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Originally Posted by x-factor
But no one is in disagreement with established law. We're talking about Muslims asking for their rights under established law.
The issue is not whether they have the right to live their lives to a certain moral code, which of course they do. The issue is whether they have the right under the law to use that code to settle petty civil disputes as the other groups do with their codes. The issue is equal treatment under the law.
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Most of the really bad ideas in history started with a few "modest proposals".
I believe that this is a BAD idea, if you do not like US law, or to become an American, DO NOT COME HERE.
If sharia law is so great, why are no other successful democracies practicing it as their primary legal code?
Are the horror stories of Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc., and the religious police that those Islamic societies seem to spawn in our future?
Can telling a customer that you will not serve them pork, or alcohol, etc., because of your beliefs tolerable as freedom of religion?
Where does it go from there? Lashings for failure to follow the dress code? Stonings for being in the presence of an unrelated male?
Is sawing off the head of someone of a different faith a reasonable expression of free speech? Is it a hate crime to defend yourself, or your loved ones?
You are defending a religion mired in the Dark Ages and with no reformation since then. One which is incompatible with a free democratic society, and one which has declared holy war on all non-believers.
Will we sell them the rope they will hang us with, or will we resist?
TR