Pakistan directs ISP's to block Facebook because of Draw Muhammed Day!!

A very interesting post from www.jihadwatch.org about Draw Muhammed Day. This follows this post about the Ground Zero Mosque and this previous article about the recent news about offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.

Pakistan directs ISP's to block Facebook because of Motoon competition
Why draw Muhammad? Why make fun of the man Muslims revere most? Why arouse their ire?
Precisely because they react with murderous rage when one does this.
Now that may seem odd -- why would anyone want to provoke someone else's murderous rage?
Because it is an object lesson in pluralism. Either we put up with being offended by one another, or we enact speech codes that establish one group as beyond criticism. The latter road is the path to authoritarianism and tyranny. To respond to speech one considers offensive without threats and murder is a cardinal element of a society that respects all its citizens enough to allow them a voice in the public square, no matter how despised and hated their opinions may be. So free speech is a key element of any society in which all people are equal before the law.
And now when free speech is under serious attack both Stateside and internationally, and a key battlefield in the war against it is so-called "Islamophobia" and the Muhammad cartoons, it is essential to stand up and say that it is madness to threaten and kill over a cartoon drawing. And to stand for free speech whatever the risks.

Fear of Free Speech Alert: "ISPs directed to block Facebook's blasphemous link," from The News International, May 18 (thanks to Block Ness):
KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to close a Facebook's link about the competition of the blasphemous caricatures.
A caricature competition is being held on May 20 at a link of the http://www.facebook.com/ under a plot to hurt the millions of Muslims around the world.
The PTA, taking notice of this attempt, has asked the ISPs to ensure the blockage of this particular link of the facebook website.

Also, on Facebook, this:
Fuck the organizers of draw Mohammed day. May they BURN IN HELL (INSHALLAH)
Your bodies will burn in fire in your graves and then in hell. We Muslims, can't even think of saying or doing the same for your Prophets because we respect that all Prophets were send by Allah Almighty. You should be ashamed of yourselves YOU BLOODY PIG EATERS.

Meanwhile, you can join in the fun Thursday here. And post your drawings to the SIOA page also.

Posted by Robert

Arizona Deserves Support in Fight Against Illegal Immigration‏

An interesting post from www.teapartyexpress.org about a Petition in support of 1070. This follows this post analyzing media coverage of Arizona's 1070 and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso across from the recent Juarez shooting. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Arizona Deserves Support in Fight Against Illegal Immigration‏
We here at the Tea Party Express have been disappointed to see protests and boycotts being waged against the state of Arizona for their stand against illegal immigration.
The people of Arizona were left without choice - they had to take action to fight a problem that no one has been willing to take seriously and tackle: rampant out-of-control illegal immigration.
At a time when the federal government keeps trying to grow its power and responsibilities beyond those powers enumerated in the Constitution, we find it appalling that the federal government refuses to secure America's borders - something that IS supposed to be their responsibility.
You can stand with Arizona and show your support for their efforts by signing onto the petition drive supporting their crackdown on illegal immigration:
SIGN HERE TO SHOW SUPPORT.

Please help us grow this effort. Share this link for others to sign. Send it out to your email lists. Post to message boards online. Let's get this petition drive spread all across the country: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supportarizonaimmigrationlaw/

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

A very interesting post from http://biggovernment.com/ about the censorship that South Park is receiving. This follows this article reviewing a book about an earlier Muslim terrorist event, and this article about the recent news about offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence that follows this previous post about it.. This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
by Andrew Mellon
Molly Norris has declared May 20th “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” in defense of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. All freedom-loving Americans should get behind this. While initially I thought it was an ironic joke that South Park was censoring everything related to Mohammed in their last episode, obviously we have seen over the last few days that against the creators’ will, Comedy Central cowered in the face of a thinly veiled Muslim threat.
In fact, submission, the definition of Islam, is the apt word to describe Comedy Central’s cowardice.
The bottom line is that the First Amendment guarantees free speech including criticism of all peoples. We are an equal opportunity offense country. To censor ourselves to avoid upsetting a certain group (in a cartoon no less) is un-American.
It is especially egregious because it represents dhimmitude. We are sacrificing our law and our heritage to Sharia. The law of our land is the Constitution and beyond that the natural law granted to us by our divine creator.
Giving in to Islam at the cultural level is the first step towards going the way of Europe. Just as with leftism, the loss of our values begins not with the politicians but with the public. We must stop this madness now and stand in solidarity against those who wish to destroy our way of life and replace it with theirs. You can try to bully Matt Stone and Trey Parker but you cannot bully a million red-blooded, liberty-loving Matt Stones and Trey Parkers.
Let me end by evoking the words of a great many South Park characters: “If you don’t like America, then you can git out.”