Why are the only people railing against sharia law

[MineralMan]

the same people who want to enforce Old Testament rules on everyone? It's deflection and diversion, with a touch of whataboutism and projection.

[elleng]

1. un-thinking

It's EASY (and comfortable.)

[MineralMan]

2. Sometimes. Other times, it's quite deliberate.

Or so it seems to me.

[dameatball]

3. IMO, It is just another manifestation of "the other." It has worked to galvanize a portion

of the population to accept our own brand of laws that will be more and more restrictive as time goes by. In other words, justifying restrictive political views of the minority and using the threat of Sharia laws as the boogeyman to justify themselves. White Christian nationalism has many boogeymen to throw out there.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Well,Ignorance is a powerful tool

when it comes to Religion and the so called Sky Fairy. Watched the Old Testament Freaks do a number on the DP's,Displaced Persons,after WW2. Amazing that worked,Relatives of these DP"s turned their wrath on these innocent families because of some cockamamie bull crap from their Preacher or Priest.

[Major Nikon]

5. Because many, if not most Christians think tolerance works only one way

Everyone must embrace Christianity's privilege and any threat to that privilege is attacked.

You also have a considerable amount of fear mongering going on, which while almost exclusively baseless still is fueled by religious based terrorism.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. I would add that most of the people railing against Sharia law

Have no effing idea what it is.

And they are comfortable in their stupidity, so don't expect them to ever educate themselves.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

7. I view it simply "If I CAN IGNORE the Constitution of the US, then OTHERS Can'

n/t.

[Igel]

8. A fair number of progressives

don't have much use for some of shari'a's consequences. Just look at many feminist takes on what suddenly become "cultural traditions" but which believers bill as beliefs: body/face coverings, for instance.

Hardly "the same people who want to enforce Old Testament rules on everyone." Granted, they have a set of rules they want enforced, but they're hardly OT.

[uriel1972]

9. I'm not in favour of either.. nt