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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 901476" data-attributes="member: 2189">As to the first point, no I don't want to be ruled by any religion or religious group but this gets to the problem asserting Sharia law as some threat or that muslims can or will somehow foment a mass elimination of non-muslims.  According to PEW Research who <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Muslim_population#List" target="_blank">mapped</a> the global muslim population, as of 2009' there were around 2.4 million muslims in the United States.  The US population is 300 million plus people total so do you think it possible that 2.4 million could enforce a new form of law, especially over a vastly larger christian population who themselves have been unable to completely accomplish the same goal for their own faith?  Get 10 christians in the same room and mostly likely you'd have a major fight over something as simple as baptism with 10 different ways and meaning on the subject to begin with.  Christianity was only able to dominate Europe when consolidated under one church which allowed a single hierarchy to dominate control. Another reason to de-centralize our own society if you do think muslim law is such a threat, why make it easy but that's for later.  Muslims lack such centralization of a central religious authority as even among clerics there is diverse opinion and why they can't centralize under a common banner as they've tired to do since the Ottoman empire collapsed.  Why else over the ages have there been such fighting and bloodshed between various muslim factions?  The only thing they do agree with is hating us but then we give them an easy excuse so why are we surprised?  History shows minus us in the picture they'd be hating on each other so there you go!Do you really think that a US population that has a growing part of it's total abandoning any religious faith (doctrine and dogma) at all (don't wrongly perceive that to mean <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism#North_America" target="_blank">atheism is growing</a> ether) and with so many guns in the hands of that population would they submit to such legal system?  If you say yes then I call you out as a coward and you deserve neither liberty or freedom.  If you say no, then we obviously have bigger concerns and bigger fish to fry that is more worthy of our time and concern.  I'll concede nothing is impossible but in a society which holds that "religion and politics are best not discussed in polite company" would then sit by and allow such primitive religious ideas to become dominate?  I think this fear of Sharia law is just way overblown and nothing but the playground of mental mice.  You think for one minute that the American female will sit by and do nothing when told by the State to wear a burka?  The muslim who makes that mistake may well learn the hard way when his own blood flows out over the hilt of a knife in the hand of the very American female he tries to dominate.  Shades of Boudica!</blockquote>

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