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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/american-right-wingers-are-no-longer-conservative-theyre-extremistsJoshua Holland: Ian, I know this first question is subjective, but Im going to ask you to speculate. Which do you think is more likely, that Sharia law will become the law of the land or that I will get a date with Scarlett Johansson?
Ian Millhiser: Youre much more likely to get a date with Scarlett Johansson.
JH: That is great news. This is what I wanted to hear.
IM: This is a conspiracy theory thats been around for a while that somehow there are these courts out there that are threatening to replace American law, stop following American law, and instead follow Islamic law. So youve seen these bills pop up to forbid courts from doing that, like its ever going to happen.
JH: This has been done in a handful of states, like Kansas passed one of these anti-Sharia laws. I would also point out that there is no coherent body of law called Sharia. There are different strains of Sharia, and it is not really
IM: Right.
****now, if only some OTHER political party would start calling them out for the extremists they are -- in ever so colorful language.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I googled as I never heard of either, and neither is a politician. Both are bloggers.
so what parties are referenced?
chervilant
(8,267 posts)the other is Ian Millhiser, "a senior constitutional policy analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the editor of ThinkProgress Justice" (such fancy titles these days...).
Your comment motivated me to read the article. I find it rather fascinating to witness the predictable outcome of sixty+ years of deliberately co-opted "public education," wherein marginally educated individuals with stunted critical thinking skills create their own realities. I'd never heard of 'tenthers' or 'oath keepers,' or 'sovereign citizens.' And, what's scary to me is how many 'conservatives' here in rural Arkansas absolutely despise (and fear) the federal government. Theirs is a mish-mash of odd beliefs about how the government plans to take away our guns (food, water, television, internet, or any combination thereof), and move any survivors into 'concentration camps' to do slave labor. (Apparently, they don't see the current job situation as 'slave labor,' which I find ironic.)
As is our nature (as human beings), we'll have to talk this issue to death before we come up with a solution. And, in so doing, we'll have to endure countless coarse, vapid, and/or ridiculous comments online and in person. I sincerely hope I can keep misanthropy at bay ...
n2doc
(47,953 posts)When you are bathed in hate and lies every day, it has a negative effect. I'm just amazed more haven't gone completely off the deep end and done a McVeigh.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,009 posts)But, you would never get a right winger to admit that the 1st Amendment prohibits adoption of purely religious law because they want to force their own religion and would never accept that the 1st mandates church/state separation.