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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 05:44 PM Sep 2014

Family Security Matters Suggests Outlawing Islam In The United States

A post on the website Family Security Matters — which was founded by Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy and counts a Center official as a member of its board — suggests that the U.S. “tailor the language of Section 2 of the Communist Control Act of 1954” to read that “the organization known as Islam shall be outlawed in the United States." Family Security Matters contributing editor Paul Hollrah writes:

Islam is not a religion, as we understand the term. Rather it is a complete political, judicial, economic, military, and cultural system, masquerading as a religion. Its adherents refuse to assimilate into host country cultures, insisting that they be allowed to exist as an independent entity, not subject to the laws of their host nations. In order to accomplish their ends, they regularly preach the overthrow of their host governments, by violence if necessary. Accordingly, we must resolve that, "What is sauce for the (Communist) goose is sauce for the (Islamic) gander." In order to neutralize Islam's cultural institutions within our country, we must do as I have previously suggested: We must tailor the language of Section 2 of the Communist Control Act of 1954... a law that has not been struck down by the Supreme Court and which is still on the books... to read as follows: "The American people are determined to eliminate from their midst organizations which, purporting to be ‘religious,' in the accepted sense of that term, are conspirators dedicated to the destruction of our form of government by force and violence...

"The Congress hereby finds and declares that Islam, although purportedly a religious sect, is in fact an instrumentality of a foreign conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. It constitutes an authoritarian dictatorship within a republic, demanding for itself the rights and privileges accorded to individuals of other religious denominations, but denying to all others the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution... "As a segment of the U.S. population, Islam is relatively small, numerically, and gives scant indication of its capacity ever to attain its ends by lawful means. The peril inherent in the existence of Islam arises not from its numbers, but from its failure to acknowledge any limitation as to the nature of its activities, and its dedication to the proposition that the present system of government of the United States ultimately must be brought to ruin by any available means, including resort to force and violence. Holding that doctrine, its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear and present danger to the security of the United States. It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of Islam, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their revolutionary services. Therefore, the organization known as Islam shall be outlawed in the United States."

With that statute on the books we can make it very uncomfortable for radical Islamists. We can make their presence in our country so unpleasant that they will long for a return to whatever hellhole they and their predecessors crawled out of. With eyes and ears planted in every mosque and every Muslim cultural center in America, radical Imams such as the late Anwar al-Awlaki could be readily identified.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-security-matters-suggests-outlawing-islam-us#sthash.GJDUiuXh.dpuf

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Family Security Matters Suggests Outlawing Islam In The United States (Original Post) big_dog Sep 2014 OP
Why does Family Security Matters hate America and the constitution? eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #1
"the organization known as Islam"? KamaAina Sep 2014 #2
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion... NaturalHigh Sep 2014 #3
As a long believer in the value we have in the Constitution and strongly believe in the right to Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #4
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. "the organization known as Islam"?
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 05:48 PM
Sep 2014

Mmmm-kay. Who is the head of "the organization known as Islam"? Where is its headquarters? Who sits on its board of directors? And son, and so on, ad nauseam.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
3. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 05:53 PM
Sep 2014

or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

I know there are plenty of people who hate religion and would love to outlaw it, but the Constitution says you can't. Period.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. As a long believer in the value we have in the Constitution and strongly believe in the right to
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 06:20 PM
Sep 2014

participate in religions, it disturbs me to see ANY religion attempting to downplay another's choice or lack of religion. This group wants to talk about radical groups, they are one of those groups, it isn't much difference in radical muslins and any other radical group claiming to be religious based.

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