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The Homeland Security document also seems to discount evidence unearthed by the Justice Department about the aims of some mainstream Muslim organizations, warning law enforcement not to rely on “unsubstantiated theories” and “conspiracies,” such as the belief that “many mainstream Muslim organizations have terrorist ties” or are “fronts for Islamic political organizations whose true desire is to establish Sharia law in America.
The 2009 report also defined “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also those who reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority and who “are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”
The 2009 report’s authors conceded that DHS “has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence.”
One can have radical thoughts/ideas, including disliking the US government, without being violent: for example, trainers who equate the desire for Sharia law with criminal activity violate basic tenets of the First Amendment.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I'll give Islam deference n the United States about 1 day after carrying a Bible into Saudi Arabia isn't an arrestable offense...right at the airport.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I'll give Islam deference n the United States about 1 day after carrying a Bible into Saudi Arabia isn't an arrestable offense...right at the airport.
So, am I understanding you to say that when Saudi Arabia (a foreign country) changes their form of government to suit YOU, you'll respect the tenet of freedom of religion here in the US? ...
They're basically lumping it in with the moon landing hoax, even though there are literally hundreds of videos showing, websites and blogs devoted to, books written about, and news reports and articles written about Muslims wanting Shariah law.
Originally posted by buster2010
They have every right to call for Sharia law they are granted that under Freedom of Speech. But seeing how the constitution is against following a central religion it's something that will never happen.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Now you know full well that is not what I'm saying and debate vs. fight is defined by statements precisely like that one.
When the nation that forms the heart, Soul and spirituality center for the Muslim faith...taken as a most logical example....shows even the least bit of tolerance for anyone else? I'll entertain the whining of those who follow it, for how their every wish and desire isn't catered to here.
The lens of state power is not the only way to see law. Jewish halakha is one example. The scholar-created doctrines of Islamic law are another. Both are complete systems of law that do not need state power in order to govern individual behavior. This is why, when American Muslims say that they live according to sharia, this does not mean that they want government enactment of Islamic law. Their request that American law recognize their choice of religious rules in their lives is not a demand that American law legislate Islamic law for everyone. To think so is to fundamentally misunderstand what Islamic law is, the fact that it differentiates between God’s Law and the human interpretations thereof, and how Islamic law operates in practice. Much of the confusion in the United States regarding sharia would be untangled if Americans could appreciate these realities, however unfamiliar.
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Here in the United States, there is no threat to American law presented by American Muslims seeking to live by sharia. There is also nothing particularly novel about some Americans wanting to follow religious laws that differ from the law of the land. American Muslims are merely the latest of many religious groups in the United States whose religious practices have presented continuing opportunities for American law to define the contours of what religious freedom means in our constitutional system that protects the free exercise of religion. - See more at: www.ispu.org...
Sharia is as much a threat to our Constitution as Bible verses calling for the stoning of adulterers or the genocidal directive in Deuteronomy to leave “alive nothing that breathes.” Like the Old and New Testaments, Sharia has its own conflicts and tensions with modern conceptions of gender equality and citizenship. To suggest that banning Sharia or the Bible is the only way to ward off the stoning of women or the execution of apostates is clearly, maliciously false.
Read more: www.thenation.com...
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Let me ask you this: When Christians complain about abortion being legal and gays getting married (for which they have no tolerance), do you entertain their whining about not being catered to?