Government Dhimmitude Rejects SIOA Trademark

WND has an excellent piece on our legal battle with the US government over their illegal enforcement of sharia law and its most important tenet, do not insult Islam.

Here’s the SIOA story in full.

Government protects Islam, rejects trademark WND

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Political correctness ‘is everywhere, folks, in every aspect of our lives’

A federal agency has rejected a request
for a trademark by the organization “Stop
Islamization of America” because its name may “disparage” Muslims. 

The group launched by Atlas Shrugs blogger
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of Jihad
Watch has drawn national attention for its bus-sign campaign offering
support for Muslims who want to leave Islam. SIOA currently is organizing
opposition to plans for an Islamic mosque at Ground
Zero in New York City.

Now the group reports the U.S. government
has refused its request for a trademark designation for its name.

The government response, posted on the site, states, “The applied-for mark
refers to Muslims in a disparaging manner because by definition it implies that
conversion or conformity to Islam is something that needs to be stopped or
caused to cease.

The proposed mark further disparages Muslims because, taking into account the
nature of the services (‘providing information regarding understanding and
preventing terrorism’), it implies that Islam is associated with violence and
threats,” the government agency said.

“The trademark examining attorney refers
to the excerpted articles from the LEXISNEXIS® computerized database referencing
how many Muslims view terrorists
as illegitimate adherents of Islam. …
Therefore, the suggestion that Islam equates terrorism would be disparaging to a
substantial group of Muslims,” it said.

Geller commented in a report on the
group’s site

“It is everywhere, folks, in every aspect of our lives from the big stuff
(Major Hasan cover-up) to the minutia (trademark registration),” she said. “Take
a look at this. Robert and I registered the name Stop Islamization of American
for trademark. It was refused.” 

A link to a 20-page summary from the government’s office of trademark
applications listed definitions for Islam and terror.

“Accordingly, the applied-for mark is refused under Section 2(a) because it
consists of matter which may disparage or bring into contempt or disrepute
Muslims and the Islamic religion,” the government report said.

A participant in the website’s forum page weighed in.

“‘It implies that Islam is associated with violence and threats.’ IMPLIES?? …
It is associated with violence and threats,” “Islam is a terror group as defined
by their own Quran [a]nd imams.”

Read it all.

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