Never let Dems get power again. Let me get this straight, you can burn the Bible, but not the Qur'an?-Obama State Department Official Calls for Criminalization of Burning the Qur'an The totalitarian tendencies of the Left become more obvious by the day. Richard Stengel was the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs under Obama. In this piece, he says the First Amendment is an “outlier” and calls for “hate speech” laws that would criminalize, among other things, the burning of Qur’ans. Stengel takes it as self-evident why the burning of the Qur’an should be banned, so we don’t know if it is because he is afraid Muslims will riot and kill innocent people as a result of the burning, and is pre-emptively surrendering to violent intimidation, or if he objects in principle to the burning of all holy books as disrespectful to the adherents of the religion in question, but he doesn’t mention anything about criminalizing the burning of the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita, etc., so it seems likely that the former is correct, and he is trying to codify cowardice into the American legal code. https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/obama-state-department-official-calls-for-criminalization-of-burning-the-quran/