Feds to Enforce Sharia Law

A local Tennessee politician posted a photo of a man aiming a shotgun at the camera with the caption "How to wink at a Muslim." As a result, the Feds suggest that anti-Muslim speech can be punished. Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, was quoted by the Tullahoma News suggesting that some inflammatory material on Islam might run afoul of federal civil rights laws.

The government may, indeed, play a useful and entirely constitutional role in urging people not to engage in speech that amounts to religious discrimination. But it may not, under the First Amendment, prevent or punish speech even if it may be viewed as hostile to a religion. Judicial Watch for example noted that restricting free speech is unconstitutional.