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NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« on: September 03, 2011, 07:27:26 PM »
These Leftists would be satisfied to have their own heads be last on the pike.

Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America

MORE than a dozen American states are considering outlawing aspects of Shariah law. Some of these efforts would curtail Muslims from settling disputes over dietary laws and marriage through religious arbitration, while others would go even further in stigmatizing Islamic life: a bill recently passed by the Tennessee General Assembly equates Shariah with a set of rules that promote “the destruction of the national existence of the United States.”

Supporters of these bills contend that such measures are needed to protect the country against homegrown terrorism and safeguard its Judeo-Christian values. The Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has said that “Shariah is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it.”

This is exactly wrong. The crusade against Shariah undermines American democracy, ignores our country’s successful history of religious tolerance and assimilation, and creates a dangerous divide between America and its fastest-growing religious minority.

The suggestion that Shariah threatens American security is disturbingly reminiscent of the accusation, in 19th-century Europe, that Jewish religious law was seditious. In 1807, Napoleon convened an assembly of rabbinic authorities to address the question of whether Jewish law prevented Jews from being loyal citizens of the republic. (They said that it did not.)

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Given time, American Muslims, like all other religious minorities before them, will adjust their legal and theological traditions, if necessary, to accord with American values.
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America’s exceptionalism has always been its ability to transform itself — economically, culturally and religiously. In the 20th century, we thrived by promoting a Judeo-Christian ethic, respecting differences and accentuating commonalities among Jews, Catholics and Protestants. Today, we need an Abrahamic ethic that welcomes Islam into the religious tapestry of American life.

More, at the Gray sh*t-covered Lady.
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2011, 08:26:27 PM »
NO.  For reasons too many to enumerate here, and because allowing an opening for discussion lends legitimacy to the unspeakable, NO.
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2011, 08:32:37 PM »

Correctomundo, it's not a valid point to argue.  

But we can say they ought to hang the Gray Lady. 
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2011, 08:42:10 PM »
It never ceases to amaze me - these people. They know subconsciously if nothing else, that they would be the first to be stripped of their homes, their wealth, their liberty and finally their heads. Maybe we should strike a deal with the muzzies...nah, strike that.

Kill 'em all - let God sort it out!

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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2011, 09:15:17 PM »

Correctomundo, it's not a valid point to argue.  

But we can say they ought to hang the Gray Lady. 
It's only them that calls her a lady, ain't it?



Methinks .... beheading.  Sharia she wants; sharia she'll get.
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2011, 09:42:43 PM »
I cannot comprehend how one observes Islam in every corner of the world where it exists, and then states, "Given time, American Muslims, like all other religious minorities before them, will adjust their legal and theological traditions, if necessary, to accord with American values."

How in the world could someone be so damned stupid? I know all the cliches about liberalism being a mental disorder. But for Pete's sake. They might as well say, "If I drop this rock, it will float before my eyes and then do a 360º before shooting around the world 3 times in 10 seconds." It is no less insane.
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2011, 10:26:16 PM »
The good news is, when (not if) they again give a display of their world famous peacefulness, it will most likely be in the Big Crapple.

Hope they like the victory mosque at Ground Zero.
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2011, 11:38:36 PM »
Just ask europeans how that's all working out for them.
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2011, 03:06:55 AM »
I think Sharia Law should apply exclusively to the New York Times .

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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2011, 12:18:49 PM »
This really is another perfect example of how there is no logical consistency to Leftism. The tenets of Islam are, on paper, absolutely anathema to all the espoused beliefs of liberalism, especially with regard to the status of women and homosexuals. The same was true of the Soviets and their satellite regimes, they were decidedly intolerant of homosexuality, considering it bourgeois Western decadence. Yet their useful idiots in the West reliably engaged in Soviet boosterism.

The only real consistency to Leftism is its driving imperative to debase the moral, cultural, and social fabric of Western Civilization. It opportunistically aligns with anything it sees as a tool or weapon in the pursuit of that goal. I really do wonder what they think is going to happen if they are successful in enabling the Islamization of Europe. Do they think they'll finally have a pliant population that will accept amoral, officially-atheist communist government? Do they really think affronts like the "sex toys for kindergarteners" in Switzerland will be tolerated by their Muslim allies?
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2011, 12:24:26 PM »
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The only real consistency to Leftism is its driving imperative to debase the moral, cultural, and social fabric of Western Civilization. It opportunistically aligns with anything it sees as a tool or weapon in the pursuit of that goal.

Precisely why I aver there is no "double standard" in their practices; there is only one standard which conforms to the goal, as you stated.
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Re: NYT: We should embrace Sharia Law in the US
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2011, 08:00:22 PM »
Like 'Soup said...let God sort 'em out!
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