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• NY Residents Don’t Support Mosque at Ground Zero

  September 1, 2010 at 10:06am

  In reply to I.a.n..

  ANTH, Yes it is serious. You wrote, “The answer is an obvious yes. I’ve not heard any significant leader in the US suggest sharia law ought to trump US law.” The point is that we have not heard them address the question. When the leaders (not their sycophants and useful idiots) address the question, then the discussion can proceed. (Please don’t assume offense unless the shoe fits.)

• NY Residents Don’t Support Mosque at Ground Zero

  August 31, 2010 at 4:59pm

  The advocates of the Mosque cite the Constitutional guarantee, in the First amendment, of freedom of religion as the main reason construction of the Mosque must not be blocked legally.
  Opponents of the Mosque construction should concede the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion is a valid reason to defend the legal right of the to construct the Mosque despite possible non-legal objections. However, the advocates of the Mosque should grant the same First Amendment rights to all other U.S. citizens.
  This would mean the Mosque advocates would be obligated to place Constitutional rights above allegiance to Sharia law in some cases. For example:
  1 Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.
  2. Islam allows husbands to beat their wives.
  3. Islam commands that homosexuals should be executed.
  4. Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.
  5. Islam orders death for critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even Sharia itself.
  6. Islam orders apostates to be killed.

  If a drinker or gambler were to decide to exercise the First Amendment right to adopt another religion, such as Catholicism, which does not condemn gambling or drinking, then that person would not be subject to Sharia law.
  If an abused wife wanted to become Jewish to escape Sharia law, she would have that right.
  If homosexuals were to convert to Episcopalian worship to escape execution, they could.
  If fornicators or adulterers wanted to become Buddhists, they would evade Sharia.
  If cartoonists or Mosque protesters were to adhere to Unitarianism, they should get a pass from Sharia justice.
  Of course, conversion from Islam to any other religion, including Atheism, could not be punished.
  Will the Mosque advocates take a stand to protect Constitutional rights in these cases?

• NY Residents Don’t Support Mosque at Ground Zero

  August 31, 2010 at 4:56pm

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