Our freedom of speech is coming under attack again:  
    
    
    
  Islamic Leaders in Dearborn Mich. Plan Rally to Support Speech Prohibition  
    
    
  Breitbart.com  
    
    
  by AWR Hawkins 27 Sep 2012, 1:52 AM PDT 97post a comment  
    
    
  Islamic leaders in Dearborn, Mich. are holding a rally this Friday night to  
  build momentum for the passage of laws that prohibit speech or expression  
  that  
  hurts "the religious feelings of Muslims."  
    
    
  Put together in response to the film "Innocence of Muslims,"  rally  
  organizer  
  Tarek Baydoun said, "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the  
  universal right of free speech to sow the seeds of hate and discord against  
  the religious beliefs of others." Rally co-organizer Osama Siblani added,  
    
  "There is a need for deterrent legal measures against those individuals or  
  groups that want to damage relations between people, spread hate and incite  
  violence."  
    
    
  In other words, it appears one of the goals of the rally will be the  
  eventual  
  creation of blasphemy laws: laws that would reflect an international  
  movement  
  toward banning speech that is critical of Islam or Mohammed.  
    
    
  Ironically, this rally comes at a time when hate crimes toward Muslims in  
  America have dropped more 50% in the last ten years. For example, in 2001  
  hate  
  crimes against Muslims constituted approximately 28% of all such crimes in  
  America, but in 2010 that category of crime against Muslims only constituted  
  12.7%.  
    
    
  This drop in crime was not due to blasphemy laws or other curbs on free  
  speech.  
    
    
    
    
    
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