""First in Europe and now in the United States, Muslim groups have petitioned to establish enclaves in which they can uphold and enforce greater compliance to Islamic law. While the U.S. Constitution enshrines the right to religious freedom and the prohibition against a state religion, when it comes to the rights of religious enclaves to impose communal rules, the dividing line is more nebulous. Can U.S. enclaves, homeowner associations, and other groups enforce Islamic law?
Such questions are no longer theoretical. While Muslim organizations first established enclaves in Europe, the trend is now crossing the Atlantic. Some Islamist community leaders in the United States are challenging the principles of assimilation and equality once central to the civil rights movement, seeking instead to live according to a separate but equal philosophy. The Gwynnoaks Muslim Residential Development group, for example, has established an informal enclave in Baltimore because, according to John Yahya Cason, director of the Islamic Education and Community Development Initiative, a Baltimore-based Muslim advocacy group, “there was no community in the U.S. that showed the totality of the essential components of Muslim social, economic, and political structure.”
Baltimore is not alone. In August 2004, a local planning commission in Little Rock, Arkansas, granted The Islamic Center for Human Excellence authorization to build an internal Islamic enclave to include a mosque, a school, and twenty-two homes. While the imam, Aquil Hamidullah, says his goal is to create “a clean community, free of alcohol, drugs, and free of gangs,” the implications for U.S. jurisprudence of this and other internal enclaves are greater: while the Little Rock enclave might prevent the sale of alcohol, can it punish possession and in what manner? Can it force all women, be they residents or visitors, to don Islamic hijab (headscarf)? Such enclaves raise the fundamental questions of when, how, and to what extent religious practice may supersede the U.S. Constitution.""
unreal...gwynn oak...i live fairly close to this area....and we`re not far from the port of baltimore....my days are numbered...
first illegals marching in our streets "demanding" shit....now this?....
they come here looking for a better way of life...opportunity...freedom of religion,expression...from tyranny...for economic prosperity.....and inevitably attempt to recreate the hellhole from whence they came right here in america....
is there a psychological term for this?...it`s insane...
i love this....
“there was no community in the U.S. that showed the totality of the essential components of Muslim social, economic, and political structure.”
wtf does this mean?...
head choppings, honor killings, female genital mutilation, etc, etc...?
wtf is happening to this country?.....
where the hell is nbc`s dateline?...lol
god save us...from ourselves...
Such questions are no longer theoretical. While Muslim organizations first established enclaves in Europe, the trend is now crossing the Atlantic. Some Islamist community leaders in the United States are challenging the principles of assimilation and equality once central to the civil rights movement, seeking instead to live according to a separate but equal philosophy. The Gwynnoaks Muslim Residential Development group, for example, has established an informal enclave in Baltimore because, according to John Yahya Cason, director of the Islamic Education and Community Development Initiative, a Baltimore-based Muslim advocacy group, “there was no community in the U.S. that showed the totality of the essential components of Muslim social, economic, and political structure.”
Baltimore is not alone. In August 2004, a local planning commission in Little Rock, Arkansas, granted The Islamic Center for Human Excellence authorization to build an internal Islamic enclave to include a mosque, a school, and twenty-two homes. While the imam, Aquil Hamidullah, says his goal is to create “a clean community, free of alcohol, drugs, and free of gangs,” the implications for U.S. jurisprudence of this and other internal enclaves are greater: while the Little Rock enclave might prevent the sale of alcohol, can it punish possession and in what manner? Can it force all women, be they residents or visitors, to don Islamic hijab (headscarf)? Such enclaves raise the fundamental questions of when, how, and to what extent religious practice may supersede the U.S. Constitution.""
unreal...gwynn oak...i live fairly close to this area....and we`re not far from the port of baltimore....my days are numbered...
first illegals marching in our streets "demanding" shit....now this?....
they come here looking for a better way of life...opportunity...freedom of religion,expression...from tyranny...for economic prosperity.....and inevitably attempt to recreate the hellhole from whence they came right here in america....
is there a psychological term for this?...it`s insane...
i love this....
“there was no community in the U.S. that showed the totality of the essential components of Muslim social, economic, and political structure.”
wtf does this mean?...
head choppings, honor killings, female genital mutilation, etc, etc...?
wtf is happening to this country?.....
where the hell is nbc`s dateline?...lol
god save us...from ourselves...
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