{"id":11923,"date":"2012-01-30T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11923"},"modified":"2012-01-30T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T02:35:05","slug":"free-speech-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11923","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech Under Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frank Gaffney,Jr., at the Center for Security Policy<\/a>\u00a0posted an article\u00a0today about General Boykin cancelling his speech at a West Point Military Academy prayer breakfast due to pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and leftwing political groups.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

This proposition is bizarre on multiple levels.\u00a0 For one, General Boykin, who is a friend and greatly admired colleague of mine, is one of the United States\u2019 most accomplished and decorated military heroes.\u00a0 He served in and led our most elite special forces units for decades, including in many of our most dangerous recent combat operations.\u00a0 He also held a number of senior positions in the intelligence community, including as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For another, Jerry Boykin is also an ordained minister.\u00a0 And the sorts of events CAIR has lately insisted he must not address include prayer sessions convened by the mayor of Ocean City, Maryland and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because he has been honest about the threat of radical Islam to America, CAIR is labeling him Islamophobic and blocking his right to speak.<\/p>\n

The article cites other examples of CAIR interfering with free speech in America:<\/p>\n

For example, another colleague, former Congressman Fred Grandy, was removed from his position as one of Washington\u2019s most popular talk radio show hosts when he refused to allow Muslim critics to dictate who could appear on his program and what they could say.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last fall, Stephen Coughlin \u2013 one of the nation\u2019s foremost non-Muslim experts on shariah \u2013 was similarly subjected to a CAIR-led effort to deny his ability to speak.\u00a0 In that case, he was denied by the Obama administration the opportunity to provide training to Central Intelligence Agency personnel about what impels our enemies to engage in murderous and stealthy forms of jihad, namely shariah.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More recently, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has been subjected to a campaign of vilification by CAIR and its friends.\u00a0 His offense?\u00a0 Mr. Kelly gave an interview to the makers of a superb documentary, \u201cThe Third Jihad,\u201d and allowed that film to be used in training his officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have seen the movie “The Third Jihad.” It is narrated by Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim who wants to see Islam\u00a0actually become a religion of peace. It is a very informative movie that reminds us what the potential impact of radical Islam will be on America.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Of particular concern is the fact that the U.S. government is now effectively encouraging what amounts to free speech for some<\/em> \u2013 and abetting it.\u00a0 Team Obama has begun according Islamophobia the status of a serious problem.\u00a0 Worse yet, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined forces with the OIC in trying to find ways to suppress this fictitious problem by treating instances of what should be protected free speech as prosecutable \u201cincitement.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

To paraphrase the famous German pastor, Martin Niem\u00f6ller, first they are coming for the \u201cIslamophobes\u201d and for Muslims who oppose shariah\u2019s political agenda.\u00a0 How soon will they decide that you have no right to speak freely, either?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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