CAIR strikes down the 1st Amendment [Reader Post]

I’m with blast.

Last month, CAIR called on the FBI to investigate the threats of violence targeting mosques posted on the blog and urged WordPress.com to remove it for violating the hosting company’s terms of service (TOS), which prohibit blogs that “contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities.” Articles and comments posted on “Bare Naked Islam” urged attacks on and desecration of American and European mosques.

Is CAIR the only group that’s ever lodged a protest and applied pressure against hate/bigotry/violence? Do they have a 1st Amendment right?

Have there been any Islamic WordPress sites that expressed hatred and calls to violence against infidels and the West that were brought to WordPress’ attention that were not suspended for violating their terms of agreement? Would you have a problem with it if the protest and condemnation came from a Christian support group?

I have issues with CAIR, too; but that aside, this issue has nothing to do with their terror ties.

I haven’t read the details, but on the surface of this story, I tend to lean in favor of the FBI in sifting and sniffing for potential terror sympathizers and aggregators. Most Muslims aren’t a threat, but the threat our nation is facing does come from terrorists who happen to be Muslim.

Where’s Dr. John’s condemnation of Ray Lazier Lengend’s firebombings in NY? What are Dr. John’s thoughts on this:

In September 2010, I attended an Eid al-Fitr celebration at the Jamaica Muslim Center along with 28,000 worshippers, during which Imam Abu Jafar Beg, one of America’s most revered Muslim leaders, told of the importance of coming together in peace when someone attacks one of their fellow Muslims.

The speech, which fell on the holiest day of the Islamic calendar, came on the heels of another outburst of anti-Islamic fervor that emerged in the form of the debate over the Park51 Islamic Center planned for downtown Manhattan, a Florida pastor’s plan to burn Qurans and the stabbing of a Jamaica taxi driver over his Islamic faith.

It was the latest in a long string of such events 9/11, and it brought familiar feelings of anger and pain to many Muslims trying to live normal lives in New York City.

But still Beg implored his fellow Muslims to swallow their anger and express love toward all people, even those who hate. His was a message that seeks to prove that the majority of Muslims do not fit into the stereotypes held by Islamaphobic extremists who seek to harm those who do not follow their belief systems.

I met repeatedly with members of Women for Afghan Women, a Fresh Meadows, Queens, group that advocates on behalf of the oppressed women of Afghanistan. In that capacity I bore witness to the great generosity and bravery of a people who’ve dedicated their lives to helping those who cannot help themselves.

And I spoke with pious taxi drivers who lay prayer mats out under an overpass at LaGuardia Airport and pray in the direction of Mecca, in keeping with their religious principles.

But Islam does have a dark side, as does Catholicism, Judaism and atheism, and I have experienced the ancient religion’s faults firsthand as well. I have watched as a procession of city-raised Islamic extremists were charged with – and often pleaded guilty to – terrorism charges in federal courts in New York City.

I interviewed a slight Hindu woman whose Muslim husband forced her to convert to his religion, beat her, threatened to kill her, and converted her into his personal slave.

These are the tales that get the news coverage, and these are the ones that people who trend toward bigotry tend to remember, and that they blame for leading them to commit savage acts such as the bombings that rocked Queens this past weekend.

Fair…balanced.