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by jaf656s 2511 days ago
"kill all the jews because islam says jews are evil"

is not protected speech by any stretch of the imagination

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>The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Time to ban the Hadith, then?

If he changes it to "The Quran says the most evil of men are the Jews that all of them will be killed in the final battle"?

protected speech?

What about "jews should all be killed because Islam says jews are evil"? How is that different (I mean, besides the obvious) than "murderers should be put to death because the Bible says so"?
Instead of discussing a bunch of pointless examples, let me cut to the chase:

I disagree with your premise that this is a "slippery slope" and should be avoided.

I mean, this is a slippery slope. Before Cloudflare took down TDS without any court order, they could argue that they took nothing down. Now they've taken down a site that hosted hateful extremist content along with a lot of other, more acceptable things, and further takedowns will likely be easier still to justify. That's a textbook slippery slope!

But my argument here was that treating political views and religious views differently doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me, since the content of those views can be almost identical.