IF HUSSEIN O. IS RE-ELECTED (GOD FORBID !) ...
Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America
by CLARE M. LOPEZDecember 8, 2011
When
President Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim
world at Cairo University in June 2009, the free world trembled while
the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gushed with praise and begged for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The
OIC is the largest head of state organization in the world after the
United Nations (UN) itself and comprises 56 Muslim countries plus the
Palestinians. It claims
to be the "collective voice of the Muslim world," i.e., the ummah, and
speaks on its behalf in effect as the seat of the next Islamic
Caliphate.
In 1990, the OIC membership adopted the "Cairo Declaration
," which officially exempted all Muslim countries from compliance with
the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and replaced it with
Islamic law (shariah).
One of the fundamental laws of Islam deals with "slander
," which is defined in shariah as saying "anything concerning a person
[a Muslim] that he would dislike."
At the OIC's Third Extraordinary
Session, held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in December 2005, the organization
adopted a "Ten-Year Programme of Action to Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century."
A key agenda
item of that meeting was "the need to counter Islamophobia" by seeking
to have the UN "…adopt an international resolution to counter
Islamophobia, and call upon all States to enact laws to counter it,
including deterrent punishments."
The word "Islamophobia" is a
completely invented word, coined by the International Institute of
Islamic Thought (IIIT), a Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) front group. OIC
adoption of the term reflects the close operational relationship between
the OIC and the Ikhwan.
Six
years later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to host OIC
Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Washington, DC in mid-December
2011 to discuss how the United States can implement the OIC agenda to
criminalize criticism of Islam.
Cloaked in the sanctimonious language of
"Resolution 16/18,"
that was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in April 2011, the WDC
three-day experts meeting is billed as a working session to discuss
legal mechanisms to combat religious discrimination (but the only
religion the Human Rights Council has ever mentioned in any previous
resolution is Islam). The UN Human Rights Council, which includes such
bastions of human rights as China, Cuba, Libya, Pakistan, and Saudi
Arabia, introduced Resolution 16/18 to the UN General Assembly (UNGA),
where it was passed in March 2011.
The
Resolution was presented to the UNGA by Pakistan (where women get the
death penalty for being raped and "blasphemy" against Islam is punished
by death). Ostensibly about "combating intolerance, negative
stereotyping and…incitement to violence against persons based on
religion or belief," the only partnership mentioned in the text is the
one with the OIC. The U.S., whose official envoy to the OIC, Rashad
Hussain, helped write Obama's Cairo speech, actively collaborated in the
drafting of Resolution 16/18.
Now,
the OIC's Ihsanoglu will come to Washington, DC, the capital of one of
the only countries in the world with a Constitution that guarantees
freedom of speech and a judicial system that consistently defends it,
with a publicized agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam. His agenda,
and, apparently that of his host, the U.S. Department of State, seek to
bring the U.S. into full compliance with Islamic law on slander, as
noted above.
Events
in the nation's capital seemed timed to ensure Ihsanoglu a warm
welcome. The Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank aligned
with the Democratic Party and Obama White House, published "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America"
in August 2011.
Disturbingly specific in naming individuals associated
with speaking truth about the doctrinal foundations of Islamic
terrorism, the report is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and
free speech in America—at least as far as Islam is concerned.
The
Justice Department soon got on board the "Islamophobia" bandwagon. In
the wake of the cancellation of a number of scheduled official training
sessions at national security agencies by deeply knowledgeable scholars
of Islamic doctrine, law, and scriptures, such as Stephen Coughlin,
Steven Emerson, William Gawthrop, John Guandolo, and Robert Spencer,
Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole
confirmed at an 11 October 2011 press conference that the Obama
administration was pulling back for review all training materials used
for the law enforcement and national security communities in order to
eliminate all references to Islam that Muslim Brotherhood groups have
found offensive.
No
doubt much encouraged by national capitulation at such a level, Salam
Al-Marayati, the president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC),
an Islamic organization that shares the jihadist agenda and ideology of
the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote an op-ed piece that was published in the
Los Angeles Times on 19 October 2011. In his piece, Al-Marayati openly
threatened the FBI with "collapse of a critical partnership with the
Muslim American community." Later that same day, the Justice Department
convened a meeting with Muslim shariah advocates at George Washington
University in WDC, chaired by its civil rights division chief, Tom
Perez. Dwight C. Holton
, the U.S. Attorney in Oregon who was also present, announced that,
after speaking with Attorney General Eric Holder, he wanted "to be
perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a
religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they
are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president,
this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for. They will
not be tolerated."
A
phobia is an irrational fear. It is not irrational to give warning of
an ideology resolutely committed to eradication of free belief,
expression, speech, and even thought. It is suicidal for a free society
willingly to collaborate with those, like the Muslim Brotherhood and the
OIC, which are determined to destroy Western civilization from
within—and have told us so, repeatedly, consistently, and publicly.
Further, collaboration in such an anti-freedom campaign represents
abrogation of the professional oath of office of every federal official
who has sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United
States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Silencing
those who would warn of impending catastrophe only ensures victory to
the enemy and loss of our most rare and precious inheritance: the
American love of liberty.
Family Security Matters
Contributor Clare M. Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence
expert. Lopez began her career as an operations officer with the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving domestically and abroad for 20 years
in a variety of assignments. Now a private consultant, Lopez is a Sr.
Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and Vice President of the
Intelligence Summit. She is also a senior fellow at the Clarion Fund.
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