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Obamas Religious Freedom Appointee Involved in Muslim Event Calling for Limiting Freedom of Speech
March 26, 2013
By Elizabeth Harrington
(CNSNews.com) Americas free-speech model is in desperate need of an update, says an American-Muslim human rights activist who recently spoke at an event linked to an Obama administration appointee.
Dr. Qasim Rashid argued that cyber-bullying laws could be used to limit freedom of expression such as the burning of Korans -- in war time:
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Rashid began his remarks by personally thanking Dr. Azizah al-Hibri, appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in June 2011. Al-Hibri founded Karamah, a group devoted to the rights of Muslim women, and it was this group that invited Rashid to speak.
I do want to start by thanking Karamah, Rashid said. I was fortunate enough to have several constitutional scholars look at this paper and provide feedback. Dr. al-Hibri, of course
The topic of the March 19 event at Howard University was titled, The Limits of Free Speech in a Global Era: Does Americas Free Speech Model Endanger Muslim Americans?
Our understanding of free speech today is not some long-held 227- or 235-year understanding, said Rashid, a member of the Muslim Writers Guild of America, who presented a paper titled In Harms Way: The Desperate Need to Update Americas Current Free Speech Model.
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My argument is that we already have legislation, right? he said. I mean, we already have a cyber-bullying policy in all 50 states that even without the threat of violence even without violence occurring, we're already holding individuals responsible for this intentional infliction of harm on others.
So I think that legislation's already there, Rashid said. It's just more a question of how is it going to be applied.
According to the Cyber-bullying Research Center, 49 states have bullying statutes and 16 states have cyber-bullying laws, which can prosecute individuals for electronic bullying.
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According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Dr. al-Hibri sat on the National Advisory Board of the American Muslim Council (AMC) from 1991 to 1998 with AMC Executive Director Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi was later sentenced to 23 years in prison after pleading guilty to terrorism charges for his involvement in an assassination plot of then- Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
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Obama?s Religious Freedom Appointee Involved in Muslim Event Calling for Limiting Freedom of Speech | CNS News
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