From Yahoo News… HERE is the article
Penn Judge: Muslims Allowed to Attack People for Insulting Mohammad
COMMENTARY | Jonathon Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, reports on a disturbing case in which a state judge in Pennsylvania threw out an assault case involving a Muslim attacking an atheist for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Judge Mark Martin, an Iraq war veteran and a convert to Islam, threw the case out in what appears to be an invocation of Sharia law.
The incident occurred at the Mechanicsburg, Pa., Halloween parade where Ernie Perce, an atheist activist, marched as a zombie Muhammad. Talaag Elbayomy, a Muslim, attacked Perce, and he was arrested by police.
Judge Martin threw the case out on the grounds that Elbayomy was obligated to attack Perce because of his culture and religion. Judge Martin stated that the First Amendment of the Constitution does not permit people to provoke other people. He also called Perce, the plaintiff in the case, a “doofus.” In effect, Perce was the perpetrator of the assault, in Judge Martin’s view, and Elbayomy the innocent. The Sharia law that the Muslim attacker followed trumped the First Amendment.
Words almost fail.
The Washington Post recently reported on an appeals court decision to maintain an injunction to stop the implementation of an amendment to the Oklahoma state constitution that bans the use of Sharia law in state courts. The excuse the court gave was that there was no documented case of Sharia law being invoked in an American court. Judge Martin would seem to have provided that example, which should provide fodder for the argument as the case goes through the federal courts.
The text of the First Amendment could not be clearer. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof-” It does not say “unless somebody, especially a Muslim, is angered.” Indeed Judge Martin specifically decided to respect the establishment of a religion, in this case Islam.
That Judge Martin should be removed from the bench and severely sanctioned goes almost without saying. He clearly had no business hearing the case in the first place, since he seems to carry an emotional bias. He also needs to retake a constitutional law course. Otherwise, a real can of worms has been opened up, permitting violence against people exercising free speech.
It should be noted that another atheist, dressed as a Zombie Pope, was marching beside the Zombie Muhammad. No outraged Catholics attacked him.
Is THIS what our Country is coming to? Has PCism gone too far? Personally, I think it has, especially if you are a WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) male… ANYTHING we say or do is now pretty much illegal, or soon will be with this administration and the judges they are putting in place.
And DHS is pretty determined to label all of us bitter clingers, and ex-military as domestic terrorists; and if we’re Christian, that’s just another nail in our coffins…
I’m really getting scared about where we are heading, and even my daughters (early 30’s) are bitching at me about what is going on. They vote, but they are afraid most of their peers won’t, or will vote on soundbites, rather than issues…
Well, most Christians knew that the target-painting-of-our-backs would begin soon…
Hubby plans on buying a shotgun soon. I’m going to encourage him to clean a store out on shells at the rate things are going right now.
We haven’t played Cowboys and Jihadis over here yet. It’s liable to get nasty. Here’s hoping that the local bar association files charges against His Honor for abrogating his oath of office. I don’t hold my breath, but I’m still looking forward to a couple of more good years before we open season on the jihadis.
It’s the colonization effect. If this judge gets away with that ruling, it’ll build from there once precedent is set. I think OK was right to try to head this issue off at the pass.
This is a judge who has no business drawing a paycheck from the taxpayers.
Sick.
MM- Make sure he gets BOTH Slugs and 00Buck!
Paw- Yep… but it’s coming, I can ‘feel’ it…
MC- Concur! on ALL counts!
BP- Yep, agree!
WSF- Can’t argue at all… sigh
I just posted that on our daily newspapers editors blog.
http://gilspencerblog.blogspot.com/
UnFreakingBelievable!
I wonder what the “penalty” would have been for me telling that doctor to KMA when he pushed me out of the way, telling me men go first, on the elevator?
I wonder also, how far is this all going to go before the libs pull their collective heads out of their butts and see what’s going on…
Dearborn Michigan.
We’ll be shooting at another soon.
And gun sales indicate more and more are now realizing it.
How terribly sad.
I just don’t understand why people leave their third-world hellholes to come here, and the first thing they do is start trying to change our country so that it’s like the dungheap they left.
And yes, I am bitterly clinging to my guns and religion, because those are two of the things that made this the greatest country the world has ever known.
And DHS is pretty determined to label all of us bitter clingers, and ex-military as domestic terrorists; and if we’re Christian, that’s just another nail in our coffins
This is largely because the Muslim brotherhood has infiltrated our federal government to the highest levels, as has been reported in the Canada Free Press and other places. They are in the state department – Hillary Clinton’s closest adviser comes from a MB family. DHS and the Justice department are reported to be full of them. They are reported to be in the white house.
As others have said, an open civil war is looking more possible every day, and it will beyond ugly.
PC-ism run amok? Did you catch the Denis Leary bit from Rescue Me on sensitivity training? As someone who raised a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant male and heard what he was subject to – it resonates.
Here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smciRU0d38U
Danny- Thanks!
Snigs- Never???
GB- Concur and it IS sad, we were once better than this…
Tim- Because we LET them in this new PC world…
GB- I’ve heard that, and am seeing ‘some’ of the documentation on that!
Anne- Thanks and it DOES doesn’t it!!!
This was the subject of my blog post today, too. It’s not just PCism, although that’s a part. It’s the clash of three cultures and two of’em are against the third…us.
Crucis- EXCELLENT point!
Liberals did this, and will continue doing so until……… as long as there are liberals.