Thursday, September 23, 2010

East Lansing, MI DA Says, Koran-Burning Is Protected Speech, Like Burning The Flag, CAIR Objects


From Weasel Zippers:

Fuck CAIR
Detroit –Local Muslim leaders are upset prosecutors won’t pursue charges against a man who burned a Quran outside an East Lansing mosque.
Stuart Dunnings III, prosecuting attorney in Ingham County, said Wednesday that authorities “didn’t find there was any violation of Michigan law.”
Burning a holy book, whose pages were found outside the Islamic Center of East Lansing on Sept. 11, doesn’t qualify as a hate crime, Dunnings said.
“We don’t have a hate crime. There was no threat of physical intimidation because (the man who burned the Quran) was the only one there at the time,” Dunnings said.
The act also was protected by the First Amendment, said Dunnings, who equated it to burning a flag.
“It can also fall under drunken stupidity,” he said.
The incident, which occurred on the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks, prompted worldwide condemnation and rioting in India.
A Lansing man, whose identity has not been released, told police he burned the holy book. He should face federal charges, said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan.
“Not to prosecute this hate crime would send a terrible message to bigots that there will be no legal repercussion against those who intimidate Muslims at their houses of worship,” Walid said.

3 comments:

cjk said...

To enforce any kind of 'hate crime' will just reinforce the governments creeping policy of no tolerance in criticizing Mohammedanism as recently evidenced.
The Orlando pastor served with a 200 thousand dollar bill for security.
The GZ queeran burner fired from his job.
The 'let's draw Mo' day' woman basically sent into hiding on her own by the FBI.
I am astounded by the lack of coverage of these three cases because they are of utmost importance. They amount to nothing more than a discreet silencing of the public on Mohammedanism. When people see these consequences of criticizing Mohammedanism seemingly accepted without much media ado, they will think twice about their own behavior concerning Mohammedanism.
The importance of these three recent events are gravely underestimated by the side of liberty, while the oppressors are gleefully content to allow these stories to quietly evaporate away leaving their chilling message behind.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

This is one of the things that we should show to any who insists that CAIR is a civil rights organization. Anyone who actually takes one moment to think about this, can clearly see that they are not trying to protect the civil rights of Muslims, but instead give Islam special treatment. Regardless of weather or not burning the Koran is a good idea, its protected under the first amendment.

Anonymous said...

September 11, 2011 is Worldwide Burn a Koran Day.

On this day people throughout the world will burn Korans.

Until then, people worldwide will plan to burn Korans,
they will publicize their intent to burn Korans,
they will encourage others to burn Korans, and
they will defend the right of all people to burn Korans.

Happy Worldwide Burn a Koran Day!