[missyme]

Even before 9/11 Muslims kept silent about how they lived they were here not to mix in with the US culture, I remember at the end of the nineties I was a Recruiter for High Tech companies looking for Programmers for Y2K projects we had so many Muslims here on work visas that wanted big money were arrogant and rude to there american counter-parts always downing Americans and the way they lived, were dis-respectful to women, they only kept quiet about how they really feel about this country after 9/11 out of fear.

[dwd1]

As an IT person, I have witnessed what you speak of first hand but I have also taken the opportunity to learn from them...

It is a simple concept of total contributory negligience... With regard to women, the burden of temptation is completely on the woman... The saddest part about that part of the faith the power being abused by men... I think of this woman in Africa they were going to stone to death but the man could not be prosecuted because there were no witnesses...

Best example of a double standard gone amuck...

Honor killings are a subject unto themselves...

From a legal stanpoint, the question very simply is this... Do they have to leave the conservative elements of their faith in the mosques and in their homes... Once they are on the highway, in the workplace, etc, are they not subject to the equal protection, anti-discrimination, sexual harrassment laws just as everyone of us in this country...

That is, to me, the best argument for the separation of church and state...

You follow the laws when representing your church when you are in church and in your home but in the public setting, you have to follow the laws that all citizens in this country do... I would hate to find myself at a Dodgers Game no longer able to sing (though I do not sing well) "Take me out to the ballgame" because I am subject to arrest by the religious police for saying something other that "God is Great!"