Why are the FBI, the authorities and the university downplaying this? Why have we not heard more about this from the MSM?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46640
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Looks like the kooky Islami-murder cult has drawn another lunk-head from the fat, happy, prosperous, and TOLERANT democratic world. I agree that this has drawn less attention than it desearves.
You guys probably also believe that a Muslim who is devout enough to kill himself in the cause of Allah would leave his Qu'ran behind at a strip club right before he hijacks the plane that will take him to paradise.
They thought the OK city bombing was done by Islamic terrorists too. Then they found out that it was Christian extremists. Hell, there are still those who are trying to claim that McVeigh had Islamic ties even though all evidence points elsewhere.
Why are you guys so afraid of Islam?
We are terrified of the significant fraction of Islam which seeks to violently rule the world in a non-democratic way, using the koran as the governing legal document. Timothy McVeigh was not a christian extremist. He was a right-winged, low tax, small government extremist. He was not trying to enforce christianity on anybody, or make that an official religion and replacement for democratic rule.
Who is "they" who thought that McVeigh had islamic ties? Given the climate of the world (ie, behavior of many muslims), any investigator would be nuts not to consider islamic link.
"Why are you guys so afraid of Islam? "
Here's why:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051007/ap_on_hi_te/singapore_bloggers_jailed
Singapore Jails Bloggers for Racist Speech By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 7, 8:12 AM ET
A Singapore court Friday sentenced two ethnic Chinese to prison for posting racist remarks about ethnic Malays on the Internet, in what is considered a landmark case underscoring the government's attempts to crack down on racial intolerance and regulate online expression.
Animal shelter worker Benjamin Koh Song Huat, 27, was jailed for one month while Nicholas Lim Yew, an unemployed 25-year-old, was sentenced to a nominal prison term of one day and fined the maximum 5,000 Singapore dollars ($2,969) for racist comments against the minority Malay community.
"Racial and religious hostility feeds on itself," said Senior District Judge Richard Magnus in passing sentence.
"Young Singaporeans ... must realize that callous and reckless remarks on racial or religious subjects have the potential to cause social disorder, in whatever medium or forum they are expressed," he said.
Lim and Koh stood in the docks with their heads bowed as they pleaded guilty to charges of committing acts "which had seditious tendencies to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races and classes."
Lim had posted disparaging comments about Malays and Islam on an Internet forum for dog lovers in a discussion about whether taxis should refuse to carry uncaged pets out of consideration for Muslims, whose religion considers dogs unclean.
In his online journal, Koh had advocated desecrating Islam's holy site of Mecca.
In mitigation, Lim and Koh's lawyers said their clients were remorseful and had separately issued apologies. Their remarks have been removed.
About 80 percent of Singapore's 4.2 million people are ethnic Chinese. Malays — mostly Muslims — make up 15 percent while the rest are ethnic Indians, Eurasians and others.
This small island republic is an oasis of calm in a region where ethnic tensions sometimes explode into violence, particularly in Indonesia. Singapore hasn't had traumatic racial experiences since deadly Chinese-Malay riots in the 1960s.
The two cases represented the first time Singaporeans had been prosecuted and convicted for racist expression under the Sedition Act — a colonial-era law used by the British to fight a communist insurgency — since the city-state's independence in 1965, the judge added.
It was necessary for the court "to make it clear that such an offense will be met, upon conviction, with a sentence of general deterrence," he said, and warned: "Bloggers who still have similar offending remarks are well advised to remove them immediately.
Koh and Lim could have been jailed up to three years.
What does this prove? The government of Singapore isn't Muslim.
They decided this was hate speech and they put these two cats in jail. It wasn't Islam's decision. What was your point when you posted this article?
And why would you be afraid of going to jail for hate speech? You aren't a racist. You wouldn't say anything that could be called "hate speech", would you?
I also don't understand the relevence of the article showing that Singapore's democratic (and therefore non-muslim) govt imprisoned two non-muslims (who comprise 80% of the nations population) for "hate speach" against muslims. I do deplore and oppose "hate speach" laws, and consider them anti-democratic (as they persecute people for merely saying things that other people dislike).
Nadir, I sure hope that you are not advocated hate speach laws, including those that would imprison people for saying things that other people interpret as "racist."
I agree that the Singapore article illustrates an injustice not by Islamic despots, but rather by democratic govt officials who have adopted the despotic/talibanic tactic of outlawing a form of speach.
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