A quote, emphasis mine:
"Both these groups are designated terrorist organizations in the United Arab Emirates". So the UAE doesn't like them. Why should we care that the UAE doesn't like them? Why specifically the UAE and just them?
> To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison (a U.S. congressman) represent Islamism 2.0. The former kill more people but the latter pose a greater threat to Western civilization.
And he obviously doesn't understand what Silicon Valley Community Foundation is.. SVCF is a public charity that holds Donor Advised Funds for its clients. The checks to the charities that he dislikes came from the SVCF bank account, but only because one of their clients advised SVCF to give them a grant. Since all of SVCF's grants are available, you can easily see that the money went to the SFBay Area branch of CAIR who lately have been filing civil rights lawsuits against the Muslim ban.. not exactly Hezbollah: https://twitter.com/CAIRSFBA
> "If I were a Muslim I would let you know," Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim.
> But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim? More precisely, might Muslims consider him a murtadd (apostate), that is, a Muslim who converted to another religion and, therefore, someone whose blood may be shed?
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> These statements raise two questions: What is Obama's true connection to Islam and what implications might this have for an Obama presidency?
Hmm, yeah, definitely someone qualified to lecture Silicon Valley on free speech.
[1] http://www.danielpipes.org/5286/was-barack-obama-a-muslim