Mayor Of City Where Muslim Teen Was Wrongly Arrested Is Anti-Sharia Crusader

[Ichingcarpenter]

Sorta has that Michele Bachmann eye thing going on


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To her supporters, Irving, Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne is a tough-as-nails politician who's not afraid to take on Islam.

To her critics, Van Duyne is a fear-monger who stokes the flames of Islamophobia.

So both Van Duyne's fans and foes can surely find a talking point in the Monday incident where Irving police arrested 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school that they thought looked like a "movie bomb."

Van Duyne first made headlines for challenging Islam in February, when she wrote a Facebook post vowing to look into a "Shariah law court" that was said to have been set up by an Irving mosque.

"While I am working to better understand how this 'court' will function and whom will be subject to its decisions, please know that if it is determined that there are violations of basic rights occurring, I will not stand idle and will fight with every fiber of my being against this action," she wrote.

But the "Shariah law court" wasn't actually headquartered in Irving, which abuts Dallas, nor did it have anything to do with the Islamic Center of Irving. A note on the homepage of Dallas' Islamic Tribunal, which settle civil disputes between Muslims for a fee, aimed to disambiguate the two.

"Media speculation has led members of the local community to wonder if the Islamic Center of Irving is facilitating 'Shariah Courts' at the Mosque," the Islamic Tribunal's website read. "The management of the Islamic Center of Irving categorically declares that no such court operates on the center’s premises. No other mosque in the area operates such courts. However, the Islamic Tribunal that operates in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, independent of the mosques, to address a genuine need within our faith community for intra-community arbitration."


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ahmed-mohamed-beth-van-duyne-sharia

[Downwinder]

1. Is Canon Law permissible in Irving, Texas?

How about Halakha?

By countenancing one set of religious law and not another, isn't the Mayor, the titular head of Sate for the City of Irving, sponsoring one religion over another? Does the Mayor deny the U.S. Constitutional mandate of freedom of religion?

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2. Help me out

Do the police of a town/city obey the Mayor's law or are they suppose to be impartial? They way they arrested Ahmed seems like they had a policy written to target people with such names?

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

3. So many problems all due to religion, perhaps one day, unfortunately not in my lifetime, people

will no longer live fearful frightened lives and move beyond superstitious beliefs.

Religion is the root cause of many problems in America and the world today and no, religion will not solve the problem it will only make it worse.