{"id":424,"date":"2009-07-21T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/07\/video-sharia-in-the-usa.html"},"modified":"2009-07-21T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T08:54:21","slug":"video-sharia-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/07\/video-sharia-in-the-usa.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Shari’a in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behold – a shocking video expos\u00c3\u00a9 of impending Islamist takeover in the United States! Amerabia is nigh! Aieeeeeeee!<\/p>\n

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(really, the last minute is the important part)<\/p>\n

Now, I’m tempted to mock this mercilessly as I did with the Dawah Doll<\/a>, but there are plenty of humorless jafis out there who tend to take me literally (for example, not realizing at whom I was laughing at in this post about Islam Day in Hawai’i<\/a>). I’ll leave the sober analysis and rebuttal to people with more patience for tiresome foolishness, like Matt Stroud at True Slant<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I vehemently dislike the idea that anyone should be denied the right to film or otherwise record an interview – especially during a public event (as it seems Dearborn’s Arab Festival<\/a> intends to be). And while it does, in fact, seem unfair that these people were turned away from the supposedly public Arab Festival because they supposedly wanted to assault question-seeking Muslims with answer-seeking Christian queries, Wood and Qureshi come to odd conclusions: First, that their video rejection means “Islam [will take] over the United States,” but also that this kind of repressive response to video documentation is somehow limited to Muslims. I don’t fully understand what their first conclusion intends to imply, really, but, in response to the latter, I wonder if Wood and Qureshi have ever been to a US political gathering of any type. I’ll point out the “Don’t Taze Me, Bro<\/a>” fiasco as just one of many non-Muslim examples of well-documented oppression. And if they’d like more, perhaps they should look into President George W. Bush’s “Free Speech Zones<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ll just leave the video up above and let the viewer draw their own conclusions. This is clearly more of a free speech issue than a religious one, aside from the religious agenda of the video makers, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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