In an ultimate insult to the first amendment, the US Supreme Court in 2010 decided in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project that offering training in nonviolent, peaceful protest techniques to groups designated as terrorist organizations by the executive branch could be prosecuted as material aid to terrorists.

QUESTION: How far does this ruling reach — does it also criminalize purely academic or advocacy speech about these groups' methods?

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 418