Islamophobia?

Spata said:

How do you feel about the Crusades?

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In philosophy or execution?

The expansion of any empire(or reclamation of territory) through force is not going to be pretty. I wasn't there, but I am certain there were plenty of gross atrocities committed in the name of Christianity and Islam during those times.

Glocktogo said:

Our entire judicial system is based on Judeo-Christian values and beliefs. For Sharia law to be accepted practice in a court of law, Muslims would have to become the majority and most likely, the super-majority to revise the Constitution. Statistically speaking, we’re more likely to see revisions based on Catholicism than Islam. Just sayin…

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Well ... according to at least one source ...

Oklahoma's law banning Sharia law from courts has been struck down, and only six other conservative states (Louisiana, Arizona, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Kansas) have been able to pass Sharia law-limiting legislation, and only after watering them to not even mention the word, "Sharia."

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... and even though we can't have Christian prayer in public schools...

Public schools with Muslim students are holding Islamic prayers towards Mecca while public American universities continue to build Muslim-only washing facilities. In 2013, Skokie School District 68 in Illinois became the first US school district to celebrate Eid al-Adha, a Muslim high day, as a school holiday, in lieu of Veterans Day. In 2014, Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, Colorado became the first high school to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic, replacing "One nation under God," with "One nation under Allah."

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Muslim taxi drivers are challenging local authorities for the right to refuse to pick up blind passengers with seeing-eye dogs, while Muslim supermarket cashiers are challenging their employers for the right to refuse to sell products from pigs. Both are considered unclean in Islam.

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That last is a little suprising to me - not just that it happens, but that it doesn't make national headlines. What would happen to a non-Muslim who refused to provide services or sell products that offended their religious sensibilities? For instance, a baker or photographer that refused to provide service for a gay wedding? Or a store clerk that refused to sell alcohol?

But what's happening in the courts may be of more concern, though, and what I meant with my earlier comment along those lines:

In 2009, Hudson County Superior Court Judge Joseph Charles Jr. ruled in S.D. v. M.J.R. that the Muslim ex-husband repeatedly had sexually assaulted his Muslim ex-wife, both before and after their divorce. Following testimony from the Muslim man's imam, however, the judge denied the ex-wife's request for a permanent restraining order against her ex-husband, citing the Muslim man's "belief" and "practices": "The court believes that [defendant] was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices."

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That's a victory for Sharia law if there ever was one. But it's just one case(?) One, two, three tiny pieces at a time is how it will happen. Just sayin...

Mr.Glock said:

We have Muslim members here on Oklahoma Shooters?? Who? Anyone want to step up and claim to be a Muslim? Anyone want to step up and claim Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, or any other? Let's see. I call bull.

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We do have some Muslim members and some Jewish ones as well. I haven't read through this thread yet. Just keep the comments respectful.

I'll step up and claim to be Catholic (although a bad one).

As for the anger and angst in these types of threads, it's tough to see the world in which you grew up change so quickly.

I suspect that it's much less about "hate" and much more about feeling like you are constantly being told your core beliefs are somehow "wrong." Yet, you are expected to be tolerant of everyone and everything, yet not afforded that same courtesy.

JB Books said:

As for the anger and angst in these types of threads, it's tough to see the world in which you grew up change so quickly.

I suspect that it's much less about "hate" and much more about feeling like you are constantly being told your core beliefs are somehow "wrong." Yet, you are expected to be tolerant of everyone and everything, yet not afforded that same courtesy.

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Or that we're being told not to judge the motherf*ckers that wish to cut our heads off.

Shootin 4 Fun said:

Or that we're being told not to judge the motherf*ckers that wish to cut our heads off.

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now that's not PC but I agree 100%! We don't need to do anything that may hurt their feeling. That's what the new generations wants us to think... My ass!

Paraphrase: They want to kill me and I want to kill them....but they are the evil ones.

JB Books said:

We do have some Muslim members and some Jewish ones as well. I haven't read through this thread yet. Just keep the comments respectful.

I'll step up and claim to be Catholic (although a bad one).

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This thread is going down hill from what I requested.

Please keep the one liners to yourself, and not on the forum.

stick with facts. Thank you.

dennishoddy said:

This thread is going down hill from what I requested.

Please keep the one liners to yourself, and not on the forum.

stick with facts. Thank you.

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Fact: A lot of Muslims want to kill us.