Jihadi Du Jour: The Dangerous Folly of a Dhimmi

A country, any country, in order to survive must believe that it has something to offer others do not. A country, whether it is the world’s greatest democracy or the world’s greatest dictatorship, in order to survive must defend its values however despised they may be by others. When a country, any country, starts to deviate from such a path it then opens up a dangerous road to its own destruction from within.

Yesterday’s New York Post featured the following (H/T: The Muslim Question 2):

When Hezbollah Trumps Old Glory

MOST Americans know that burning our nation’s flag is protected by the First Amendment. No matter how distasteful to some, the Supreme Court has consistently held flag-burning to be protected as expressive political conduct.

So if burning an American flag is protected speech, burning other flags - say, the flags of political parties considered to be terrorist groups by our government - would also be protected speech, right?

Right - except at San Francisco State University (SFSU), where the First Amendment takes a backseat to Hamas and Hezbollah.

As part of an anti-terrorism rally held on campus last October, SFSU’s College Republicans stepped on homemade replicas of Hamas and Hezbollah flags drawn on butcher paper. Unbeknownst to the group, both flags contain the word “Allah” in Arabic - prompting a student to file a complaint accusing the College Republicans of “walking on a banner with the word ‘Allah’ written in Arabic script.”

Even though the flag-stomping was protected speech - a fact pointed out twice to SFSU President Robert Corrigan in letters from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - SFSU administrators decided to put the College Republicans on trial for “attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment” and “actions of incivility.” An SFSU spokesperson even told the San Francisco Chronicle that the real issue was “the desecration of Allah.” The ensuing investigation and hearing lasted more than five months before SFSU finally dropped the charges against the group under intense public criticism.

The College Republicans filed a federal lawsuit this week, arguing that SFSU violated the group’s First Amendment rights by subjecting the group to an investigation instead of dismissing the charges out of hand. The suit also challenges SFSU’s speech code, which requires students “to be civil” to one another - a rule that can only be selectively enforced against dissenting opinions on a campus as polarized as SFSU.

Constitutionally speaking, this case isn’t even close: There’s no exception for Hamas, Hezbollah or even Allah under the First Amendment. Now SFSU has to answer for violating the Constitution in court.

Written by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (thefire.org).

Few countries in the world have so little pride in what they stand for as to decriminalize the burning of their own flags, the US - sadly - seems to have lost that pride. What is mind boggling in the story above, however, is that a liberal who prides himself on total freedom of expression will uphold that freedom when it comes to our own Stars and Stripes while clamping down on that very same freedom when it comes to the flags of organizations which are terrorist entities? If desecration the American flag is merely freedom of speech how much more permissible is it, how much more an expression of freedom of speech is it to desecrate the flag of those organizations that hate us and everything we stand for? At least a rational mind, an intellectually honest mind, would not fail to see the contradiction in SFSU’s President’s action.

Michael Savage, the radio talk show host, has popularized the phrase Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, after the title of his book. To see the folly of SFSU President Robert Corrigan, to see the total lack of consistency in this dhimmi’s thinking, to see how he caves in to the diktats of Hezbollah’s and Hamas’ admirers by denying the exercise of freedom of speech (a right which by the very principles he claims to believe in, he should uphold and defend until his last drop of blood), is a disgusting display of cowardice! It is unequivocal proof that those who hate our country, those whose lifestyles, whose belief systems hold no values worth defending are the true enemies within. It is proof of the mental disorder that has taken over those whose job it is to educate our young, those whose job it is to shape the minds of America’s future leaders.

I am not American born. I first came to this country, as a legal immigrant, in 1962 from Uruguay. I left in 1968, and came back with my family in 1977. Why? This country may not perfect, a lot needs to be worked on, much needs to be improved, changed, or discarded… but… you wanna know something? Nowhere else are there so many opportunities for improvement, no where can one find so many individual freedoms. To hate America, is to hate all the values liberals claim to stand for. To ally themselves, to act according to the dictates of enemies of this country shows how dangerously misguided some “educators” are.

But this is a free country, everyone is entitled to their beliefs… even despicable ones. I have no beef with Robert Corrigan’s personal ideas, even if they repulse me. Like Voltaire said, I disagree with every word you say, but I will defend with my last drop of blood your right to say it. Voltaire’s dictum represent the ultimate principle of Liberalism, one that should be fought for and defended by every freedom loving American until one’s last ounce of energy. That principle of true freedom of speech is what made this country so great. To selectively deny that freedom of speech smacks of the worst aspects of fascism, an ideology today’s fashionable leftards claim to oppose…

I love this country and I love my flag. To fix whatever may be wrong with our society (yes, gentle reader, much needs to be fixed!) requires a deep love for the country that has given so much to the world, that says “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!“. For a liberal educator to usurp his students’ or his staff’s freedom of speech, because of his own capricious instantly made-up rules, is an intolerable act! It is a blatant denial of every stanza emblazoned on the Statue of Liberty.

Even though the flag-stomping was protected speech - a fact pointed out twice to SFSU President Robert Corrigan in letters from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - SFSU administrators decided to put the College Republicans on trial for “attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment” and “actions of incivility.” An SFSU spokesperson even told the San Francisco Chronicle that the real issue was “the desecration of Allah.” LIAR!!! Robert Corrigan should at least be consistent if he expects to be believed. SFSU Muslim students are known for their blatant denigration of Christianity and Judaism, yet the same Robert Corrigan has never found it necessary to castigate them for “attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment” and “actions of incivility.” What a contemptible creature, what a true Dhimmi, SFSU President Roberrt Corrigan is! What a fascist! Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot would be proud!

SFSU President, Robert Corrigan
The true face of an America-hating dhimmi