Don T Fear Islamic Law In America Summary

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The World: One Quarter Terrorist The article “Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America” by Eliyahu Ster is a short, general article about how a high percentage of people in America believe that at least some, if not all, of the Shariah Law should be prohibited in the United States because it poses a threat to the American people. Ster, an assistant professor of religious studies and history at Yale, also compares the treatment of American Muslims to that of Jews in the 19th century Europe throughout the article. The author is definitely against discrimination of any kind toward Muslims and thinks taking away their religious rights “ignores our country’s successful history of religious tolerance and assimilation.” When reading the article, I could not stop thinking to myself, “are there really that many people out there in the United States that do not have the same stand on this issue as this author?” The fact that people are…show more content…
Though alarming and upsetting, the stories of Dr. Mansoor Mirza’s troubling life experiences are a perfect example of how biased so many Americans really are. The one sentence that really blew my mind was one when Mirza, a well-respected Muslim doctor in Wisconsin, was at the planning commission meeting trying to open a mosque nearby and it said “[h]e kept calm when a commissioner asked if there would be any weapons or military training at the mosque.” I was shocked that someone would go so far as to assume that just because this highly respected doctor was Muslim, he was building a mosque specifically for homegrown terrorism. Considering that nearly one fourth of the world’s populous is Muslim, like Ster said in the last paragraph of “Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America”, it just doesn’t make sense if thought of it as one fourth of the world being

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