As the article below notes, God was not mentioned at the DNC this year; at the next convention I expect Allah will be invoked instead.<\/p>\n
It seems that Muslims may have stayed away from the Republican National Convention because of its anti-Sharia position. The Muslim perception of the Democratic Party must, presumably, be that it is not anti-Sharia; perhaps it is even pro-Sharia.<\/p>\n
Welcome to Hope and Change 2012: polygamy; prohibition; criminalisation of homosexuality; dhimmitude; the death penalty for apostates and rape victims \u2013 and no bacon sarnies.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n The word \u201cGod\u201d may have been absent at the Democratic National Convention, but there were record numbers of Muslim delegates present at the Charlotte, N.C., meeting.<\/p>\n According to a news release from the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the convention hosted more than 100 Muslim delegates from 20 states\u2014up from 43 Muslim and Arab-American delegates at the 2008 convention and 25 four years before.<\/p>\n \u201cThe more than doubling of Muslim delegates at this year’s Democratic National Convention is a direct result of their hard work and grassroots organizing within the Democratic Party,\u201d said CAIR\u2019s government affairs coordinator, Robert McCaw. \u201cIt is also a sign of the American Muslim community’s growing civic engagement and acceptance in the Democratic Party.”<\/p>\n McCaw noted that only a handful of Muslim delegates attended this year’s Republican National Convention (RNC), during which the RNC adopted an anti-Sharia platform plank targeting the religious practices of Muslims. CAIR has asked the party to reject this policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the article below notes, God was not mentioned at the DNC this year; at the next convention I expect Allah will be invoked instead. It seems that Muslims may have stayed away from the Republican National Convention because of … Continue reading