Race has absolutely nothing to do with it
by digby
It’s such fun watching the right wingers defend freedom of speech. For instance, there’s going to be a rally in Texas this week that has them all confused:
Muslim leaders from across America will gather in Texas this weekend to hold the annual Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect conference, a weekend forum that is being billed as a “movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message,” according to event information.
The Saturday event, which seeks to combat “Islamophobes in America” who have turned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad “into an object of hate,” according to organizers, comes just a week after radicalized Islamists in France killed 17 people.
Oh my. I don’t suppose I have to explain why they are a little bit dizzy:
Islam is a political ideology disguised as a religion—so the excuse that it falls into protection under religious freedoms is also a false narrative.
No mention anywhere of whether it falls under the protection of free speech. And the whole right to blaspheme thing would be a bit beside the point if it’s not an actual religion.
The article doesn’t call for the rally to be shut down, so give a big high five for the survival on the First Amendment. But the commenters have a lot to say about it and it isn’t long before there’s a call for them to be rounded up and deported. And lots of stuff like this:
Besides, what muslims object to Westerners saying about islam is when westerners tell what muslims do, so what muslims do about that, is to go do exactly what westerners already reported accurately, from the time before, the muslims do it all over again – to “VINDICATE” their religion from the TRUTH.
Makes them mad when we say they cut people’s heads off, so they go cut some more people’s heads off, to prove they don’t cut people’s heads off, and tell us if we don’t quit saying they are always cutting people’s heads off, they are going to get even with us by cutting some more people’s heads off – so you better stop telling everyone they cut people’s heads off! OR ELSE!!!
Like they did to this eleven yr old boy’s head, because he said he didn’t want to be a muslim because islam is too violent.
And then this person posted a lurid picture of a decapitation with no link to anything.
But within a couple of minutes they all got bored with the whole thing and went back to standard All American racism showing pictures of Sheila Jackson Lee and writing junk like this:
Curly Bill Rose • 18 hours ago
Without re districting, shed be on welfare. Like her constituents.
It always circles back to the same thing…
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