Freedom of speech? What’s that? If Northcott had said likened being a Christian to being part of the KKK or Aryan Nation, do you think he would have been investigated for two years? Of course not. He would have been made chairman of the local Critical Race Theory implementation board.
“Tennessee D.A. investigated for comments on homosexuality, Islam has case dismissed,” by Adrian Mojica, Fox17, July 12, 2021:
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–A Tennessee District Attorney previously under fire for comments on homosexuality and Islam has been cleared by the Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR) following a two year investigation.
Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott was under investigation following comments in 2019 in which Northcott wrote on social media Islam was a “evil, violent and against God’s truth” and likened being Muslim to “being part of the KKK, Aryan Nation, etc.”…
Northcott, who refused to be censured by the BPR and challenged the ruling, now says the matter has been dropped after he was granted a motion to dismiss the complaint against him without appeal from the BPR. Northcott says he stands by his comments in a public statement, calling the investigation against him an “attack.” “It was alleged that I am unfit to serve as District Attorney and to remain an attorney in Tennessee because I taught the Word of God regarding homosexuality from the pulpit of a church in Houston, Texas at a Bible conference primarily for pastors sponsored by a seminary as well as my expressing my thological [sic] belief regarding Islam while commenting on another individual’s Facebook post in my personal capacity,” Northcott writes. “Amazingly, this simple exercising of my God-given, constitutionally protected rights so upset certain groups of people that I made local, national, and international news and had to fight their efforts to have me disbarred for the last two years.”
After fighting the investigation successfully, Northcott says the BPR never alleged the mishandling of a specific case and admitted under oath…they could not find a single case that I or my office mishandled.”…
livingengine says
CAIR vs Craig Northcott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIllEPJSagk
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.
livingengine says
Seven TV broadcasts attacking Northcott for a Facebook comment? Not even a post. Every month it is a new episode of CAIR vs an individual. And, not surprisingly, CAIR is getting worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAWmZYg9Ib4
gravenimage says
Yes–and here is CAIR going after a Jewish DA being challenged by a Muslim, because he didn’t kowtow enough to BLM:
https://www.davisvanguard.org/2020/06/guest-commentary-were-not-satisfied-the-movement-to-manifest-black-lives-matter-marches-on/
This is happening in my neck of the woods.
mortimer says
District Attorney Craig Northcott might have stayed out of trouble if he limited his remarks to the analysis of Mohammed’s lifestory and by quoting from Islamic Sharia law experts and from Mohammed.
In the last 9 years of Mohammed’s life, he committed violent attacks every six weeks. Mohammed said, “I was made victorious through TERROR.” (- Bukhari 4.52.220) We have a real problem if most Muslims choose to act like Mohammed.
Many, but far from all Muslims take Mohammed as their role model. Even so, less than one percent of Muslims ever join jihad groups, but they are extremely dangerous and one jihadist cause create much havoc and harm before he is stopped. There are some 50 people killed every day by jihadists in about 5 daily jihad attacks every day of the year.
Nevertheless, all Muslims participate in VERBAL JIHAD by dissembling and cloaking the nature of Islam’s aggressive JIHADISM.
Jihadism is the most important deed in Islam, since it receives the highest rewards and recognition from Allah.
The Prophet said, “The head of its matter is Islam and its pillar is the Salah and its highest peak is the Jihad.” – Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2616
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to At-Tirmidhi
gravenimage says
I doubt it, Mortimer. People have been in trouble from the “thought police” before for telling the truth about Islam.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Mortimer writes:
The Prophet said, “The head of its matter is Islam and its pillar is the Salah and its highest peak is the Jihad.” – Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2616
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to At-Tirmidhi
What is the antecedent of the pronoun “its”?
At-Tirmidhi gets to grade his own hadith? No wonder he gets the highest possible grade.
https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:2616 is pretty hard to follow.
Keith O says
I will be the first to admit that I’m not a fan of Christianity and definitely not Islam.
BUT, for someone, anyone, to be investigated and hounded for 2 years for simply stating what he thinks???
WTF????
The bloke simply gave his thoughts on islam, he didn’t tell anyone to go out and start doing to mudslimes what they do to others, he simply pointed out what they do.
This is just one more example of CAIR trying to intimidate and silence anyone who speaks the truth about islam.
gravenimage says
Tennessee: After two-year investigation for criticizing Islam, DA cleared by Board of Professional Responsibility
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Utter madness–at least he was “cleared” eventually. But just being investigated in this manner serves to crush freedom of speech.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Now COUNTERSUE those GD unAmerican criminal scumbag civil rights VIOLATORS!!!
OLD GUY says
CAIR. through their actions like this instill fear for the freedom of speech and speaking your thoughts. And sadly there appears to be little if any legal actions that are taken against CAIR for their accusations or actions.