The Man Behind the Sharia Hysteria

[damntexdem]

Texas:

So who is really behind House Bill 911, the proposed Texas legislation that supporters say will stop the mythical threat of Sharia law from being imposed on Texas? As we’ve said before, scratch the surface of the anti-Muslim hate and hysteria promoted by far-right pressure groups in this country and you’ll sniff the familiar stench of bigotry.

The House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee unanimously passed HB 911 last week. At the committee’s April 4 public hearing on that bill, an attorney told lawmakers that he had helped develop the model policy on which those Texas bills were based. And with whom did he work on the so-called “American Laws for American Courts” model? David Yerushalmi — an Arizona attorney and white supremacist who traffics in anti-Muslim and anti-black bigotry and is one of the biggest promoters of Sharia hysteria in America.

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http://tfninsider.org/2011/04/26/the-man-behind-the-sharia-hysteria/

[Sonoman]

1. Interesting. A Jewish White Supremacist.

I had never even considered that.

The guy must be pretty strange.

Sonoman

[immoderate]

4. Not all that surprising.

Not withstanding that Jews tend to be liberal, there are some who rival fundamentalist Christians in their bigotry, or maybe zealotry. Religion abhors a vacuum and someone will stake out this ministry.

--imm

[OHdem10]

2. Can someone ask these yahoos to please give us some

concrete examples of persons, places in the USA
where Sharia Law has tried to be imposed.

[gratuitous]

3. Oh please!

They have a solution, and by golly, they're going to fix this non-existent problem. You're asking a lot of questions. Say, you wouldn't be one o' them . . . Hmmmm.

And of course, for all the hysteria, apparently the popular media feel that it would be in the worst possible taste to ask a couple of pertinent questions, such as the one you posed. Because the Defenders Against Sharia are very passionate and not at all bigoted or prejudiced, so their strongly held views must be respected, even if they're 100% wrong. Sort of like the occasional flare-ups of "voter fraud" that never quite pan out.