Dawn of the Geeks

Sharia is the code of law based on the Koran. Muslims are trying to get it enforced everywhere they can. It’s the law system that currently rules much of the Middle East resulting in needless arrests and murders simply because people chose to reject Islam or practice another religion. The other thing that will get you in deep trouble is speaking bad of the “prophet” Mohammed. See, like putting quotes around “prophet” implying that he was actually a false prophet at best, could get you arrested in the Middle East. That’s a little more than rediculous and why the first right in the Bill of Rights is freedom of religion. The establishment clause is second and freedom of speech is third. The favorite thing for tyrants to oppress is religion which obviously results in the oppression of the people who practice the forbidden religion(s) who are then forced to fight and voila, war.

Italy has similar laws and recently ruled that it was not okay to have harsher sentences for those who slander the Catholic church than other religions. The only reason Artical 403 of Italian law isn’t as rediculous as the Sharia law is that Italy’s law covers defamation of all religions where as Sharia law is only concerned with defamation of Islam. Both laws fly in the face of our First Amendment Rights of freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

But apparently Democratic State Representative John Conyers doesn’t see it that way. He wants to enact a law that prohibits the criticism of religions. Especially Islam as though it needs some kind of special protection.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) condemns bigotry, acts of violence, and intolerance against any religious group, including our friends, neighbors, and citizens of the Islamic faith;

(2) declares that the civil rights and civil liberties of all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith, should be protected;

(3) recognizes that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, as any other holy book of any religion, should be treated with dignity and respect; and

(4) calls upon local, State, and Federal authorities to work to prevent bias-motivated crimes and acts against all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith.

I would hope that this guy is voted out of office when his term ends. Apparently even as a State Representative he’s oblivious to all the hate crime laws this country already has thanks to groups like the KKK.

It’s not a hate crime or bigotry to say that Mohammed was not a prophet and that the Koran is just a book. A State Representative living and working in the United States should know better. We as a free nation are allowed to have and express negative views of whatever and whoever we want. The only time this is a problem is when your views lead to violence. And we’ve already made plenty of laws against that.

Congress has no more right to enact a legal objection to flushing a Koran down the toilet than to burning a flag. We as a free nation can burn all the flags we want and all the Korans we want or any other religious text. And thanks to the Constitution, even though most would never consider doing such things, it’s well within their right to do so and will always be even if silly people like Conyer want to try to deny those rights.

The KKK has a legal right to exist under the constitution even if everyone else in the United States hates everything they stand for. That’s a consequence of freedom.