How did Islam Get its American Privileges?Boy! That's a tough one!
Posted on 05/14/2016 8:46:43 AM PDT by detective
What is Islam? The obvious dictionary definition answer is that it’s a religion, but legally speaking it actually enjoys all of the advantages of race, religion and culture with none of the disadvantages.Islam is a religion when mandating that employers accommodate the hijab, but when it comes time to bring it into the schools, places that are legally hostile to religion, American students are taught about Islam, visit mosques and even wear burkas and recite Islamic prayers to learn about another culture. Criticism of Islam is denounced as racist even though the one thing that Islam clearly isn’t is a race.Islamist organizations have figured out how lock in every advantage of race, religion and culture, while expeditiously shifting from one to the other to avoid any of the disadvantages.
The biggest form of Muslim privilege has been to racialize Islam. The racialization of Islam has locked in all the advantages of racial status for a group that has no common race, only a common ideology.
Islam is the only religion that cannot be criticized. No other religion has a term in wide use that treats criticism of it as bigotry. Islamophobia is a unique term because it equates dislike of a religion with racism. Its usage makes it impossible to criticize that religion without being accused of bigotry.
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This is an excellent article.
It describes how the liberals and the Democrats have perverted our freedoms and laws to give special privileges to Muslims.
Muslims enjoy more religious freedoms than Christians. They have the been given the legal privileges to ignore our laws and ignore the rights of those of other faiths. Employers have been ordered to cater to Muslim's most unreasonable demands. They enjoy tax exemptions for activities that are clearly not religious. They are falsely accorded respect under freedom of religion for practices that are simply barbaric.
But Muslims are not subject to the limitations placed on Christians. Government officials say separation of Church and states keeps Christian prayer and practice from public institutions such as schools. But Muslim activities are welcome in schools and Muslims are allowed to freely infiltrate and make demands on public institutions.
It is perfectly acceptable among the elites to ridicule Christians. However, any criticism of Muslims is regarded as bigotry. In this way Muslims become a protected class. They are always considered to be victims. They can make any demand they want. Any refusal of their demands is regarded as bigotry.
Muslims are being used as a weapon by the liberals to attack Christianity and western civilization.
Tolerance is a two way street.
One way tolerance is tyranny.
this must stop.
How did Islam Get its American Privileges?Boy! That's a tough one!
Muslims are being used as a weapon by the liberals to attack Christianity and western civilization.
The red/green alliance.
Liberals are very good at labeling their opponents and finding creative ways to demonize them. They are also adept at blaming others and impugning their motives. Then they find ways to use taxpayer money to “defend” rights of groups they want to use for political purposes. Of course they have a willing and sympathetic media to help them attack their enemies.
See 7.
I have said for a long time - islam is naziism, with a twist of Allah thrown in so that it can be called a religion.
The world wouldn’t tolerate nazis, but if it is disguised as a religion, it is not only tolerated, but protected.
These pundits need to stop referring to Islam as a “religion”. It is NOT. To understand why, is Islam 101.
We didn't allow foreign Communists to move here during the Cold War.
We should not allow Islamists to move here now.
It’s all about to change . Hallelujah!
Muslims tended to lean Republican as recently as 2000 because most Muslims living in the U.S. were people who had escaped radical Islamic fundamentalism in places like Iran before the Shah was deposed.
There has been a gradual shift toward the Democrats. A Pew Research Center survey last year found that 70 percent of American Muslims identify with the Democratic Party, while just 11 percent consider themselves to be Republicans.
President George W. Bush appointed a Muslim, Dr. Zalmay Khallzad to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations after John Bolton. Dr. Khalilzad is currently an advisor on foreign policy to Donald Trump.
Muslim civil rights groups have set a goal of registering a million new voters. Efforts will be focused on swing states such as Ohio and Florida that have large Muslim populations, potentially giving the small but united voting bloc the power to tilt close elections in those states.
History of Islam in the U.S.
One of the earliest accounts of Islam’s presence in North America dates to 1528, when a Moroccan slave, called Estevanico by his Spanish masters, was shipwrecked near present-day Galveston, Texas. He and four survivors subsequently traveled through much of the American southwest and the Mexican interior before reaching Mexico City.
“Muslims’ presence in the United States is affirmed in documents dated more than a century before religious liberty became the law of the land, as in a Virginia statute of 1682 which referred to ‘negroes, moores, molatoes, and others, born of and in heathenish, idollatrous, pagan, and Mahometan parentage and country’ who ‘heretofore and hereafter may be purchased, procured, or otherwise obteigned, as slaves.’” One of the first documented Muslims in North America was Anthony Janszoon van Salee, a landholder and merchant of mixed Dutch-Moor descent who settled in New Netherlands (modern New York) in the 17th century.
Records from the American Revolutionary War indicate that at least a few Muslims fought on the American side. Among the recorded names of American soldiers are “Yusuf ben Ali” and “Bampett Muhamed”.
The first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation was the Sultanate of Morocco, under its ruler Mohammed ben Abdallah, in the year 1777. He maintained several correspondences with President George Washington.
On December 9, 1805, President Thomas Jefferson hosted an Iftar dinner [the end of the Ramadan fasting period) at the White House for his guest Sidi Soliman Mellimelli, an envoy from Tunis, Tunisia.
The current Muslim population of the U.S. Is estimated at 3.3 million.—Wikipedia
Dennis Prager has written about this war of the world views: Islamo-fascist, Judeo-Christian American and liberal secular.
The liberal secularists ally with the Islamo-fascists to be able to say “we don’t hate all religion, look, these monotheists agree with us” on things like banishing Christianity from the public square.
They reflexively empathize with the minority, the perceived underdog. They ignore the fact that Muslims oppress minority faiths and ethnicities in their own lands (see Yazidi sex slaves in 2016) and oppress women.
Liberals assume that’s just backwardness and the Muslims will learn after coming to the west. (See 90%+ of Swedish and Norwegian rapes committed by Muslims, and Rotherham rape scandal).
The irony is that the liberal secularists seem blind to the fact that Muslims are NOT assimilating, and will readily kill the homosexuals, atheists and feminists who are the core of modern liberal secularism. The Christians can duck their heads down, pay the taxes and survive.
Then again, Islamo-fascism is an authoritarian regime, where everything from how you dress in public to how you say hello to how you go to the bathroom is prescribed and you can be punished by the state for religious infractions for there is no separation of religion and state. (That was actually unique to Christianity per Jesus’ saying what is gods and what is Ceaser’s). So perhaps the authoritarian left is attracted to Islam because it gives them authority into even the private sphere, as well as gives them a higher (religious) authority on which to base their demands than “I said so”.
For Democrats it's all about winning elections to gain worldly power, preferably to make themselves dictators. Even referring to them as "liberals" gives too much respect to their motives because it implies that they're impartially reflecting on things to a certain extent.
Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing.
bkmk
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