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Why are the only people railing against sharia law (Original Post) MineralMan May 2019 OP
un-thinking elleng May 2019 #1
Sometimes. Other times, it's quite deliberate. MineralMan May 2019 #2
IMO, It is just another manifestation of "the other." It has worked to galvanize a portion dameatball May 2019 #3
Well,Ignorance is a powerful tool Wellstone ruled May 2019 #4
Because many, if not most Christians think tolerance works only one way Major Nikon May 2019 #5
I would add that most of the people railing against Sharia law Haggis for Breakfast May 2019 #6
I view it simply "If I CAN IGNORE the Constitution of the US, then OTHERS Can' JustFiveMoreMinutes May 2019 #7
A fair number of progressives Igel May 2019 #8
I'm not in favour of either.. nt uriel1972 May 2019 #9

dameatball

(7,580 posts)
3. IMO, It is just another manifestation of "the other." It has worked to galvanize a portion
Sun May 5, 2019, 07:29 PM
May 2019

of the population to accept our own brand of laws that will be more and more restrictive as time goes by. In other words, justifying restrictive political views of the minority and using the threat of Sharia laws as the boogeyman to justify themselves. White Christian nationalism has many boogeymen to throw out there.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Well,Ignorance is a powerful tool
Sun May 5, 2019, 07:57 PM
May 2019

when it comes to Religion and the so called Sky Fairy. Watched the Old Testament Freaks do a number on the DP's,Displaced Persons,after WW2. Amazing that worked,Relatives of these DP"s turned their wrath on these innocent families because of some cockamamie bull crap from their Preacher or Priest.

Major Nikon

(36,899 posts)
5. Because many, if not most Christians think tolerance works only one way
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:51 PM
May 2019

Everyone must embrace Christianity's privilege and any threat to that privilege is attacked.

You also have a considerable amount of fear mongering going on, which while almost exclusively baseless still is fueled by religious based terrorism.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
6. I would add that most of the people railing against Sharia law
Sun May 5, 2019, 09:34 PM
May 2019

Have no effing idea what it is.

And they are comfortable in their stupidity, so don't expect them to ever educate themselves.

Igel

(36,010 posts)
8. A fair number of progressives
Mon May 6, 2019, 05:09 PM
May 2019

don't have much use for some of shari'a's consequences. Just look at many feminist takes on what suddenly become "cultural traditions" but which believers bill as beliefs: body/face coverings, for instance.

Hardly "the same people who want to enforce Old Testament rules on everyone." Granted, they have a set of rules they want enforced, but they're hardly OT.

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