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A Push to Deny Muslims Religious Freedom Gains Steam
Religion and Politics ^ | July 16, 2019 | Aysha Khan

Posted on 09/23/2019 5:50:57 PM PDT by Jacquerie

Once a fringe argument restricted to extreme anti-Muslim corners of the internet, the idea that Islam is not actually a religion, and therefore does not qualify for religious liberty protections, has rapidly gained salience in mainstream public discourse in the U.S. among activists, media commentators, and lawmakers alike.

In her new book, When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom, attorney Asma Uddin traces the assertion’s American origins from extreme right-wing activist spaces to the White House. A religious liberty expert and Senior Scholar with the Religious Freedom Center at the Freedom Forum Institute in Washington, D.C., Uddin said proponents of this argument claim that Islam is a dangerous political ideology and a tool to commit violence and impose the Islamic way of life upon non-Muslims. That, they argue, makes Islam incompatible with democracy and America.

“It’s very much rooted in this idea that Muslims have a very fundamental allegiance to something other than the U.S Constitution,” Uddin said. “It could be to Muslim governments abroad, but more likely the claim is that you have loyalty to shariah.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: asmauddin; books; islam; muslims; religiousfreedom
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To: Jacquerie

WE ARE in a rock, and a hard spot situation with Islam. Our blessed Constitution, and them.

WE HAVE a choice to make. Us, or them.

My vote is us.

A definition of tolerance: “The capacity to endure continued subjection to something without adverse reaction.” Pretty much covers our relation with Islam doesn’t it.

Islam must be declared other than a religion, and disallowed to be practiced within our borders.


21 posted on 09/23/2019 7:47:12 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
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To: Jacquerie

This article uses the classic leftist technique of condemning an argument by condemning those who make it by association. No where does it counter the argument that Islam is more than a religion, and that sharia includes a political/legal ideology. It simply says, so is Christianity sometimes too...and all these right wing conservatives condemn Islam, so they must be wrong.


22 posted on 09/23/2019 7:48:08 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG!!!)
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To: Brian Griffin

The goal of Islam is to conquer the world.


23 posted on 09/23/2019 7:56:41 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Jacquerie

I’ve had the same profiles page for years.


25 posted on 09/23/2019 8:02:20 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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To: Jacquerie

We could avoid problems with Islam is we asked one question of immigrants: Does leaving your religion deserve the death penalty?

A devout Muslim must say “Yes” as all schools of Islam agree—that apostasy from Islam deserves the death penalty.

I don’t know any other religion that says that. Anyone who agrees that leaving their religion deserves death—does not deserve to be in the USA—even to visit.


26 posted on 09/23/2019 8:03:33 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG!!!)
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To: Jacquerie
ISLAM is a POLITICAL SYSTEM that is no compatible with FREEDOM.

WILLIAM FEDERER explains how Muslims overtake cultures...

ISLAM: to submit
MUSLIMS: have submitted.

Muslim 3-Step Program:
* Religious - Immigrate to a country.
* Political - Increase in number.
* Militant - Eliminate those who oppose them.

Take time to listen to this short C-SPAN book review by American Historian by WILLIAM FEDERER on Islam. Pass the link to others.

During the Q & A a student asked why legislators are so weak when it comes to condemning Islamic aggression.

FEDERER responded, “3 Things.”
1. They are ignorant about the history of Islam.
2. They are afraid of Islam aggression.
3. They are on the take.

What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an

27 posted on 09/23/2019 8:21:28 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whpose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: WP Lonestar
It is an old Persian lie to prevent the spread of Christendom.
28 posted on 09/23/2019 8:42:04 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!me t)
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To: Jacquerie

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


29 posted on 09/23/2019 8:54:52 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Islam is a cancer on the world.


30 posted on 09/23/2019 9:00:33 PM PDT by Senormechanico
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To: Jacquerie

In other words, the premise is based on the manifest truth.


31 posted on 09/23/2019 9:34:38 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: malach
Islam was the way it was long before the West (except for Rome) had much of a civilization.

Pardon?

The mohammedans are a bunch of jonny-come-latelys to the world scene and have never had anything that remotely resembles civilization.

The West had civilization a thousand years before the goat humping rapist bandit drooled out his first demented babbling.

32 posted on 09/23/2019 9:51:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
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To: Jacquerie

...now do gays.

33 posted on 09/23/2019 9:55:20 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Jacquerie

FINALLY!!!! ITS A WAR PLAN, STUPID!


34 posted on 09/24/2019 3:41:46 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Jacquerie

I think an amendment clarifying that any “religion” that calls for the execution of members of other religions is excluded from First Amendment protections.


35 posted on 09/24/2019 5:50:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Senormechanico

There are something like 1.3 billion Muslims on the planet.

Which means they are outnumbered something like 6:1.

My father taught me to never go picking a fight when I was outnumbered 6:1.

If Muslims persist on this path it is going to end very, very badly for them. The other six billion are going to make a decision that will make Hitler’s Final Solution look like a Sunday picnic.


36 posted on 09/24/2019 5:52:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Japan doesn’t have a muzzie problem because it largely bans muzzies.

We know nothing will be done. We can view our trajectory into hell by looking at the UK.

All the voting in the world will not solve the muzzie problem.

An Article V COS is our only hope.


37 posted on 09/24/2019 7:24:49 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Islam is not a religion. It is a totalitarian socio-political system masquerading as a religion.


38 posted on 09/24/2019 9:36:41 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Jacquerie

Islam is a battle plan, not a religion.


39 posted on 09/24/2019 9:38:45 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Brian Griffin
The goal of Islam is to please God, some partial believers don’t understand that.

To please the Islamic version of god one must embrace Jihad and dominate, enslave or kill unbelievers.

There is no Allah but Satan, and Muhammad was his murdering pedophile.

40 posted on 09/24/2019 9:41:00 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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