Fears About Shariah Law Take Hold In Tennessee

[cbayer]

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/03/159378918/fears-about-shariah-law-take-hold-in-tennessee

by BLAKE FARMER


Wade Payne/AP
Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., shown here at a victory party after defeating Lou Ann Zelenik in the GOP primary, found herself on the defensive after being called soft on Shariah law.


September 3, 2012 from WPLN

It's getting tougher to be a Republican in some parts of the country while also fully accepting the practice of Islam.

In Tennessee, an incumbent in the U.S. House found herself on the defensive after being called soft on Shariah law, the code that guides Muslim beliefs and actions. And the state's governor has been forced to explain why he hired a Muslim.

Lee Douglas, a dentist just south of Nashville and an anti-Shariah activist, points to the Muslim woman hired in Tennessee's economic development office as evidence of an "infiltration" of Islam in government. Douglas helped draft a resolution criticizing the governor and Islam. A version of the document has been signed by a growing list of GOP executive committees, from rural counties to the state's wealthiest.

"By stopping this now, we're going to save ourselves a lot of difficulty in the future," he says.

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[cleanhippie]

1. Why do you think the religious right has gained so much influence?

What could have prevented their ascension to power, and what will curb it?

[Tanuki]

2. Diane Black is a despicable bigot in her own right, and hardly "soft on Islam."

http://www.cannoncourier.com/black-criticizes-justice-department-cms-8779

[cbayer]

3. Thanks for that. I had not made the connection between the issue with this mosque and Black.

Are you in that area? What is being done to address these issues?

It sounds like this could get really ugly.

[Tanuki]

5. I live in the adjacent congressional district (Dem. Jim Cooper's)

but do some professional consulting in Rutherford and Cannon counties so I am there quite often. As you may know, the Islamic congregation in question had been worshipping in Murfreesboro for decades with no problems, and in fact most people were not even aware of much less concerned by their existence. I think the local frenzy when they outgrew their worship space and built the new mosque has been whipped up by outside groups, much as the tea party, birtherism, etc. , but sadly found fertile ground. Fortunately things have calmed down since the federal lawsuit forced the local authorities to allow the mosque to open, and they were able to move in a couple of days after Ramadan began. I'm sure this ordeal has been demoralizing and deeply offensive to the congregants, but they have responded with grace and dignity, reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement.

[cbayer]

7. Great to have a first hand report on this situation.

Particularly glad to hear that the Muslims in the area have carried on. I hope that there are groups within the community that are voicing support for them.

[fredamae]

4. They "Fear Sharia Laws" Then they should

STOP taking actions to Bring it to their constituents.
All one needs to do is review recent history, connect the Names, accusations, Who controls State House/Senate seats etc to SEE Who is actually moving us statutorily towards it!

[pinto]

6. What red herrings all around. Mosques have been established in the US since the early 1900's

From 1900-1917 Wills are found in Washington, DC Archives beginning with Islamic salutations "With the Name of God Amen" with names like Hannah Henderson, Fontaine Mahmood, James Moore, Mary Newman, Edward Quader, and Anne Yarrow.

In 1903, Mohammed Asa Abu-Howar arrives in New York. Moves to Washington, DC. He becomes a successful builder as A. Joseph Howar, who backed the construction of the Islamic Center.

In 1904, at the St. Louis Exposition and World Fair, merchants and visitors came from the Arab world at which time an Arab used a waffle to create an ice cream cone.

In 1905, The US General Land Office grants land title to one Mahmod Ali.

In 1907, The Polish Tartars establish "The American Mohammed Society" in Brooklyn, NY.

In 1908, Muslim immigrants from the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan arrive in North America. They are mainly Turks, Kurds, Albanians, and Arabs.

In 1913, Noble Drew Ali established the Canaanite Temple in Newark, NJ. Noble Drew Ali was born Timothy Drew, January 8, 1886 on a Cherokee reservation in Sampson, North Carolina. There were immediate challenges to Noble Drew Ali’s leadership from within the Moorish community, and by 1916 internal disagreements caused a division of the Moorish-American nation into two groups. One group stayed in Newark, changing its name to the Holy Moabite Temple of the World. Moabite, is the ancient name for Moroccans. Noble Drew Ali and his followers moved to Chicago in 1925 and established the Moorish Science Temple of America. By this time, Drew Ali had established temples in Charleston, WVA; Milwaukee, WI; Lansing and Detroit, MI; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA; Pine Bluff, AR; Newark, NJ; Cleveland and Youngstown, OH; Richmond and Petersburg, VA. Noble Drew Ali was murdered in 1929 in Chicago, IL and buried in Burr Oak Cemetery.

In 1915, Albanian Muslims in Biddeford, Maine established the first effective Mosque in North America. Most were bachelors working at the Peppermell Mills. Muslim Albanian families still reside in Biddeford and nearby Saco.

In 1919, The Albanians established another Mosque in Connecticut.

http://www.muslimsinamerica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=28

[Angry Dragon]

8. idiots every where