David Cole of Georgetown University
Posted by afghanjohn on September 3, 2007
David Cole of Georgetown University is feeling sorry for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). See this article in in the IndyStar to read what he’s saying.
According to various news sources, including Newsweek, ISNA has been named by federal prosecuters as one of the “unindicted co-conspirators” in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in Dallas, TX. They have also been described by prosecutors as a U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization dedicated to world-wide Islamic rule.
But David Cole thinks ISNA is a moderate Muslim organization and that it’s unfair to brand them with “guilt by association” by naming them an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case.
This is the same David Cole who was an attorney for Gregory Lee Johnson, member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, who was arrested and charged with “desecrating a venerated object” in violation of a Texas statute after burning and spitting on an American flag while supporters chanted “America, the red, white and blue, we spit on you.” This is the case known as Texas v. Johnson which was argued before the Supreme Court.
This is the same David Cole who also represented three other flag burners in the United States v. Eichman case before the Supreme Court which upheld the Texas v. Johnson decision.
This is the same David Cole who represented the National Endowment for the Arts so it could continue to receive grants from American tax dollars to promote indecent art.
This is the same David Cole who was a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, an organization which has recently provided legal assistance to the suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay.
It’s good to know about Dr. Cole’s committment to First Amendment issues.
Now that he’s feeling sorry for Muslim organizations in America, I’m wondering if he is also lecturing the “moderate” Muslim leaders about the First Amendment rights of non-Muslims to desecrate the Quran and publish cartoons poking fun at Mohammed?
nocturnal said
I have always been a fan of US, a land of FREE-DUMBS.
Where you can actually make a movie like PASSION OF THE CHRIST and able to show the movie in the theatres across the country.
No one files the case against you for inciting religious hatred against jews. But when you speak against them while you are drunk you face charges of hate crime.
In an interview with The New York Times, Hutton Gibson told a reporter he doubted the scale of the Holocaust.
Mel on Holocaust,
“Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body,” he said. “It takes one litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?”
Both Mel’s father and him are devout followers of the “traditionalist Catholic” faith.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/04/1075853922857.html
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afghanjohn said
Dr. Cole will speak Thursday, Oct. 4, at the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be from noon to 1 p.m. in the Moot Court Room.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6435.html
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=44999
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