One difference I see between Sharia Law and Republican Law is that, in Sharia Law, one is obligated to do no harm and also to do the right thing.
In contrast, Republicans believe might makes right.
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Well, I did have an issue with the $.79 cents. Round numbers, folks! (Not a CVS issue. Or Sharia.)
So if a gay couple were to go into bakery owned Muslims, and asked then to bake a wedding cake, the bakery could refuse, based on their deeply held religious beliefs?
And this folks in Texas would support the bakery? I am so confused.
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I thought Texas law was simply “Do unto those ‘others’.”
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The FHA prevents discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability. That includes marketing of housing.
A planned Muslim community is obviously discriminatory against non-Muslims, notwithstanding the planners’ subsequent concession that they can’t formally refuse to sell a lot to a non-Muslim.
Imagine if some megachurch pastor announced plans to acquire a couple hundred acres and build out Jesus City, where believers in the One True Grift could build their homes in a planned community centered around the Tabernacle of Divine Providence and send their kids to the K-12 Christian School of Indoctrination and No Evolution. That’s gross. It’s also blatantly discriminatory in its very inception, regardless of whether they end up selling a lot to some godless leftie looking to make a point about these people being such assholes.
Religious compound communities are bad. They are also illegal. Same goes for ethno communities.
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That would present an actual case in controversy, unlike the imaginary controversy decided by the Supreme Court. So I’m going to rule the question remains open.
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“If you are a Republican candidate, you would like to not be talking about the economy right now. So this gives you an opportunity to control the debate and move it from economy to problems with Islam. That’s something you are gonna want to do.”
The above has always been true, that Republicans want to talk about God, guns, gays, race and abortion as a way to deflect from their economic policies. The quote also says, as Republicans have been doing for at least 40 years, is Republicans should not talk about what good they will do for you but instead should talk about how they will hurt your neighbors and other fellow Americans.
I mean there are basically 8 planks that unite the Republican Party.
- Racism
- xenophobia
- misogyny
- Religious bigotry
- Gay Bashing
- Gun Toting
- Flag waiving
- Shouting at the top of your lungs “He’s a liberal he’s a liberal he’s a…”
There is no economic argument or really any policy other than White Christian nationalism. The comments that Republicans need to run from economics and double down on hatred of fellow Americans has been the Republican playbook for most of our entire lifetime.
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Stand Your Ground law: Do unto others, preferably with a deadly weapon, as you feared they were maybe gonna do unto you…they looked so scary with that darker skin and all.
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I’m not entering this debate, I’ll just point out that a lot of suburbs last century were built out just one or two steps from that description, with a healthy dose of racism as well. It’s only the Scary Muslims element that these fanatics don’t like.
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Near as I can tell (and I’m a Texan who only lived there for a couple of decades-ish), Texas law is “If you have a problem with what conservatives do, shut the hell up.”
I always had to test the waters very carefully before sharing a “controversial” opinion. In the wrong company, that will get you treated much the same as if you’d shat on the rug.
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You know what finally ended crack? Public humiliation. Crack addicts were constantly and universally derided as total losers, the most pathetic of nobodies. If atheists and anti-religious people were anywhere near as loud and relentless and obnoxious as the theist morons, we could humiliate at least some of these fools and hasten a decline that is inevitable. You just need to be sick of these lying child-raping fucks enough to state their idiotic theology out loud and expose what a pile of fucking garbage it all is. Fairy tales for adults who cannot deal with reality.
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Jebustown Announcement: “Lookie-here, White Christian Nationalists! We got r own plot uh land ready for subdividin’, and yer welcome to join us in worshipin’ Patriotic White Jebus at r new Megalopolis Mega-Jebus Church o’ Faith by buyin’ a lot and buildin’ a home! Send yer kids ta r private school where the curricula is White Christian Nationalist Indoctrination and the littleun’s genitalia get sorted fer bathroom usage at the start of every school year! Come on down to Jebustown, where the sins of tha outside world cain’t harm you or influence yer precious Christian White Nationalist babies, and tha Internet is personally censored by r world-renowned Scholar of Christian White Nationalism, Dr. Reverend John Wayne Jones!”
Attorney General: “That’s illegal.”
Jebustown Announcement: “Okay, we’ll sell to n*****s too.”
Problem very much not solved.
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Enter: The Fair Housing Act.
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Thank you for the clarification ! You don’t owe any of us here an interpretation of existing law but it certainly helps and I appreciate you taking the time. It sounds to me like their biggest error is in how they are advertising the development. They could just quietly deny non-Muslim applicants on other grounds and move forward I would think. I’m not a religious person and find the whole concept gross/distasteful but it seems to be the trend with all zealots
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The ad calling for activists to take the trip described Islam as a “communist based ideology.” It failed to elaborate on whatever links it had uncovered between Karl Marx and the Prophet Muhammad.
Well yeah, of course it is. I mean, one of the great prophets of Islam, a guy named Jesus, told a rich man to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor! (Mk 10:21)
It doesn’t get much more commie than that.
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Yes, just to add a layperson’s support to that point - the Mrs. had a gig, years ago, doing ad layout for a small-town newspaper, and there were all kinds of phrases (add for clarity: specifically in housing ads) they had to be on the lookout for. Things like “apartment for rent, close to St. Mary’s,” for example, would have been on the nixie list.
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- Having difficulty with numbers.
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You mean like “Reducing revenue raises revenue”?
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It’s technically a FHA violation to advertise that you’re looking for a male or female housemate, but I don’t think it has ever been enforced that way.
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Uh, “banning Sharia law” is– given that it plays no part in the actual American legal system–basically is the equivalent of banning Jewish dietary law or the wearing of yarmulkas, or banning Catholics from going to confession or stopping them from going to Mass when their rules require it. Silly me, I thought there still was a First Amendment.
Did anyone ask that busload of bigots how any of them have been actually impacted by the presence of Muslims in America? Has any Muslim stopped them from going to church, or denied them a job because they are Christian, or injured them physically in any way? Banned books that depict white Christian families?
Didn’t think so
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When it comes to Texas, Republicans prefer a Christianist theocracy. Potato / Potahto.
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