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The
Jihad On Free Speech
Islamofascism:
Islamists have launched a hostile takeover of
American language through an increasingly aggressive and organized
censorship
campaign that threatens free speech.
Over
the past few weeks, there have been an alarming number of
cases of Muslim pressure groups trying to force Americans to conform to
a
pro-Islamic speech code.
They've
insisted on censoring any speech or expression that
offends them, including TV ads, Christian symbols, speeches and even
parts of
speech.
In
some cases, the targets of their wrath have caved in to their
demands.
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Last week, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester, Mass.,
canceled a talk on Islam by author Robert Spencer after local Muslim
groups, egged
on by Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, enlisted
a
sympathetic Boston Globe reporter to smear Spencer as a "bigot."
"We
applaud the diocese's decision," CAIR spokesman
Ibrahim Hooper gloated.
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Last month, Hooper penned a column demanding the Associated
Press drop from its new Stylebook the word "Islamist" to describe
militant Muslims who support jihad and Islamizing the West, such as
members of
the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR itself. He doesn't like the
"pejorative"
ring to it, accurate as it is.
CAIR
already got the U.S. government to scrub the term. Now it's
bullying the press not to use it.
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CAIR at the same time is running ads on buses in Chicago and San
Francisco redefining the term jihad. The whitewash campaign, dubbed
"MyJihad,"
aims to convince Americans that jihad merely means "to struggle," not
wage war…
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