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 The ruins of a mosque in Joplin, Missouri, after a fire last month that Muslims leaders suspect was an arson.
September 5th, 2012
01:19 PM ET
Rising anti-Islamic sentiment in America troubles MuslimsBy Moni Basu, CNN On the program, called "The Threat in Our Backyard," is a lecture on Islam in public schools and a short film on Sharia finance. It's a program organized by people who feel the American way of life is threatened by Islam - in particular, Sharia, or Islamic law. Sharia would bring ruin to America, says Greg Johnson, vice president of the 9/12 Project Tennessee, a sponsor of the event that advocates for shifting government back to the intent of the Constitution's authors. He says he has nothing against Muslims, but he takes issue with the tenets of Islam. Sharia, he believes, would mean that practicing homosexuals would be put to death, women would not be educated and would be married off to men chosen by their fathers, and non-Muslims would become kafirs - nonbelievers - relegated to second-class citizenship. My Faith: After my mosque was torched "And I don't want that coming to America," Johnson says. He's not alone in his fears. A tide of anti-Islam sentiment has been swelling across America in recent months, strong enough to prompt one imam to wish for the days immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when President George W. Bush declared that Muslims were not our enemies; that the war on terror was against a select few who acted upon their hate for America. "In the 11 years since, we have retreated," says Abdullah Antepli, the Muslim chaplain at Duke University who likes to call himself the Blue Devil Imam. Muslims make up less than 1% of the U.S. population. Yet, say Muslim advocates, they are a community besieged. Hate crimes against Muslims spiked 50% in 2010, the last year for which FBI statistics are available. That was in a year marked by Muslim-bashing speech over the Islamic center near ground zero in Manhattan and Florida Pastor Terry Jones' threats to burn Qurans. Why some American Muslims wear the hijab Antepli likens the current climate to McCarthyism. Left unchecked, he says, anti-Muslim fervor, like racism and anti-Semitism, has the potential to evolve into something dangerous. This year's holy month of Ramadan, which ended August 19, was marred by a spate of violence at U.S. Islamic centers that included a fire, a homemade bomb and pig parts. The incidents were unprecedented in scale and scope, says the Council on American-Islamic Relations. At least seven mosques and one cemetery were attacked in the United States during Ramadan, according to the council and other groups that track such incidents. Particularly visible on the anti-Muslim radar has been the state of Tennessee, where a mosque opened during Ramadan after two years of controversy. The new Islamic center in Murfreesboro opened a few weeks ago after delays caused by legal wrangling, community protests and vandalism. Also in Tennessee, incumbent congresswoman Diane Black found herself publicly opposing Sharia after her opponent Lou Ann Zelenik made it a campaign issue. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter State senatorial candidate Woody Degan's website also mentions Sharia: "VOTE CONSERVATIVE! VOTE Anti-Sharia, VOTE Against Internet Taxes, Vote FOR Gun Carry Rights! VOTE for your PERSONAL RIGHTS!" And Gov. Bill Haslam recently came under fire for hiring lawyer Samar Ali, a Muslim woman from Tennessee, to work in the international division of the state's economic development department. Ali's critics called her Sharia-compliant and a website called Bill H(Islam) attacked the governor for pursuing "a policy that promotes the interest of Islamist (sic) and their radical ideology." The website links to another that discusses, among other things, Islamic infiltration of public schools. "I cannot stress enough the seriousness of their push to spread their religion to all non-Muslims throughout our country," says website author Cathy Hinners, another speaker at next Tuesday's 9/11 event in Franklin. Why do Muslims pray five times daily? "Why? Why are Muslims so adamant that we accept their religion? The answer is simple. The answer is in black and white. The answer is in the Muslim brotherhoods "Strategic Goal for North America." It's called a global caliphate. One religion, one government, one law... called Sharia." In November 2010, more than 70% of voters in Oklahoma approved a ballot initiative to amend the state's constitution that banned courts from looking at "legal precepts of other nations or cultures. Specifically, the courts shall not consider international law or Sharia law." The amendment died after a federal court ruled it discriminatory. "That was very explicitly anti-Islamic," says Glenn Hendrix, an Atlanta lawyer who specializes in international law. "It specifically referenced Sharia." This year, 33 anti-Sharia or international law bills were introduced in 20 states, making it a key issue. Six states - Louisiana, South Dakota, Kansas, Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee - adopted such laws prior to 2012. Two Tennessee lawmakers attempted to pass a bill this year that would have made it a felony to practice Sharia, but it failed. The Council on American-Islamic Relations says the anti-Sharia bills are based on draft legislation promoted by David Yerushalmi, an anti-Islamic lawyer from New York. Yerushalmi founded the Society of Americans for National Existence, an organization devoted to promoting his theory that Islam is inherently seditious and Sharia is a "criminal conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. "Ideally," says the center, "he would outlaw Islam and deport its adherents altogether." Hendrix says anti-Sharia legislation is not necessary since U.S. courts ultimately are beholden to U.S. law. But it sends a strong message to the Muslim community. CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories The American Bar Association, which opposes federal or state laws that impose blanket prohibitions on foreign laws, says such legislative initiatives stigmatize an entire religious community and "are inconsistent with some of the core principles and ideals of American jurisprudence." Valarie Kaur, a legal advocate and hate crimes specialist, says proponents of anti-Sharia bills are battling an imaginary threat. "There is no push to install Sharia law in the U.S.," she says. "Anti-Sharia bills target the religious principles of Muslim Americans and fuel anti-Muslim rhetoric and bias. As a Sikh American whose community has too often become the target of hate, I believe it's time to stand against all forms of racism and religious bigotry." An attack at a Wisconsin Sikh temple last month killed six people. Many believe the shooter mistook Sikhs for Muslims. A Sikh gas station attendant in Arizona was the first victim of reprisal after the 9/11 attacks. Kaur blames tough economic times and an amplification of hateful speech for incidents like the temple shooting and the momentum behind the anti-Sharia campaign. For Muslims, Sharia - which means "path to the watering hole" in Arabic - is the divine law revealed centuries ago in the Quran that governs all aspects of life. More often than not, it's the most sensational parts of Sharia - like cutting off a thief's hand - that garner the most publicity. U.S. courts bump up against it in cases of divorces, inheritance, child custody, enforcement of money judgments and commercial disputes or tort actions. A trial court in New Jersey, for instance, ruled that a husband, who was Muslim, lacked the criminal intent to commit sexual assault on his wife because Sharia permits a man to have sex with his wife whenever he wants. That's the kind of ruling that fuels anti-Sharia activists. Nashville health-care investor Andrew Miller says there's no room for democracy within Islamic ideology. All you have to do is look to any Islamic state, he says. "If you wanted to pray to a large rock and that was your God, I could care less," he says. "But the minute you want to put a gun to my head and say you will pray to this large rock and your family will or you will pay the price, that's when I see a bully. I see an overbearing ideology that wants to force and coerce people. Miller describes himself as a tolerant person but not when it comes to people dictating how others will live. "That's antithetical to the freedoms that we value, the liberty we value," he says. The message that Islam is evil has been repeated so many times - sometimes directly, sometimes in a more subtle fashion - that it has sunk in as reality in the hearts and minds of many Americans, says Antepli, the Duke chaplain. Part of it is fear of the unknown, he says. "I, too, would have a monstrous image of Islam if I did not know any better." But another part of it is orchestrated, he says, referring to "well-organized and polished" anti-Islam websites that have sprouted in recent years. Marry that with ignorance and the end result is lethal, Antepli says. The Center for American Progress, a liberal research and advocacy organization, published a report last year that attributed the rise of Islamophobia to a "small, tightly-networked group of misinformation experts." The report called "Fear, Inc." lists seven foundations that gave $42.6 million to think tanks to promote anti-Islamic thought. It describes "deeply intertwined individuals and organizations" that "manufacture and exaggerate threats of 'creeping Sharia,' Islamic domination of the West, and purported obligatory calls to violence against all non-Muslims by the Quran." The issue of Sharia, say some Muslims, has become a political hot potato in an election year. GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann mentioned Sharia in their campaign speeches. This year's Republican Party platform makes mention of foreign laws: "Subjecting American citizens to foreign laws is inimical to the spirit of the Constitution. It is one reason we oppose U.S. participation in the International Criminal Court. There must be no use of foreign law by U.S. courts in interpreting our Constitution and laws. Nor should foreign sources of law be used in State courts' adjudication of criminal or civil matters." That's the message Miller hopes people will take away from next week's 9/11 meeting; that the tenets of Islam go against the constitution of the United States. It's diametrically opposed to what people like Antepli and Kaur will be saying as America remembers the horror of terrorism. Hateful sentiment, they say, is not the answer. soundoff (2,383 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Next »
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Come on! "More often than not, it's the most sensational parts of Sharia – like cutting off a thief's hand – that garner the most publicity" ??? How about the 3rd class treatment of women, or the elevation of Islam over other religions, or... what a liberal slime piece. I will not be relegated a second class citizen in the country I swore to defend. Sharia and Islam are on a global march, a crusade, and it ends at America's shores. Only the ignorance of liberal elites will help their cause. Idiots too blind to see the forest for the trees.
It is amazing people being afraid of punishment of hindu's, criminals, What is wrong to punish a hindu, denier of truth absolute to maximum, No one need to worry about shariya, unless one is a hindu criminal by nature. fewer hindu's criminals less of hinduism, criminality, Shriya, message of peace, Islam for humanity. Visit http://www.limitisthetruth.com/ to learn cause of hinduism, denial of truth absolute by hindu's, criminals.
I am mostly concerned about the fact that the penalty for leaving Islam is death. And that Blasphemy is still punishable with death.
They want to kill the creators of South Park for crying out loud. Not even the Mormons, Christians, Jewish or Scientologists,, who have been more often parodied by the show have gone so far as to order the death of the shows creators.
I think I see a Pakistani Muslim who secretly loves Indian Hindus. Don't blame you for liking India more than Pakistan, they do have better food and better schools. The mountains on the boarder of China are beautiful from what i have heard.
@ Hinduism
Please leave.
Hindu please make logical arguments or leave. We are happy to discuss things with you, but please speak clearly.
figure it out hindu's, ignorant's, Clue is Ashoka circle, if you can not translate the word or do not understand meaning's of it, do not feel bad, I am here to help. The only one going away will be hinduism, denial of truth absolute or hindu, deniers of truth absolute. Answer is in my website http://www.limitisthetruth.com/
And how long ago?
I ask because a relative of mine lived there for approximately the same length of time in the recent past. He has never given any indication that he say any such belief at all–and he is fluent in the language.
Mohammad is burning in hell right now for not following Jesus' truth. I haven't been out side of Mecca for three years. It smells here. Satan Mohammad is expert at spreading lies to make you follow his lies about God. Read the bible and be saved from hell.
Amen.
I left J@pan in 2008.
That would be about the time my relative arrived. I think it's odd that he worked and studied there for 5 years and never saw any sort of evidence that there was a belief the emperor was divine. From what I've read online, that's not really a very accurate description of the Shinto belief.
It does not surprise me that he would not have noticed it. If you ask people they will tell you they are not religious.
Which for an atheist was very refreshing. The J@panese are ones to be culturally very private about their personal opinions and beliefs. They go with what is expected to be said for the most part.
You have to examine the behavior such as those that have been killed for speaking anything negative about the emperor. Also if you bring up the topic of the emperor, you can see an awkward unwillingness to discuss it, like trying to discuss the flaws of Christianity with a regular church goer who finds the topic offensive. the belief in the emperor as a god is not as strong or overt as it once was. But it is there, most clearly seen in the belief of a pure and holy blood line. Extreme Right wing elements of course carry it more firmly. In Kyoto you can see them drive past in black vans everyday speaking about how foreigners should all leave. I lived in Kyoto for some of my stay.
I would enjoy talking about my experiences any time. I was lucky to see some very deep glimpses into J@panese society. My friend in Kyoto was a doctoral candidate in linguistics and was the first and only foreigner to be a teacher in the public school system. We had great talks about J@panese Politics, Society, and of course just psycho-linguistics and religion in general. My own education is in Psychology, hence my appreciation for Steven Pinker's contributions that is all too apparent.
t does not surprise me that he would not have noticed it. If you ask people they will tell you they are not religious.
Which for an atheist was very refreshing. The J@panese are ones to be culturally very private about their personal opinions and beliefs. They go with what is expected to be said for the most part.
You have to examine the behavior such as those that have been killed for speaking anything negative about the emperor. Also if you bring up the topic of the emperor, you can see an awkward unwillingness to discuss it, like trying to discuss the flaws of Christianity with a regular church goer who finds the topic offensive. the belief in the emperor as a god is not as strong or overt as it once was. But it is there, most clearly seen in the belief of a pure and holy blood line. Extreme Right wing elements of course carry it more firmly. In Kyoto you can see them drive past in black vans everyday speaking about how foreigners should all leave. I lived in Kyoto for some of my stay.
I would enjoy talking about my experiences any time. I was lucky to see some very deep glimpses into J@panese society. My friend in Kyoto was a doctoral candidate in linguistics and was the first and only foreigner to be a teacher in the public school system. We had great talks about J@panese Politics, Society, and of course just psycho-linguistics and religion in general. My own education is in Psychology, hence my appreciation for Steven Pinker's contributions that is all too apparent.
Tom Tom, It is a part of the belief system in J@pan that the emperor is god and it is routed in shinto. At the end of WWI the collective feeling in J@pan was relief, because many were preparing for an order to commit suicide rather than face defeat. It was nearly the largest religious mass suicide in history. It does not take much research to find information about this. Look for works published by foreign correspondents more than works published by J@panese publishers that out of political necessity hide many of those facts. To talk of it now can lead to your death in J@pan.
This wikipedia passage should be proof that I clearly am not just inventing things on my own. I know well that the belief still exists in J@pan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_cult#Ancient_J@pan
Ancient J@pan
Emperor Hirohito was the last divine Emperor of J@pan
In ancient J@pan, it was customary for every clan to claim descendancy from gods (ujigami), and the royal family or clan tended to define their ancestor as the dominant, or most important kami of the time. Later in history, this was considered common practice by noble families, and the head members of the family, including that of the imperial family, were not seen to be divine. It was not until the Meiji period, that the J@panese Emperor began to be venerated under a system of State Shinto, along with a growing sense of nationalism.
Arahitogami – the concept of a god who is a human being applied to Emperor Hirohito, up until the end of World War II.
Ningen-sengen, the declaration with which Emperor Hirohito, on New Year's Day 1946, (formally) declined claims of divinity, keeping with traditional family values as expressed in the Shinto religion.
Ancient does not really apply since it is claimed it ended after WWII. Which may be officially in papers, but to discuss it could end up with your death from a right wing extremist stabbing you on your way home.
Good fairly balanced talk on Islam and how to deal with the social divide in western nations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuuKItF_xJo
Interesting talk about J@panese Buddhism in WWII and the Kamikaze Pilots. The corruption of Buddhism into violence stems from the influence of Shinto, and the belief that the emperor was god on earth and that all J@panese are children of god and have a holy blood line. Most of the horrible acts committed by the J@panese during WWII were in the name of their god, who they believe is the emperor.. I lived in J@pan for many years, and I can tell you that, frighteningly, many J@panese still believe the emperor is god on earth. If you ask them, they have the common sense to deny it, but their actions betray the truth of their belief. They become heavily emotional and illogical around any topic of the emperor, and one politician was stabbed, for simply saying that we know there is evidence about what happened in WWII and we should speak about it (he was hinting that they know the emperor was involved in the war crimes and ordered some of them.) For this he was stabbed and nearly killed. But the belief of the emperor being god stems from the Shinto belief not Buddhism
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Scott, how long ago did you live in Ja-pan?
Over 5 years. I lived and worked there.
Not how long were you there–how recently?
I ask because I have a relative who lived there for 5 years and quite recently. And he never mentioned seeing evidence of any such belief. He's quite fluent in the language and worked closely with many Ja-panese.
IGNORANCE is one hell of a disease!
They want to deport Muslims, really! A great majority of them were born and raised in this country; where would you live to deport them to, I ask? Not that it can EVER happen, but the suggestion of it, in itself, is as retarded as it gets!
Just a side note: the Sharia law is less of threat to me & you, than your Christian fanaticism and sanctimoniousness are (and has been) to the freedom of many people in this country; so, if we need to get rid of all that is bad, let's start with our own ignorance and intolerance and see how fast things will get better!
Just a tragedy that in the age of information, we still find ourselves grossly uninformed and, even worse, proud of it!
like i said,most american christians are kok-sukerz.
Spoken like a true jahadist. Go to hell you piece of human crap.
@ Robert
I rest my case!
Peace!
Kroc, you have little exposure to the Muslim world today. I blame the US media for that, which avoids coverage of a sort of approved narrative that all religions basically mean well and are pro-rights.
But look at this cleric who recently added some guidelines to the Islamic faithful on how husbands may beat their wives:
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6648.htm
That friends, is sharia. The path of truth. It also violates US law, so the two are wholly incompatible by definition. You can beat your wife in sharia, You cannot in the West.
See how that works?
you are absolutely correct
You can have any opinion about Islam that you want, it's a free country. But claiming that we're practially under siege from Sharia law is just plain old stupid. Really? Sharia law? We have way bigger issues to worry about in this country (including, rather ironically, the current GOP push to impose THEIR religious beliefs upon We the People, whether we're Christian or not); we don't need to be fabricating ones based on virtually no actual evidence.
W, you are a Muslim, period, end of story. You are bent on taking over this country but we are NOT going to let you. So eat pig crap and go to hell.
Imposing Sharia law will be regressive to society anywhere. There can't be smoke without fire. Fear against Sharia law can't just be claimed ignorance. I am from India and we are seeing the problem there wherever there is a Muslim majority. Better to nip in the bud rather than let it grow.
hindus are trash.monkeys.
That's fine in principle; but with less than 1% of the American population comprised of Muslims, don't you think the sabre-rattlers in this country are a bit premature? Especially considering the Taliban-esque move by our current GOP to impose harsh, restrictive, rights-infringing laws on us based on their own religious beliefs?
You cannot erase ALL of Muslim history with political correctness. If we allow Muslims to immigrate, in two to three generations tops, we will have a major civil war on our hands with Muslims jahadists setting off suicide bombs in grocery stores, malls and eventually, pushing real Americans out of towns, cities, counties and states until they take over the country. That IS history. If you deny it you are either ignorant or you are a filthy Muslim devil.
I have been on these articles posting Jesus' truth, which is true for a long time. You atheists steal my handle and spew the lies of satan who is the devil. My camel-toe has opened a new wing. Start your walk with Jesus or burn.
Amen.
It's interesting that it's illegal to build a church in most Muslim countries....and in some cases to openly anything other than Muslim, and if you are....you might get killed. If this is the type of society that Muslim create and accept.....why do they want to export that to the USA....why does the USA import this? Muslims say they are peaceful, yet they don't spot the hatred against non-muslims in their home countries, so how are we suppose to believe and trust?
who cares about you?
The same logic would go for people from countries under the rule of dictators! Why can't they be a threat to your freedom and democracy?
Even if what you are saying about Islam (assuming that all muslim folks are immigrant, which is grossly incorrect!!) do you want us to deal with them how they deal with each other?! I thought we were supposed to be better, NO!
Just a hypothetical scenario: the people in Country X, harass, imprison, basically take away all the basic rights from coupla American people living in that country, because they are convinced the United States Government is responsible for many evils in this world; do they have a point? Can we send them pamphlets detailing all the good things about the USA? Would that make a difference? How is that different from what's been going on over here?
PS: I suspect you are a more tolerant person in real life; I'm just throwing this out there; just in case ....
Dear god people in this country are dumb. How can anybody really believe that, in a country where more than 75% of people are Christian and less than 1% are Muslim, that Sharia Law would ever become a real issue. It's also quite hilarious that the people who are the most frightened of fundamentalist Muslims have the exact same mind-set as them, just a different religion. In fact, I am so much more frightened of fundamentalist Christians than I am of fundamentalist Muslims, because guess what, they can actually influence government policy here in America with their crazy crap!
amen.
Hear! Hear!
Absolutely Correct
LOL you sound like the French, British, Spanish etc.. about 15 years ago. Ask them how thats working out for them. When families have 5 kids each and American christian families have 1 or 2 things change very quickly. Ask the Europeans...
Are you more frightened of the what? five or six Christian attackers on abortions clinics or the 11 Muslim attackers on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon? Have you checked the news lately? The Muslims raping, killing, stealing and subjugating Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jewish, and each other. Wake up.
Welcome back "Common sense" Where have you been?!
You said it right! Thank you!
You truly must be kidding. Muslims will KILL you and have the blessings of Ahla. Just look to Isreal see how peacefull muslims are how they want to co exsists with those that suround them. No other religion has the mandate to subjegate or inslave others.
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hindus turned me into a newt!
I got better . . .
Oh, now you tell us! You are a severely bigoted Muslim (okay, that's a redundant redundancy).
So claims ever animal in his hinduism, illegality.
bigited means nothing else but a hindu Jew, filthy self centered or a hindu secular, filthy secular in his hindu atheism , filthy self center ism, pretending to be truth absolute god himself, Not me, hindu, ignorant, but you. Visit http://www.limitisthetruth.com/ to act like human.
Does anyone else get the impression that "hinduism-hatin' guy" is actually a cat that is running back and forth across a keyboard, with the HAL 9000 spell-checker "fixing" the result and posting it?
As a Hindu that studied in Christian school, lived in Muslim neighborhood, living in Jewish neighborhood, I can say all religions suck big time. However one should not hate people. They might be practicing religion just as a social norm, fearing they would be cut off from their loved one if they expose what they truly believe in i.e. atheism.
Mohammad is burning in hell right now for not following Jesus' truth. Mecca is a place to bury dead pigs. Satan Mohammad is expert at spreading lies to make you follow his lies about God. Read the bible and be saved from hell.
Amen.
american christians are mostly cok-sukerz.
The difference between extreme Christians and extreme Jews is they really are a very small minority. What people need to understand is there is no extreme Islam and tame Islam. There is only open naked Islam where you are truly shown the utter racism and violence that goes hand in hand with Islam or you are shown the PR version of Islam that is meant for the Western masses to lull them into a false sense of security.
I pose this to you, why do you think muslims come to western countries when there are so many things "wrong" with the people, the society etc...Think about that. Think about Europe and the huge influx of muslims. Now think about 2012 and muslim majority countries. Indonesia, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Bahrain, etc... Is this the instability we want to see in Europe and N.America? This is not racism. Im not making up anything. These are valid questions and concerns people should have.
Anybody take a look at what extreme Christians, or Orthodox Jews practice? Anyone pay any attention to what happens when that becomes law?
HINT: Tomas de Torquemada
I agree that Sharia should not be the law of the land, but most of the folks that I know that want anti-Sharia laws in place are the same folks that want to see women forced to be uneducated, near-enslaved breeders for men under Christian law that is every bit as onerous as Sharia.
After 9/11, I started getting emails with "Islam is a religion of hate" as the theme. Ironically, these were some of the most bigoted, ignorant and hateful emails I've ever read.
Rush Limbaugh even went as far as promoting the LRA, one of the most disgusting movements the world has ever known, because they -sometimes- fought Muslims (When they were not enslaving Christians in Northern Uganda).
we will be ever vigilant to repell the religious from infringing the rights of our secular society.
These muslims believe the lies of the talmud and follow in satan's afterglow. The all have snakes in their bellies. I"ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws. Blame it on the Christians for having the guts to tell idiots God's truth.
Amen.
sounds like your beliefs are similarly preposterous and discriminatory.
anti-Muslim fervor, like racism and anti-Semitism, has the potential to evolve into something dangerous.
Islam is dangerous itself. It promotes hate and the killing of non believers. I say outlaw Islam and anyone
who practices be sent back to wherever they came. If you want to live that way then get the hell out of
America.
thank you for your comment adolph
"Sent back"? Many of them were born here, ya stupid git.
Comparing anti-theology to racism is a very weak argument. That would presume that all Arabs are weak-minded/undereducated enough to believe in gods and demons, which is not true. in fact the Arabs were the progenitors of the scientific movement and produced the first known agnostic philosophers.
Most Atheists are intelligent to know that it is possible to dislike or even hate a system of belief based in no evidence and not to hate the person who out of a lack of logic and reason believes irrationally
But in the end if one behaves immorally for any reason, whether it be their own, or because they are driven to by religion, they are still behaving immorally and worthy of disgust and derision for it.
Man, I don't know where to begin. Look I am a young white male living in the south, so trust me, I have heard it all where the hatred for Muslims is concerned. But open your eyes for a moment. Do you truly believe in your heart that all Muslims are violent? That all Muslims want to bring harm on those of other faiths? Because if so, you are very wrong. The foundations of Islam have commonality with those of both Christianity and Judaism. All three of the religious texts contain things that just aren't relevant in modern society. But anyway...look, the most adamant anti-Islamism seems to spout from the mouth of those that call themselves patriots. Well wake UP. What is the core foundation of this country? Freedom, religious, and otherwise. Our laws deem actions to be illegal only when they infringe on the rights of others. So how can anyone that claims to love this country make such horrendous blanket statement about another's faith? That is against what we stand for. Shame on you. If any Muslims read this please know we do not ALL feel this way. With love, your non Muslim brother, Aaron.
The punishment for leaving the Muslim faith is death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQzuFrMRA3M
The Christian priest who was nodding his head in this video, was probably envious of that silly hat the Muslim guy was wearing, and thinking "I must remember to wear my own silly hat next time." It is after all impossible to not believe lies being told by men in silly hats.
The same sin is punishable by death in Judaism and Christianity as well according to their respective sacred texts.
You can tell when this guy is lying...its whenever his lips move! He says Islam treats people with dignity..is paedophilia dignity, forcing young girls to marry old men? Is cutting off opposing limbs, or throwing acid in the face of young students, or stoning to death those who don't abide by your archaeic rules or murdering 300 innocent people on foreign soil your idea of treating people with dignity? Until we have more faith in our civilization they will keep pushing and invading...it is time to slam that door shut on these barbaric infidels!
If Muslim are majority in any country, the country in mess or worked only under dictator, if they are not in majority they are fighting for separation, except Turkey there is no other muslim country where you feel safe as tourist. Anti Islam sentiment have some basis and people have all rights to be fear and stay away with them.
have you ever thought about a vacation in bali? you know, great night clubs, good food, amazing beaches – a tropical paradise, you do know that bali is part of indonesia which is the most populous muslim country on earth, right? oh wait, let me guess you thought all muslim majority countries were in the middle east. gotcha.
unfortunately, religion never unites. it is merely an imaginary line of division.
We should not be fooled by their innocent look and their been silent for now.
Once they are the majority the will enforce their will.
Muslims are already organized into groups pushing for sharia law to be introduced in western countries.
scott – we have similar groups of christians. big deal.
Isn't that democracy?
God Forbid!
Mr Miller, you said it clearly and succinctly..
"He says he has nothing against Muslims, but he takes issue with the tenets of Islam." -- In other words, he hates Muslims. I wish these white trash idiots would just own up to their own bigotry and hatred...I'd probably respect them for owning it. They won't even admit they're ignorant and biased...they always blame everyone else for society's problems. Look in the mirror, and get a damn life. Sharia Law will never come to the United States. Ever. EVER. Roughly 2% of the citizens of the United States are Muslim, how in the hell could about 6 million people impose their religious laws on the other 302 million? The South is insanely stupid...and paranoid.
He is right . We have problem. They never integrate! And you should be one of them too!!
to hate the belief or the contents of a belief, is not to hate the person, who out of a mistake of logic believes those things.
ScottCA, yes it is. Try thinking. Only A PERSON can believe ANYTHING. The very act of hating the precepts of a belief is the same thing as hating the person. And, for the record, who are you to say they are mistaken in their logic...especially when it comes to something as RIDICULOUS as God. As the saying goes, "Humankind will never be free until the last king is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest." Religion of ALL TYPES (especially Christianity or Islam) is mental slavery. That's why you idiots kill each other and bystanders over something that isn't even real. Mentally emancipated human beings don't hate other people's beliefs at all.
They may only be 2% now, but they populate like rats! The first test will be in europe, where the low birth rates of the europeans will lead to sharia law in the next 10-20 years as the percentage of muslims will be the majority. Italy and France are 2 of the most at risk
I hate bigots and killers. I don't hate what people choose to believe. Just do whatever it is you do in private so that it doesn't infringe on my rights and we're fine.
Which bridge?
What would you say to the Arab activists who fear the same thing, the application of the tenets of Islam?
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6647.htm
What would you say to the clerics calling for the enforcement of the tenets of Islam such as modern day wife beating?
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6648.htm
This is not from way back in history. These were all broadcast on Arabic state TV this week. Muslims are afraid of Muslims who are walking back rights and undermining secular law. They are not "rednecks." They just have something in common with those "rednecks."
Wake up people. Watch some Arab TV yourselves and see what is going on right now. A dark cloud is sweeping over the Muslim world where human rights are being taken out of the law and sharia law put in. No liberal could possibly call this a win.