really not a terrorist organization for believing that i mean does that make a family a group of shari'a practicing terrorists look at the language of the bill also seems a little bit like someone just went to the wikipedia entry for shari'a and like plucked out some proper nouns and then scattered them through the bills so there's a particular you know version of it but i doubt it actually been done before i don't remember what state it was it was i was in alabama where a lawmaker. did draft up and treasury a piece of legislation and when people went to go fact check it it turned out to be the exact same line or paragraph if there was in which people are just not even doing their research where they're also having freedom of religion the right to gather i mean really if you know somebody actually what's going on here i mean if it's two or more people in a place doing something vaguely muslim which seems to be what the laws are trying to outlaw then you know not to get all party constitution we've gone anybody here but it is freedom of assembly it's one of the most fundamental freedoms i

so how is banning shari'a law in south carolina going to solve in the last ten years by the way in the united states there have been twice as many terrorist plots by non muslims. so maybe state sen fair should look into banning some other religious laws too but that's unlikely because politics pays off at the polls right now it's very very good. can you imagine an america without art all the republicans can that's where they started a new war on move over war on the working class move over war on women it's time for the right wing war on art as think progress noted republican lawmakers in kansas south carolina arizona florida hampshire virginia maine and new jersey are pushing legislation that cuts deep into school art budgets and public radio and television outlets as well these republicans claim is necessary to cut funding for the arts because of huge budget deficits but in reality these cuts are just nickels and dimes compare the amount of revenue that's being wasted on tax cuts for transnational corporations and the rich tax cuts that have absolutely no effect on american culture t

i get a set lastly i just wanted we spoke about tennessee's anti shari'a legislation that they've been trying to pass before on this show and it's joining the ranks of a number of states they climb under a lot of fire because basically they said that any two people that are muslims that work together if you want to start you know a charity dinner or something like that if you want to pray and that's a sure reorganization so they came under a lot of talk from civil liberties groups so they decided find one just rewrite it so now it's an anti-terrorism bill and basically now everyone is labeled a terrorist and have their assets frozen and i mean actually there's no way to challenge it i don't think if you take away from this stay away from tennessee i was going to go right out of your right to infringe upon and yet they get. their barbecue and truly this is one of those things where it's a state completely irrationally in the federal government if if something does happen here the federal government's going to step in because when you mess with terrorism laws and you know i mean that's w

message reaching the policymakers in war than fifteen states across america where laws governing shari'a the legal code of islam that some observant muslims choose to follow is being pushed through if you're practicing any form of sunni islam and obeying its religious laws and doing it not just alone but with a partner that means that you are forming a sure reorganization and therefore can be prosecuted and pay a fine and spend up to fifteen years in jail all of this many say is based on ignorance and a fear of the are no americans a sort of gradually to muslims they need to have some kind of contact with this culture about seven million muslims live in the united states a significant part for a country to. still impacted by the number one terrorist even after his death as the poster boy of evil force nine eleven is gone it's on the fulvia with means and could be well on its way to becoming a permanent stain on the human rights record of the united states if that's the truth in a party. yesterday thirty seven year old afghan detainee at guantanamo bay whom they call an ayatollah was foun

and i thought ok lastly i just learned we spoke about tennessee's anti shari'a legislation that they've been trying to pass before on this show and it's joining the ranks of a number of states but they kind of under a lot of fire because basically they said that any two people that are muslims that work together if you want to start you know a charity dinner or something like that if you want to pray and that's a sure reorganization so they came under a lot of time from civil liberties groups they decided find it would just rewrite it so now it's an anti-terrorism bill and basically now everyone just labeled a terrorist and have their pros and i mean actually there's a way to challenge it i mean i think the big takeaway from this is stay away from tennessee i was going to go right out here right infringed upon and i can't they get a check your mouth go around and you go there for barbecue but nothing else and truly this is one of those things where it's a state acting completely irrationally in the federal government if if something does happen here the federal government's going to ste

in recent years the nation has developed an acute case of islamophobia inexplicably trying to ban shari'a law in places where it's never even been mentioned preventing mosques from being built and borrowing an idea from joe mccarthy and use the power of the united states congress to investigate multi-generational all-american muslim communities for extremism in other words we've gone a little crazy. i was. a member of the m.b.a. . will. but world news that bin laden is now dead finally ease the pressure on american muslim communities would cool our islamophobia if favor for more on how this news was received by muslims in america what it means for the future of the islamic faith in our nation i'm joined by our one hundred twelve government policy analyst of the muslim public public affairs council i wonder welcome back to the program thanks for having me back here tom ridge have you was how is the muslim community in the united states reacting to this or is it too is too soon to really get a good giggle i think that for some you know it's an overwhelming feeling but i think by and large w

the recourse to shari'a law does not really answer it all, the kind of aspirations of the revolutionary in yemen or elsewhere in the middle east. rather, those values are very close to the values that the united states is comfortable with. so the challenge is getting through the period of vulnerability and then helping the yemenis build that kind of society and government that they aspire to have. >> other questions, please? yes, sir. >> michael, i have to -- [inaudible] >> in the lessons learned so forth, are there any -- are there any -- [inaudible] >> of how you go how that -- lessons have been learned or you might learn of the foreign services of other countries in the middle east especially of the -- of that in the u.k.? >> yes, i'd like to extend a little bit not only talk about the foreign service efforts of foreign countries, but other government efforts. in yemen, we found, for example, the british to be excellent partners in training the central security forces of yemen. in fact, we started backing them focusing on the yemen special operation forces who turned out to have this