- Moderator
- #101
No one is “buying into” any faith. The basis of the right is any religion. In fact, some of the founders were Deists. Nowhere was it stated that it only applied to some religions. That is a pretty dangerous path to go down. It only applies to Christians? Which branch is true Christianity? Do Quakers count? How about Jehova’switnesses? Most of the founders were also Protestant, does that mean the right was intended to exclude Catholic?Why do you think that? There are a hundred instances in our organic laws such as the Constitution where the Founders were vague by today's standards in their meaning and subject to careful interpretation today, such as the precise intention and meaning of a militia.
How much and where would a European such as Washington or Jefferson or any man from England in the 1700s ever meet a Muslim? Hear or read about them? Sharia Law? Maybe perhaps if they were a specialist historian and scholar. You see, you are comparing apples and oranges here. Not only would they know next to nothing of these people or how their religions operate to even think of including them, nor have any expectation that such a person from the Far and Middle East would ever want to or be able to get to or relocate all the way to America, but Sharia Law which is the underpinning of all Islamic life is wholly incompatible with western law, so the first thing many muslims will want to do as soon as they are in sufficient number to politically matter is, as events are showing us as we speak today, will try to begin inserting Sharia Law into OUR law and system.
In Washington and Jefferson's day, I believe the variety of religion and faiths they were aware of and including in their daily life were all confined mainly to variants of Christianity. Places like China, India and Saudi Arabia, et al., were all somewhere between rumors, stories, to just mere legends of far off worlds far, far removed from the world they knew. They had no idea of jets flying people around the world in mere hours. To them, freedom of religion was surely freedom to practice whatever faith of Christianity or some such thing you held free of imposition from the government, as surely, the only god they recognized and accepted was their Abrahamic God, so the 1A was not intended as a mandate imposed on ourselves that we must accept any belief system no matter what from anywhere no matter how destructive.
In immigrating to America as a U.S. Citizen, it should be made clear to any muslims that they are migrating to a western society built upon Justinian law and they are accepting that, otherwise, WHY COME HERE?
So on that basis alone, Muslim ideology cannot be treated purely just as another "religion," but bound up with Sharia Law which is like oil and water mixed with western jurisprudence. Unfortunately, when you buy into muslim faith, you are buying the total package and I'm sure you will understand that when it comes to that sort of thing, muslims will not accept so much as one letter of their beliefs and system of laws to be out of place, and once in sufficient numbers, will be hell bent on trying to impose THEIR system of law and values if not on us, but them establishing it in their own pocket communities here as a permanent source of friction between us and them.
That's not bigotry or xenophobia, just the facts, sorry, and will only be proven more true as time marches on.