The Justice Department will significantly expand its definition of racial profiling to prohibit federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations, a government official said Wednesday.The move addresses a decade of criticism from civil rights groups that say federal authorities have in particular singled out Muslims in counterterrorism investigations and Latinos for immigration investigations.The Bush administration banned profiling in 2003, but with two caveats: It did not apply to national security cases, and it covered only race, not religion, ancestry or other factors.Since taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has been under pressure from Democrats in Congress to eliminate those provisions. “These exceptions are a license to profile American Muslims and Hispanic-Americans,” Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, said in 2012.President George W. Bush said in 2001 that racial profiling was wrong and promised “to end it in America.” But that was before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. After those attacks, federal agents arrested and detained dozens of Muslim men who had no ties to terrorism. The government also began a program known as special registration, which required tens of thousands of Arab and Muslim men to register with the authorities because of their nationalities.
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Then perhaps it's time Judeo-Christian clergy reinterpret their doctrinal texts, including the ten commandments to justify
first and second amendment rights guaranteed under the US Constitution to defend against jihad.
ie:
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:
I. I am the Lord thy God, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
v.
false god, Allah
II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
v.
hideous unsanitary Kabbah stone
III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
v.
indiscriminate allahu akbar
V. Honor thy father and thy mother.
v.
FGM, islamic misogyny, veils/tents/burkhas etc.
VI. Thou shalt not kill
v.
bloody history of agressive, mutilating jihad to spread Islam by jihad
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery
v.
following the example of Muhammed stealing his nephews wife, taking those women whom his right hand possesses as sex slaves, four wives etc.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal
v.
Islamic doctrinal booty theft, slavery
IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness
v.
defensive falsehoods, taqiyya (false treaty of Hudabiyya etc.) of Islamic doctrine
X. Thou shalt not covet
v.
following the example of Muhammed stealing his nephews wife, taking those women whom his right hand possesses as sex slaves, four wives etc.
....perhaps this is why it's become so difficult to keep existing and/or add displays of the entire ten commandments in the public square.
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