Should the members of the Muslim Brotherhood be allowed to persuade people to establish Sharia law in the United States?
(66% of the 2302.8006 class thought no.)
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I do not believe that members of the Muslim Brotherhood should be allowed to persuade people to establish Sharia law in the United States. I believe that freedom of speech is an abused priveledge and is not understood correctly. In studying the history of the world, one can see the tremendous power of speech. Hitler used speech to transform a society that was beaten down from the effects of World War I and that had suffered a tremendous amount of hardship and loss and twisted this society into something it wasn't -- A wrathful power that displayed one of the most horrific displays of malice, which ultimately resulted in one of the world's greatest tragedies, the Holocaust. Another example of how powerful speech can become is in the way it transformed Russia into a Communist nation. We are faced with the same dilemma, if only in a subtle fashion. Look at the situation in America. Do you think that we can not be so easily influenced by a great speaker and a promise of, if nothing else, spiritual riches and life? Our economy is possibly heading toward a depression, we are, as a nation, in trillions of dollars in debt, gas is outrageous, and our government seems to stand on the edge of a knife? We have our problems, but we also have a freedom of religion and the promise of liberty that we can still return to, which is the rights to life, liberty, and property. However, we also are threatened to fall deeper into immorality and selfishness, which threatens liberty itself and allows a tyrannical government to enter. I do not believe they should be allowed to persuade people to establish Sharia law, but rather should promote their religion without influencing the religion of others. It is a twisted situation, in that I, for example, promote my own religion, hoping to convert people to it, while understanding that I can never force my religion on others, whether by force or other means, and while understanding that people do have a God-given free will. However, what Sharia law, as I understand it, does is to force those who accept their religion to remain in it, or suffer death or punishment. That is outside America's traditional view of liberty and outside my beliefs of what is morally right. Correct me if I'm wrong, I do not know that much about Sharia law, although I do wish to learn, if anyone has a good website reference. That is though, as it stands, my opinion.
No, because everyone has different beliefs and will not be acustom to it.
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