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<\/strong><\/p>\nI intend to complicate the message with a few basic facts.<\/p>\n
The billboard is sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim Brotherhood connected organization. Note the strategy\u2014that opposition to sharia law is supposedly an infringement on the first amendment protection of religious freedom.<\/p>\n This is, of course, disingenuous. Is ICNA arguing that the following provisions of sharia law be protected by the first amendment?<\/strong><\/p>\n A Muslim man beating his wife for disobedience. <\/strong><\/p>\n Punishment, up to capital punishment, of \u201capostates\u201d\u2014those who leave Islam. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Polygamy. (In 1879, the Supreme Court ruled that Mormon polygamy was not protected under the first amendment.) <\/strong><\/p>\n Jihad. <\/strong><\/p>\n Suppression of criticism of Islam or Muhammad. (This is particularly obnoxious, since the first amendment also protects freedom of speech.) <\/strong><\/p>\n Punishment for the practice of homosexuality.<\/strong><\/p>\n Somehow none of these practices seem to be mentioned by those encouraging Sharia Law. No one is telling Muslims that they cannot freely practice their religion. What we are telling them is that if they live in America, they should expect to live under American law. As a religion, they are not entitled to their own legal system–even in America.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n This billboard is currently up in the Kansas City area: I intend to complicate the message with a few basic facts. The billboard is sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim Brotherhood connected organization. Note the … Continue reading \n\n
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