Pastor Jones’ planned torching of Qurans is Asking For Trouble!

I think this is a pretty ridiculous plan. What cause will be served by aggravating an already touchy situation? Some Muslims will probably take Pastor Jones’ planned torching of Qurans on Sept. 11 as a reason to retaliate. I think most right-thinking Americans agree that he should be stopped from doing such a thing
. . . June

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Let's hope the world sees the fool in Pastor Terry Jones
SentinelSource.com |SENTINEL EDITORIAL

"From a certain angle, Terry Jones, the fundamentalist Christian preacher with the handlebar mustache, bears an uncanny resemblance to a man of the same name whose job was to behave like an idiot on TV. The comedian Terry Jones was a fixture on the Monty Python show whose humor would likely fly over the head of Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., who’s intent on burning a pile of Muslim holy books.

The problem, as noted in this space about a month ago, is that some Muslims may take Pastor Jones’ planned torching of Qurans on Sept. 11 as a useful tool in stirring up the same radical behavior that he decries; they present the 58-year-old prelate as a spokesman for American values — an ambition that’s being helped along by a few unbalanced Americans who are actually praising the pastor’s cause.

Which is? Pastor Jones says he wants to “send a message to radical Islam.” When pressed to explain just what that message might be, he’s said that Americans don’t want sharia law and sharia courts in their country. Most Americans, and probably most Muslims, would be surprised to hear that junking the current U.S. judicial system for traditional Islamic law was even being considered.

Read on . . .

Sharia Law Ruling In The United States

Sharia Law Ruling In The United States

 It's time that someone took this issue  and explained how it works and what impact it has here in America. Obviously, Sharia Law is still practice here depending on the person's beliefs and according to the article below, even judges are sometimes guilty of erring against the victim. Fortunately, in this case, the verdict was overturned.
   . . . June


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Hysteria At Heritage
James Downie   September 3, 2010 | 2:06 pm

The New Republic: "Cully Stimson, one of the Heritage Foundation's 'leading' legal experts, wants to educate the internet about 'The Real Impact of Sharia Law in America.' I think there are some problems with his opening example, though:

Does Sharia law allow a husband to rape his wife, even in America? A New Jersey trial judge thought so. In a recently overturned case, a “trial judge found as a fact that defendant committed conduct that constituted a sexual assault” but did not hold the defendant liable because the defendant believed he was exercising his rights over the victim.

Sounds insidious! Except, as the part I've bolded makes clear, the case was overturned. Stimson not only admits as much, but later on uses the appellate court's decision to strengthen his own case:

Fortunately, the New Jersey appellate court refused to tolerate the trial judge’s “mistaken” and unsustainable decision. The appellate court chastised the trial judge’s ruling, holding among other things that he held an “unnecessarily dismissive view of defendant’s acts of domestic violence,” and that his views of the facts in the case “may have been colored by his perception that…they were culturally acceptable and thus not actionable – -a view we soundly reject.” Although appellate courts typically defer to findings of fact by trial judges, under the circumstances, this appellate court correctly refused to do so, and reversed the trial court and ordered the permanent restraining order to issue.

Surely, then, this is just an aberrant case of a judge making a wildly incorrect decision? Not so, warns Stimson. "Make no mistake about it," he writes, "this is no isolated incident."

Read more of the article . .