Muslim Student Association Wants ‘Islamophobic Speech’ Punished
Who will get to decide what counts as Islamophobic speech?
The College Fix reports.
Muslim Student Association demands all ‘Islamophobic speech’ be punished
The Muslim Student Association at San Diego State University is demanding that administrators combat Islamophobia by developing a “zero tolerance policy explicitly for Islamophobic speech and actions.”
The demands, modeled after similar ones issued by black student associations at campuses across the nation, were lodged after a female Muslim student was allegedly attacked by a white man in a campus parking lot on the afternoon of Nov. 19, about a week after the Paris terrorist attacks, which killed 130 people.
At SDSU, despite reports that several witnesses stood by and did nothing as the attacker grabbed the woman’s hijab, as well as a police sketch of the alleged attacker, a police investigation could not identify a suspect, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.
Meanwhile, the female student who said she was attacked has not been identified. But she told Hanif Mohebi, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-San Diego, that her attacker grabber her from “behind,” called her a terrorist, “choked her with the hajib” and told her to “get out of this country,” the Union Tribune reports.
Several comments on the article expressed incredulity over the attack, questioning whether it is a hate-crime hoax.
Yet less than a week after the alleged hate crime, SDSU’s Muslim Student Association held a protest against Islamophobia on campus that attracted hundreds of students.
Yasser Kaziha, a member of the Muslim Student Association, said that he personally knew the victim of the attack, and “when the attack on our Muslim sister happened here at SDSU, she felt alone after bystanders and witnesses who watched the attack did nothing,” he told the Union Tribune.
At the rally, the Muslim Student Association issued its list of demands, which members claim will help prevent future acts of bigotry against the Muslim community.
Muslim Student Association demands all ‘Islamophobic speech’ be punished (The College Fix)
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See, we have free speech here. Those feeling offended should find a way to deal with it without whining to some authority figure or the gov to silence the perceived offender. Those of us who support the Constitution are offended by sharia. Oh, and please distinguish between speech and physical assault. We have laws already against assault.
If they want to throw the first amendment out the window then it should be all religious hate speech should be punished which would include Christianophobic and Judaismophobic. However the Muslim cry bullies need to be careful if religious hate speech will get you punished as they are some of the main culprits of Christianophobia and Judaismophobia. The Muslim cry bullies seemed to have missed the teachings on glass houses or else they are just relishing the power of having a Muslim enabler in the WH who hates Christians and Jews (especially Israel).
IF the lady was physically attacked, that is not speech but criminal behavior and should be treated as such. However, speech, words, are constitutionally protected under the First Amendment, no matter where they occur and who they offend. It is sad that so many colleges and universities are moving to suppress speech rather than to promote diversity of opinion. Of necessity, one person’s cause is another person’s offensive speech. People should also understand that being critical of Islamic fundamentalism is not the same as being Islamophobic, Religious fundamentalism, no matter whose, is itself dangerous. Theocracy is a very dangerous thing as those who practice it think they speak God’s word and admit no possibility of error.