Question:
Would you vote for a candidate that sought to remove Islam from America?
Green
2010-09-04 23:21:47 UTC
Would you be in favor of removing Islam in our country?
Nine answers:
Prunella Potts
2010-09-07 06:31:15 UTC
No, but we don't have to allow them to practice Sharia law in America, that law would be against our constitution.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons_why_sharia_is.html

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Kon-Tiki
2010-09-05 08:28:55 UTC
I don't know that Islam can be removed from America. But its devout followers' desire to follow Islam's prime directive (to make Islam the dominant religion and law) could be curbed. In 1945, the McArthur government — the occupational government in Japan — issued an edict saying that Shinto (the religion of the Japanese that had fueled Japanese imperial militarism in World War II) would have no interference from the United States' occupying forces as an expression of individual piety, as the religion of any Japanese citizen. No interference whatsoever from the government. However, Shinto would have no role in the government or in the schools.



The distinction was made — it was imposed from without — that Shinto would have no way to express the political militarism that had led to World War II in the first place.



Now, the United States, Great Britain, Europe, are all facing a very similar problem, with growing Muslim communities asserting political and societal notions that are at variance with our ideas of the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, the equality of rights of women with men, the equality of rights of all people before the law.



If our governments had the courage to stand up and say that any assertion of these political aspects of Islam that are at variance with our existing laws will be considered to be seditious under existing sedition laws, there would be a tremendous amount of progress made on this problem.



But of course we're nowhere near that, because we can't even admit that there are such initiatives going on from the Islamic communities as such.



And so as long as this unrealism persists, then the cognitive dissonance will continue to grow. And as long as the cognitive dissonance continues to grow, so also will the assertiveness and beligerence of the Islamic communities in the West, because they will see that we are not able and not willing to take the decisive steps necessary to do anything serious to stop them.
2010-09-05 06:33:27 UTC
NO!



I don't think that the government's job is to regulate religion. As a matter of fact, it is a violation of their first amendment right.



I understand that you liberals fantasize about living in a world to where everyone is a racist, ignorant, bigoted fool except you, but the fact of the matter is that no one wants the gov to regulate religion and no one believes that all Islamic people are terrorists.
Andrew
2010-09-05 06:32:41 UTC
Yes, our forefathers didn't have to worry about Islam at the time they wrote the Constitution.
Nasty old uncle Mike
2010-09-05 06:24:35 UTC
No. The same thing could later be done to Christians, or Buddhists or those radical religious charities.



Best not go there at all.
mega
2010-09-05 06:28:16 UTC
No - it would be the most blatant violation of the First Amendment I can see.
avail_skillz
2010-09-05 06:24:34 UTC
NO

the day we allow fear to dictate what Americans have rights and which ones don't is the day American values have died in this country, and all those people who have died for freedom, died in vain.
One Man Wolfpack
2010-09-05 06:25:01 UTC
Absolutely not.

That would make us no better than Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Toastie
2010-09-05 06:23:53 UTC
Ohhhhh yes. Reminds me of this guy.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S33882,_Adolf_Hitler_retouched.jpg


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