"I know they can come up with a way” to redefine criticism as discrimination..."

Think long about that remark, it portents a dangerous precedent of censorship to protect a religion based in perceived discrimination. The definition of discrimination is based in that persons personal belief: if you say something about Islam, and that was felt as an insult by a Muslim, or anyone else, you will be seen as being guilty of a hate crime.

In other words, you are not allowed to criticize Islam, as doing so would constitute a deliberate attempt to inflict harm through the words you speak.

And these are the people Obama and his administration are working closely with, in order to protect Muslims from unwanted words.

Hello George Orwell, welcome to 1984.

From The Daily Caller October 21 by Neil Munro

Progressives, Islamists huddle at Justice Department

Top Justice Department officials convened a meeting Wednesday where invited Islamist advocates lobbied them for cutbacks in anti-terror funding, changes in agents’ training manuals, additional curbs on investigators and a legal declaration that U.S. citizens’ criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination.

The department’s “civil rights lawyers are top of the line — I say this with utter honesty — I know they can come up with a way” to redefine criticism as discrimination, said Sahar Aziz, a female, Egyptian-American lawyer.

Our ability to openly talk about, and criticize Islam, and any other religion is in serious doubt if it becomes illegal to express ones questions about a religion. This is a path we really don't want to go down.

“I’d be willing to give a shot at it,” said Aziz, who is a fellow at the Michigan-based Muslim advocacy group, the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding.

The audience of Islamist advocates and department officials included Tom Perez, who heads the department’s division of civil rights.

“We must continue to have the open and honest and critical dialogue that you saw in the robust debate,” Perez responded in an enthusiastic closing speech a few minutes after Aziz made her demands at the event.

“I sat here the entire time, taking notes,” Perez said. “I have some very concrete thoughts … in the aftermath of this.”

The meeting at George Washington University showcased the expanding alliance between American progressives and Islamists, said Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor in New York.

Progressives “are making these Islamist groups into the [political] representatives of Muslims in the United States..."

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