Barbwire: It is incumbent upon our president that he be a man who uses the resources at his disposal to resist, reject and prevent the implementation of Sharia law anywhere, at any time, under any circumstances in the United States.
Sharia law is already making encroachments in American culture in large ways and small, whether it’s Target cashiers getting a pass for refusing to serve customers who want to buy bacon, or Christians being arrested for handing out free copies of the gospel of John to Muslims on a public sidewalk.
But making concessions to Sharia law over against the moral code of the Judeo-Christian tradition is not something brand new for America. We started doing it in 1619 when we began to tolerate the slave trade, as the first shipment of 30 African slaves arrived on the shores of Virginia.
By the way, the first legally recognized slave in America, John Casor, was actually the property of a black man, a colonist by the name of Anthony Johnson. A Northampton County court ruled in 1654 that Casor was “owned” by Johnson, and was his property for life. There were many black slaveholders in the South at the outbreak of the Civil War, and many of them took up arms against the North. read more
Each accommodation today will be a knife in your throat tomorrow!
This line is NOT correct “We started doing it in 1619 when we began to tolerate the slave trade, as the first shipment of 30 African slaves arrived on the shores of Virginia.”
That ship contained INDENTURED SERVANTS just like the ships from England and Europe. Anthony Johnson of Angola was one of them. He was RELEASED from indenture on the same terms as the white INDENTURED SERVANTS seven years later and was given land in Virginia.
What is correct is that in 1655 Anthony Johnson sued for the right to own a fellow African for life as was the African custom. Whites countered that John Casor had been an indentured servant who had successfully completed his contract and was thus a free man.
The court found in favor of the African Johnson’s argument honoring African custom, legalizing slavery. How’s that for honoring “diversity”?
There was no Judeo-Christian tradition in the world, including America, until after Shinto-Communism proved government knows best.
@Page O Turner May 28, 2017 at 8:57 am
And two dads can both have a HUSBAND because that’s what they call it. It’s only problematic because the court calls it marriage.
I thought that all that was on MD’s Eastern Shore.
But then, prolly both MD and VA claim to be the first slave state.
And what’s this “forbidden by scripture” bullshit? Which “scripture” is this?
The Jews of the Old Testament owned slaves, and only their Jewish slaves were offered manumission under Mosaic Law (unless I’ve confused some scriptural references, which DOES happen).
Slavery is as old as mankind (which doesn’t make it any less loathsome).
izlamo delenda est …
@Tim – the area now known as Maryland’s Eastern Shore was in the 1600’s part of the Virginia Colony settled in 1607.
Absolutely right Tim. Even Jesus mentions somewhere about a slave’s duty to his master. I can’t remember the quote though.
There are different opinions about whether the slavery mentioned in the Bible took the form of indentured servitude. We don’t know. There is no question that the west was the first civilization to outlaw slavery.
Islam encourages slavery so there is no justification to allow sharia law in our country. Besides,the very meaning of Islam is Submission.
The United States was founded on individual freedom.
@Page O Turner,
Thank you. I didn’t know that.
izlamo delenda est …
@jpm:
Jesus didn’t mention slavery, but the Apostle Paul did. There is no explicit abolitionist teaching in Scripture, but implicitly (equality of standing before God, love your neighbor as yourself, etc.) there is strong evidence for the concept of abolition of slavery. And it was the West, following the concepts of the New Testament, that pushed for the elimination of slavery altogether.