"I have been a Muslim all my life and I've never heard about Shariah law"

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My God is better than your God.

That's the dispute at the heart of recent hearings in a lawsuit aimed at derailing the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. What started as a zoning issue has turned into a fight over theology and the role of government in recognizing religion.

Mosque opponents say that Islam is not a real religion. Instead, they argued in a Rutherford County courthouse last week that the world's second largest faith, with its 1.6 billion followers, is actually a political movement.

Opponents say local Muslims want to replace the Constitution with an Islamic legal code called Shariah law. Joe Brandon Jr., a Smyrna attorney representing a group of mosque opponents ... wants Chancellor Robert Corlew of the 16th Judicial District to issue an injunction stopping the mosque.

"Shariah law is pure sedition," said Brandon in his opening statement Monday.

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Local Muslims say the claim about Shariah law and political conspiracies is nonsense.

"I have been a Muslim all my life and I've never heard about Shariah law," said Lema Sbentaty, an MTSU student who attended part of the hearings last week. "If this was true, who would want to be a Muslim?"

http://www.tennessean.com/article/D4/20101003/NEWS01/10030330/Zoning+dispute+turns+to+fight+over+theology

[Obama 2012 1,714]

riiiiiight and I've never heard of Jesus Christ.

[Heracles 417]

I'd believe it, considering you have people on here alone from a certain religion, who claim the tens of thousand that have been killed in the last decade, are due to a 'fringe faction'.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I'd believe it, considering you have people on here alone from a certain religion, who claim the tens of thousand that have been killed in the last decade, are due to a 'fringe faction'.

Ya. The fringe faction supporting this Christian nation's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have killed tens of thousands of innocents in the last decade.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Just remember to beat your wife 'lightly'.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Just remember to beat your wife 'lightly'.

Men are the glory of God and women are to cover heads in their presense and serve them, according to the NT.

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Men are the glory of God and women are to cover heads in their presense and serve them, according to the NT.

That sounds awesome.

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

That sounds awesome.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

riiiiiight and I've never heard of Jesus Christ.

Eh Paul, I can show you an entire nation (actually an absolute abomination) which was formed for Muslims on the demand of a crooked lawyer who knew nada of the quran or Muslim law (and who ate bacon each morning, and outdrank the proverbial sailors to boot)--which of course is Pakistan aka Porkistan (because of its gross reliance on foreign aid, especially from the US) and Pornistan (due to its online searches for pornography--exceeding the US, UK, India, Canada and Australia COMBINED¹, as well as its being shelter to the Haqqani faction of Taliban which is a major purveyor of ultra-ultra-hardcore porn²)

1. ACT For America, founded by Lebanese Maronite refugee Brigitte Gabriel
2. G2 Bulletin

Edited October 11, 2010 by Saddle Bronc

[Sofiyya 1,687]

If there's someone who knows a lot about porn, it's the reinvented Brigitte Gabriel (aka Hanan Tudor).

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Ya. The fringe faction supporting this Christian nation's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have killed tens of thousands of innocents in the last decade.

Come now, significant numbers of 'innocents' killed died at the hands of Radical Islamists via random bombings, suicide or otherwise, and random gun attacks. Muslim killing Muslim.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

If there's someone who knows a lot about porn, it's the reinvented Brigitte Gabriel (aka Hanan Tudor).

If anyone has heard about pedophilia, it's Muhammad (PBUH) and Aisha (his 9 year old wife).

[Sofiyya 1,687]

If anyone has heard about pedophilia, it's Muhammad (PBUH) and Aisha (his 9 year old wife).

Sources regarding the age of Aisha at the age of marriage contradict each other and range her age from 9 to 12 at her engagement to Muhammad. Whatever her age, it was in line with the norms of their time. Women were promised in marriage early in life, and married young. The Virgin Mary is believed by many reputable scholars to have been 12 to 14 when she married and gave birth to Jesus. That would make God a pedophile in our time, but in Biblical times and the time of the Prophet Muhammad, marriage age was generally in sync with physiology. When a girl began to menstruate, she was marriageable. Marriage norms were quie different back than than they are now.

One thing I can count on is Christians who are critical of the Prophet Muhammad are usually those who know little about their own holy book and its protagonists, thus leaving themselves open to education about great heroes and prophets in the Bible who also did not follow today's norms.

For example, the Prophet Abraham, father of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was married to his half-sister. To be blunt, in today's norms, they committed incest, but God didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, He protected their relationship.

Genesis 19:31-36 describes how Lot's daughters became pregnant by him. They are the same daughters, btw, who he had also offered to a mob of men to be raped (Genesis 4-8).

Those are just two of several examples in the Bible. And, before you complain that these are from the OT, not the NT, may I remind you that the OT is the holy book of the Jews, as well as a legitimate part of your Bible. So, if you are critical of incest, remember that it, as well as polygynous marriage, child brides, were practices acceptable to God, and indulged in by men in the lineage of your Savior.

The prophets of God in the Bible are our prophets, too. Yet, a Christian should know their book better than a Muslim does, no? It helps to be aware of what's in it so that you can avoid being exposed as an ignorant hypocrite when criticizing ancient norms in Islam without knowing that there are many equivalent situations that you may find to be distasteful in your own teachings.

Edited October 12, 2010 by Sofiyya

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The problem being of course that many ancient Islamic norms have survived into modernity. Otherwise a great touché Sof!

[sandinista! 1,816]

The problem being of course that many ancient Islamic norms have survived into modernity. Otherwise a great touché Sof!

anyone who thinks 9 yr old children are marriageable in 2010 has a whole helluva lot of things wrong with them. this is hardly the domain of muslims though.