Muslims Face Alarming Pattern of Being Cast as Un-American
Newt Gingrich bobbed and weaved on Friday, first suggesting that Muslim U.S. citizens could be deported for practicing Sharia law, only to later backtrack and blame the media for distorting his words.
Gingrich, a Republican once considered a top vice presidential pick, now insists that Muslim Americans can have faith that the U.S. Constitution will still protect them. But that's little comfort for an embattled community that has noted the stunning frequency in which political leaders have said just the opposite.
The movement against Sharia law, an Islamic code of actions and beliefs woven into a legal framework, first spawned as a method to attack the institution of Islam but not individual people.
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Now that tactic is being flipped. Prominent conservative leaders are using Sharia to justify targeting individual Muslims, even to the point of stripping American citizens of their constitutional rights.
"Use of anti-Muslim sentiment has been made mainstream and systematized in this election cycle," said Corey Saylor, director of anti-Islamophobia for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The specter of Sharia law as a threat to American well-being also came into play when U.S. courtrooms came across the issue — for instance in domestic or child custody cases involving families from countries where Sharia law is observed.
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Gingrich, a Republican once considered a top vice presidential pick, now insists that Muslim Americans can have faith that the U.S. Constitution will still protect them. But that's little comfort for an embattled community that has noted the stunning frequency in which political leaders have said just the opposite.
The movement against Sharia law, an Islamic code of actions and beliefs woven into a legal framework, first spawned as a method to attack the institution of Islam but not individual people.
Related: Newt Gingrich Wants Tests for All U.S. Muslims After Nice Attack
Now that tactic is being flipped. Prominent conservative leaders are using Sharia to justify targeting individual Muslims, even to the point of stripping American citizens of their constitutional rights.
"Use of anti-Muslim sentiment has been made mainstream and systematized in this election cycle," said Corey Saylor, director of anti-Islamophobia for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The specter of Sharia law as a threat to American well-being also came into play when U.S. courtrooms came across the issue — for instance in domestic or child custody cases involving families from countries where Sharia law is observed.
READ MORE: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigratio...
As your picture on this blog shows.....AlHaj the Honorable Keith Maurice Ellison is born, raised American
racistIgnorance IS racistIgnorance IS ignorance of the TRUTH of FACTS....History/Scholarship and Science
......THERE are MORE American Born Muslims than JEWS in America.....
I, AlHaj Robert Powell, am concerned with the same thing I was concerned with for the past 65+ YEARS.....
-------American paganChristian racistIgnorance
This antiIslaamic?.....'specter of Sharia Law' NONSENSE
-------has been in America Since slaverAMericana 1492-1864(1964) and genocideAmericana started with euroRACISTS coming to America
We are GREAT, For Muslims in America ..... AMERICAN LIFE has NEVER been BETTER....
------ some of us may have to worry about the racistlyIgnorant innerCity Lawlessness or some PoLice affected by their training in urbanGhetto Areas
------ 2016 gives America....MUCH....More Masajid, More Islaamic Schools, More Reversions, More Hijab than 1964
WE OK, you 'blackHebrewIsraelites' do NOT have to worry about us.....just clean up your 'blackPeople' MORE