Muslims at the Opry

[ClydeR]

Fox News has an alarming report on the spreading Muslim influence in the State of Tennessee. The article emphasizes a deleted MySpace page of a board member of one Muslim organization and a book list containing books written by two authors who have said offensive things in the past. You have to read the whole thing.


At the end of the first Iraq war, the United States designated Nashville, Tenn., to be a "gateway city" for refugees fleeing their war-torn country, setting the stage for what has become, less than 20 years later, a rapidly growing Muslim population in the Volunteer State.

As the Muslim population grows and their communities spread throughout the state, religious leaders say their places of worship must do the same, spurring the construction of mosques and the massive Islamic centers that host them in several Tennessee cities, including Murfreesboro, Memphis and Antioch.

But the physical size of these Islamic centers – and the associations and writings of some of the leaders behind them – are raising some concerns nationwide.

More... (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/09/plans-build-tennessee-islamic-centers/)

Republicans in Tennessee are trying to stop these construction projects.

[ClydeR]

Using an ingenious legal argument that is sure to generate a lot of attention, an attorney is challenging the decision of a Tennessee county planning board to allow a mosque on the basis that Islam is a political movement, instead of a religion.


Mosque opponents say that Islam is not a real religion. They argued in a Rutherford County courthouse last week that the world's second-largest faith, with its 1.6 billion followers, is actually a political movement.

Opponents say local Muslims want to replace the Constitution with an Islamic legal code called Shariah law. Joe Brandon, Jr., a Smyrna attorney representing a group of mosque opponents, argued that the proposed mosque is not a house of worship. He said the Rutherford County Planning Commission erred on May 24 when it approved the mosque.

Brandon wants Chancellor Robert Corlew of the Sixteenth Judicial District to issue an injunction stopping the mosque.

"Shariah law is pure sedition," said Brandon in his opening statement Monday.

More... (http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136967)

Besides all of that, the Grand Ole Opry, like Ground Zero, is too sacrosanct to have a mosque nearby.

[Jhynnifer]

I was listening to NPR the other day and they were discussing how many middle eastern women who have immigrated to the US with their families to escape the "choke hold" Islam has had on their lives are actually now EMBRACING it again with fanaticism. They believe that the shrouds and the demeanor they felt oppressive in their home country, gives them a kind of power amongst Americans.

I am really interested to see how this pans out for us here in Tennessee.

[NeJaeden]

for women, the grass is always greener on the other side, it seems.

but it's not a choke hold of Islam, it's a chokehold of a dying culture. here they're free to revive Islamic principles without the cultural innovations that make it so hard to implement properly in countries like Pakistan or North African countries.

For example, the average Arab or Pakistani family would have a fit if a son or daughter wanted to marry a black African.

But Islam does not allow the family to be racist in that regard. If the suitor is pious, then he should be given their daughter's hand regardless of his skin color. And vice versa.