{"id":25536,"date":"2015-05-07T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25536"},"modified":"2015-05-07T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T00:04:24","slug":"a-very-interesting-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25536","title":{"rendered":"A Very Interesting Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Front Page Magazine<\/a> reported yesterday that CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/a>) coordinated its response to the terrorist attack in Garland, Texas<\/a>, with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)<\/a>. The stated purpose (although in reality this is not necessarily the case) of the ACLU is to protect the civil liberties of Americans<\/a>. I would assume that those civil liberties include free speech.<\/p>\n

The article quotes a New York Times<\/a> article:<\/p>\n

So it was that on Sunday night, Ms. Salem (Alia Salem, the executive director of the Dallas and Fort Worth<\/a> chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations) was at a festive interfaith women\u2019s event with hundreds of Jewish, Christian and Muslim women when she received a text message from a friend saying that two gunmen had been shot and killed<\/a> while attacking the center where Ms. Geller was hosting her event. First, Ms. Salem said, she started to cry, fearing news of more deaths.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then she took calls from those she views as allies \u2014 other Muslim advocates, a Methodist minister, an organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union \u2014 to come up with a response that would walk a fine line: clearly condemning the extremists behind the attack, while also calling to account what they see as hatred decked out in free speech finery.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know this may come as a shock to some people, but there is no law against hatred. There is also no reason to see a draw Mohammed contest as hatred–it is simply an exercise of free speech. The exercise of free speech is part of American law. If Muslims<\/a> want to speak freely, they need to extend that right to those around them. If they don’t support free speech, I suggest they live somewhere other than America.<\/p>\n

The article at Front Page Magazine observes:<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t normally denounce someone after they were nearly killed in an attack by your people, but that\u2019s exactly what was going on here. As with Rushdie and Charlie Hebdo<\/a>, elements of Muslim organizations that weren\u2019t openly shouting \u201cDeath to America\u201d instead doubled around to destroy sympathy for the targets of the terrorists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And Salem is now pushing the \u2018incitement\u2019 line whose goal is to criminalize criticism of Islam. The ACLU\u2019s organizer is apparently okay with that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times swiftly spins this into Muslims being persecuted by being denied the power to impose Sharia law<\/a>. Denying the power to oppress women is not usually considered oppression by the left\u2026 but there\u2019s a special exception in there for Muslims.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I sense a double standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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