Short Quiz - Religious Freedom and National Security

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SHORT QUIZ

[Disclaimer = Approximately 75% of the questions and their answers come from the original proposal and other materials outside Prof. Guiora's book. However, they comprise additional examples of his points and support his conclusions.]

1. What four Constitutional provisions are focused, solely or partially, on religion?

2. Why can't President Obama visit a Muslim nation unless his appearances are confined to U.S. military bases or to the insides of buildings for which security is provided solely by the U.S. Secret Service?

3. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, does "Freedom of Religion" permit the practice of polygamy? Permit children of Jehovah's Witnesses to refuse to salute the American flag? Excuse Amish children from attending school? Invalidate the requirement of the University of California Board of Regents for male students to take ROTC? Invalidate the requirement of New Hampshire to obtain a license to hold a parade? Permit Jehovah's Witnesses to violate child-labor laws in distributing religious literature?

4. What is the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 ("AIRFA")?

5. How many states have enacted statutes protecting members of religions that believe solely in "faith healing" from being prosecuted for "reckless homicide" if their children die from being denied medical care?

6. Who was "Son of Sam"? How many people did he kill? Why did he kill them? What was society's view of "Son of Sam"?

7. What was the Spanish Inquisition?

8. What was the Roman Catholic Doctrine of "Blood Guilt"? Would it be politically incorrect to notice that the liquidation of 6 million Jews in World War II was proper under the Roman Catholic Doctrine of "Blood Guilt"? When did the Roman Catholic Church finally abandon its Doctrine of "Blood Guilt"?

9. Who was the first "economic communist" (from each according to ability, to each according to need)? What was the view of Karl Marx and the old Soviet Union toward the first "economic communist"?

10. Should "Freedom of Religion" cover the practice of human sacrifice?

11. Does The Netherlands, because it prides itself in being "liberal" in its treatment of the Muslim MAJORITY in each of its major cities, permit "honor killings"?

12. From our having read for our June 2008 meeting "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (the Somali woman who became a member of the Dutch Parliament and, since 2004, has been in hiding in the U.S.), why is the analysis by our current author (Prof. Amos Guiora) so disappointing with regard to the assassination of her friend and colleague, Theo Van Gogh?

13. According to the book "Women of the Klan" by Sociology Professor Kathleen M. Blee (copyright 1991 by the University of California Regents), who were the Ku Klux Klan? Why were they always burning crosses on lawns?

14. What is the Jewish provision of "din rodef"? What is a "pulsa denura"? How many Rabbis gathered on the sidewalk in front of the home of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the Eve of Yom Kippur 1995 to recite the ancient execration of "pulsa denura" demanding his assassination for attempting to implement the Oslo Peace Accords? Who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin and what was his motive?

15. What is a Muslim "fatwa"?

16. What did the "fatwa" of Ayatollah Khamenei demand of every good Muslim with respect to Salman Rushdie for writing his book "The Satanic Verses"?

17. What does the "fatwa" of Osama bin Laden demand of every good Muslim?

18. What was the reaction of the Founding Dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government to Osama bin Laden's "fatwa"?

19. What was the carefully-considered policy advocated in an OpEd article during the 2008 Presidential Campaign by Candidate and U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Joe Biden to deal with Osama bin Laden's "fatwa"?

20. According to our author, Amos Guiora, is there a difference between a religious leader preaching that, say, the Bible or the Quran requires someone's death and preaching that it is the obligation of every member of the congregation to immediately assassinate that person?

21. Does our author, Amos Guiora, suggest that Religious Speech should enjoy greater freedom because it enjoys two Constitutional protections (Speech and Religion)?

22. If Prof. Guiora suggests that Religious Speech should enjoy a REDUCED LEVEL OF FREEDOM compared to non-religious speech, what is the rationale?

23. Are there any legal/constitutional restraints on the infiltration of the congregations of religious-extremist clerics to ascertain what they are preaching?

24. Are there any legal/constitutional restraints on importuning the members of the congregations of religious-extremist clerics to ascertain whether any of the congregants are prone to violence as a result of the sermons?

25. Would the U.S. government be derelict in its duty to protect other U.S. citizens if it failed to infiltrate the congregations of religious-extremist clerics and importune their members to commit acts of violence?

26. Most experts have long-since opined that the destruction of one or more American cities as a result of the "fatwa" of Osama bin Laden to kill 10 million Americans with nuclear bombs would produce the destruction long before this of at least one or two major American cities -- so the question is whether you think American public opinion would even tolerate any religious freedom at all for religious terrorists in the wake of such destruction?