My latest in PJ Media: Richard Stengel, according to the New York Post, “is the Biden transition ‘Team Lead’ for the US Agency for Global Media, the U.S. government media empire that includes Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.” He is also a menace to our constitutional protections […]
Biden transition official wants speech restrictions, criminalization of burning of Qur’an
I’m not in favor of the burning of any book, and I believe that people ought to read and understand the Qur’an rather than burn it. However, note that Stengel is calling for legal “guardrails” against “speech that incites hate.” If someone burns a Bible, no one cares. If someone burns a Qur’an, there are […]
Obama State Department Official Calls for Criminalization of Burning the Qur’an
My latest in PJ Media: The totalitarian tendencies of the Left become more obvious by the day, as the Washington Post continues to cover itself in glory. Richard Stengel is a former editor of Time Magazine and was the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2013 to 2016. In this piece, […]
Obama State Department official Richard Stengel calls in Washington Post for criminalizing burning the Qur’an
The Washington Post just keeps covering itself in glory. Richard Stengel is a former editor of Time Magazine and was the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2013 to 2016. In this piece, he says the First Amendment is an “outlier” and calls for “hate speech” laws that would criminalize, among […]
Obama official admits: “Violent extremism” is really “radical Islamic extremism”
Writing in the New York Times, Richard Stengel, who served as Obama’s under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, is now open to admitting that the unnamed “violent extremism” against which the USA has been struggling with for more than two decades is actually “radical Islamic extremism.” He has the following reason why […]