except I’m not even dissenting! I don’t like the ACLU any more than you guys do!

But it’s simply untrue to say the ACLU never defends Christians.