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One of the leaders of a group allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling an effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices says “Muslim values are grossly incompatible with American values,” and therefore no community in America should allow a mosque to be built.
He later said that since Islam is “determined to wipe out the Constitution,” it could be argued that Muslims are guilty of treason and could be thrown in jail.
The comments were made on the blog of Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for government and public policy at the American Family Association (AFA). Last week, Fischer announced his organization was providing huge financial support to social conservative leader Bob Vander Plaats’ campaign to convince Iowans to vote against retaining the three state Supreme Court justices on the ballot this fall due to their vote in the case that effectively legalized same-sex marriage.
From Fischer’s blog:
There is nothing in our Constitution that requires us to give space to an institution that is determined to wipe out the Constitution. In fact, the one crime identified in the Constitution is treason against the United States. So not only do we not have to give room to those who “adhere” to the enemies of our way of life or give them “Aid and Comfort,” we can put them in jail.
Is every mosque a center for terrorism? Nope. But 80 percent of the mosques in America are funded by Saudi Arabia, which sends them literature to distribute to their attendees which call for the blood of infidel Christians and Jews. Thus 80 percent of the mosques in America are almost certainly teaching and preaching violent jihad against America. They are teaching violence against their host country. That’s not religion, that’s treason.
Fischer wrote last week that if the arguments against building an Islamic cultural center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hold true, than the same arguments can be made in any city, since it would be “built by followers of the same religion whose adherents killed 3,000 Americans on that spot on 9/11.”
No community in America would permit the building of a mini-Auschwitz erected to perpetuate the teaching and memory of Adolf Hitler, despite the fact that the Holocaust happened on another continent altogether. And the argument would be the same. We don’t want a mini-Auschwitz in our town because we find Naziism offensive and completely contrary to American values.
You’re welcome to believe in Naziism, and put as many pictures of Adolf Hitler in your home as you want. But you’re going to get a permit to build a building in his honor in our town. We’re not going to let you build a center for the training of Storm Troopers in our community. Period.
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