First Amendment Exception For Islam

Our nation is at war, and the enemy walks among us. What, then, are we to do? Should we close mosques? Expel Muslims? Intern practitioners of Islam in camps, like we did to the Japanese? These are all fine ideas.

People who say, "but that's not who we are" ought to pick up a history book.

We are hostages of political correctness. We can't even get our Commander-In-Chief to level with us about the nature of our enemy.

Plus, there is the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The one that our religious liberty is founded upon. But I'm not going to argue that the First Amendment exception to Islam has a basis in the Free Exercise clause.

I'm going to argue that the First Amendment exception for Islam is based on known exceptions of protection of freedom of speech.

A well-known exception of protection of Freedom of Speech is known as the incitement exception. Words that are intended to directly incite violence are not protected speech.

For example, Robert Bork argued that,

"advocacy of law violation is a call to set aside the results that political speech has produced. The process of the ‘discovery and spread of political truth’ is damaged or destroyed if the outcome is defeated by a minority that makes law enforcement, and hence the putting of political truth into practice, impossible or less effective. There should, therefore, be no constitutional protection for any speech advocating violation of law."

What if I started a new religion tomorrow? I could put regular moral codes in there, like, don't commit murder, don't commit adultery, and I could fill a book with a lot of bloated revelations. But in that book, what if there was a commandment from my god to strike at the necks of abortion providers?

That is not protected speech, because it advocates violating the law.

But that's exactly what Islam is. It's a moral code that informs all political, moral and social activity, and it instructs adherents to murder anyone who offends their prophet or their god. This is not based on a loose interpretation of the Koran, it's based on reading it.

Time to shut it down. I am entitled to my safe space from these assholes.