{"id":15841,"date":"2012-09-18T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15841"},"modified":"2012-09-18T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:06:39","slug":"islamisms-threat-to-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15841\/islamisms-threat-to-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamism&#8217;s Threat to Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/leading-sunni-clerics-demand-global-ban-insults-islam\">CNS News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six months after declaring that all churches in the Arabian peninsula should be destroyed, Saudi Arabia\u2019s top cleric called at the weekend for a global ban on insults targeting all religious \u201cprophets and messengers,\u201d a category that, from a Muslim perspective, includes Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s demand by Saudi grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh came on the same day that another of Sunni Islam\u2019s most prominent figures, Egypt\u2019s Al-Azhar University grand imam Ahmed el-Tayyeb, made a similar appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lest we think this is a phenomenon isolated to the Middle East, let us remember that there is no idiotic attempt to suppress liberty abroad that won\u2019t find a sympathetic ear in our own State Department. Under the Obama Administration, Foggy Bottom has gone out of its way <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/09\/13\/cairo-embassy-statement-in-tune-with-obama-u-n-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">to accommodate the Islamic world\u2019s fervor for anti-blasphemy laws<\/a> by acceding to sympathetic UN resolutions. This may seem like nothing more than superficial bridge-building, but we know the course these impulses can take in the West, as embodied by the growing trend of aggrieved Muslims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2012\/05\/should_critically_discussing_islam_be_a_form_of_hate_speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">attempting to use liberal sensitivity to \u201chate speech\u201d as a way to exact punishment on their critics<\/a> from the judicial system.<\/p>\n<p>The islamists\u2019 tactics give the lie to their ideology. On one hand, they want us to believe that they represent a powerful, ascendant culture. On the other, their attempts to forcibly silence their critics betrays a deep and pervasive insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Great societies disprove their detractors. Weak ones send them to the stocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNS News: Six months after declaring that all churches in the Arabian peninsula should be destroyed, Saudi Arabia\u2019s top cleric called at the weekend for a global ban on insults targeting all religious \u201cprophets and messengers,\u201d a category that, from a Muslim perspective, includes Jesus Christ. Saturday\u2019s demand by Saudi grand mufti Sheikh Abdul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3819,1362,716,503,1709,1475,3818],"class_list":["post-15841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-blasphemy-laws","tag-egypt","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-islam","tag-islamism","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15841"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15850,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15841\/revisions\/15850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}