Tennessee Sharia Bill Too Extreme for Tea Partiers

[Hissyspit]

Source: Mother Jones

Tennessee Sharia Bill Too Extreme For Tea Partiers (Updated)
— By Tim Murphy| Tue Apr. 26, 2011 6:30 AM PDT

Today in Nashville lawmakers will hold hearings on SB 1028, a bill that makes it a felony in Tennessee to provide material support for terrorism. That's already a federal crime, of course, but that's hardly the point: The bill, introduced by State Sen. Bill Ketron and Rep. Judd Matheny, both Republicans, is the most radical of the more than two-dozen proposals nationwide to block the implementation of Islamic Sharia law on the unsuspecting citizenry. Now Ketron and Matheny are facing opposition from an unlikely source: the tea party.

According to William Coley, a member of the Knoxville Tea Party and a Muslim-American, his group will formally condemn the legislation at a press conference this morning, warning that the bill expands the powers of the police state while doing nothing to make Tennesseans any safer.

(Update: I've got a copy of the statement; it's not a condemnation, but it's hardly an endorsement either. Here's the crux of it: "While the Knoxville Tea Party truly appreciates the sincere intentions behind SB1028, we do not feel that peaceful gatherings by ourselves, our friends, or neighbors is the problem, nor do we feel that increased surveillance by the State of Tennessee and intrusion into its citizens' lives is the answer. The federal government already does far too much of that.")

Read more: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/04/tennessee-sharia-bill-too-extreme-tea-partiers

[Drale]

1. What is wrong with these people?

A Muslim Tea Bagger, Gays Republicans, these people are putting a gun to their heads and repeatedly pulling the trigger.

[SkyDaddy7]

3. EXACTLY...And over problems that really do not exist! LOL!

TEA BAGGERY is always entertaining!

[indepat]

8. IMO, collectively they are eaten up with religious and racist bigotry and reichousness, all for the

glory of God. of course. :patriot:

[Uncle Joe]

2. It's amazing how many people; claiming to hate "big government"

are the first to embrace a fascist one.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[calimary]

4. "we do not feel that peaceful gatherings by ourselves, our friends, or neighbors is the problem"

"...peaceful gatherings by ourselves... IS the problem"???

"gatherings... is..."?

Frickin' teabaggers just never got through the third grade, I guess. SOOOOO many conservatives who just can't get the basic grammar straight. They're probably the same unfortunate, pathetic folks who can't differentiate between nouns and adjectives - example: "Democrat party..."

[freshwest]

5. Try again, baggers. Lying as usual:

"...nor do we feel that increased surveillance by the State of Tennessee and intrusion into its citizens' lives is the answer..."

Unless they're women, huh?

Well, Screw You!

[provis99]

6. a Muslim Teabagger.

Another member of the Chickens for Colonel Sanders Club.

[DCKit]

7. What an excellent slogan for a Tea Party rally:

"Chickens for Colonel Sanders!"