Posted on 12/11/2012 5:56:27 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today announced that state legislator Dave Agema's anti-Islam bill, known officially as HB 4769, may pass this week during Michigan's lame duck legislative session. (The bill is currently on the legislative calendar.)
CAIR-MI is calling on all people of conscience to urge Governor Snyder to veto the biased bill which is among those that seek to impose government-sanctioned discrimination on followers of a minority faith.
TAKE ACTION NOW (Michigan residents only. If you know anyone in Michigan please forward this alert to them.) http://tinyurl.com/ContactGovSnyder
Michigan State Representative Dave Agema (R-Grandville), whose bill is patterned on anti-Islam legislation widely circulated in the last two years, has a history of making controversial comments relating to Muslims.
In comments relating to legislation meant to apprehend undocumented workers, Agema stated, "We have the largest concentration of Muslims in the state in the Dearborn area. I know we have (sleeper) cells there. That is what I really want to get at."
Agema is clearly targeting Islam for unequal treatment from other faiths. In explaining why he feels the bill is important, he told the Grand Rapids Press, "They (Muslims) want specific laws applied to their specific groups...They do not want to be under our law."
In written testimony submitted to a U.S. Senate hearing on hate crimes and the threat of domestic extremism held earlier this year, CAIR [alleged] that legislation such as Agema's clearly has the stigmatization of American Muslims as a core goal.
If signed into law, HB 4769 would prohibit a "court, arbitrator, administrative agency, or other adjudicative, mediation, or enforcement authority" from enforcing a foreign law if doing so would violate a right guaranteed by the constitution of this state or of the United States." Current law already does this.
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Lots of good things coming out of the Michigan legislature these days. Here are a few weeks of michigan legislative actions. Everything from an anti agenda21 bill introduced to doubling the taxes the state must pay to local governments if they want the land and restricting the DNR from putting land off limits to protect the rainbow tufted wood snail.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2967053/posts?page=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2964653/posts
Why not? They're worse than unions.
Ain’t that the truth, ‘till Rubio gets tough on immigration, I am not listening, Rubio like the Dems want certain individuals to be above the law because of their skin color or due to the proximity of their country of origin to the US, it’s wrong, the law is the law, the law cannot stand nor the nation if we pick and choose which laws we want to follow: you wear glasses, well, you get to speed, you are above 5’, well, you can drive drunk, Rubio needs to show he is a conservative!
“American Muslims”
Flat-out impossible. You can’t be both.
"They (Muslims) want specific laws applied to their specific groups...They do not want to be under our law." ... If signed into law, HB 4769 would prohibit a "court, arbitrator, administrative agency, or other adjudicative, mediation, or enforcement authority" from enforcing a foreign law if doing so would violate a right guaranteed by the constitution of this state or of the United States." Current law already does this.
Remember. moslims stand with democrats, and democrats stand with moslims.
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