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Garland, Texas imam calls for restrictions on the freedom of speech

May 20, 2015 11:50 pm By Robert Spencer

Mubasher AhmedThat is always the endgame for Islamic supremacists: to destroy the freedom of speech so that Islam cannot be criticized and the jihad cannot be opposed, so that it can advance unimpeded. People have no idea what is at stake in this controversy.

“Group that hosted Prophet Muhammad Cartoon Contest has Houston supporters,” by Joel Eisenbaum, Click2Houston.com, May 13, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

But other Houstonians, including a Houston area Muslim imam, who condemned the Garland attack, but supports restrictions on free speech, believes incendiary language should be restricted by law.

“I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people,” Imam Mobasher Ahmed said.

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  1. Wellington says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:04 am

    Freedom or Islam. Choose because you can’t have both.

    You can have freedom and Christianity.

    You can have freedom and Judaism.

    You can have freedom and Buddhism.

    You can have freedom and Hinduism.

    You can have freedom and a lot of other religions not yet listed above.

    You can have freedom and no religion.

    But you can’t have freedom and Islam. By now one knows this or should know it.

    • Westman says

      May 21, 2015 at 12:54 am

      Well said, Wellington.

      “Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world…” —Winston Churchill.

      No freedom –> No freedom of thought or expression –> No creativity –> Stagnation.

      Islam must have a host to survive.

      • boocat says

        May 21, 2015 at 4:45 am

        The core truth of Islam. I think a man was arrested recently in England for reading this Churchill piece aloud in public.

        Sometimes I feel it is almost like the Nazis won the war for England.

        • Michael Copeland says

          May 21, 2015 at 5:14 am

          Paul Weston, leader of the patriotic party LibertyGB, and candidate for election to the EU Parliament, was arrested for speaking these lines in public (without saying they were by Churchill). He was kept in the police station for a number of hours, and charged with “aggravated religious harassment”, with a trial set for some weeks later. The day before the trial the charge was dropped.
          This is how the British police are utilised to bring home a political message.
          http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6389-winchester-churchill-quotation-gets-liberty-gb-leader-paul-weston-arrested

      • Michael Copeland says

        May 21, 2015 at 4:57 am

        “as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog”.
        Print your own wallet card of Churchill on Islam:
        http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6066-churchill-on-islam-wallet-cards

    • dlbrand says

      May 21, 2015 at 1:51 am

      Wellington says: “Freedom or Islam. Choose because you can’t have both.”

      Well put, well asserted, my Friend.

      Which will choose?

      In other words, will we choose, that which we may, unfortunately, have to die for resisting here at home, and on every front; or, will we elect, rather, that which–in our allusions, pretense, and stupidity with respect to Islam–we reason, will, possibly be; very likely, probably, possibly, less harmful to us than exposing and rejecting Islam out right.

    • quotha raven says

      May 21, 2015 at 6:07 am

      Wellington – (I always feel like saying “Wellington, Darling!” Can’t explain why)
      I’d like to add something for emphasis to yrs above: An aspect of what you describe is an attribute only a theosophy can have: I believe this applies to all Muslims who actually and actively participate in their local mosque and are a part of that mosque’s Muslim community, sharia law and the tenets of the Hadith supercede or trump the US Constitution and our system of law. There is no question where Muslims first loyalties must lie if, indeed, they are Muslims.Cheers! QuothaR

      • quotha raven says

        May 21, 2015 at 6:10 am

        Rats! I meant “theocracy” not “theosophy”.Sorry. qr

    • epistemology says

      May 21, 2015 at 6:41 am

      Dear Wellington, that’s exactly the crucial point. Freedom and religion or philosophies are compatible. But totalitarian ideologies such as Islam and Nazism are incompatible with freedom. I don’t know how many times I told you how much I envy you because of your First Amendment. We don’t have this treasure here in Europe.

      I agree there are limits but it’s not up to a totalitarian system such as Islam to define them. This imam Mobster I call him wants to change the law. Who does he think he is? With views like his he can never be a fully-fledged American citizen, even if he holds the passport.

      Unfortunately many Westerners surrender to the silly demands of Islam. When you read Ibn Warraq’s “Leaving Islam, Apostates speak out”, you see it’s a disgrace that people who really lived Islam and suffered under its brutal suppression come to the West and meet all these cultural relativists that we find in every Western country. We’ve got to apologize to these brave men and women for having these moronic traitors in our midst.

      But thank G’d there are people like you my friend, take care.

  2. sara oratt says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:07 am

    No change. No how. No way. Who gets to define “high” people? Never. Never. Never.

  3. sara pratt says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:11 am

    Never. Never. Never. Who gets to define “high people”? You? That’s not how things are done in America. Our forefathers died for it. You can live with it.

  4. Westman says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:28 am

    “Especially High people” !! Really! And really disgusting.

    This isn’t Europe, some ME kingdom, or Muslim ghetto. There are no especially high people here except in their own mind.

    This “Imam”, is no real American; placing his beloved Sharia above the Constitution of the United States. He thinks like Muhammad, not realizing that Jefferson wrote the constitution and the Bill of Rights were added to stop “especially high people” from taking away the rights of the “little people”. We aren’t permitting our Lincoln Memorial to lose its Constitution to some Stealth Jihadists and be another sacked Mekkah. Our foremost value is freedom and, be warned, we are willing to die for it.

    What was he thinking when declaring allegiance to the United States Of America?? Or is that simply lying?

    The FBI should keep a close eye on Imam Mobasher Ahmed and his Mosque, because he speaks Islamist Supremacism.

    • Scott M says

      May 21, 2015 at 6:22 am

      Hey! …and get this…here in Australia the “grand mufti” can not even speak English! I kid you not! It is beyond a joke and our ‘authorities’ are pandering just like everywhere else. It is sickening.

      • particolor says

        May 21, 2015 at 6:38 am

        “High in Australia means “Rotten” 🙂

    • RMW says

      May 21, 2015 at 8:48 am

      It has been widely reported and known that there are at least two-dozen “Islamic Training Bases” located across the USA. The FBI and all law enforcement agencies must keep a close watch on all of those “Training bases.” A question as to why they were “allowed” to become established is a haunting one. The USA has its freedoms, for sure. But, to “allow” the sworn enemies of the USA to set up camps on USA soils is beyond comprehension!

  5. Xero_G says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:39 am

    Why would any human ever THINK about offending Islam? Islam is perfect. Islam is divine. Islam is the one true path to eternal bliss in Allah’s afterlife brothel. Do not resist the beheadings, rapes, enslavement, honor killings, misogyny, pedophilia, genocide, discrimination, amputations, gay killlings, wife beatings…you just don’t understand Allah’s divine plan. You are only human and not supposed to understand. Your only duty is to submit and obey. Any Questions?

    • particolor says

      May 21, 2015 at 6:42 am

      They are the “Highest” of people !!..
      See above for meaning of “High” in Australia ..

    • AnneM says

      May 21, 2015 at 11:17 am

      ……And Islam is from the DEVIL.

    • AnneM says

      May 21, 2015 at 11:18 am

      Allah = SATAN.

  6. somehistory says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:44 am

    Ms. Geller and Mr. Spencer should ride the elevator to the top of the Empire State Building and the Sears Tower and the Space Needle and with each elevator ride, carry the winning art work and have video made of the time and esp the place. The video would then be posted on the two internet sites as proof they had been to these places. Then this fool for satan could see he shouldn’t criticize them cause he would be criticizing *really high people.*

    If laws were made and equally enforced, his Friday hate speech regarding Jews, Christians and all infidels would be illegal. But he doesn’t see it that way as he believes himself and other muslms above the law and superior to every other people.
    Ugly beast of satan, is islam.

  7. Jack Holan says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:50 am

    I was drilling down to find the Web Site for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and though I did not find a Garland Page, I located the US Site. It turns out this sect from India would probably meet the same end as a Jew or Christian. They believe in Jesus, Mohammed and Ahmad, Ahmad as a second coming superseding the word of Mohammed if I understand what I’ve quickly read. So, this Sect is outside the realm of Islam that I know of and don’t know if they would be accepted by Islam.

    Robert Spencer can you comment about this?

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 21, 2015 at 5:05 am

      Try an internet search of “Ahmadis beaten to death”.
      Ahmadis are denounced in Pakistan and Indonesia as apostates – thereby entitling ANYONE to kill them, vigilante style, as Sharia dictates.
      Persecution of Ahmadis by Sunnis has been imported to Croydon, south London.

    • gravenimage says

      May 21, 2015 at 2:53 pm

      Jack, Robert Spencer has posted a slew of stories here about Muslim oppression and violence against the Ahmadi.

      And yet while they do not agree with violent Jihad, they *do* agree with imposing brutal Shari’ah law. As a result, they spend much of their time defending and whitewashing Islam. Many foolish Infidels believe that the Ahmadiyya are a “kinder, gentler” brand of Muslims, while orthodox Muslims regard them as heretics.

      Here are some stories:

      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=jihad+watch+%2B+ahmadis&gbv=2&oq=jihad+watch+%2B+ahmadis&gs_l=heirloom-hp.3…749.6692.0.7115.21.18.0.0.0.0.204.1984.6j10j1.17.0.msedr…0…1ac.1.34.heirloom-hp..5.16.1883.2WpKuSZgr8o

      • Huck Folder says

        May 25, 2015 at 11:42 pm

        First hand dealing with those Ahmadi HYPOCRITES:

        The British clan of this fetish of the cult of mo utterly defended his genocide of the Banu Qurayza. They did publish my comments, but like the sons of The Three Wise Monkeys, they heard, saw and spoke no truth.

        They deserve EVERYTHING that the REAL worshipers of mo hurl at them.

  8. Cecilia Ellis says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:57 am

    Let’s see if I have this right . . . “I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people,” Imam Mobasher Ahmed said.

    That should just about do it, because the Qur’an quite formidably disrespects an “especially high” person — Jesus — and it certainly promulgates “incendiary language.”

    Case settled. Time to round up all the Qur’ans . . .

  9. Infidel from Down Under says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:59 am

    Typical of muslims . But if an American were to go to Qatar, Iran or Saudi Arabia and told them he didn’t happen to like some of their laws say in terms of the repressive treatment of women or gays/lesbians maybe even suggested he wanted to be freely able to practice Christianity and wanted them to change their sharia laws to accommodate his wishes, how would he go??

    100 lashes and fifteen years in prison if he was lucky

  10. Gary says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:02 am

    Wait? Muslims continue to kill, butcher, rape, torture and enslave their fellow man, all over the world, and this ‘Imam’ is worried about an art contest!

    Piss off Imam!

    Your Quran is anything but “Holy”, and the god you serve is the father of all lies!

  11. RonaldB says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:07 am

    I had a Muslim friend at work for over 10 years. One time I declared I had the right to criticize anyone, including Muhammad, and he thought that I was infringing on his rights. Most Muslims do not understand the concept of unlimited free speech.

    Years ago, Nazis wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois, where concentration camp survivors were living. The ACLU provided lawyers to defend the right of the Nazis to march, and were roundly criticized for it. It was a tough call to make, who was in the right.

    We now have the spectacle of holocaust denial criminalized in Europe, but so is criticism of Islam, which provides the ammunition for constant attacks on Jews in present-day Europe. Where the government has the power to suppress speech, it will somehow always suppress the speech of weak or marginalized groups, and tolerate the speech of powerful and violent groups, however malevolent.

    Muslims occasionally frost over their suppression of free expression by claiming to defend Jewish and Christian prophets from derogatory comments. But, of course, the prophets do not need the Muslims to protect them. And did I forget to mention, the pathologically narcissistic Islam claims the Jewish prophets and Jesus to boot, as Muslims. So, when you come right down to it, these “interfaith” Muslim fascists are simply defending Muslims from criticism of non-Muslims.

    • voegelinian says

      May 21, 2015 at 3:03 pm

      Neo-Nazis in 1977 America were no threat to the lives and property and society; nor had they done a 911 attack, nor countless other attacks, nor countless other plots (luckily foiled before wreaking mass murder), all in the context of a war against us, part of a larger war against the West (and against the world, as surely megalomaniacal as Htler’s in the 1930s) in tandem with a covert strategy of stealth jihad — as Muslims have been doing, are doing now, and intend to escalate until we are destroyed. Given the mountain of evidence indicating all this (which Jihad Watchers should know, unless they belong to the Asleep At the Switchers here), it is eminently reasonable to conclude that Muslims promoting Islam (and what Muslims don’t promote Islam…?) should be outlawed, whereas (for example) a peaceful Skokie march by neo-Nazis should be legally allowed.

    • gravenimage says

      May 21, 2015 at 3:27 pm

      All very true, Ronald.

  12. nacazo says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:15 am

    Well, they misquoted a little bit the imam but the idea is the same against the constitution:

    “I think there needs to be, maybe, a change in the law that nobody should be disrespectful to the spiritually high people.”

    One thing strikes me as shortsighted by this imam. He is an ahmadiyya. And those are the first ones that sunni and shia muslims kill in the islamic paradises of the world. He is not “spiritually high” enough for muslims in Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, etc. so he would be one of the first to go if the constitution goes.

    • particolor says

      May 21, 2015 at 6:53 am

      A Muslim is a Muslim is a Muslim !!

  13. nacazo says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:20 am

    Who decides who is “spiritually higher”???

    I think Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are more spiritually high than this houston imam. So according to his rules, he doesn’t have a right to disrespect or criticize Robert and Pamela.

    But of course in reality it would not be me who decides who’s higher than who. Just the powerful would decide.

    • No Fear says

      May 21, 2015 at 3:05 am

      I am WAY more “spiritually higher” than the “prophet” Mohammed.

      (e.g. I haven’t killed hundreds of Jews by beheading them. I haven’t stolen my adopted son’s wife then fabricated a Quran verse to justify that action. I haven’t encouraged anyone to rape a dead soldier’s wife. I haven’t ordered a woman poet to be killed. I haven’t ordered a fire to be lit on a man’s chest to torture him. i haven’t sent threatenig letters to surrounding kings. I haven’t partaken in raiding Jewish trading caravans. I haven’t consummated a marriage to a nine year old girl . etc etc)

      • voegelinian says

        May 21, 2015 at 3:10 pm

        A dead dog with snot running out of its nose is spiritually higher than Muhammad was.

  14. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 21, 2015 at 2:44 am

    Islam’s TYPICAL B.S. – “I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people,” Imam Mobasher Ahmed said.”

    Of Course Imam Mobasher Ahmed DOES want this, as does his “Religion of HATE” Islam, as do most ALL Hateful “Death to the Infidel” Muslims.

    Islam and Muslims do NOT want Free Speech, in the World, and in Countries like America, BECAUSE it EXPOSES the DOCUMENTED TRUTH about Islam’s “Rule the World” Ideology, and Islam’s – NO other Ideology, Belief OR Faith should be allowed EXCEPT Islam, to be FORCED under CRIMINAL Penalties or even DEATH.

    Islam is NOT a “Religion”, Islam IS not solely confined to a belief system. Islam is NOT a religion ONLY. Islam IS a total system of life and contains within itself a particular social system, judicial system, and political system which includes geo-political aspirations – the conquest and administration of territory.

    http://newenglishreview.org/Rebecca_Bynum/Why_Islam_is_Not_a_Religion/

  15. No Fear says

    May 21, 2015 at 2:53 am

    The Quran is hatespeech against non muslims, especially Jews.

    I am unable to see the difference between Mein Kampf and the Quran.

    Can anyone point out the difference?

    {crickets chirping}

    • Brian says

      May 21, 2015 at 7:54 am

      After reading the Koran/Qur’an and studying the life of Islam’s founder, Muhammad, I can say with certainty that Islam is a murderous, fascist, supremacist ideology akin to Nazism. Muslims are trapped in that evil ideology and I hope and pray that one day they will become enlightened and be freed and see the light and truth of Christianity.

      _*Islamism = Nazism with Religious Rituals*_
      Both ideologies share numerous major features:
      *(1)* Their founders created the ideologies to get their followers to kill and die for them.

      *(2)* Their founders wrote books, *_Mein Kampf_* and the *_Koran_* respectively, that embody the ideologies and justify aggressive warfare against those deemed inferior. Here is but one of many examples from the latter:

      • Sura 9.29: Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax [jizya, dhimmi tax] in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.

      *(3)* Both ideologies claim the right to rule the entire world, as in “Today Germany, tomorrow the world” and “Islam will dominate the world.”

      • There is a video of a demonstration in London where Islamists say they will rule the world, call for the bombing of Denmark, and add that they will take infidel women as war booty. The demonstration adds threats of another 7/7, the terrorist subway bombings in the UK.

      • The context of the Takbir (Arabic for “Allah akbar!”) in this demonstration comes across like the *_“Heil Hitler!”_* of the 1930s.

      *(4)* Both ideologies define their own members as racially or religiously superior Herrenvolk; the Master Race. These are *_Aryans_* and the *_Dar-al-Islam_* (House of Islam) respectively, and the latter encompasses only the “right” kinds of Muslims.

      *(5)* Both ideologies define outsiders as Untermenschen (subhumans) whom the Master Race is free to kill, rape, rob, and/or enslave. Nazism defined Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Black people as Untermenschen.

      Islamism’s _*kafirs_* or infidels include Jews, Christians, Hindus, Baha’is, and the wrong kinds of Muslims. Sunnis regard Shiites as Untermenschen, and vice versa.

      • Kafirs and infidels are all part of the *_Dar-al-Harb_* (House of War), which means Islamism has openly declared war on the entire non-Islamic world. This includes, of course, the wrong kinds of Muslims.

      • ISIS demands the *_jizya_*, a tax paid by infidels for the privilege of remaining alive in the Dar-al-Islam, from Christians in Iraq. When the Christians can’t or won’t pay, Islamists rape their female family members. The reference adds that Islamists use Christian women the same way Imperial Japan used Koreans as what they called “comfort women.”

      • Islamists claim, and often exercise, the right to rape infidel women in North America, Europe, and Australia. “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”

      *(6)* Both ideologies slate certain people for Sonderbehandlung (special treatment, i.e. extermination). The Nazis applied this to special needs children, and here is an example of Sonderbehandlung of gay people in Iran.

      *(7)* Both ideologies need not honor their agreements with Untermenschen. Examples include Hitler’s violation of his peace agreements, and the Islamist hudna (temporary or phony peace). Hamas has proven itself incapable of honoring its hudnas for more than a few hours.

      *(8)* Both ideologies identify property of Untermenschen with yellow Stars of David or the Arabic symbol nun (Nazarene, Christian) for expropriation or looting.

      *(9)* Both ideologies exterminate Untermenschen, and then bury them in mass graves. Nazi concentration camps, mass graves of Armenian victims of the Turkish genocide of 1915, and the current conduct of ISIS are all examples.

      *(10)* Both ideologies are totally incompatible with civil liberties, and Islamist demonstrators proclaim openly, “Freedom go to Hell.” As shown by Freedom House’s Map of Freedom:

      • Almost all Christian-majority nations outside the former Soviet Union are rated as Free.

      • The world’s only Jewish-majority nation is also the only Free nation in the entire Middle East.

      • The world’s only Hindu-majority nation is the world’s largest democracy.

      • NO Muslim-majority nation is rated better than Partly Free.

      The only significant difference between *_Nazism_* and *_Islamism_* is, in fact, that Nazism recognized Aryan women as Herrenvolk, while Islamism treats Muslim women as chattel property. Muslim women can be sold by their male “owners,” subjected to female genital mutilation, and stoned to death for adultery if they are raped.

      http://www.islam-watch.org/about-us.html

      • jayell says

        May 21, 2015 at 9:55 am

        What a superbly succinct summary! I have printed this off.

      • Lu says

        May 21, 2015 at 5:40 pm

        Yes – worth printing as I am unable to make these points so lucidly!

    • The Doctor says

      May 21, 2015 at 9:40 am

      I’ve read both “Mein Kampf” and the Qur’an. One is incoherent ramblings of a psychotic madman bent on the destruction of all Jews and also bent on world domination.

      The other was written originally in German.

      • jayell says

        May 21, 2015 at 9:58 am

        I suppose the difference between the two is that the writer of the German one COULD actually read and write. Not that it matters much.

  16. IQ al Rassooli says

    May 21, 2015 at 3:00 am

    Like ALL Muslims, he has not even for one micro second considered the implications of his asinine statement

    He – like all Muslims – is in a state of permanent DENIAL of all Facts & Reality since had he used two brain cells of Logic (which he obviously lacks) he would have realised that almost every verse in Muhammad’s Quran is Hatemongering, Warmongering, Intolerant, Racist, Misogynist, Duplicitous and hence should be BANNED and every mosque and marassah (Islamic religious school) should be closed for ever

    It is unbelievable that both in the USA & Europe the law mandates that those who incite hate should be brought to justice YET no one is taking Muslim Imams to court for doing this every Friday in every mosque on Earth!

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

  17. No Fear says

    May 21, 2015 at 3:06 am

    This Imam’s piety is nauseating and his faith is a joke.

    • Lioness says

      May 21, 2015 at 11:01 am

      What can you expect from an Imam? or from any muslim, for that matter?

      • Huck Folder says

        May 25, 2015 at 11:48 pm

        Imam adman.

  18. jayell says

    May 21, 2015 at 5:49 am

    Regarding Mr. Ahmed. I cannot possibly be the only living person in the universe who is now utterly sick to the back teeth with apparently having to tolerate the sight and sound of YET ANOTHER superannuated, arrogant, self-righteous, ostensibly lobotomised, misinformed idiot pompously spouting a load of intellectually-incoherent drivel on the clearly self-induced delusional pretext that they assume themselves to have some kind of recognised authoritative social status commensurate with a level of respect that would normally command general attention, consideration and assent, and apparently immune from censure or reprisal, verbal or otherwise. Or, in short, why do we have to put up mouthy old morons like this without giving them a well-deserved smack?

  19. cindy says

    May 21, 2015 at 5:52 am

    He can call all day but that does not mean it will happen. I pray with everything in me that Texas hold strong. So many others have fallen short of the mark. We can’t fail or beloved America.

    • jayell says

      May 21, 2015 at 7:46 am

      A lack of critical self-awareness and associated tendency towards unquestioning and delusional self-importance are two symptoms of a lack of intellectual ability. both of which are clearly in evidence in the easily-demolished ramblings of Mr Ahmed. So why are you so worried about this joker, Cindy?

      • gravenimage says

        May 21, 2015 at 3:40 pm

        The only reason to be worried about this tool, Jayell, is because so many dhimmis seem to agree with him that we should not be allowed to criticize Islam. In Europe, freedom of speech is sharply curtailed.

        This is a real danger in the West.

  20. duh_swami says

    May 21, 2015 at 5:59 am

    “I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people,” Imam Mobasher Ahmed said.

    It is you kuffar, who must alter yourselves to suit us…or else…We are much higher than you are…
    So says the demon…If living here offends you…#Get out of my country…

  21. Theodoric says

    May 21, 2015 at 6:01 am

    “Prophet” Muhammad’s Shariamonster, also known as “Islam,” wants to decapitate our freedom of speech. Muhammad himself began assassinating his critics soon after winning his first victory, at the Battle of Badr – and Muhammad’s Shariamonster has never ceased to follow his murderous “Excellent Example.”

    Say “NO” To Muhammad’s Shariamonster, and say “NO” to Islam!

    https://drawthevileprophet.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/say-no-to-muhammad-s-shariamonster/

  22. Michael Copeland says

    May 21, 2015 at 6:57 am

    Respect?
    We teach our children respect for rattlesnakes, scorpions and poison ivy.
    See “Tariq Ramadan: Respect” at LibertyGB
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6377-tariq-ramadan-respect

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 21, 2015 at 7:14 am

      Try this:
      “Respect, beyond tolerance”, by Tariq Ramadan (adviser to David Cameron):
      “Pluralism is here a condition of humility and a protection against potential excess. Islam confirms this transversal teaching by synthesising the two dimensions.”
      So there.
      Tariq Ramadan
      http://tariqramadan.com/blog/2013/09/17/respect-beyond-tolerance/

    • Westman says

      May 21, 2015 at 9:07 am

      Thanks for the reference, Michael.

      The best quote of Ramadan’s actual intent, “Tell the infidels in public we respect your laws and your constitutions, which we Muslims believe that these are as worthless as the paper they are written on.

      Somehow, Western governments just don’t understand that sedition is integral in Islam.

      • Michael Copeland says

        May 21, 2015 at 12:56 pm

        Exactly.
        Sedition is not dead: it is being actively pursued by Islamic hard-liners.
        http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6244-sedition

  23. Angemon says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:02 am

    People have no idea what is at stake in this controversy.

    I bet some do and are down with it.

    a Houston area Muslim imam, who condemned the Garland attack, but supports restrictions on free speech, believes incendiary language should be restricted by law.

    And who defines what constitutes incendiary language? What Jesus preached in his time was considered “incendiary”, so Christians can’t support such a law in good conscience. Same for MLK. And same for muhammad – whether muslims know about it or not, he constantly insulted and vilified the gods of the pagans, therefore he would have rightfully stood trial and would undoubted be found guilty under such laws.

    Of course, the messages of Jesus and MKL are nothing like the message of muhammad. This just goes to show how unfair such laws are – people preaching equality and love thy neighbour are, under such laws, just as bad as someone who willingly used foul language to insult other people’s gods.

    “I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people,” Imam Mobasher Ahmed said.

    More specifically, muhammad. He didn’t say that but it’s there in the subtext.

  24. gravenimage says

    May 21, 2015 at 10:25 am

    Garland, Texas imam calls for restrictions on the freedom of speech
    ………………………………….

    Of course he does. Muslims murder us, or at least give it a good try, and the “solution” is to prevent us from speaking in the first place. *Ugh*.

    And, as noted, the end result of this would be to ban any criticism of Islam at all, including Jihad and the imposition of Shari’ah law.

    More:

    “I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people,” Imam Mobasher Ahmed said.
    ………………………………….

    “Especially high people”—meaning, of course, the “Prophet”. But also the “Caliph”, random Muslim strongmen, and Imams like Mobasher Ahmed himself.

    Of course, *nothing* could be more antithetical to the values of America and the West than this.

    And while Ahmed is Ahmadi—the Ahmadiyya are oppressed and murdered by their more orthodox coreligionists—we see from this that they are just as eager to enable Shari’ah as any other Muslims.

    • particolor says

      May 22, 2015 at 6:18 am

      And You Americans think You have trouble Now !! I was just reading where they ( Your Beloved Guv) has started on You!! Starters….No Private Gun sales. Bill Introduced !! Any wonder those Mo Mongrels Flooded into Your country with Help !! God Bless America !!
      And they said that was for Starters !!

  25. Joe Shmo says

    May 21, 2015 at 10:32 am

    I agree. You shouldn’t criticise high people. You should wait till they sober up; they could get extremely paranoid and they’re not likely to remember anything you do tell them anyway.

    Joking aside: get lost imam.

  26. Jerry Friedman says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    “I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people.” So this religious figure thinks people who smoke the most marijuana should not be criticized?

  27. Jeff says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Okay, let’s start by placing restrictions on Islam and its hateful rhetoric.

    • particolor says

      May 21, 2015 at 6:37 pm

      Easy fixed ..Send back all Government paper Unanswered Stamped “Speech Suppression” That’ll fix Em 🙂

  28. John Boston says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    Free speech must remain free. In Islam there is indeed no freedom- except for men to do whatever to women. I am having a T-shirt made with the words “ISLAMOPHOBIA A Word Used To Silence The Truth” on the front. I hope it will spark some people to think, or possibly even start a conversation about the lies of people like Pres. Obama (“Islam is a religion of peace”, etc.) versus the truth about Islamofascism.

  29. HarveyMushman says

    May 21, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    F the imam and the goat he humped his way in on…. The US will not stand for this BS….

  30. sean kraft says

    May 21, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    What did you come to this country for buddy?

    • gravenimage says

      May 21, 2015 at 3:52 pm

      Like most Muslims, he came here on “Hijira”—to impose Shari’ah law and reduce us to the status of oppressed dhimmis. This is the first step…

      • particolor says

        May 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm

        He came here to Remove a Hand and Foot from the Opposite Sides !!:-(
        And to Gag You by the looks of it ?

      • particolor says

        May 21, 2015 at 7:37 pm

        He came to Your country to Remove a Hand and a Foot from the Opposite Sides ! 🙁
        And to Gag You from the looks of it ?

  31. Champ says

    May 21, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    Garland, Texas imam calls for restrictions on the freedom of speech

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Our co-conspirator-in-chief will be happy to oblige your evil request …

  32. clap says

    May 21, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    Warmongering pedophiles are not thought highly of in the civilized world.

  33. Sweetness says

    May 21, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    “I think there needs to be a change to the law where people do not disrespect especially high people,” Imam Mobasher Ahmed said.

    and that little boy who said that the naked Emperor had no clothes? Off with his head! Or, fine him or send the impertinent little brat to a re-education camp forthwith!

    and when muslims disrespect other religious or political leaders, well, That is Free Speech!

    How about the vile practice of calling our President a Nigger in Arabic? The hypocrisy is strong in supremacists : http://shoebat.com/2015/05/20/shame-throughout-the-arab-media-they-portray-obama-in-the-worst-racist-vile-epithet-as-nigger-obama/

  34. FredvanH says

    May 21, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    Every country is inviting animals into their midst, and people are surprised their home is starting to look like a pigsty? Get a life.

    • particolor says

      May 21, 2015 at 7:23 pm

      OFFENDED DHIMMI ! 🙁

    • Robii says

      May 21, 2015 at 7:24 pm

      Have you ever listened to the lyrics of the song “The Snake”?. A woman finds a poisonous snake dying in the cold and brings it into her home to save it. After recovering, the snake then fatally bites the woman. She cries out “Why”? And the snake replies “Shut up, pretty woman, you knew I was a snake when you took me in”.

      • particolor says

        May 21, 2015 at 7:43 pm

        No Antidote 🙁

  35. Champ says

    May 21, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Houston, we have a problem …

    and it’s islam & company!

  36. Kepha says

    May 21, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    Islam can’t live with criticsm, and the Left can’t accept freedom of speech for anyone who criticizes its clients. There’s a match made in Hell, and with Shrillary Shroooooooooooooooo annointed the next POTUS by the MSM, America is in for big trouble.

    I am going to dare the Shrillary maladministration to arrest me for hate speech by posting the following:

    (1) I honestly believe that it’s unhealthy for a man to desire the moral equivalent of a prostate exam, and anyone who enjoys giving it has to be a little cruel.

    (2) No matter how much cutting and wrdrobe changes you undergo, you can’t be a woman when every cell in your body screams “XY!”

    (3) A religion which regards all outside its aegis as the “House of War’ (meaning a legitimate target for the worst kinds of predation) is dangerous; especially when compared to one whose Number Two Guy enjoined seeking peace with all as much as it is up to us (and hence can be accused of hypocrisy when it gets violent without cause).

    (4) Islam is responsible for advances in civilization only because the lands it conquered lay athwart historical trade routes between East and West; and because during its early centuries, it had a large Dhimmi population that could translate Greek classics into Syriac and then into Arabic.

    (5) I deny that Andaluz was a pluralistic, multicultural paradise. It was another Islamic kleptocracy during whose history the lot of its second class citizens was sometimes a little better than at others.

    (6) Sultan Bayezit II welcomed the Sefardim to the Ottoman Empire only because he was hungry for Jizya, not out of human sympathy or pluralistic sentiments.

    (7) The way George Tiller should have died was by public hanging after due process of law.

    (8) Joker Tsarnaev got justice. Let’s just hope it gets carried out in a timely manner–and that for his sake, he gets to know of the real Jesus Christ and repents before his date with the gurney (much as I believe that there is a Hell and a lot of people are heading there, I do not take any joy at the prospect).

    I absolve Robert and any other sponsors of this blog of any responsibility for the “hate speech” comments I have just made–they are strictly my own.

  37. Erl says

    May 24, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    interesting that we in the west should not be critical or say anything or draw any pictures of people who have gone about placing the death sentence on any one who may offended him by another person whose views of that particular individual that may be offended someone because the person in question may be remotely religious….. how quaintly stupid I am almost crying crocodile tears … I can just imagine the amount of carnage that would or could take place in our Parliamentary building here in NZ…. If he were around in NZ he would be thrown in the slammer for many moons moons

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