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  Date / Time: 11/6/2008 5:18 PM UTC

  Might Obama muzzle critics of Islam?
  

  An author and Middle East expert is fearful that President-elect Barack Obama will willingly classify any statements critical of Islam as hate speech in order to satisfy the demands of an international organization pushing Islamic supremacy.

   

  Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of numerous best-selling books on Islam. He admits he became worried about the future of free speech when, even before the election, the Obama campaign kicked certain news agencies off the plane because their editorial staffs endorsed McCain.
   
  When he moves into the Oval Office, Obama -- according to Spencer -- will likely move to expand hate crime laws to include hate speech. "Hate speech and hate crimes both are in the eyes of the beholder," he contends. "The group that has power can classify dissent from its position as hate speech and then quash all dissent in that way, and we see the Obama campaign in Missouri prosecuting people who said things about Obama they that they didn't like."
   
  Spencer adds that free speech is at an even greater risk concerning international relations.
   
  "The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) [is] already attempting to criminalize any speech about Islam that they don't like," he contends. "Then it's not hard to consider an Obama administration going along with this OIC attempt, which would essentially render us mute in the face of the jihad threat."
   
  This is a grave matter, Spencer laments, that does not seem to concern the majority of American citizens.

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