May 20
On a normal day you might draw Mort. Or Marty. Or Myron. But today is Draw Mohammed day. So get busy! Entry form follows!
The idea is to spread the risk – they can’t behead everybody – right? Or can they?
I can’t draw worth a lick, and a stick figure Mohammed I’m capable of might inspire a shaving cut more than a beheading. But what I can EMPHATICALLY say is that a religion that beheads due to cartoons isn’t one we should permit in our country.
Islam isn’t a “Great” religion – it is a dangerous religion that the USA should strive to keep from spreading within our borders. That means preventing any further Muslim immigration, and evicting non-citizen Muslims that reside here now.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:05 am
And where, pray tell, is the line?
Obviously Muslims should be expelled because they have a religion of violence. Similarly obvious is the necessity to expel catholics. We can’t simply let that whole inquisition thing die, can we?
Well, Now that I think about it, Protestants have been a little testy too with all those militia, and the Mormons had that little Mountain Meadow thing. Better kick them all out.
Come to think of it, Atheists could be considered a religion of sorts, and look at all the murder and dictatorships that have been placed under the flag of “anti-religion”. Out with the godless!
Do I need to move on to Hindus, Jews, Native Americans and Bhuddists or have I made my point?
Freedom of Religion under the law can not just extend to the religions we like or the freedom is meaningless.
For those who threaten or commit violence over something as asinine as cartoons then we have laws for that.
I disagree with Islam on nearly every level of the religion. I believe it is a religion which encourages and promotes violence. The “peace” that Islam seeks can only be achieved through the conversion or destruction of every other faith. But I cannot tell my government in one breath to defend my freedom while in another tell them to attack a religion.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:37 am
D E has a broad view of our Constitution. The Founders knew the history of burning at the stake, torture racks, the Thirty Years War and Peace of Westphalia, the Turks at the gates of Vienna, the Moors in Spain, and all the other religious horrors of life in the millennium before 1787. They intended that the USG would not get involved in any religious quarrels. Every unslaved resident (before we had citizenship) was free to believe and worship according to individual conscience. We call that liberty, something we cried for even as we endorsed slavery.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Freedom of religion applies to citizens, not immigrants.
As the saying goes… the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact.
DE also needs to read what I write. Specifically. It’s all there, on purpose, to a single effect.
May 20th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
I did read what you said.
The federal government rarely, if ever, respects the lines drawn for it. Can you honestly tell me that if we managed to get such a rule past, that you don’t see what I see, that the federal government would use it as justification to begin violating the rights of citizens?
You and I do agree on the goal: The liberty and security of U.S. citizens. I simply don’t want to be stabbed in the back with the tools of my own “security.”
My family has dealt with being denied the protection of the law due to being in the religious minority. The federal government needs to keep its grubby, corrupt hands off because with them the old axiom ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’ has particularly strong meaning.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Simple line – citizen or not. One even a government can understand.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
So the entire world gets our rights? I don’t agree with that. WE need to be choosy about who we let in. It isn’t just Muslim’s I’d keep out, although they would be a good start.