Late yesterday, in a striking victory for the First Amendment on campus, a federal district court in Texas ruled that a number of restrictions on students’ speech at Tarrant County College (TCC) are unconstitutional.
And they are using her unwise guilty plea to a charge of being “unruly” against her now. “Agreement between Rifqa Bary, parents to settle conflict short-lived,” by Meredith “Hijab” Heagney for the Columbus Dispatch, January 29 (thanks to Pamela): The agreement between Rifqa Bary and her parents to settle their…
The phrase “letter-writing campaigns to Rifqa publicized on blogs that malign Islam” is doubtless a reference to Pamela Geller’s initiative to have Christmas cards sent to Rifqa — but complaining about “blogs that malign Islam” sells a lot better than saying straight out, as they did before, that they’re trying…
This will make everything better, you see. They just have to understand each other’s religions. But as Pamela Geller points out, the plan is inconsistent and strange. If there is a possibility that she will not be returned home, how is it that they will discuss religion when she is…
