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davienne posted an update in the group National News 4 months, 1 week ago
Will the insanity ever STOP… Hobby Lobby isnt allowed religous rights but the muslims are…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An American convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates at his high-security prison in Indiana, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Barring John Walker Lindh and his fellow Muslims from engaging in daily group ritual prayer violates a 1993 law that bans the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest, U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled.
The judge blocked the prison from enforcing its ban on daily group prayer, but she noted that her ruling does not prohibit the prison from taking less restrictive security measures.
U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett, whose office represented the prison, said Friday that prosecutors were considering their next step, including a possible appeal.
“This case deals with critically important issues that have significance both inside and outside the walls of our federal prison facilities,” Hogsett said. “Our concern continues to be the safety and security of both our federal prison system and the United States of America.”
Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which represented Lindh, noted Friday that witnesses testified prisoners were allowed for many years to pray daily outside their cells, “and it never caused any problem.”
It seems to me that when Madison was penning the bill of rights, 2 religions were considered by Richardson of Virginia that would not work in compliance with the 1st amendment. They were Judaism and Islam. Judaism because he fealt it would compromise the national independence as he feared international banking. Islam because it had not yet reached the point of being able to co-exist with a secular government.
The rise of the Muslim brotherhood is stark proof that it has not, and if we don’t read our history books we are next.
During the later feudal era Christianity was a European theocracy, partly due to the crusades, the various wars of reformation were all of theocratic nature, and only by leaving Europe were our founders able to break out of that rut. Islam is still there and unless we get real about addressing that, we will return to that rut under sharia. It bears serious consideration.