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In one sense, Saddam Azlan Salim is a classic immigrant success story. Born in Bangladesh, he grew up in northern Virginia and quickly demonstrated an aptitude for the political rough-and-tumble of his adoptive land. Now he is 36 years old, a Virginia state senator, and a rising star in that state’s now-dominant Democrat Party establishment. In another sense, however, Saddam Azlan Salim clearly retains at least some of the sensibilities of the land of his birth, and he wants to bring them to his new land: He has just introduced a bill to criminalize “Islamophobia” in Virginia.
In Bangladesh, criticizing Islam can get you a swift death sentence. Saddam Salim’s Virginia version of Islam’s blasphemy law is much milder. Fox News reported Tuesday that the ambitious young solon’s bill “would define ‘Islamophobia’ ‘as it relates to the crime of assault and battery as malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims.’”
This bill is a classic example of the proverbial camel getting his nose under the tent. At first glance, it appears to be crystalline common sense, and something that no one could possibly oppose. After all, no sane person is in favor of assault and battery of any innocent person. To come out against Saddam Azlan Salim’s bill would appear to be tantamount to saying that assault and battery is just fine. Salim is no doubt banking on his colleagues coming to exactly that conclusion and believing that they have no choice but to pass his bill.
Still, there are problems. All “hate crime” laws are problematic because they venture, however gingerly, into the realm of criminalizing speech, and they aren’t actually necessary: Assault is assault, and should be punished accordingly, and the penalty should not be heavier or lighter depending upon the racial, ethnic or religious identity of the victim, and whether or not the attacker said something about that identity.
Even worse, in the case of “Islamophobia,” is the fact that the word has been used for years to refer not only to assaults on innocent people, which no reasonable person condones, but also to honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence. It has been quite clear for years that efforts to criminalize “Islamophobia” are actually efforts to restrict criticism of Islam and honest analysis of the jihad imperative under the guise of criminalizing assaults against innocent Muslims.
Salim’s bill classifies assault and battery as the hate crime of “Islamophobia” when it is an act of “malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims,” and this is where the bill gets dangerous. For decades now, leftist and Islamic groups have insisted that accurate reporting regarding Islam’s doctrines of violence and the ongoing imperative to subjugate the world under the hegemony of Sharia by means of jihad is an act of “malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims.”
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Tony says
Democrats partner with Islam’s Muslims against Non-Muslims using discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism to help gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control.
Allah’s Islam, a supremacist Antichrist Ideology, is continuously using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because due to their incitement for segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Qur’an 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 7:179; 8:22; 45:18; 47:4; 60:4; 98:6-7, etc.). Islam must be banned as illegal because Islam and its Muslims, enemies of Non-Muslims, are a Terrorist Organization.
Muslims are terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES while undermining a society from within using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
MUSLIM BELIEVERS are a greater TERROR than Allah to make Islam supreme. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. Also, Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37.
rubiconcrest says
Quote of the Day
For decades now, leftist and Islamic groups have insisted that accurate reporting regarding Islam’s doctrines of violence and the ongoing imperative to subjugate the world under the hegemony of Sharia by means of jihad is an act of “malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims.
Thanks in large part to Robert and jihad watch, ‘Islamophobia’ = Muslim Brotherhood = Islam’ so for me crying Islamophobia is like shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
John Pepple says
I want to criminalize Islamophilia, not Islamophobia.
mgoldberg says
Anyone have a website for the legislative commitee that is in charge of the bill, or some other direct site to post a comment about the bill’s actual meaning
Victoria says
Does Robert know about this?
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/National-Strategy-Doc.pdf
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link to that suicidal document.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
࿗Infidel࿘ says
My apologies for the mangled indents: forgot to put the / delimiter before the closing BLOCKQUOTE
Rod says
Virginia is gone bud. We were lucky as hell to win, that man pulled a miracle to pull it to Republican. It is loaded with new people foreigners, lot of deep staters, gov employees and whites who vote liberal.
By the way, do your thing but Nazis and Muslims were allies.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, the swastikas – ࿗࿘ – were and are a Hindu religious symbol that long preceded the Nazis: you’ll find them in temple designs all over India. In fact, while I’m usually dubious about “inter-faith dialogs”, the link shows one case where it turned out to be useful, where Hindus explained to Jews the significance of swastikas, even though they don’t usually use them in the US out of deference to them. The Nazi symbol was called a Hakenkreuz, or a “hooked cross” in English
In fact, in the ࿗࿘ that I picked, there are the 4 dots within the symbol, something that was not there in the Hakenkreuz. That should help draw clear distinctions from the Hakenkreuz. And yeah, I’m fully aware about the Nazi-muslim alliance during the Second World War
Rod says
So why do your Hindus all vote democrat around here. It’s odd to me. I thought modi is the right wing. But they vote democrat here.
You’re supposed to be helping us. In the end you’ll be over run by Muslims one way or the other .
gravenimage says
Lots of cultures have used the Swastika–not always called that–including Hindus, Native Americans, the Byzantines, and Teutons. It was this last that the Nazis used, adopting the symbol of the Hammer of Thor. But I understand that the Swastika–whichever way it faces and whatever its origin–is now too loaded a symbol, especially in the West, where it is understandabley always associated with the Nazis.
Rod says
I really didn’t know about this swa-sicka being that common. I don’t even think I’ve ever seen it in person myself in any form.
I did see one on a man’s face. I couldn’t believe it. Dude hopped out of his truck looking like he was about the business…. He’s done things.
gravenimage says
Rod, the Swastika is not always a Nazi symbol. I believe in Hinduism it is a symbol of the wheel of life.
Wellington says
Sharia creep. This time in Virginia.
Islam will take advantage of freedom to destroy freedom. Count on it.
somehistory says
Looks like VA is a sinking ship as the rabid muzzies gain control and bash holes in the hull.
Assault, or assault and battery charges should be for the actions only and not for the feelings of the attacker toward the victim.
mens rea is for the thinking about committing the crime before the actus reus, the criminal actions.
The law does not need to expand beyond that. The criminal code does not punish the thinking, only the action.
Like robbing a bank….the crime has not been committed when the guy is sitting at his table *thinking* ‘ mens rea’….about how to do it and get away with it.
It’s only a crime if he *acts* on his thoughts. ‘actus reus.’
Assault and battery are the ‘actus reus’ and can be for any *reason* the one committing the “act” has.
islime disgusts me; I hate it, abhor it, and pray that it is destroyed. This muzzie from bangladesh would have me arrested and charged for my feelings about his evil belief system.
Anyone living in VA who sees what’s coming down the pike if this law is passed, should be heard by those who have a vote on the bill.
Palladini says
Yeah, make that law, but the muslim can attack Christians and Jews, and nothing is in the law about that
gravenimage says
n Virginia, You Must Love Islam — Or Else
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Chilling stuff.