Still, is it not highly problematic when a senior military officer warns American citizens against exercising their undoubted First Amendment rights? This situation is different from the Koran-down-the-toilet story. We criticized news outlets at the time for endangering American troops, but that was mostly because the story was false. Presumably we can all agree that newspapers and magazines should not circulate false reports that endanger our troops. But what about accurate stories of Americans exercising their constitutional right to criticize Islam by burning Korans?
Oh, now the Right is worried about First Amendment rights to burn religious texts. Now when General Petraeus says something might endanger the troops, he should be ignored. Now we should question our generals. None of that applied before over the last nine years, mind you.
Roy Edroso has some advice for the Right, too.
Clearly the real source of Hinderaker's disturbance is that someone he thought was on his team is throwing cold water on the Islamophobic hoopla Hinderaker and his comrades have been whooping up over the Almost Ground Zero Mosque. How can get they keep getting traction out of that when their own honkey heroes are putting on the kibosh?
Gonna be interesting to see how this turns out. Just like the Constitution apparently says you have the right to stop gay marriage because it offends you, the Constitution also says you have the right to persecute Islam and Muslims because they're not Christians. Who knew?
Eh if they want to we cannot stop them. I think it's ignorant but we are in some extremely difficult times right now. Where morals and ethics meet freedom.
ReplyDeleteWhere a church (Westboro Baptist) can harass a grieving family who lost a loved one who served, one religion can burn another religions creed because they are intolerant. Gays rights are taken away by their neighbors via the ballot box. Attempts are made on a regular basis to outlaw abortion and guns. People associate Islam with terrorism.
Common sense isn't so common anymore...