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Michigan imam calls for Sharia restrictions on free speech

Jun 17, 2014 9:26 pm By Robert Spencer

HusainyburnedquransThis is not the first time that al-Husainy has called for restrictions on the freedom of speech. In 2012 he declared: “They should put a law not to insult a spiritual leader.” Al-Husainy is also a virulently antisemitic supporter of Hizballah. With the President of the United States having declared the “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” and many in the mainstream media eagerly practicing self-censorship to appease Islamic supremacists, he probably sees this as his best chance to impose Sharia speech restrictions upon the U.S.

I’m not in favor of book burnings, but to use the burning of any book to impose free speech restrictions is to destroy a foundation of free society and bring tyranny to the U.S.

“(UPDATED) Qurans burned at Dearborn mosque; imams consider new law,” by Aysha Jamali, Press & Guide, June 17, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):

DEARBORN — Several Qurans were burned in front of a mosque at about noon Tuesday in possible connection with anti-Islam Pastor Terry Jones’ expected visit to the city Saturday.

The three copies of the Quran, Muslims’ holy book believed to be the word of God, were set on fire and left to burn at the curb in front of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center, 15332 W. Warren Ave.

The imam of the mosque, Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy, confirmed that the incident occurred and that police are investigating….

Why are they investigating? It isn’t illegal to burn a book in the U.S. — at least not yet.

Imam wants new law banning burning of holy books

Several attorneys also met with the imams at Thursday’s meeting. Al-Husainy said they helped with legal advice in his plan for a new law making it illegal to burn or desecrate holy books.

“We want all of the religions to cooperate with us to bring respect to the word of God, whether the Quran, Bible, or Torah,” he said.

He said he understands it will be a challenge.

“But again, a journey of 1,000 miles starts with one step,” he said.

He and the imams will collect signatures of supporters before addressing the City Council to inquire about making a new city ordinance.

Al-Husainy said it’s a duty to protect the divine word. He said he worries that a nation where the words of God are burned in disrespect will not be blessed anymore.

Several attempts to legally prohibit the desecration of the American flag have failed in the U.S. for reasons that it violates rights to free speech.

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  1. Jax Tolmen says

    Jun 17, 2014 at 10:18 pm

    Whilst I don’t necessarily condone indiscriminate book burnings as a productive action to combat Islamic Supremacism; making such actions illegal is ludicrous. If a ban on burning the flag could not be upheld, what chance do they have of banning the burning of books?

    If these barbarians want to live in the Western World, then they can accept our rights and liberties. If they have a problem with that, they can go back to their Islamic crap holes and stick their ‘holy book’ up their butts. One thing that has always struck me as remarkably idiotic, is their repeated insistence that we adopt the very same policies that destroyed their pitiful countries in the first place.

    No genuine ‘refugee’ would willingly invite discriminatory practices into their host country, unless of course they are not true refugees. I honestly believe these people are economic migrants, using the very Pandora’s Box they opened to slither into our superior countries for personal gain. I wish the West remembered how it was built; freedom came atop the skulls of the enemies.of our values. It is about time we found our collective balls again, and drove this worthless rabble from our respective countries.

    • liz says

      Jun 17, 2014 at 10:55 pm

      I’m sure personal gain figures into it, but they also come in self righteous superiority with the full intention of imposing their totalitarian religious laws on us. Being the backwards barbarians that they are, they have no appreciation of our freedom or even a meaningful concept of it.
      What a transparent lie that this imam wants “all” spiritual leaders and holy books respected. The sad thing is he will probably get his way from our spineless jellyfish in office.

    • PatnCat says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 11:03 am

      Well said Sir, and very very true! We need to be writing our state senators, our Congress & etc and putting pressure on MICHIGAN politicos for this muslim b.s. and attempts to restrict our freedoms. Write to Michigan newspapers, Letters to the Editors, etc. I’ll do the same!

  2. Saleem Smith says

    Jun 17, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    Another devout Muslim calling for Shariah restrictions on the freedom of speech.

    The “Islam friendly” city of Dearborn Michigan sounds like a nice place to visit if a person were to agree to never criticize Islamic theology or Mohammed. no thanks!

    We ex-Muslims know that Islam is a lie.

    • PatnCat says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 11:09 am

      Well, I agree with you. Takes courage to be an ex-muslim. I pray for you to Our Lord Jesus Christ that you’ll be protected, be safe, and rewarded here on earth and in heaven. I read the koran last year and was appalled at the hate filled pages. I was despondent that our so-called leaders were saying to reproach those who criticized the pedophile prophet. Oh yes, our Leader of the Free World. Wow, the DCC is going to get a strongly worded letter from me! As are the Republicans! We need to push our local county, city and state leaders – check out your population of muslims in your state by looking at the Census. Nationwide they are only .6% but that hair on the tip of the dogs tail will end up wagging the dog. Let us push our leaders to be aware, insist on limiting muslim immigration – BRING IN THE CHRISTIANS they are persecuting.

  3. tesa says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 12:03 am

    amen i agree wholeheartedly with jax tolman.

  4. pongidae rex says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 12:21 am

    Paraphrasing the Holy Koran…

    And God will cause the trees to speak and say unto the faithful, “Here is a Jew. Come and kill him!”

    You call that sick garbage the Divine Word of God? And the clown now in the White House would make it a crime to ‘disrespect’ such drivel? You know, the clown who took an oath to ‘Protect and Defend’ the Constitution of the USA, then stood before the UN and said that protections of the US Constitution are expendible if they cause offense to Muslims. Last time I looked, the US Constitution still protected freedom of speech. Last time I looked, the clown had not yet been impeached for openly repudiating his oath of office.

    • PatnCat says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 11:13 am

      Hooray! I applaud you! Yes, I remember reading that in the koran (lower case out of disrespect) and it ain’t ‘holy’ either. All translations just say koran. Only our prophet’s President and Hillary and poor old General Patarias used the “HOLY KORAN” with reverence and wide-eyed wonder. What CRAP! I almost threw up. We need to let these people know that the AMERICAN PEOPLE will NEVER BOW to muslims, the koran, the pedophile prophet. Let us write letters to the editor in newspaper – especially in areas where there are mosques. Hopefully (hahahaha) they are peaceful muslims there, but you wonder what they are chanting in arabic that most don’t understand.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 10:49 pm

      Strictly speaking, that passage isn’t in the Quran – it’s in the *other* part of the canonical “scriptures” of Islam, the Sahih Hadith, specifically in both the Sahih Muslim and the Sahih Bukhari.

  5. dsinc says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 3:31 am

    I agree with all the commenters on this page. I just wish this new layout had thumbs up and thumbs down buttons.

  6. No Fear says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 5:18 am

    I smoked the Quran …. and I didn’t get stoned !

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 5:38 am

      HA HA HA ! ! ! ! That’s a good one, No Fear ….

      Can you please more comedy together and do a video ? Maybe interlace some terrorist blooper clips together with your own jokes…

      I predict it would go viral !

  7. harbidoll says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 5:24 am

    what say you they did it themselves to test the laws? wouldn’t be the first time & it works in Paki. & Egypt & other places.

    • judith says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 6:30 am

      I wouldn’t put it past them.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 10:55 pm

      I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.

      Perhaps it’s a good thing the cops *are* investigating…non-Muslim cops.

      Who wants to bet that the trail of the Koran-burners, if detected, turns out to lead…right back inside the mosque, from whence it started?

      In cases like this, where a burnt Quran or pig’s head or whatever is found outside a mosque or on the front doorstep, *I* think that sniffer dogs should be used, to see if they can pick up a trail.

      I wonder whether the mosque has security cameras and if so, whether the area where the books were found, is covered by them? any footage should be checked very, very carefully…with the possibility of “false flag” in mind.

  8. Kepha says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 6:30 am

    Mention of Terry Jones’ Qur’an-burning antics reminds me of a far more serious problem in America today. Yes, I’ve gone on record criticizing Jones, but neither he nor Husaini are the biggest issue.

    The more sinister enemies of the First Amendment are people like Shrillary Shrooooo (whose remarks on the relationship between US domestic politics and Islamic unrest suggest a deep mistrust of First Amendment rights for American yokels), Elena Kagan (a defender of hate speech legislation sitting on the USSC), and various others associated with both the O’s administration and our legal system. The universities and colleges that penalize “hate speech” (invariably taken as criticism of some liberal client group or Left-wing movement) are also far more dangerous to the USA than this Shi’ite imam. The O himself has told the world that the future “must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”–including, presumably, those of us who do not believe Muhammad to have been a prophet at all–as if the whole world should enforce Sharia’s understanding of blasphemy. Judge Learned Hand once said that as soon as liberty dies in the heart of a people, no laws or institutions can save it. The Age of O is showing us that liberty is dying, or has died, in the heart of one large portion of America’s political class, including, apparently, the current president.

    Interesting that Husaini quotes Lao Zi: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step (千里之行始于足下); and if there ever was anyone living in jahilya, it was the Chinese sage of ca. 500 B.C.

    Interesting that he says there should be respect for the Word of God whether Bible or Qur’an. Maybe if his law passes, we could sue him for believing that the Bible was falsified.

  9. john spielman says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 7:02 am

    while I wouldn’t burn a qur’an (too polluting) I certainly would buy Qur’an toilet paper and I think any company that would make it would have a brisk sale

    • faboutlaws says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 10:56 am

      You want to wipe your butt with Allah. God willing.

  10. Edward Cline says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 8:44 am

    “It isn’t illegal to burn a book in the U.S. — at least not yet.” Well, let’s qualify that statement a bit. Taking into account current trends, it may eventually become “legal” to burn certain books, such as “Atlas Shrugged,” “1984,” or any of Mr. Spencer’s books, but “illegal”– in fact, criminal — to burn, defile, or desecrate the Koran and related texts (e.g., “The Reliance of the Traveler”). It all depends on what does and doesn’t “offend” Muslims. I’m betting that Al-Husainy would just love to sit on a federal censorship board.

  11. Daniel says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Watch out the thought police are coming.

  12. Mirren10 says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    What I find extraordinary, is that no-one ever mentions the hundreds of **Bibles** that are burned by Saudi Arabia every year, not to mention the fact that mohammedans *frequently burn copies of the koran** !!??

    Cognitive dissonance, thy name is legion.

    Funny how you never see **Christians** waxing hysterical because someone has burned a Bible. Or maybe not …

    Ann Barnhardt famously not only burned a koran, but bookmarked it with slices of bacon before she did so. So why isn’ t this imam going after **her**?

    Answers on a postcard …

    • Kepha says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 6:27 pm

      Saudi Arabia is a disgusting, two-faced, vicious state and utterly blasphemous into the bargain. How’s that?

  13. Jerry says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    What a pity they were not printed on a much more absorbent paper so that they could be put to a more civilised use.

  14. gravenimage says

    Jun 19, 2014 at 12:06 am

    Michigan imam calls for Sharia restrictions on free speech

    This is not the first time that al-Husainy has called for restrictions on the freedom of speech. In 2012 he declared: “They should put a law not to insult a spiritual leader.”
    ……………………………..

    A “spiritual leader”—the Reverend Sun Myung Moon? Pope Francis? Mata Amritanandamayi, the “Hugging Saint”?

    I wouldn’t count on this being applied to anyone but Muslims…

    More:

    Imam wants new law banning burning of holy books

    Several attorneys also met with the imams at Thursday’s meeting. Al-Husainy said they helped with legal advice in his plan for a new law making it illegal to burn or desecrate holy books.
    ……………………………..

    Holy Books? The Baghavad Gita? The Kabala? The Book of Mormon? Probably not…

    More:

    “We want all of the religions to cooperate with us to bring respect to the word of God, whether the Quran, Bible, or Torah,” he said.
    ……………………………..

    No other religious people are clamoring for this—just Muslims.

    We see *exactly* how these “defense of religion” laws work in the Muslim world—this is *all* about Shari’ah protections against any criticism of Islam, and nothing else.

  15. Gingersnap_ says

    Jun 19, 2014 at 8:10 am

    someone should tell this guy islam does not get automatic elevation in status here in the states. if he needs this elevation, he should relocate back to Iraq where he is free to hound and persecute Christians to his hearts delight. BUT NOT HERE. its a joke hes trying to involve other religions to help him in this cause. you sink or swim here in the US public opinion pool, chump…get on board or dock yourself in another port

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