.Angle: Muslim law taking hold in parts of US

[divvy]

By CRISTINA SILVA, Associated Press Writer Cristina Silva, Associated Press Writer – 10 mins ago

LAS VEGAS – U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a crowd of supporters that the country needs to address a "militant terrorist situation" that has allowed Islamic religious law to take hold in some American cities.

Her comments came at a rally of tea party supporters in the Nevada resort town of Mesquite last week after the candidate was asked about Muslims angling to take over the country, and marked the latest of several controversial remarks by the Nevada Republican.

In a recording of the rally provided to The Associated Press by the Mesquite Local News, a man is heard asking Angle : "I keep hearing about Muslims wanting to take over the United States ... on a TV program just last night, I saw that they are taking over a city in Michigan and the residents of the city, they want them out. They want them out. So, I want to hear your thoughts about that."

Angle responds that "we're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it."

"My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States," she said. "It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."

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Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly called Angle's comments "shameful." He said tea party groups inaccurately spread the word that his Detroit suburb was ruled by Islamic law after members of an anti-Islam group were arrested at an Arab cultural festival in June because a Christian volunteer complained of harassment.

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Angle, a Southern Baptist, has called herself a faith-based politician. Among her positions, she opposes abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest and doesn't believe the Constitution requires the separation of church and state.

Angle is in a dead-heat race against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has also said the community center, which would include a mosque, should be built elsewhere. A recent poll showed Reid and Angle tied in the high-profile campaign.

Story here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101007/ap_on_el_se/us_nevada_senate_angle

[tanyev]

1. WTH? There is no Frankford, TX.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Shhhh. She's on a roll... nt

[BootinUp]

8. lol nt

nice forum name Buns!

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Thank you. I owe it all to a once-full flask of tequila and five beers. ;-)

[Canuckistanian]

6. According to this, Frankford exists.....

... as a ghost town with three houses and a Church.

http://207.200.58.4/handbook/online/articles/FF/hvf82.html

[tanyev]

10. Annexed by the city of Dallas in 1975, which pretty much lets teh Muslins off the hook.

Seriously, I don't live very far away from there. There are traces that still exist like Frankford Road and Frankford Middle School, but I have never, ever heard of a town of Frankford until I clicked on this DU thread.

[ejpoeta]

2. that's bs. the only extremism i see is the nutjob religious 'christians'

trying to inflict their beliefs on everyone else.

[divvy]

21. Remember when their beliefs took hold in Salem?

[BeyondGeography]

3. Remarkable, even for her

:dunce:

[FiveGoodMen]

4. God damn her. God damn each and every one of her admirers.

There's really nothing else to say.

[BootinUp]

7. Maybe she should run for "Chief Defender of the Faith"

instead of Senator.

[gratuitous]

9. At least as crazy as Jan Brewer

When do we hear responsible voices in the media calling this nuttiness out? I'm not talking about just Rachel or Keith, I'm talking about Katie and Brian and Diane. The fact that these loons are seriously contending for high office in our country is at least as important as crossover promotions for entertainment programs.

[Caliman73]

11. She is truly an ignorant asshole.

That she is tied with Reid (as pathetic as some of his leadership has been) is a very sad commentary on the political landscape today. Ignorance will be the death of us.

[cilla4progress]

13. My thoughts EXACTLY

Incomprehensible....except that more than 50% of Nevadan LVs must be idiots!

[JerseygirlCT]

14. I wonder how she is able to differentiate between sharia

and regular old fundamentalist Christian law - you know, the type she loves?

[howard112211]

19. They are actually nearly the same. The old testament demands the death pentaly for being gay.

Just as an example.

[JerseygirlCT]

22. That's my point

These people who are running scared of the big, bad Muslim (thinking every one of them is a fundamentalist terrorist) often are the same who hold to a fundamentalist, and often terrorist world view of their own - particularly as it pertains to gay rights or women's rights - free speech... we could go on and on.

[struggle4progress]

15. That's the signpost up ahead! Your next stop -- the Twilight Zone!

doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo

[Bluebear]

16. Kerrrazy

[MadHound]

17. Harry, if you can't beat this kind of crazy, handed to you on a silver platter,

Then quite frankly you deserve to lose your seat. This kind of sheer insanity, served up on silver platter, is nothing but a gift. Make use of it.

[Matariki]

20. she's getting a lot of money to pay for ads that are outright lies about him.

Isn't she out spending him?

The question is, will money trump sanity?

[howard112211]

18. Its actually true. "Muslim law" is taking hold. Only that it is called "Christian law" here.

Banning gay marriage is a law consistent with Islam and Christianity, for instance.