California charges Facebook user with serious crime for posting “Islam is dangerous”… no charges ever filed against users saying “Trump is dangerous”
by: Lance D Johnson
NaturalNews.com
Monday, January 08, 2018
Has Sharia law found its way into the United States, replacing American democracy? If you live in California and criticize Islam on Facebook, your words could be interpreted as “harassment” and you could be charged with serious misdemeanor crimes.
That’s what happened to one man from California who ranted on a pro-Islam Facebook page. In 2016, 41 year old Mark Feigin posted five messages criticizing Muslims on the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC) Facebook page. He wrote things like, “Islam is dangerous” and called out their ties to terror.
Instead of deleting the post, blocking Feigin, and moving on, the Islamic Center of Southern California felt deeply offended, saved the Facebook rant, and used it as evidence that would ultimately be used to charge Feigin with misdemeanors.
ICSC Communications Coordinator Kristin Stangas contacted authorities and shared Feigin’s messages. The messages include:
“THE MORE MUSLIMS WE ALLOW INTO AMERICA THE MORE TERROR WE WILL SEE.”
“PRACTICING ISLAM CAN SLOW OR EVEN REVERSE THE PROCESS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.”
“Islam is dangerous – fact: the more muslim savages we allow into america – the more terror we will see -this is a fact which is undeniable.”
The Los Angeles Police Department took the Facebook matter seriously, arrested Feigin, and charged him under Cal. Penal Code § 653m(b), which states: “every person who, with intent to annoy or harass, makes repeated telephone calls or makes repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device … to another person is … guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to telephone calls or electronic contacts made in good faith or during the ordinary course and scope of business.”
It’s easy to type how you really feel and send it over the internet. You think you’re safe, letting out your anger, as you sit behind a screen anonymously. But it doesn’t matter how free you think you are. Powerful groups can find ways to manipulate the interpretation of the law to use your words against you in court. Ultimately the California Attorney General says the Facebook posts violated the law by making, “repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device” with the “intent to annoy or harass.” The Facebook posts were from 2016 and the trial began on January 2, 2018.
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