Free Speech
vs. Islamic Law?
by Denis MacEoin
• February 13, 2016 at 5:00 am
The U.S. Congress, on December 17, 2015, passed House Resolution 569 and
referred it to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The resolution is
headed: "Condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards
Muslims in the United States." The problem is that the law regarding
freedom of speech and of religion, as it exists in the U.S. Constitution's
First Amendment, is already compelled to protect all citizens and to extend
that protection to non-citizens, be they businessmen or tourists who come to
American shores: "Amendment I. Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress of grievances." No democracy should believe otherwise.
The House of Representatives' Resolution 569 introduces the following
Whereas clauses:
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