Should Muslims have the right to vandalize churches?
Muslims vandalized the Uncommon Church in Euless, Texas with obscene anti-Israel graffiti. Leftists and the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) quickly came to their defense, complaining that vandalizing churches is really protected by the First Amendment.
After Raunaq Alam, Afsheen Khan and Julia Venzor vandalized the church, the Dallas Observer claimed that prosecuting them “erodes the First Amendment rights of protesters and critics of the nation of Israel.”
The First Amendment protects the rights of people to express their opinion, not to vandalize a church.
The Uncommon Church had put up a flag in solidarity with Israel after Oct 7 as part of its Christian beliefs. Targeting the church over its beliefs is correctly, an anti-religious hate crime.
“Vandalizing a church property goes against the tenants (sic) of Islam; however, manipulating Texas’ hate crime laws to punish criticism of a foreign government will further erode public confidence in expressing their freedom of speech,” complained Imran Ghani, Director of Operations of CAIR-Texas Houston.
Under the ‘tenets’ of Islam, the correct thing to do to a church is to take it over and turn it into a mosque. And kill any Christians who protest.
Vandalizing it is a more minor way of doing things.
While CAIR constantly claims that Muslims face hate crimes, it protects Muslims who commit hate crimes.
If the Muslims in questions hadn’t vandalized a church, they wouldn’t be facing hate crime prosecutions.
In recent years, Muslims have attacked synagogues in ‘friendly’ Democrat areas in Los Angeles and New Jersey, and got away with it, as local prosecutors only charged the Jews who defended synagogues, not the Muslims who attacked them.
Texas, however, is not California.
And if Texas can’t get the job done, federal hate crimes charges may be in order.
Might as well say the Second Amendment protects shooters who use their guns to commit homicide. This “logic” – such as it is warrant loss of law license, or psychiatric evaluation.
I highly doubt this is true. “Hamas-Linked CAIR Says Muslims Have Right to Vandalize Christian Churches” When have we ever seen Hamas Vandalize Christian Churches? They are not activists. Hamas is under the radar.