Protesting Mosques is just ignorant

For some odd reason the media has decided to focus on a small fringe of morons who get their “news” and “information” from FOX “News” or conservative talk radio. One of the idiotic messages the moron club is passing around is that all Muslims are terrorists looking to take over America and force Sharia law on all of us. These geniuses have taken to protesting the building of new Mosques. These people need a civics refresher.

“As a mother and a grandmother, I worry,” Ms. Serafin said. “I learned that in 20 years with the rate of the birth population, we will be overtaken by Islam, and their goal is to get people in Congress and the Supreme Court to see that Shariah is implemented. My children and grandchildren will have to live under that.”

“I do believe everybody has a right to freedom of religion,” she said. “But Islam is not about a religion. It’s a political government, and it’s 100 percent against our Constitution.”

Across Nation, Mosque Projects Meet Opposition

Banning mosques is a stupid idea that doesn’t address the made up issue they have. Banning anything just pushes it underground. China banned Christian churches for years but it never got rid of Christianity. People still meet in secret even though China does allow some public Christian churches. If one is worried about terrorism and you believe they all hook up at mosques then I would want them in the open so they can be checked out if need be.

Banning mosques is nothing but symbolism like banning a church. It wouldn’t prevent youth from being radicalized. It is just a cheap and ignorant way to express your jingoism.

As pointed out in the article:

Radicalization of alienated Muslim youths is a real threat, Mr. Bagby said. “But the youth we worry about,” he said, “are not the youth that come to the mosque.”

Besides none of the geniuses advocating the idea and protests have said what would be done with all the mosques already established such as in the Pentagon. There was one at the recent Boy Scout Jamboree. The BSA – the paragon of right wing Christian fundamentalism had a mosque!

The fact is we have the 1st Amendment that has and would prevent any strict religious law from becoming public law. The religious right is concerned probably because that has been their agenda for decades – forcing biblical law on all of us.

Jewish law and some Catholic laws are administered in this country for those who hold those beliefs. Typical use is in marriage rules since the civil act of marriage – managed by the state – is separate from the religious act of marriage.

Another example is the Amish. They use public roads yet the only requirement is to use a slow moving sign on their buggies. The courts ruled that the secular purpose of the sign trumped the Amish religious beliefs against garish colors on their buggies.

Under traditional use Muslims could use some of their Sharia law in their communities as long as those laws don’t conflict with the Constitution or current public laws.

It just ticks me off that the mainstream media have blown this issue up and still have not reported the truth about the complaints.

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2 Comments

  1. elsololobo
    August 27, 2010

    Doug,

    I am atheist, over 90% liberal, but I do agree with the opposition of Islam, because of the fact that Islam is not merely a religion, as Christianity has mostly become, but a life stance in which everything, economics, politics, religion, and every other aspect of life is geared toward the literal conquest of the world for Allah. The difference between this an current Christianity is that the Islamist take their beliefs seriously and act pon them, and very few Christias do…most of them readily accept their religion being subordinate to government laws. Islam will ever accept such a thing as demonstarted in every country on the planet in which Islam has developed a sigificant segment of the population.

  2. August 27, 2010

    While I think that Islam like Christianity need to be put in the dustbin of history, I don't want to paint Islam with a wide brush as is done to Atheists. How many times have you heard that you are atheist because you hate your father or because you hate theists or that you have no morals because Atheists don't have them.

    That is the entire problem I see with the Park51 project and the treatment of Islam in this country. Not all Muslims want to kill people. There are thousands of muslims in this country right now who go about their business without a peep.

    I base my conclusions on concrete evidence and if in the future I need to take arms against Islam I will if need be. For now I basis my thoughts on how people act not on scare tactics coming from another group of people who aren't exactly my friends either.

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