I have continually stated that Muslims have turned the freedoms of America into tools of Islam. Led by groups like The Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) that carries an organizational message that they will fight for the constitutional rights of Muslims. Plus The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Which carries the same message.

Unfortunately it doesn’t stop there. Now we have Muslims in Indiana stating it would be unconstitutional to ban the call to prayer. 

Micah Beckwith is wrong on the Constitution — and on Islam | Opinion

The founders wrote religious liberty to cover Muslims, too. Micah Beckwith either doesn’t know that or doesn’t care.

Indiana has a long tradition of welcoming people of all faiths, many of whom have built businesses, served in uniform and strengthened our communities. That’s why, as former members of the first Trump administration and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, we were troubled by Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s recent comments denigrating Islam. More fundamentally, he misconstrued our constitutional heritage.

Once again we see how Muslims are using the Constitution against America in order to change it to suit Islam. My view is considering the fact Islam contradicts the Constitution is doesn’t deserve religious status.

Let’s start with first principles. The lieutenant governor says our nation was founded as a Christian nation and this limits religious liberty for Muslims. It is true that Christianity was dominant both among the populace and founders, but leading founders understood that religious conviction and liberty reinforce one another.

James Madison, architect of the Constitution, grounded religious freedom in the “duty which we owe to our Creator” to seek his will personally and freely, and thus “the religion of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man.” Indiana’s own Constitution likewise provides that no law may control the free exercise of religious opinions or give preference to any creed, religious society or mode of worship.

Unfortunately Madison was mistaken here. Why would the God of Christianity support Islam which denies the crucifixion of Jesus and calls for the persecution of Christianity. 

From Tafsir (scholarly interpretation and explanation of the Koran) al-Jalalayn. 

More on Madison.

Enduring Legacy of Religious Freedom

As a country, the United States is always evolving in the way that we think about social, political, economic, and theological underpinnings of our society. And while public opinion might wax and wane, the Constitution rarely changes in its protection of our specific rights.

Upon the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786, James Madison wrote to its author, Thomas Jefferson: “I flatter myself we have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.”

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Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom of 1786, a framework for the First Amendment’s religion clauses, similarly stated that since “Almighty God hath created the mind free,” a just society leaves its citizens free to pursue faith according to their consciences, neither compelling support for an established national church nor interfering with free religious exercise.

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More on Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson’s Ramadan Dinner: White House Culinary Diplomacy in Action

SNIP:

The reason for the dinner was America’s ongoing conflict with the Barbary corsairs of North Africa. Since the late Middle Ages, the Barbary States (Morocco, Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis) routinely sent their corsairs, or warships, into the Mediterranean Sea to hunt for merchant vessels. The corsairs would seize the ships, hold the sailors hostage, and demand ransom for their release. The Barbary States justified these attacks on religious grounds: they only captured Christians, claiming the right to do so based on the principle of Jihad, and offered freedom to any hostages who converted to Islam. 3  But gaining ransom, not converts, was their primary motive, something Jefferson understood when he stated the corsair crews were driven not by the “law of the Prophet” but the “law of the profit.” 4 To make even more money, the Barbary States offered foreign governments the opportunity to pay annual tribute in exchange for safe passage for their ships – a sort of maritime racketeering scheme. While such tribute payments were costly, most European governments paid them, arguing it was easier and cheaper than paying ransom each time their sailors were captured. 5

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So what is the fatal flaw here? It was granting Islam religious status in the first place.

For those who have not heard to call to prayer, it sounds like noise pollution.

I recorded this in Jamacia NY.

Islam has no business being in America.