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Hundreds Of Muslims Gather In London To Call For A Caliphate & Chant “USA, You Will Pay”
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There is a difference, if I stand outside of your home and yell you stink, it's one thing; if I stand outside your home and yell "you're going to die" it is another.
Both are free speech, one will get you thrown in jail for making terroristic threats.
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What if people stand in another country and say "The US will pay"?
It is not a specific threat (if it is a threat) and it is clearly not going to result in "imminent lawless action".
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Or Oklahoma city
Or the Unibomber
The Centennial Olympic Park
Got any other low probability issues we should devote an inordinate amount of time and money combating? Yes, Islamic extremism is dangerous and we should actively work to protect against it. No, two hundred Muslims in a park chanting slogans is not something I am going to freak out about. There are plenty enough crazies in the US running around killing people that I find much more problematic and deserving of our resources to keep in check.
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I still don't see how it applies. The first half of my post was fairly plain hyperbole. I was pointing out that what was said was obviously just virtue signaling as the other possible implication of that post was silly.
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No, just demonstrating that (contrary to your ludicrous analogy) this does not meet the standards of illegal speech in the US (though this, of course, occurred in the UK)
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Do you think having the biggest military in the world to which the U.S. keeps adding more and more is a benign thing and doesn't threaten anyone? if Russia, India or China did what the U.S. was doing would the U.S. feel threatened or not? should other countries feel threatened?
The most threatening to world peace country in the world is the U.S. and now with Trump in charge the whole world feels threatened.
In all honesty I don't think Trump will survive a full term, if his own country doesn't take him out some other country will.
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"Islam" is not a "race".
Nor is it a "religion".
Islam is an aggressive, warring, political ideology seeking world domination.
“When people show you who they are, believe them.” ~Maya Angelou
Ever heard of the story of the woman and the snake?
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