Issue Position: Freedom of Religion Act
Issue Position
I will propose a congressional bill to clarify that in America, NO RELIGIOUS or FOREIGN country's law can supersede an American Law!
Recent headline: "Decision not to close schools during Muslim holiday sparks uproar in New Jersey. Muslim parents feel alienated by a local Board of Education". (Hey, too bad!)
"The School District of Jersey City this this week emphasized its "commitment to embracing diversity," after a vote not to close schools for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha sparked protests in the local Muslim community.
The Jersey City Board of Education voted to not close schools during a meeting with parents last week on the basis it will cause "undue hardship" to the thousands of non-Muslim parents who might not have anywhere to send their kids, NBC News reported.
"We feel alienated from the Board of Education. We feel alienated from this system." Omas Abouelkhair told NBC, while another Muslim parent told the Board that: "We're no longer the minority, that's clear from tonight. We're going to be the majority soon!"
The Board emphasized that students can continue to take days off for religious purposes without penalty, and that it would revisit its religious holiday policy later this year.
Eid al-Adha is an important religious holiday for Muslims. New York City, bowing to political correctness, actually closed all of its schools for this Muslim holiday for the first time ever.
My own position is that if a minority religious group feels that they must have every school and business close for their particular holiday, they should move to the country where they are a majority! In America, no child is forced to attend a public school on their religious holidays, so why should every other American child be deprived of a school day?
I'm sick and tired of anyone in America who thinks they can live here and not tolerate our laws and customs because of their particular religious beliefs. I can think of a number of American sects that follow a unique set of religious (and non-religious) beliefs and we have never had to change our Constitution or Bill of Rights to suit them. I believe that if these religious deviates can't live with OUR laws, they should move on! Let them go to the country that has a different set of regulations!
Recently, in New Jersey, a woman who married in Morocco moved to America with her husband. The woman later divorced her husband in America and had her ex-husband taken into court because, weeks after the divorce, he went to her house, beat her up, and raped her.
Her husband told the Judge that he practiced Islamic Sharia Law, and under his religion's Sharia Law, the American divorce did not count and he had the right to beat his wife and to force her to submit to sex. (According to Sharia Law, he could have also given her 100 lashes with a whip and/or have her buried in dirt up to her shoulders and be stoned to death. . .) Guess what? The Judge dismissed the charges against the man because he practiced Sharia Law and in America we have "freedom of religion. . ."
Fortunately, the woman's attorney appealed the case to a higher court and the appellate court overturned this judge's decision.
If you think this is an exception to what is happening all over our country, consider what recently happened in Irving, Texas, where the Muslims are angry because the Mayor got a bill passed ending Sharia Courts in Irving. But, believe it or not, the bill was passed in a very close 5 to 4 vote even though there is a Texas state law banning the precedence of foreign law over American law in Texas.
In America we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights which have given us our basic laws of behavior. We do not allow slavery. We do not allow beating our wives and, we do not allow the stoning, whipping, or murder of a spouse or anyone else. If Muslims can't live with that, let them move on and out! Good riddance!
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