Remove the fear - treat all religious-motivated crime as secular.
I understand the fear of sharia law - it's the fear of being held to values you don't hold without realizing your religion holds those same values and systems. Something simple. As someone married in the RCC I would need an annulment if I wanted to divorce and remarry in the church. As a Canadian I can divorce and remarry without that and retain all the same civil rights as with the first marriage.
As long as government (secular) law over-rides religious law when participants choose to walk away secular values are upheld. (can't do anything about shunning). As for religious symbols - all or none. You want to take away burqas, and ceremonial daggers, crucifixes and crosses have to go as well.
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Modern day Christianity cannot be compared to modern day Islam or Sharia. Christianity has gone through hundreds of years of reform and has had it's claws and fangs removed. No Christian Fundamentalist is calling for instituting laws according to the Old Testament.
ReplyDeleteThere is no greater engine for open, violent, misogyny in the 21st Century than Islam /Sharia.
I'm for the removal of religous symbols on all public buildings and property, but what people want to wear is their own business.
Clinton Hammond, are you Canadian? If so, you certainly are not describing the U.S. in that post. Christian fundamentalists here have passed laws allowing race and sex discrimination by businesses based on their owners' religious membership, elected a president who is pro groping of women and funded the training of terrorism at the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Ga. Christian fundamentalists carried out the Scorched Earth program in Guatemala, which included torture techniques taught at the SOA, and used rape of women as a means of subjugating the population. El Salvador soldiers trained at the SOA also used rape and torture and were fully supported by a few Catholic bishops and many fundamentalist Protestant leaders. All of the above is fully documented and admitted to by the U.S. Government. The downplaying of all this by media feeds the perception that Islam and Christianity have vastly different records on misogyny and human rights in general.
ReplyDeleteI am of the opinion that a business "Reserves the right to serve" and has no need to justify that choice. The price they will pay is in the free market.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of your Gish Gallop, I hand wave away....
When compared to the open, violent , misogyny generated by Islam/Sharia, Christianity is a mewling kitten, without claws or fangs.
You cannot hand wave away reality. I am sorry for you that a broad look at an issue is "Gish gallop" to you. I would hate to be that insulated from fresh perspectives.
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