This ain't violence against Muslims but it sure ain't pretty

Subject: This ain't violence against Muslims but it sure ain't pretty

When's the last time a Church or Synagogue was challenged in court on the grounds that it's not a religion or that it represents 'sedition'.

Are the Hasidim of NYC also guilty of sedition? What about Mormons out west?

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2010/10/ground-infinity.html wrote: Ground Infinity[/url]

by Eric Martin

I'm pretty sure that opposition to this community center is out of sensitivity to the non-Mulism victims of 9/11:

My God is better than your God.

That's the dispute at the heart of recent hearings in a lawsuit aimed at derailing the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. What started as a zoning issue has turned into a fight over theology and the role of government in recognizing religion.

Mosque opponents say that Islam is not a real religion. They argued in a Rutherford County courthouse last week that the world's second-largest faith, with its 1.6 billion followers, is actually a political movement.

Opponents say local Muslims want to replace the Constitution with an Islamic legal code called Shariah law.

Joe Brandon Jr., a Smyrna,, Tenn., lawyer representing a group of mosque opponents, argued that the proposed mosque is not a house of worship. He said the Rutherford County Planning Commission erred when it approved the mosque.

Brandon wants an injunction stopping the mosque.

"Shariah law is pure sedition," said Brandon in his opening statement Monday.

Local officials said that of course Islam is a religion. They say the proposed mosque is like any other house of worship. Constitutional scholars say it isn't the government's business to decide which faiths are legitimate and which are not.

The demonization of Islam, and the rank demagoguery from GOP leaders like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, is bearing a vile and noxious fruit.

Posted by Eric Martin at 11:09 AM