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Volokh has an interesting piece relating to Elberto's thread

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I'll post it separately so as to not confuse things. Basically, a gay grad student says he doesn't care for Islam to a another woman who is engaged to a Muslim man...hilarity ensues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/ ... niversity/
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Am reminded of that old limerick, completely and utterly socially and politically incorrect in today's environment:

"I once knew a q---- from Khartoum
who took a les---- up to his room.
They argued all night
over who had the right
to do what, and with which, and to whom."
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WTF is this?? Seriously what am I missing here? Islam has blasphemy laws in the United States now? When did this happen? Really, WTF is this article? Is it real? This dude could get "disciplined" from his college for stating the truth that there are Muslim nations that kill gays? Really? This is in the United States?? So what would this university do if an asshole in a bar shouted "you effing Jew" ??? Or criticized the Bible? Is that blasphemy? Would that be punished? wTF is this?? I HAVE to be missing something
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CFB Apologist wrote:WTF is this?? Seriously what am I missing here? Islam has blasphemy laws in the United States now? When did this happen? Really, WTF is this article? Is it real? This dude could get "disciplined" from his college for stating the truth that there are Muslim nations that kill gays? Really? This is in the United States?? So what would this university do if an asshole in a bar shouted "you effing Jew" ??? Or criticized the Bible? Is that blasphemy? Would that be punished? wTF is this?? I HAVE to be missing something
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ALFRED MACDONALD: And this is over … I thought that UTSA was a public university with first amendment protections? So I could be dismissed for stuff like that? Just …

EVE BROWNING: Making derogatory comments? Yes.
How f'ing ridiculous. I'd tell her that should her publically funded university continue down this path that she and the USTA are going to have one whale of a PR and litigation nightmare on their hands.

And BTW, the same thing needs to occur with all university speech codes (including gays, women, minority and political speech codes) .
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