Can't Deal With Caustic Comments? Stay In Saudi Arabia
Jonathan Turley blogs about vile mass murderer Sayed Farook:
It appears that he may have gotten into an argument with with colleague Nicholas Thalasinos (right), a Messianic Jew who was one of the victims. Thalasinos was known to write highly caustic comments about Islam on the Internet.
Law prof Turley's parrotting of that from a news story, sans remark, is a bit disturbing, and reminiscent of those deluded people whose response to the Charlie Hebdo slaughter, for example, was, "Well, they were kinda rude."
This is America. You can make "highly caustic comments" about any subject you want, because this is not Saudi Arabia, where they jail you or even execute you for free speech.
To make that a little clearer, America is the land of loud assholes -- or it can be, because we have a civil-liberties-protecting Constitution, and the First Amendment gives you a right to criticize and even mock religion.
People uncomfortable with loud assholes -- to the degree that they do more than go loud asshole right back -- don't deserve the extreme privilege of being in this country, and lack humanity to a degree that they should be caged so they can't hurt anyone with their medieval belief system.
I don't see much problem with Professor Turley's quote and use of "caustic". Neither he nor the Daily Mail were blaming Thalasinos, they were providing background to the claim Thalasinos and Farook had gotten into a fight.
I don't get the sense from either they were criticizing Thalasinos.
(I am more disturbed the Daily Mail and Professor Turley refer to Messianic Judaism as if it were a legitimate, recognized branch of Judaism. It is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism)
RIP to Thalasinos and all the victims.
jerry at December 4, 2015 1:19 AM
Same here on the "messianic Judaism." The guy's not Jewish. Or, thanks to people dying for Allah, wasn't.
Well, I think Turley's comments, absent any explanation, read as "say bad things about religion..."
Amy Alkon at December 4, 2015 4:51 AM
Thus this will become "workplace violence" w/pipe bombs and IEDs instead of a terrorist attack on Obama's watch.
Bob in Texas at December 4, 2015 5:40 AM
No, it's looking clearer and clearer that this was lone wolf Jihad, like Boston.
NicoleK at December 4, 2015 9:50 AM
"Workplace violence"
"Lone wolf Jihad"
Oh, how I long for the days when those were NOT commonly understood phrases.
charles at December 4, 2015 8:27 PM
And there is (and has been for quite some time)a clear movement afoot, from the highest offices in our land on down, to first subvert, and now outright criminalize, our supposed most cherished American ideal of free speech.
"Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged to a Muslim advocacy and lobbying group that she would take aggressive action against anyone who used "anti-Muslim rhetoric"
http://www.dailywire.com/news/1593/loretta-lynch-vows-prosecute-those-who-use-anti-james-barrett
treece at December 5, 2015 12:29 AM
What country were his parents from? I haven't seen anything.
NicoleK at December 5, 2015 5:50 AM
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