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Free Speech That Mocks Islam Is National Security Threat for U.S., Prominent NJ Imam Tells TheBlaze

Sep. 20, 2012 8:30am Tiffany Gabbay

Imam Mohammad Qatanani Tells TheBlaze That Free Speech Mocking Islam Should Be Pursued by Dept. of Homeland Security

(Photo Credit: Carmine Galasso / The Record)

There are religions that promote turning the other cheek even when mocked, but it appears Islam is not one of them. According to one of the most prominent imams in North America, Islam never condones violence, but it also, under no uncertain terms, “ever accepts” speaking ill of the Prophet Muhammad.

In fact, so grave is mockery of the prophet considered, that the cleric – Mohammad Qatanani, who leads one of the largest mosques in New Jersey – even believes free speech that criticizes Islam poses a national security threat to the U.S. and that those responsible should be investigated by the Department of Homeland Security.

“We, as Americans, have to put limits and borders [on] freedom of speech,” Qatanani, leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County (ICPC), told TheBlaze. He explained that while Americans may ”have the freedom“ to speak their mind, ultimately, they “have no right to [talk about Muslim] holy issues” as it will incite “hatred or war among people.”

Qatanani said he thinks agitators who slander Islam, or, more specifically, the Prophet Muhammad, incite violence and hence, pose a national security risk that threatens the safety of Americans at home and abroad. Thus, America should disregard its First Amendment as it is typically applied and instead act in accordance with sharia law for the ultimate “good” of society.

In an exclusive interview with TheBlaze, the cleric, who was nearly deported in 2008 for failing to disclose his former ties to the terrorist organization Hamas on a 1996 Green Card application, explained that Muslims are required by Islam to respect the law of the land in their host-countries. He followed up that statement, however, with a treatise on how those who slander the prophet be pursued legally.

While some leaders within the Muslim community have spoken out against the anti-America driven violence in the Middle East, many have qualified their condemnation with moral equivalence, treating a film dubbed “Innocence of Muslims” (which some claim served as the catalyst for the attacks), with even harsher disdain than they do murder. Qatanani said the Obama White House should take legal action against the filmmakers.

“My position is that White House has to say strong in its condemnation [of the filmmakers] and take this person to court. If he is innocent, we will accept that… The government has strong case against this person.”

When asked what can be done to prevent future attacks, Qatanani invoked Homeland Security again, suggesting that the department actually step-in to prevent artists, composers, movie-makers, or satirists (among others), from producing works critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. He believes it is in America’s best interest to quell this kind of free speech as it “ruins” America’s image abroad and will ultimately hurt people.

Qatanani’s statements make it appear that, in so many words, the cleric is advocating for the U.S. to operate by sharia law – the religious law of Islam – when it comes to freedom of speech as it relates to Islam. If so, it would seem to echo comments in a previous report on TheBlaze outlining Islamists’ “10-year plan” to make slandering Islam unlawful on an international level.

American freedom versus Islamic freedom

One of the most revealing insights made by the controversial faith leader came when he juxtaposed American freedom with the type of freedom permitted under sharia law.

The imam acknowledged that observant Muslims view freedom only through the lens of that which is permitted by the Quran and Sunnah, the two sacred texts of Islam, and is therefore much different from the way Americans view freedom.

“They [Muslims] think our [American] freedoms are too much,” Qatanani said. “The freedom of the American people is so different from their [Muslims'] freedoms. We believe freedoms have limits and rules, otherwise we will get people into trouble…Freedom according to Islam must be according to the Quran and Sunnah. You can do [anything] you like within the teachings of these two resources. This is the difference and main reason [for the conflict].”

A different standard of freedom?

“People there [in the Middle East] don’t understand the American Constitution and freedom of speech,” Qatanani said. We have to understand each other because misunderstanding is a killing issue… The issue of Prophet Muhammad is very delicate – they [Muslims] will not accept in any way, anybody who talks badly about Muhammad.”

He went on to explain that not even Jesus or Moses, who Muslims also revere as heroes and prophets, would be permitted to speak ill of their ultimate Prophet Muhammad and stated emphatically, and repeatedly, during the interview that Muslims will never ”accept” or tolerate such slander even in the U.S. under the auspices of freedom of speech.

At one point Qatanani said that it is essentially fine to mock Jesus or Moses (as Americans often satire various religious figures) but that is absolutely verboten to mock Muhammad. Later, he added that Muslims would be equally upset if anyone were to slander Christian or Jewish figureheads.

On the embassy attacks

At the end of the day Qatanani was consistent in his call for peace, however, he was particularly fixated on the “Innocence of Muslims” as egregious enough to justify violence.

“I believe the producer of the film’s [goal] was to have people hate each other. We are against the bad reaction, but the producer wants people to react that way [rioting]. He has a hidden agenda.”

In fairness, TheBlaze has reported that the filmmakers appear to be dubious characters with checkered pasts, and perhaps even ill-intentions. That said, they were certainly within their “right” under American law to produce the movie, whether tasteful or not. Qatanani pressed that irrespective of context, such movies and rhetoric will be exploited by extremists and thus, America has a responsibility to prevent inflammatory material that could agitate jihadists from reaching the mainstream.

An interesting point to note was that throughout the discussion, Qatanani repeatedly called for peaceful action and condemned violence as being anathema to true Islam. Conversely, he referred to the attacks on U.S. embassies abroad that left a U.S. ambassador, two Navy SEALs and one additional civil servant dead, as merely ”a bad reaction.”

He then repeated calls for peace and maintained that such “bad reactions” go directly against Islam’s peaceful nature.

“We condemn any bad reaction that is not peaceful. That is not Islamically acceptable, even by the teachings of the prophet. It is unacceptable.”

So who is Qatanani?

Qatanani’s notoriety soared in 2008 when U.S. immigration authorities attempted to deport him.

Born in the Palestinian city of Nablus, Qatanani was arrested, pleaded guilty and was convicted in an Israeli military court in 1993 for aiding Hamas during an uprising that same year. When he immigrated to the United States in 1996, the cleric failed to include information about his ties to the terrorist group on his U.S. Green Card application. The omission, along with the cleric’s checkered past, prompted immigration officials to file a motion to deport Qatanani and his family.

Qatanani and his attorneys have since minimized the cleric’s history, maintaining that he was merely among hundreds of other Palestinians detained during the uprising and that he had been convicted in absentia and later subjected to harsh interrogation tactics, even “torture.”

Ultimately, Qatanini and his family were granted permanent residency in 2008, but the case is currently being appealed through the New Jersey Immigration Court of Appeals. He is also suing the FBI and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency for the release of any records that bear relevance on his ability to remain in the U.S. The imam filed his suit under the Freedom of Information Act in a U.S. District Court in Newark at the end of June, 2012. His suit claims the of Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have ignored his requests for records for more than five months.

It should also be noted that Qatanani has been much admired, not only in the Muslim community but interfaith communities as well. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has even embraced the cleric, calling him a “friend.”

Miseducation?

So what does one of America’s most high-profile and perhaps controversial Islamic scholars think is really behind the animus Islamists harbor for the West? “Miseducation.”

According to Qatanani, “miseducation on both sides” is fanning the flames of discontent in the “Muslim or Arab world…and the solution is education for everyone.” For the cleric, misunderstanding can, and clearly has, led to “killing.”

“The people here don’t understand the Arab world, how they think and deal with holy issues — issues related to the Quran and Prophet Muhammad,” the imam told TheBlaze.

The imam clarified his position by saying that there is an onus on each and every person — Muslim or not — to weigh the potential harm that could come from his or her words. The message Qatanani was attempting to convey is that “we have to stop” putting people’s lives in danger and sabotaging Muslim-American relations with anti-Islamic language and imagery. He did not address the lives that are put in danger from actual acts of agression waged by Muslims who are not respecting another culture’s “law of the land.”

Qatanani said that in these sensitive times following the Arab Spring, Muslims abroad “want to be close to America” but that saboteurs are getting in the way. “I believe that understanding each other and education is the key,” Qatanani said, adding that cross-pollination is possible if Muslim and American scholars travel to one another’s regions to educate the public.

“So we need to build that bridge. The Muslims living here in U.S. can do that.”

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Gary_K
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:02am
Who goes through the posts and determines whats not politically correct enough for the blaze?

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- objectivetruth
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:53am
  I’d absolutely love to know that myself.Speak the truth and get vanished posts.In my case I’m not sure if its outside or from them.I’m quite tired of it though.Its been bantered about that they use old huffington post employess and media matters too.Don’t know if its true or not.
  Its ok I guess if you are in thier inner or elite circle.You know semi PC.You won’t have as many disappear.
  Quite honestly if it weren’t for trying to the message out about what the muslims are truly capable of I’d have already left.I’m truly tired of begging somebody anybody or just a body for freedom of speech and so much more.I’m frankly tired of begging for my own existance and freedoms.
  
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- Gary_K
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:07pm
  I have had a few posts disappear too. Oh well, most of my rants get posted.
  
  Beck has hired a few people that worked for the lefty sites.
  
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- lisalake
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:18pm
  Really…love Glenn, but I can’t stand this message board! It’s the absolute worst I’ve ever used!
  
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- pdw
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:25pm
  Mostly the readers, if you do not like to read any post it is the option of the reader to bypass such. That is why we have freedom of choice, it also why there are so many different restaurants, types of clothing, cars, homes, etc. We are as a people have our likes and dislikes and no one is ever going to change this. For that also I am glad. So enjoy or disagree as well as comment or not. It is a on going process in life, it is how we learn.
  
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- phillycornerboy
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:58pm
  has anyone considered asking the muslims to change sharia’h law instead of ours. freedom of speech is my God given right. when God asks i’ll respond. it will be telling to hear obamas’ answer.
  
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- Leopold
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Here’s some truth
  I hope that only a minority of muslims are prepared to follow every law of the koran.
  I hope there are Muslims who would hide unbelievers.
  As there were Christians who hid Jews during WW II.
  
  Islam is made up of deceit, brutality, coercion, and absolute control.
  Their book teaches
  hatred not love.
  Revenge not forgiveness.
  Violence not peace.
  I am talking about islam and the people who claim to be true followers of same.
  
  Islam is not about ANY of the things Christ teaches.
  Islam is against The Christ.
  
  1 John 2:22-23
  Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever ACKNOWLEDGES the Son has the Father also.
  
  Hmmm; that could almost make mohammed the false prophet, could it not?
  
  Ever wonder why they treat their women with such ugliness and contempt?
  
  Daniel 11:37
  He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god, for he shall exalt himself above them all.
  The desire OF women not the desire FOR women.
  
  Was it not a woman who gave us our Saviour?
  
  The Trinity is blasphemy to the Muslim.
  
  The very essence of Christianity is based on the Holy Trinity.
  
  Guess what, we don’t even swear at any person who denies our Triune God.
  
  Well, maybe some us do. Sometimes.
  
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- Leopold
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:23pm
  I know we always have to put a caveat on our comments: “not all Muslims are like that but islam is” So there!
  I hope there are Muslims who would hide unbelievers as there are Christians who would hide even a homosexual Muslim, who wants to keep his head.
  
  Islam is not about peace but total submission.
  Islam uses these systems to deceive humanity:
  education
  propaganda
  family
  banking
  proselytising
  violence
  military
  politics
  law-sharia
  Maybe not in this order.
  
  Islam is much more dangerous than communism.
  Unfortunately there are those who agree and smile to your face while plunging the knife in to your heart.
  Even committing EVIL, never mind lying, is allowed in islam as long as it furthers the cause, which is to control the world.
  
  All these attacks are part of a strategy.
  
  They produce a video, cartoon, book or a tv show that insults islam. Unless they can find it on the internet, of course.
  
  Then, because of all these “insults” to their so called holy book, they are totally justified to commit revenge to these actions.
  
  The violence will increase until the world finally says:
  
  YES, you are right and we are wrong. For the sake of peace (false peace) we will create a law that the whole world has to abide by.
  
  For even mentioning the name of allah as a non-believer you now must be fined or beheaded.
  
  Isn’t there something like it already on the books at the UN?
  
  It seems that Obama doesn’t need much of an excuse to sign any
  
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- razhunter100
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:35pm
  posts…? heII , they blocked me 8 times.
  
  fun times
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:20pm
  I didn’t know Clooney was a muslim ?…..On a more serious note, what this clown is inferring is nothing but intimidation with a smile.
  
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- The_Pointy_End
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:22pm
  @lisalake
  
  Glenn does need ALOT of help with his website. Most professionals use a sandbox or AB testing or usability studies BEFORE unleashing new ideas on the masses. No beta testing please! Glenn could start by removing third party tracking, sorting comments from newest to oldest, implement discussion threading, and have some kind of mechanism or alert to see who commented on my posting. This is crazy that I have to scroll through pages of comments (that are not even sorted well) to see if anyone posted to my comment. COME ON!!!
  
  I here talk that he hired away the IT from Fox News. That explains a lot since the website of Fox News $UCKS too.
  
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- Mulder1
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:51pm
  We must stand up to these Islamofascists and support the right of Americans to freedom of speech. We need a President who will support our freedoms of speech and religion, and that is not Obama. Obama is an appeaser and a Dhimmi.
  
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- ree758
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:56pm
  The blaze needs you can say anything policy. I’ve had posts dissapear that were not that bad.
  
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- PuppyKisses
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 5:07pm
  They can dig Mohammed up and his reeking zombie corpse can suck my American, free speech loving flag pole!!!
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 5:59pm
  Last Ounce of Courage trailer
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5iue0Wi3gY
  My husband & I saw it this afternoon and we wept at the realization of how our precious freedoms are being eroded. This movie is very inspirational and points out how God is being removed by a few and how we just accept it. It goes to the heart of America and shows how our military provides freedom for the world and how at home we take it for granted.
  At this time in history it is a must see because it will inspire you to fight in whatever capacity you can to preserve and restore our great country. Take tissues.
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:01pm
  I will not be silenced. I will speak my mind no matter what. Islam is not about peace, love and tollerance, they are about war, murder, hate, and slavery. The prophet mohamed is a dog faced, murderous, evil pedophile. Come on Islam threaten me. I have a present for you.
  
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- 118Isaiah
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:17pm
  This is ridiculous, contradictory and plainly illogical. This guy needs to think a bit more deeply before making such claims. In short Americans should NOT use “free speech” when and where Muslims are concerned (unless of course it’s to praise them for whatever reason) within a critical context. Irony here being that this Imam is using his “free speech” in a critical or chastising manner of Americans to let Americans know they should not use their “free speech” in a critical or chastising manner of Muslims and/or their prophet. Makes sense right?
  
  Mr. Imam, if I, an American, went to Pakistan would I have the ability to voice my displeasure at how Muslims are burning the American flag and how it offends me? My pleas for the Muslims to stop doing that would fall on deaf ears, why? Well because in a Muslim country Muslim law rules over all other laws, correct? My American objections to Muslim behavior would not be wise because to you Islam is the one true “way” and all other world views are an abomination thus your insistence that America follow sharia law. Odd how you use “free speech” when it suits you yet deny others the same right when it goes against you. Your world view is illogical and contradictory therefore it cannot stand.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:28pm
  “We, as Americans, have to put limits and borders [on] freedom of speech,”
  Ahh, NO!
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:05pm
  My post seems to have dissappeared also..Maybe if I put it in a Muslim friendly way..Rashad Kalidi was the spokesman for the PLO that broke in on 12 Israeli Olympic contenders and made them stop breathing..I heard that the party consisted of dancers emmulating the reomval of people’s heads..Someone watching the Christian channel this morning with a former PLO terrorist Wallid Shoebat said that someone filmed the removal of Christian’s heads in the ME..I believe that the Communist NWO will use Islam for the annihilation of the population..like Agenda 21..Muslims are a people lied to in order for their overseerers to carry out their political agendas.. Think 9/11..3 muslim men were issued visas to come here and were trained at a naval base in Florida..Bush was briefed daily up until the incident and the Israeli Massad followed them up to it with front row seats and hi fived it..Also think of the 700 billion in TARP which went to Sharia Compliant Banks like Citi Bank and Goldman Sachs..which fund organizations funding terrorism. and Al Franken after being cheated in by Clintons..inviting 300+ muslims to key positions in our government..our presidents are puppets being used by the un Federal Reserve to bring in the Communist New World Order..David Rockefeller of the Rothschild/Rockefeller 13 family unfederal reserve.
  .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZklPnVs-Y
  
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- GreyClan01
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:12pm
  idk, my post lasted all of three min.
  
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- deadend
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:12pm
  I agree mine did not make it either so I see the blaze will let us freely respond to these creeps.
  
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- XScramblerX
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:15pm
  The headline is backwards. It should read “The Blaze tells Imam that oppressing America’s free speech would be a security threat to Islam and the sharia pushers!” They need to be reminded that this is “One Nation under GOD! Not under allah! We (our ancestors) have rid this country of oppressors before. We did it with pitch forks and mussel loaders. We can do it again! It’s time to start telling it like it is. The hell with political correctness!
  If you don’t like the Constitution, you can leave at any time! TEA!
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:26pm
  I’ve had several posts that were disappeared! Some ninja post assassin from the pc left has garnered some editing power at the blaze!
  
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- Partygirl
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:23am
  I hope that is not true that posts are being erased. Glenn believes in free speech, our first amendment. He may not like what you say but he will fight for your right to say it. I hope I don’t see that happening here. Any way. My view is that this is just another way to try to get our freedoms away from us. They kill Christians, but we can’t say anything about their religion? This is hypocritical. We don’t want Sharia Law. That is not what our country was founded on. I suggest that if they want Sharia they move to a country that has it instead of trying to force our county to conform to them they should conform to us.
  
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- towcutter
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:14am
  This imam’s ridiculous words prove the greatest threat to US security is NOT free speech…what an idiot! Our greatest threat is this sickening cult of violence called…islam (spitting). Your sickening sharia only applies to you brain dead lemmings who have not found a true religion of peace, but are stuck in your sickening cult of violence…sad.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:44am
  The Second Amendment insures Free Speech!!!!
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 2:16am
  I get censored all the time. My posts don’t violate the Terms of Use per se, but my IDEAS certainly aren’t always in line with theBlaze censors at large. Ideas like the USA is CHRISTIAN NATION and the fact that this Imam has the brass tacks to tell us to obey Sharia Law in OUR CHRISTIAN COUNTRY is only one more piece of evidence that Z.O.G. controls the USA through immigration and dissolution of the family and CONSTANT assaults on our Christian Nation. You are losing your country, White Man, when, When, WHEN will you ACT to save yourselves? When will you abandon the PRIDE of preaching “multiculturalism” to your neighbors? When will you see what FOOLS your fathers and grandfathers have been in ALLOWING filth like this Imam into the country in the name of “tolerance” ??? WAKE UP! FIGHT BACK!
  
  Jesus Christ is the Savior of the World. He loves ALL of us, but miscegenation and segregation are HIS rules. Jesus Christ is the WAY and the ONLY WAY to righteousness. There is no other way to return to our Heavenly Father except through JESUS CHRIST. And I don’t care HOW MANY Imams come to saw off my head on YouTube for testifying that. I don’t care how many decadent, Hollywood Jews come to sue me or put me in jail for preaching “hate” by saying that: Jesus Christ is the ONLY Savior of ALL Mankind. There is NO OTHER WAY except by HIM. Amen.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 2:37am
  “People there [in the Middle East] don’t understand the American Constitution and freedom of speech,” Qatanani said.
  
  Hellz bellz!! Our own judges have GREAT trouble even understanding the constitution!!
  
  This guy is figuratively taking a whiz on the 1st amendment, while smiling and parsing and such.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 3:09am
  I have done enough talking. I am ready to fight and die.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 3:23am
  I am not talking about Muslims.
  
  I am talking about the people responsible for the assault on my free speech.
  
  LIVE FREE OR DIE !!!!!!
  
  iii
  
  *the conflict I will engage in, will be purely a defense measure, and by no means, will be an offensive assault on any individual, groups or entities.
  
  All Rights Reserved, Without Predjudice U.C.C. 1-207/1-308
  
  lol. Eat $#!t and die, International Global Elite Banksters.
  
  Here people. Make these Viral !!!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws
  
  http://rense.com/general86/nomis.htm
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:51am
  Partygirl
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:23am
  “I hope that is not true that posts are being erased. Glenn believes in free speech, our first amendment. He may not like what you say but he will fight for your right to say it. ”
  
  Please don’t make me laugh. Glen and his goons do not give a rat’s ass about our rights to free speech. He has hired a bunch of lefty creeps to make sure that nothing “offensive” to his little mormon ears appears on his site. A free exchange is not what Beck seeks. He wants all of us Blazers to appear PC to the world so we won’t be called “extreme”. Kinda cowardly really. I say let the words fly-all of them. If you are afraid of mere words, what are you going to do when the bullets start flying? Crap in your pants and cry like a fricking girl?
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 10:46am
  any american who thinks speech that offends muslims should be curtailed is not an american.
  
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- I support God's Israel!
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 11:28am
  I will not comply.
  
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- TrialByFire01
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:57pm
  Mohammad Qatanani and people like him really need to think about what it is to be an American, what it includes and what responsibilities it it demands. Since he must have had to swear to this oath when accepting his “US Citizenship” he should read it again in its ENTIRETY every day if need be.
  
  Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America
  
  Oath
  
  “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
  The last time I checked free speech was part of The Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. If he feels he cannot abide by his oath then maybe he may want to consider relocating to a place more in line with his way of thinking. There is no picking and choosing which rights you like and how you implement t
  
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- Maji
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 4:12pm
  Lets “keep” free speech and make it “dangerous” for crazy Islamist!!!
  I think that is a better way to go!
  
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- Fecal_Matters
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 4:23pm
  I just had a Dbl Baconator and I’m ready to issue a Fartwa of my own for this POS. So I fart in your direction you pig dog Mohammad Qatanani…which is also in the direction of Mecca. Take your Derka stoneage opinion and place them where the sun don’t shine. Soon the Templars will ride!!
  
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- Fecal_Matters
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 4:30pm
  I just had a Dbl Baconator and I’m ready to issue a Fartwa of my own for this POS. So I fart in your direction you pig dog Mohammad Qatanani…which is also in the direction of Mecca. Take your Derka stoneage opinions and place them where the sun don’t shine. Soon the Templars will ride!!
  
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- RWCT
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:22pm
  Quantanni is a NIMROD! I’ll wager he has NO CLUE what this means, from a historical perspective!
  
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- RWCT
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Muhammad, under American jurisprudence, would be in jail today, if he were alive, as a pedophile. Aisha was SIX years old when he married her, and NINE when he “Consumated” the marraige & he? is who islam follows, and venerates! How truly sad, and satanic! Muslims, of course, IGNORE this truth, and try to justify it as O.K. re historical reality in Arab countries. Something to be proud of?
  I pray for all Muslims to find TRUE love, and TRUTH, in Christ Jesus!
  Maranatha
  
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Grasshopper42
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:00am
I know, kiss my white Irish a$$.

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- OldHippy
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:27pm
  I agree with you completely. If Qatanani doesn’t like our rights and freedoms he can leave at any time. He won’t be missed. Why should we have to change our laws? Why doesn’t he go back where he came from and change the Sharia Laws. I don’t subscribe to his religion and am not bound by its laws. If you don’t like our laws, rights, and freedoms then get the Hell our. We don’t need you and don’t want you here. Take a hike Qatanani and you can take Obama with you.
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:01pm
  This movie strikes at the heart of this article
  Last Ounce of Courage trailer
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5iue0Wi3gY
  My husband & I saw it this afternoon and we wept at the realization of how our precious freedoms are being eroded. This movie is very inspirational and points out how God is being removed by a few and how we just accept it. It goes to the heart of America and shows how our military provides freedom for the world and how at home we take it for granted.
  At this time in history it is a must see because it will inspire you to fight in whatever capacity you can to preserve and restore our great country. Take tissues.
  
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- razhunter100
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:39pm
  white german,irish buttocksss here.
  
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- razhunter100
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:42pm
  Want our country back,
  
  what a chick flick…? nah , just playin’.
  
  is a dam good movie.
  
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- fixer
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 5:23pm
  The issue of Prophet Muhammad is very delicate – they [Muslims] will not accept in any way, anybody who talks badly about Muhammad.”
  
  And America will not accept in any way,any infringement on our Freedom of Speech.Case Closed. Don’t like it? GET OUT!
  
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ClaudeRains
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:57am
Uh Mr ******* why is it ok to preach the cult of Islam without repercussions but nothing can be said about an extremely hateful and murderous cult such as yours, that threatens to behead anyone who disagrees. You sound just like the idiots in Berkeley that believe in free speech as long as you agree with them. In case you haven’t noticed it’s you loonies causing all the problems because you refuse to join the 21st century. Hell you haven’t even made it to the 15th century yet.

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- starman70
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:05am
  IF THIS IDIOTIC IMAM DOESN’T LIKE FREE SPEECH, THEN HE SHOULD PACK HIS BAGS AND MOVE TO SOME BACKWARD ISLAMIC COUNTRY WHERE FREE SPEECH DOSEN’T EXIST!!!
  
  rqd lc.
  
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- U.N.hater
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:19am
  Why did the blaze take my post down for telling the truth. Rise up people our government is OUR ENEMY!
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:19am
  Get the ALLL out of AMERICA NOW! They are NOT Americans! NO Sharia HERE. Islam is a cult of death and destruction…God will not allow this lie. They are THE LIE that should be prosecuted. I’ve been saying since 2000 …Go Home and fix your own country….don’t come here a wreck ours. But it appears our “faithful government servants” HAS DONE IT FOR AND TO US! TREASON is too good for them.
  
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- jdtanker
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:26am
  Go ahead and try to stop our free speech. We will offend you until every last one of us is gone. Muslims hate freedom because they are a religion of satan. Satan loves the fact that women and gays are still stoned to death. Satan loves that women are treated like dogs. Satan loves that suicide bombers kill many other people on in the name of their “god”. Satan loves the fact that your koran says to kill anyone who won’t become a muslim. Our government keeps telling us islam is “peaceful”, but I think its time to tell them to stop peeing on our leg and calling it rain.
  
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- johnjamison
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:32am
  Someone tell the imam, free speech isn’t a threat to America,ITS ISLAM THAT’S A THREAT TO FREE SPEECH.
  Not much of a threat though as we have 120,000,000 U.S. CITIZENS that currently have 225,000,000 fires arms availbe 24/7/365……At any given time the real infidels can be wiped off the face of America with a couple days. The reason we have a 2cd amendment is to stop dou-ches like those who practice radical islam from doing anything.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:34am
  If making fun of Islam is a national security threat, the FBI would have shut us down years ago.
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:34am
  He is arguing that this is one of those “catch 22′s” of free speech. Like shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
  
  What he is saying is that Muslims are required by their faith to defend their god/prophet when he is mocked or ridiculed. He is careful to say that Islam does not condone violence (despite the fact that it not only condones it, it revels in it) But then he implies violence will occur if you insult the prophet.
  
  So he is suggesting that because violence/death/destruction is certain if the prophet is insulted, it would be the same as shouting fire in a theater, an act that the Supreme Court ruled is not protected speech, because the goal wasn’t to express an opinion; but to cause a panic.
  
  I think it’s obvious to even the dimmest American that the real test of Free Speech is precisely what the Iman want’s to ban. This supposed “Hate Speech” is exactly what our founders were talking about.
  
  If you can’t insult someone’s religion, philosophy, or politics, then we don’t really have free speech.
  
  The Iman loves free speech when he can freely talk about the destruction of the Jews, and Christians, he doesn’t like it when the same talks bad about his religion or him.
  
  Grow up sport. This is America.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:45am
  @CABRITO
  If making fun of Islam IS a national security threat, they certainly wouldn’t let ME fly in any airplanes :-)
  
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- The Gooch
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:55am
  RANGER1965
  What’s truly maddening is the support this type of claim will receive, oddly (predictably?) enough from leftist, progressives and a helluva lot of secularists and/or nihilists. These are the apologists and enablers who won’t just defend the cleric’s right to spout this call for repression. Many will actually assert the cleric makes a point that must be not only acknowledged, but acted upon. There’s a disconnect I can’t wrap my gourd around, other than these folks agree with the followers of Islam on one shared tenet: The all-mighty feeling trumps all. Oh, and as many leftists assert, free speech is really not such a good thing… especially when it can be practiced by everyone (not just your club).
  Screw your feelings and, as a matter of course, screw my feelings. If you cannot condone free speech because of your mental state, then you are a danger to yourself and/or others. Time to seriously think about how to deal with such threats. This is a form of mental illness. I’d say it’s an Axis II Personality Disorder. You can’t just let unhinged people like this out amongst the general population. I’m not saying all Muslims are bad. Hell, many fall in lock-step out of fear. But the rabble rousers and ring leaders? Oh, they merit a probable cause hearing.
  When your ideology or religion threatens others’ lives, you are (duh) the threat. Can’t handle free speech? Time to juice you up and/or lock you up. This is just nuts.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:01am
  He forgets, as many do who are not Islamic, that individual rights trump “national security”.
  
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- seeker9
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:11am
  Incrementalism. Just like progressives, total power can be gained by taking one smaller piece at a time. Socialism will never work. Multinationalism will never work.
  
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- Roberto G. Vasquez
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:16am
  Islam never condones violence???????????? Isn’t that the same thing Hitler said about the NAZI’s?
  
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- oldguy77
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:25am
  Why do people like this flee their country of birth ,come to america and then try and change our way of life like the life they fled?
  
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- Caballosinnombre
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:53am
  If you admit to being a national security threat to our nation because of our constitutional rights then you have no business being in our country.
  
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- coloradolabelguy
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:43pm
  This is how they plan to get all of us to convert to their religion. First the get our govenment to agree with them that is is a national defense / security issue. This is not such a far pletched thing with Obama in office. Then they get the the govenment to agree to limit anything being said or done against their false prophet and thus limit our freedom of speech. Then they will say that the Christian religion is anti Moooohhhaammmeed and get our freedom of religion revoked.
  
  There is going to be only one way for the issue between Muslims and Christians to be resolved and it will be with the armies of the lord doing battle against those who persecute us for our beliefs. I for one would gladly give up my life for my lord in order to put and end to what I consider to be the religion that has inflicted so much hate, anger and death to so many innocent people who refuse to believe in their false prophet. It is said that if you live by the sword, you shall die by the sword.
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:48pm
  Mark my words: the REAL Bubba Effect
  
  Soon youtube will be inundated with videos bashing Muhammad. There will be thousands of Bubba’s taking their disdain of comments like those of this Imam to the tubes armed with hilarious satire jokes covering the ridiculousness of Islam and it’s anti-christ savior. This will cause the Islamic Bubbas all over the world to have a tantrum/fit/episode/meltdown – whatever the PC term is for those little outbreaks that come from those suffering from “Extreme Islamic Dementia Disorder”.
  
  It’s how the people deal with people of any extremes. The people will not treat Islam any differently, nor should they. On the same note, SNL used to be edgy; even had Madonna rip a picture of the Pope once. Hey Madonna, you really think the Catholic church was evil and fascist? Well, go rip a picture of Muhammad on SNL, that’ll be edgy and serve any even better point. Or are you afraid a radical Islamist will have your pleasure button removed the next time you go on tour in Dubai?
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:48pm
  no islam is a security threst………get it right
  
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- Palmer1943
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:49pm
  ABSOLUTELY CORRECT !
  
  Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed with rods of iron.
  Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell, back they shall be dragged, and will be told: “Taste the torment of the Conflagration!”
  Quran 22:19-20, “The Pilgrimage,” Dawood, p. 333
  
  Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. They are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship shall become one of their number. God does not guide the wrong-doers.
  Quran 5:51, “The Table,” Dawood, p. 116
  
  The Prophet himself demands that non believers be crucified, murdered, and enslaved.
  Not exactly the religion of peace and love as advertised.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:56pm
  Don’t you love that one? “We as Americans have to put limits on free speech”. This Imam is no American nor does he understand Americans. However..counter to what he’s proposing…I defend his right to say his subversive rhetoric if he’s indeed an American.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:58pm
  A better plan would be to get rid of all muslims, that would better insure national security. This guy needs to pack his crap and get out of the US.
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:01pm
  What I find funny is that these Imams and those high up in Islam say that the best thing to do is be a martyr and strap a b omb to themselves and blow up innocent people. They say it is the surest way to be with Allah, plus they get 72 virgins if they are successful.
  
  Well here is my question…..why aren’t these Imams and those high up in Islam not being a martyr and blowing themselves up for Allah? Why do they tell everyone else to do it, but they don’t? Instead they stay in there little protected mosques of hate and tell others what to do. If it is the surest way to be with Allah then they should lead by example, or are they hyprocrits who don’t really believe in it but get everyone else to pay homage to them and take care of them……I’m just saying if that is the surest way to be with Allah then they should be the ones doing it but they are cowards because they know it is a lie…..it is just sad that so many fall for this stuff.
  
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- CLEttinger
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:04pm
  If speach would ever be restricted it would be his!
  
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- Xiccarph
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:09pm
  Don’t worry, Mr. Imam… I have full faith that the US Gov’t has been tirelessly working, especially in the last 4 years or so, to enact acceptable Decrees favorable to your ideas. Just give them time to find the appropriate judges to ensure the Constitution won’t be an unnecessary hindrance.
  
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- finders75
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:13pm
  Could not have worded it better myself!! Amen bud! I am about ready to go nuts on these pos!!!
  
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- sam1064
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:23pm
  so if I understand this guy, if I leave my house unlocked in a “safe” neighborhood its 100% my fault that someone enters and steals my tv? Not the person who goes in my house. Wow, that is why we MUST reject Islam’s reach and respond to its violence with overwhelming force. Islam only understand force. Look at how Jefferson responded to the barbary pirates. Islams goal is the taking over all of society and subject us all to Sharia law. We MUST resist.
  
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- arx
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:32pm
  “…nearly deported in 2008…” for lying about his association with a terrorist organization. AND YET HERE HE IS. So let me get his straight, if you are a muslim, you can not only be associated with terrorists, but you can lie about it, and the federal govt will STILL allow you into the U.S. WTF is going on with our government????
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:33pm
  death cult 101, usurp a countries laws and use those same laws against the inhabitants! Then insist on inserting sharia law into the countries existing laws thereby making the country islamic by fiat!
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:36pm
  what I think is funny is that I haven’t seen any Muslim’s rioting in the US…Know why? Armed Americans will not let it happen and they know it. I can’t believe even in Dearborn Mich. they are affraid to riot….why to go to the Bible Carrying, gun loving people of Michigan.
  
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- SPIN_MD
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:43pm
  @ Clauderains
  
  You are correct. They do not want progress. They want to return to the 7th century. Many of their countries aren’t very far from it now. Do your research and look at pictures of Riyadh just one hundred years ago. It looks like the 7th century. They are very uncomfortable in a modern society.
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:50pm
  @ Bluefish49…..good point, however, remember that liberals/democrats are doing all they can to ban guns and if Obama gets back in office….I won’t be surprised if this doesn’t happen. Remember, the UN is trying to do a backdoor to our second admendment and just about all the democrats supported it. Luckily it didn’t go through but believe me that won’t stop them.
  
  Don’t be surprised if an “executive order” comes down that will either ban or severly limit our rights to own gun…..and if that doesn’t work, they will go after the ammunition. Obama already supported a 500% tax on any ammo sold. If they can’t take our guns, then they will go after the ammo…..and if they succeed with that, what good is having a gun….unless you want to use it as a paper weight.
  
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- mersey
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:03pm
  I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message. Now go cling to your guns and your religion!
  
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- Recceman90
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:04pm
  Dearest Imam whoever you are, Free Speech is and shall remain unlimited….if you don’t like it, MOVE!
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:41pm
  Exactly: These ignorant, pompous, macho creeps think they can TELL us anything? That is only because we have a President (now) who doesn’t believe that any nation should be exceptional. He wants the world to sit down on the lowest level (because it’s more fair) He is a sick, psycho. He was raised by Communists (but didn’t hear from those living under communism and refused to admit how terrible communism was when it FAILED) .
  OBAMA knew about the threats to our Libyan Embassy. It was inconvenient to his plans. He cares no more about that SLAIN AMBASSADOR, the TWO NAVY SEALS and the other PATRIOT than he does about any AMERICAN. WE are his enemy. HE is a traitor. We need to start impeachment proceedings immediately.
  PEOPLE who think Obama will support them and who are wrong: GAYS; (Obama is one, he’s also Muslim, he’s not going to help you); WOMEN: wrong again. Obama is a Muslim – women are chattel to them. AND NOW THIS:
  
  DO YOU GUYS REALIZE that the Obama Health Care is going to demand that even OUT OF WORK
  (thanks to Obama’s policies) people will be FINED if they don’t pay for HEALTH INSURANCE? 6 Million of them… SO a person gets fired because we have the WORST Economic policies IN THE WORLD; they can’t get re-hired…they can’t sell their homes and go to where jobs are because of FANNIE/FREDDY; they can’t start their own businesses thanks to regulations EPA and other. THE ANSWER: GET RID OF OBAMA/OBAMACARE !
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:36pm
  Any person living in America that thinks Freedom of Speech should be limited, they are not true Americans and they need to pack their bags and leave this country forever. We will not be lectured by someone with ties to terrorists who want to destroy our way of life.
  
  “Liberty is meanginless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” – Frederick Douglass
  
  If the government tries to appease these Islamic radicals by editing our freedom of speech, they may well find crowds with torches and pitchforks marching to Washington. Islam is NOT the way of America. If Muslims can’t control themselves, they need to all go back to the desert & bury their heads in the sand.
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:28pm
  We are rapidlly approaching a point in history where vigorous exercise of the 2nd amendement by those unwilling to bow to intimidation/threats/violence will be required to save the 1st.
  
  It is clear that the Dems and a large segment of the left are willing to allow erosion of the 1st if that allows them to control or ban the 2nd. A two pronged attack by Islam and the left on the very foundations of the nation. Traitors, all of them.
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:44pm
  Hey Iman De-Mon,
  
  The only reason you get to spew such anti-American hate
  is BECAUSE of OUR free speech.
  
  This is OUR country…with rights by OUR founders.
  
  I would love to hear you try to lecture Adams, Jefferson, Madison
  and fellow patriots on how & why America should zip it up.
  
  The same radical Islam,
  comfortable cutting off innocent heads,
  now, feels the need to cut of American speech-
  when PIGS fly, BOZO !
  
  Go back to the desert & preach your sharia ****,
  amongst the sand flies.
  America doesn’t take kindly to foreign interlopers-
  who the hell do you think you are…….Barack Hussein Obama ?
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 5:04pm
  Respose to OLDGUY77
  
  You asked:
  “Why do people like this flee their country of birth ,come to america and then try and change our way of life like the life they fled”?
  
  RADICAL ISLAM gets off on ONE thing……WORLD Dominance !
  That is the crusty butt of their crazy ideology,
  that is why they have taken up residence in every part of the world,
  wormed their way into every facet of life-
  to weak havoc, destroy & conquer !
  
  Any Mideast expert or soldier will tell you this,
  moderate Islamists will whisper it,
  history proves it.
  
  Google/You Tube
  Allen West’s speeches on radical Islam-
  NOBODY nails Radical Islam Ideology like he does.
  
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- Xyskalla
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:55pm
  There have been numerous attempts in recent years to make it an international crime to “slander” Islam. But if they make it a crime to speak ill of Islam, that pretty much makes Islam the only legal religion. If you say that Jesus is the way to God, they will accuse you of slandering Islam. The law can’t be repealed because they will say you are slandering Islam. You can’t add other religions to that law (also making it illegal to slander Christianity or Judaism, for example), because they will say you are slandering Islam. If you oppose a theocratic government, they will say you are slandering Islam. Everything is a “holy issue” to an extremist.
  
  If this is passed into law, it will permanently destroy every semblance of freedom.
  
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- Girard1974
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:58pm
  @U.N.Hater who posted, “Why did the blaze take my post down for telling the truth. Rise up people our government is OUR ENEMY!”
  
  Clearly you didn’t really mean what you just wrote – The Blaze provides this forum for our use based upon its “Comment Policy” and “Terms of Use.” The First Amendment does not apply here. So your encouraging people to “Rise up because our government is OUR ENEMY” is misplaced.
  
  Glenn Beck and his network aren’t parts of the government. And while I also understand the discontent we all have regarding the government, that surely doesn’t make it our enemy. After all, who is it that hires these people? From what I can tell, we still elect those who create these stupid laws. The real problem is those who simply don’t vote at all. If they’d do a little thinking and a little more voting, I’m confident that Mr. Obama and his family would be evicted come next January.
  
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- calebjim
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:59pm
  If this old bearded man, claiming to be a minister, does not like freedom of speech, he can take his foreign but back to the third world.
  
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Landon410
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:57am
wait…. if you put “limits” and “boarders” on free speech….. yea, its not free speech anymore…

never condones violence? please the entire religion is based on threats of violence and acts of violence, just ask their women

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- its_time_to_arrest_our_government
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:05am
  you can stick your islam right below your mammas camel toe!
  
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- Delta D-5-3
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:32am
  Well said Landon410. We all know that the “religion of peace” is actually a “cult” of anti-Christian zealots directly from hell. These people will cut off your head for speaking ill of there great religious leader “Muhammad”. So, according to this “Imam” it’s OK to harm or even kill those who do not bow down to THEIR great Prophet Muhammad. Seriously?? Sorry Imam Mohammad Qatanani, YOU ARE IN A CHRISTIAN NATION. You are here because we allow for FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGION. If we want to mock your great Prophet Muhammad or any other religious leader, WE WILL. Don’t like it? LEAVE. I swore an oath to protect this great country against foreign or domestic threats. And so have millions of others. You may want to tread lightly. THIS IS NOT A THREAT. But when you come HERE and make such a demand, well you better expect pushback. We WILL speak our minds, and if that insults your great Prophet, so be it. Looking at what’s happening now in the Middle East we can all see how your “religion of peace” is soooo tolerant of others who don’t “bow” down to your warped ideologies. We are sick and tired of your religions continued demands and threats towards those who don’t bow down to it. YOU my friend are a threat to OUR national security. Just like in 1800. Remember what we did back then when your “peaceful religion” kept attacking and holding Americans hostage for $$$?? Sooner are later the people in this great country will tire of all this BS and then you’ll see w
  
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- Texas.7
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:27am
  Any limit to free speech is itself a national security threat.
  
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- atechgeek
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:23am
  @ Its TIme :
  
  Bawhahahahahahahahahah !!!! Love it !!!
  
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- Demosthenes Locke
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 5:01pm
  I respectfully decline to accept limits on my right to speak. I will of course accept responsibility for my words, I accept personal responsibility for all of my actions. But I invite the gentleman with the opinion that I need to curb my speech about islam simply because I have no right to speak about it to kindly turn his ears elsewhere, for he feels no similar concern for anyone else’s feelings about their own religion. Hindus may feel HE has no right to speak about theirs. Christians may feel he has no right to speak about Christ. Jews may feel he has no right to speak about Judaism. Wiccans may feel he has no right to speak about the Lord and Lady. Zen Buddhists may simply feel that he’s a figment of a snail’s imagination, and not care WHAT he thinks.
  
  But if he does care what I think, and he decides to try to hurt me, I respectfully submit that self-defense is not violence, it is the antithesis of violence, since it is done in accordance with law and custom, with respect for justice and honor. Violence knows no boundaries, knows no law, has no honor. I will defend myself in accordance with the law, and send any attacker home in a big rubber ziplock bag, no matter WHAT religion they practice or feel they are defending.
  
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john vincent
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:56am
‘Free speech that mocks…..is offensive….and it is a security threat??’

The idea of free speech protects even those who offend; thats the point. If it was censored, it would not be free now would it?

I find equally within the U.S. borders, they who offend christianity with their ‘free speech.’ Hawkins comes to mind, Letterman, MAtthews, Maddow, Leno, Maher, BEhar, Wango… Phil the atheist, etc; yet, I welcome their voices in the current land of the free. They have every right to make fools of themselves, as do they who call for the heads of infidels.

The sad truth is, that this push for speech ‘reservations’ and ‘careful what you say’ will find a soft spot in the minds of a weak and complicit media, who will make Islam fanaticals look like boy scouts, while painting christians as the true enemies of the earth. Oh how GOd is heaven is patient.

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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:37am
  The blaze really lucked out with this story. A honest, willing to talk to a site like ours, is hard to find.
  
  I’d be too creeped out by him to keep interviewing.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:56am
If Free Speech of any sort places our country ‘at risk’ because of Islam, it is NOT free speech that should be abolished… I think the cleric is overstating his case, or isn’t thinking through the inherent threat of Islam to all people’s, including Muslims. Talk about thought police, Obama wishes he had that sort of control!

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- mike551
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:07am
  The under statement of the millennium!
  
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- Texas.7
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:51am
  Spiritually, we know Islam is anti-Christ.
  
  As citizens of a free nation of which an enemy has declared itself to be at war with- I believe that the only logical response would be to view that enemy as the threat to national security.
  
  But only in this upside-down world could our leadership construe the free speech of the citizenry as the national security threat, as they apologise for our truthfulness. They wish to enslave us from within, to make us easy prey. But we will not be silent.
  
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AJAYW
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:56am
Islam does condone violence every day all you have to do is look at their actions. Their prophet muhammad had to be a mad man violent man judging by the actions of his followers. I know of no other religion that calls for violence like this one does. His so called religion demostrates it by their actions. Qatanani wants sharia law in the USA and happy until it happens. Screw them.

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hi
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:55am
Is it bad to call Mohammad a bastard misogynist pedophile since it’s true?

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- Gary_K
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:00am
  Its good to speak the truth.
  
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- razhunter100
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:35am
  the truth shall set you free…
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Actually quite appropriate.Just dont make any statements that if it weren’t against the law well you know the rest.They just pulled a post of mine for such speech.Who would have thought that becks moderators were so PC?I guess its good to pretend to be a true american to get a paycheck.Real americans respect free speech.Thats why I say that.I don’t think all of his moderators do though
  
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- Exidor
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:52pm
  You forgot homosexual and mentally ill. Oh and a thief, murderer. liar and false prophet.
  
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Taurnil
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:54am
In other words the Islamic faith is so weak, immature, childish, self centered, naive, they cannot have anyone criticize or question them. If your “allha” is such a strong god then it would not be a requirement that you murder people who are not of your faith for whatever reason you deem that to be. That sounds nothing more than an excuse to act like a school yard bully.

For this guy to claim Islam does not condone violence is laughable. Your people are cowards. Only cowards hide behind their faith as a justification to murder others. He is a lair, all you need do is look at their past decades of repeated intent to destroy Israel and her people and anyone that are their allies or friends. No sir, you are a liar and your “faith” betrays you.

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The Infidel Alliance
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:53am
Treasonous sedition. He’s basically advocating the overthrow of the Constitution, to be replaced by Sharia.

I call it like I see it.

~ The Infidel Alliance

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- RedNeckMormon
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:32am
  lol….love your name
  
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- razhunter100
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:39pm
  good call…
  
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- HoneyBager7x7
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:45pm
  Muhammed: Idol worshipping, War fiending, Child raping, Hate-Mongering, Non-Prophetic speaking, Talmud plagiarizing, slave trading, Caravan raiding, hyper misogynistic, Hindu/Christian/Jew/Buddhist/Zoroastrian/etc killing, FALSE TERRORIST Amalakite Prophet.
  
  There I said it. Get some Imam.
  
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vaman
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:53am
ALL religious extremism is detrimental to this country, its citizens and mankind in general. Keep your religion and your outrage to yourself and let sensible people live their lives without interference from your supernatural being.

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- hi
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:02am
  Same goes for atheist extremism.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:56pm
  Especially Atheist Extremists….of course for the most part the only way to tell the difference between the radical anti-theists and the islamists is the wardrobe….
  
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theApostle
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:53am
a nation without free speech is a national security threat to the people of that country…

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Steverino
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:53am
America doesn’t exist to form itself around your beliefs and laws. All are welcome, but if our freedom of speech is that repugnant, leave. Obey the laws of your adopted country, don’t try to change them to suit you.

Steve

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- USA DJ
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:08am
  Well said!
  
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Watcher1952
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:52am
I am an AMERICAN…I live under AMERICAN laws not Sharia law. Sharia law has no business in AMERICA. I will not obey anything that attempts to take away my freedoms. Many AMERICANS have given their lives to protect our freedoms and many more will freely give their lives to protect those freedoms for our children and their children of the future. Don’t be surprised if Barack Hussein Obama uses his executive order to agree with this Imam Twit, as we all know that Muslims stick together. History shows us that Mohamad was a pedophile, he advocated beating his mulitple wives….not something AMERICA believes in

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Gonzo
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:52am
“Islam never condones violence” Well it obviously condones lying your @ss off.

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- its_time_to_arrest_our_government
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:57am
  islam is an insult to the human race. screw mohammad and the camel hes married too.
  
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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:12am
  Sounds like a threat to me, and I don’t do “threats” well, and most people on this thread don’t do “threats” well either. We still outnumber the ones in the US Gonzo!
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:29am
  Taquiyya or takia = lying to protect & further their faith. Freedom to muslims is perfect submission to allah’s law sharia.
  
  Freedom to Americans is Freedom OF speech & Freedom of Religion….To me it comes down to CHRIST Died to Save us WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ LAWS!
  
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- packer
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:34pm
  damn right arrest our gov’t buy guns and ammo becasue you know the Home Land Sercuirty is….
  our gov’t has turned into the terroist
  
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biohazard23
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:50am
These people REALLY need to get a thicker skin. What a bunch of pansies.

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PA PATRIOT
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:45am
Mohammad Qatanani, who leads one of the largest mosques in New Jersey – even believes free speech that criticizes Islam poses a national security threat to the U.S. and should be investigated by the Department of Homeland Security.

How do these people get here without understanding the Constitution?
I know it sounds redundant and isolationist but If you cannot follow the law of the land you live
“GO TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.
“When in Rome do as the Romans”

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GodFearingMama
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:45am
And muslims saying “Death to America” is a security threat.. Might even say they’ve committed acts of war.. But nooo our leaders choose to shake a finger at free speech…. Is this where Otraitor goes back to his church and agrees with J Wright that our rooters have returned home.. Where he sat for 20 years and agreed with those teachings

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- bigmac1990
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:36am
  i think we need to go in with Chinook and Apache for cover into any country that has posed a threat to our embassies and pull our ambassadors out in true military style cause. and it would not be an act of war cause if you attacked our embassy you have already committed an act of war on the US and we are just acting accordingly.
  
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diverdan
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:44am
Wow, who would have ever thought that the Muslims want to limit free speech in the USA. No doubt the Obama administration will be 100% in agreement.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:44am
Sounds to me as if he is making not to subtle threats to the security of the nation; and to the people of OUR LAND.

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kaydeebeau
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:43am
islamists are security threats.

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amerbur
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:42am
He is codoning violence and negating the constitution. This is a threat of violenc. He needs to be picked up by homeland security and deported along with all his violent followers.

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- Stelex
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:01am
  Homeland security will use this as a reason to quell free speech. Wait for the list of banned words and phrases.
  
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Cajun83
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:42am
Free speech that mocks Islam is a national security threat, being American is a national security threat, not bowing to Sharia law is a national security threat. What Muslims need to do, to “build a bridge”, is stand up against extremist muslims that murder Americans in the name of their prophet. They want me to abridge my right to free speech so as to not upset someone that wants to kill me anyway? No thanks.

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momrules
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:41am
Quite a long article to get to the meat of what this terrorist and Islam wants.

Sharia in America. Their way or death.

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- Gregb
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:27am
  We have too many liberal judges that are allowing sharia law in the U.S. sharia law goes against our constitution. It is part of a religion and we have separation of church and state. If the government uses sharia law to restrict free speech that is extremely anti constitution.
  If someone from a different country wants to come to the U.S. to live, they need to live by our laws not change our laws to theirs. Our language is English. Our Law is the constitution. Our Faith has always been based on the Holy BIBLE!
  
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Derek01
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:41am
Seems like imams and clerics are the instigators and the national security threat. Remove them and we’ll lower our security threat

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- breakobamanow
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:01am
  Was thinking the same thing, those intolerant of free speech are the threat. But they have to twist the words to make them fit their narrative.
  
  Titus 2:8
  Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
  
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- betsyyoung
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:27pm
  I’m with you on that 100%!!! Where the heck does this schlemiel get off telling us this garbage!! If he wants barbaric Sharia then he can hop the next plane or boat back to the middle east!! Geez, it just burns me when these dudes open their dumb holes!!!!!
  
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