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MH1

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8. Ok, why is that ridiculous to say?

Reply to Violet_Crumble (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 12:00 PM

Jan 2012

According to the CIA World Factbook, Muslims are 0.6% of the U.S. population. (Even Buddhists have more, at 0.7%.)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

So, are you saying it's "ridiculous" that a group with such a small percentage of the population wouldn't have the power to implement their legal system on the population at large?

Or are you saying that it's wrong to think of Sharia as a Muslim legal system?

(Whether The Grinch "has a point" is an entirely separate question. I think the whole discussion is dog whistling, myself.)

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Ok, why is that ridiculous to say? MH1 Jan 2012 #8

It is ridiculous because there are as many Muslims advocating Sharia Law as there are harun Jan 2012 #9

ok, that may be true, BUT MH1 Jan 2012 #10

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It's the assumption that having large numbers of Muslims means hello to a country ruled by Sharia.. Violet_Crumble Jan 2012 #12