The Kevin Bacon of American Jihad
Chesser characterized the information he provided as “just a place to start.” According to federal prosecutors, the lives of the private citizens and Facebook users Chesser identified as EDMD supporters “will remain at risk for many years to come.” Frightened by the threats, Molly Norris recanted and disavowed EDMD, but it was too late. On September 15, 2010, the Seattle Weekly informed its readers:
You may have noticed that Molly Norris’ comic is not in the paper this week. That’s because there is no more Molly. The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, “going ghost”: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity….
The Choudhry Incident
On May 14, 2010, Roshonara Choudhry, a British prize-winning student at King’s College, London, stabbed former British MP Stephen Timms in London because he supported the Iraq war.
In interviews immediately following her arrest, Choudhry told police she resolved to strike Timms after viewing over 100 hours of video sermons given by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, which she had found posted on Revolution Muslim and other websites. She began listening to the sermons in November 2009, and completed them just days before she carried out her attack.
After her attack, members of Revolution Muslim published praise of Ms. Choudhry as a “heroine” and expressed the hope “for her action to inspire Muslims to raise the knife of jihad against those who voted for the countless rapes, murders, pillages and torture of Muslim civilians as a direct consequence of their vote.” The organization also posted a list of 383 British lawmakers who voted for the Iraqi war, accompanied by instructions on how to track these lawmakers’ movements, as well as a link for buying a kitchen knife.
The British government demanded the website be taken down and on November 5, 2010, Revolution Muslim’s website closed. Shortly thereafter the website resurfaced as IslamPolicy.com.
To defend free speech rights from intimidation by the likes of Revolution Muslim, the Legal Project has proposed the Defend Expression from Islamists (DEFI) Act. This legislation would make it a federal crime to threaten or use force against individuals exercising free speech rights.
A federal statute is both necessary and proper. Islamic radicalism is a national concern. Frequently, when Islamists threaten Americans they do so over the internet and from another state or country. At the same time, existing state laws are inadequate. The heightened standard of proof deters local prosecutors from investing scarce resources, explicit grounds for a civil suit do not always exist, and damages can be difficult to quantify.
Perhaps the most significant aspect of DEFI — which is lacking in criminal statues like 18 U.S.C. 875(c) — is that it empowers victims of Islamist threats to sue for damages. This provision transforms them from passive victims into private attorneys general to defend their rights in a setting with a lower burden of proof and preset damages.
One law, by itself, won’t entirely halt groups like Revolution Muslim from threatening free speech. But it is about time we did something tangible to punish them for their threats. When Comedy Central was intimidated into censoring itself on American television, the federal government did nothing. When Molly Norris was forced to go ghost, the federal government did not pick up the tab. And when the Revolution Muslim jihadists inspired a British Muslim to attempt to assassinate a member of the British Parliament, and then threatened the lives of other British legislators, the federal government’s sole response was allegedly pressuring Google to shutter the site.
Revolution Muslim simply changed its website name and migrated to another server, without any legal consequences for the true threats it made. This kind of appeasement should end, now.
Free speech is a funny thing. It’s needed the most where it’s wanted the least.
Or put off until it’s irrelevant.
Okay, the Muslims are coming; what are ‘we’ supposed to do about it? Send letters describing what happened to Theo to members of the religion of peace?
I feel a lot safer if our “establishment” wasn’t filled with cowards.
The cartoons removed by Yale University Press from Brandis Professor Jytte Klausen’s book “The Cartoons That Shook The World” regarding the furor caused by the 12 editorial cartoons showing Islam’s prophet published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on Sept. 30, 2005. Not so bad, are they? The book was published Oct. 13, 2009 sans cartoons and can be found on Amazon with customer tags “cowardly” “censored” and “Yale shame”.
Funny that OBummer and Pelosi hypocrites call for civility in discourse (only from your side) while simultaneously being able to completely ignore the HATE SPEECH and SEDITION spewing from ISLAM in USA.
(in addition to their selective deafness of leftist hate speech AND ACTIONS, which they enable and encourage, then pretend they have nothing to do with creating.
IN backward’s world where they live tea party is dangerous b/c they dared assemble peacefully, advocated no violence
and ISLAmis peaceful even though we have much evidence tothe contrary- speech, actual plots uncovered, bombings etc.
their message__ Yes don’t believe your lying eyes- believe us- only we can educate your Christian fascist asses to see as we direct you to
Their web site is classic moon god worship. What I find strange, is these believers in the god do not look up a correct history book to see what they are worshiping. Also, a correct history book would inform them who Mohammad was, and what he enjoyed doing. For example, murder, and rape.
ROPMA!
I don’t understand the Kevin Bacon allusion.
I don’t know when it started, but there has long been a meme about movie stars linking back to Kevin Bacon. Why? I don’t know. He has had a long and varied career, but plenty of people in Hollywood have had longer and more varied ones. For some reason, Kevin Bacon stuck and the idea gained steam, even being referenced in movies and TV.
It often takes the form of “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon” or “Back to Bacon”, a game in which someone names a movie star, and then by linking movies together, you show how that person is connected to Kevin Bacon.
An easy example, Cris O’Donnell: He was in in the “The Three Musketeers” with Kiefer Sutherland, who was in “A Few Good Men” with… KEVIN BACON!
IMDB has made this trivial, but I remember playing it way back in the pre-internet days, and it was fun to struggle with linking movies together or search for a shorter path.
If you read the works of Professor Moshe Sharon, in studying the Koran in its original Arabic text, the world is described to the muslims,
The Koran sees the world as divided into 2,
1. world under Islamic rule, Dar al islam (house of islam)
2. world under future islamic rule, Dar al Harb ( meaning house of war )
(The Koran did not use the word non muslims )
Eventually, the house of war will submit to Islamic rule.
Hence, in the original Arabic text, this calling will be planted in the hearts of muslims and when the situation arised, this calling justifies all the actions, violence, jihad, suicide bombings, etc. in furthering Allah’s goal.
Non believers of Islam exist in a house of war until total submission.
Do not not be the lest surprise if you continue to hear all the rhetoric which ultimatly will turned into violence to create fear into submission.
Yes to the DEFI Act.
Reverse lawfare, a brilliant idea!
(Needless to say, it will never pass.)
Wow, all of you “Islamic radical” guys sound like those movie stars who played the terrorist parts in the “True Lies” movie. Your speech betrays you. Oh wait, maybe it was the movie “Black Sunday.” Or was it “A Son of the Sahara” or “The Black Stallion”, or maybe “Iron Eagle” or “Death Before Dishonor” or “Navy SEALs” or I know it’s “The Delta Force” or could it be “Executive Decision” or many peoples favorite “Reel Bad Arabs.” Gee, there are so many to pick from. Anyway, you guys go out and rent these and I am sure you will enjoy watching yourselves. If you guys find that these movies have helped you in any way, please guys, for your own sake, go see if you can get some anger management help. There is help out there.
One way to help you guys might be this latest infomation about the author Joel Richardson breaking new ground with a devastating account of the possible connection between the Biblical Antichrist and the Islamic Mahdi. The Bible predicts that in the last days a charismatic leader will establish a global following in the name of peace. The Quran also predicts that a man will rise up to lead the nations, pledging to usher in an era of peace. The man in the Quran is called the Mahdi, or Islam’s savior. However, the man in the Bible is the Antichrist. Could it be possible that they are one and the same person? Richardson’s stunning research and analysis suggest that it is.