An American pastor — a convert from Islam — has been imprisoned without notice of charges while visiting his family in Iran.
It appears his only crime was making it possible for Iranian Christian converts from Islam to follow their religion.
Leftwing love: “I want Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick.”
More death threats here.
The first quote is from a college professor no less. And the death threats? If accomplished, how would they be any different from the actions of the mass murderer in Connecticut this past weekend?
Goodbye freedom: A North Carolina elementary school removed the word “God” from a poem written by one its students because another student’s parents complained.
After fully examining the issue during the BOE meeting, President and Chief Executive Officer Ken Paulson stated the school did in fact have the right to remove the word “God” from the child’s poem. “Courts have consistently held up the rights for students to express themselves unless their speech is disruptive to the school,” stated Patulson according to McDowell News. “When the little girl wrote the poem and included a reference to God she had every right to do that. The First Amendment protects all Americans. She had every right to mention God, (but) that dynamic changed when they asked her to read it at an assembly.” Paulson said that because the students were a captive audience – they were at a mandatory assembly with no place else to go if they didn’t want to attend – administrators had the right to remove the word “God.”
Hey, I thought being “edgy” and offensive was the way to go for truly creative people? Or does being “edgy” and offensive only apply when offending Christians and Jews?
Seriously, if the logic of this school official was taken to its natural limit, it would mean that you could silence any speech you disagreed with by merely complaining that you didn’t want to hear it. Under that logic, there is no such thing as freedom of speech.
The new America: “It’s gotta be shut down.”
Guess who, and about what.
The new America: The maker of “Innocence of Muslims” has been sentenced to a year in prison for parole violation.
It might have been a crappy film and the filmmaker might have been a bum and a liar who did violate his parole. No matter. That is not really why he was arrested. In the new America he was arrested and sent to prison because he dared make a film that offended Muslims and that the Obama administration did not like.
In the new America don’t offend the government, or they will find a reason to jail you.
Facebook has apologized and reinstated the anti-Obama posts it had previously censored.
Free speech for me but not for thee: It appears that Facebook has censored a post by the Navy Seals merely because it was critical of President Obama.
Religious liberty explained in sixteen seconds.
Guess who said this: “We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
And the speaker was not an Islamic radical.
Leftwing civility: The death threats against Mitt Romney continue to pour out from Twitter.
Freedom of religion for me but not for thee: A Christian group has been banned at Tufts University for demanding its members believe in Christianity.
A Texas judge is expected to rule today on whether cheerleaders have the right to quote the bible at high school football games.
And if he rules they can’t, I say they should go ahead anyway, as they have the right to express themselves no matter what a judge says.
Update: The judge has ruled in favor of the cheerleaders.
