Posted on 01/18/2012 3:14:18 PM PST by Nachum
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked yesterday whether he would support a Muslim for president. His answer may have been one of the most important teaching moments of the long and difficult campaign season. Speaker Gingrich responding by saying it depends on whether the candidate was “a modern person who happens to worship Allah.” Or “a person who belonged to any kind of belief in sharia, any kind of effort to impose that on the rest of us.” He rightly concluded by saying that the former would not be a
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Islam is not a modern religion. It is an old world cult. My answer is an absolute NO that I would support a candidate who was Muslin for president. They are for their cult before they are for country. This is the same for dimocrats today. They are for their cult of progressives socialism and homosexualism and not love of God or country.
I’d be happy to support a Muslim for President. Let me know when Salman Rushdie decides to run.
:-P
Oh yeah! The “Satanic Verses” guy. He wrote a story about how the devil had supposedly tempted Mohammed to put some verses in the Koran that had not been inspired by Allah. The story ended up with Mohammed refusing to do it, but the rabies-heads throughout Moosedom didn’t care about that. All they cared about was the title that used “Satanic” to describe “Verses.” And they put a price on his head.
There’s a far from zero danger that a “moderate Muslim” like what Newt hypothesized will turn into a rabies head about his faith. It happens like, orders of magnitude more often than it would for a mainstream, traditional Christian.
We have one already.
When read between the lines, the answer is “No.” It was a brilliant response.
If I read the article correctly, it infers that sharia law is already being inserted onto our laws and customs through other means - schools perhaps??? Muslim foot baths; allowing Muslims to choose which grocery items to ring up at the cash registers. I am curious as to how long it will be before a schoold district in a liberal state agrees to require burkas on the little girls.
However, I doubt that when that happens the NOW gals will look the other way, and find some sort of complaint against the Pope for an all-male Catholic clergy.
I figure that would really cheese off the pukes in Iran.
Also, it’d be kind of interesting to see what big men they really were with Rushdie when he’d have his finger on a few thousand nukes. It’s hard to lay down a fatwa when the weather forecast for the day is 1.2 million degrees.
“I am curious as to how long it will be before a school district in a liberal state agrees to require burkas on the little girls.”
Look for it to happen in Minnesota first. They’re the ones who think the fanatifascism of Somali taxi drivers trump the rights of blind people and people who buy alcohol.
Islam is a theocratic cult, meaning that the religious law and the secular law are one and the same. It’s the only theocratic religious/legal system in the US. (Mormonism used to be that way, but the Mormons had to back off and accept US law for Utah to become an American state.)
All churches have their internal law, such as the canon law of the Catholic Church, and that governs their internal practices but does not affect the state. At various times, when there has been an established church in a state (whether Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Calvinist or whatever), some church laws have been enforced by the state, such as not working on a Sunday or something similar. But criminal and civil law were still a separate sphere.
There is no way sharia, which is Islamic religious/secular law, can be accepted by anybody in the US who wants to be officially involved in the US government. It means that person is operating under different rules.
Gingrich is absolutely right on this.
True... there is no sharia-free Islam as far as I know. Some of the syncretistic faiths that borrow from Islam (e.g. Bahai) might have dispensed with sharia.
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