See post #92.
Islam makes no distinction between secular and religious.
That group in Irving stated plainly that if the u.s. law conflicted with sharia law, then they would ignore the u.s. law and follow sharia.
How much more clearly can it be stated?
Islam and sharia govern EVERYthing in their view of things.
EVERYTHING.
If and when their following sharia law rather than US law causes them to break US law, then arrest and prosecute them?
Why is this such a difficult issue? Why are you so threatened by people talking big? I suspect very few of them would actually follow through and risk arrest and prosecution to uphold sharia.
If they do, who cares? They’re in jail. Where they belong for breaking the law of this nation.
It is rather simple.
Any crime can be prosecuted by the state and if you are put on trial by the state, you have to show up to court.
The Muslim court cannot prosecute you.
If somebody wrongs you, you can sue them in a real court, or you can both agree on mediation.
If someone sues you in the Muslim Court, you do not have to show up, but you can if you want.
Thomas Jefferson: “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said, his testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite, but it will never make him a truer man. It may fix him obstinately in his errors, but will not cure them.”
Beliefs are no business of the government, no matter how vehemently I disagree with them.