Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
11:34 - THIS SHIT MUST STOP NOW
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11513
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You know, once upon a time I dreaded waking up to news of some horrific new terrorist attack.
Waking up to things like this, somehow, is even worse:
The Los Angeles-based Constitutional Rights Foundation was established in 1962 to “instill in our nation’s youth a deeper understanding of citizenship” and “values expressed in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.” Its $3 million annual budget creates and distributes teaching materials ostensibly to support the Bill of Rights. However, CRF’s Service Learning Network in 2002 issued online “diversity” teaching units featuring terrorism and Islam sections—plus a whitewashed history of Islamic law and a proposed blasphemy amendment to the U.S. Constitution. CRF created the Islamic Issues segments for the winter 1998 edition of its quarterly newsletter.
Its final Islamic study unit does ask students to consider Islamic views on the Salman Rushdie case—and a proposed blasphemy amendment to the U.S. Constitution stating, “The First Amendment shall not be interpreted to protect blasphemous speech. States shall be free to enact anti-blasphemy laws as long as they prohibit offensive speech against all religions.” Students are asked to define blasphemy, explain the “strong” Islamic reaction to Rushdie’s novel, and assume the role of a U.S. Senator considering the amendment. They are not asked to discuss the Sharia punishment for blasphemy, which traditionally has been death. Such condemnations occur to this day.
They're this close to publicly decrying the First Amendment as being itself The Enemy. And we're not lifting a finger to stop it, lest we be seen as "insensitive".
I've never felt so urgently the need to enjoy-- and exercise-- my existing First Amendment rights as I do now.
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