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Anti-Muslim activists are crying Shariah again 鈥� this time, over the separate decisions of hotels in two cities to cancel anti-Muslim conferences and a former Maryland state lawmaker鈥檚 call for the cancellation of a third.

Yesterday, former Maryland lawmaker Saqib Ali issued an open letter condemning an upcoming conference sponsored by Maryland Conservative Action (MDCAN). 鈥淚nstead of inviting legitimate conservative speakers, MDCAN has instead chosen speakers who are well-known conspiracy theorists, McCarthyites, racists and anti-Muslim fanatics,鈥� Ali wrote in a letter endorsed by Muslim, Latino and LGBT rights groups.

True enough. Among those slated to speak at the conference are , who has called Islam 鈥渃ommunism with a God鈥�; former FBI agent turned 鈥渃ounterterrorism expert鈥� John Guandolo, who according to falsely suggested that a Jordanian-American professor had links to terrorists during an Ohio training; and racist columnist , once identified as a member of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South.

鈥淭his [letter from Ali] is standard operating procedure for CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups,鈥� Gaffney told the conservative website Daily Caller. 鈥淭hey are trying to impose what are known as Shariah blasphemy laws, whereby anyone who says anything critical about Islam, no matter how true, is to be silenced. It is actually a capital offense.鈥�

Arch-Islamophobe said much the same thing last week after a Hyatt hotel in Sugar Land, Texas, cancelled her scheduled appearance after receiving phone calls about her history of anti-Muslim vitriol. 鈥淭he Hyatt Place in Sugarland [sic] caved to Islamic pressure yesterday and agreed to enforce the blasphemy law under the sharia. Cowards. Dhimmis. Free speech, the cornerstone of our constitutional republic, is in serious jeopardy,鈥� she wrote. (The Sugar Land event was rescheduled for a different venue and went on as planned.)

On Monday, a collection of anti-Muslim organizations learned that their 鈥淧reserving Freedom Conference,鈥� which was supposed to take place in Nashville on Nov. 11, had been cancelled by the Hutton Hotel. Among the scheduled speakers are the ever-present Geller and her SOIA co-founder ; Frank Gaffney; Mathew Staver of the hard-line anti-gay (which, , seems to be tacking anti-Muslim these days); and Tennessee Freedom Coalition founder Lou Ann Zelenik, who made a name for herself with her to the construction of a Muslim community center in Murfreesboro during a failed 2010 congressional bid.

Sponsors include SIOA, Gaffney鈥檚 Center for Security Policy, Joseph Farah鈥檚 far-right online publication World Net Daily (WND), and the ironically named Religious Freedom Coalition, which declares itself 鈥渄edicated to the equality of all mankind and the freedom of religious expression.鈥� Among the co-sponsors are the (another to the anti-Shariah bandwagon that has long been listed by the 人兽性交 as an anti-gay hate group); Pat Robertson鈥檚 American Center for Law and Justice, which has been active in pushing ; and , a network of 鈥淧atriot pastors and Patriot Partners鈥� with a history of gay-bashing.

Stephen Eckley, a spokesman for Amerimar Enterprises, which owns the hotel, told that the hotel wouldn鈥檛 have booked the event 鈥渋f this group had let us know what kind of program they were planning and who was involved.鈥�

According to WND, Eckley cited 鈥渧eiled threats that there were going to be protests that could easily erupt into violence.鈥�

In response to the cancellation, the enraged Tennessee Freedom Coalition issued a press release calling for a boycott and claiming the Nashville hotel was denying 鈥淯.S. Christians, Jews and citizens their rights under the U.S. Constitution.鈥� Brigitte Gabriel鈥檚 anti-Muslim and Judson Phillips鈥� Tea Party Nation 鈥� one of the of the tea party movement 鈥� also joined calls for a boycott.

World Net Daily, whose relationship with reality is at best, is making the most of this new 鈥渢hreat.鈥�

鈥淚 don't know how to state this any more plainly: Americans are in danger of losing their precious free-speech rights guaranteed under the First Amendment due to pressure and intimidation by the Muslim Brotherhood,鈥� WND founder wrote Monday. 鈥淭he 鈥楳uslim Mafia鈥� is winning 鈥� slowly, but surely, in imposing a kind of soft Shariah law on American society through fear and intimidation.鈥�

The anti-Muslim groups鈥� talk of First Amendment violations 鈥� like most of what they say 鈥� is utter nonsense. There is no government censorship involved in a private hotel鈥檚 decision to not rent its space to someone.

鈥淭he first word of the First Amendment is Congress 鈥� 鈥�Congress shall make no law,鈥� which is broadly interpreted as meaning the federal government,鈥� UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh told Hatewatch. 鈥淧rivate entities aren鈥檛 governed by the First Amendment.鈥�

Volokh, a self-described 鈥渃enter-right, moderate libertarian conservative鈥� who co-writes a legal blog called , said that a boycott is also an expression of the First Amendment, one that 鈥渉as long been a part of American free speech activities.鈥�

That鈥檚 not enough for Pam Geller. In addition to her call for a boycott, the siren of anti-Shariah hysteria (who Muslims as 鈥渢hugs鈥� and 鈥渟avages鈥� even as she calls SIOA 鈥渙ne of America鈥檚 foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech鈥�) is demanding that the Sugar Land Hyatt 鈥渁pologize for its capitulation to the enemies of freedom, and to hold sensitivity training sessions for all its employees to teach them the value of the freedom of speech and the truth about the jihad threat facing the U.S. and the West.鈥�

It just so happens, Geller鈥檚 press release notes, that SIOA runs 鈥渄iversity鈥� trainings itself, to 鈥渉elp鈥� 鈥渦nderstand the jihad threat in all its different manifestations, including Islamic supremacist cultural initiatives to assert Islamic law and practice in the American workplace.鈥�