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KhurramDaraFirstPaper 8 - 23 Apr 2012 - Main.KhurramDara
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Law and Social Control
-- By KhurramDara - 15 Feb 2012 | |
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When the Park51 project, formerly known as the Cordoba House, and commonly referred to as the "Ground Zero Mosque" was being protested just a couple of years ago, there was a sign that I saw a protestor holding. Initially, it had caught my eye because of how many words had been scrunched onto this little piece of cardboard. The sign said "All I Need to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11." | >
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When the Park51 project, formerly known as the Cordoba House, and commonly referred to as the "Ground Zero Mosque" was being protested just a couple of years ago, there was a sign that I saw a protestor holding. Initially, it had caught my eye because of how many words had been scrunched onto this little piece of cardboard. The sign said "All I Need to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11." All he "needed" to know about Islam, he had learned on 9/11. | | | | |
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> | For that man holding the sign, and for the many others who admire the likes of Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, and Frank Gaffney, 9/11 was a natural consequence of Muslims carrying out Islam. For them, Islam is inherently promotes violence. So we have organizations, like JihadWatch? and Stop the Islamization of America who perpetuate nonsense about American Muslims: they want to impose Shariah on all, convert America into an Islamic state, and destroy Western society.
While the rhetoric can appear extreme to some, the combination of organization and money, in conjunction with the fact that there are terrorists carrying out heinous acts supposedly in the name of Islam, can have an actual impact on our politics. It could explain why Congressman Peter King held hearings on the radicalization of Muslims in America. Or why 22 state legislatures considered passing anti-Sharia legislation. Or why the NYPD has been surveilling college students across the country. Or why Lowe's Home Improvement pulled ads from the TV show "All American Muslim" (after complaints that the show was not an accurate representation of Muslims, given that no radicals were on the show).
add line about how we want to change this?
My father is a doctor. When he recaps his day at work, nearly all of his stories begin with some variant of "so I asked the patient, what hurts?"
When you want to fix something, it helps to know what hurts.
explain two ways we try to remedy, education and legal remedies, you have to look at what it is that bothers people about Islam, and put pressure on those points?
add: this needs to be A + B, not just A, not just B?
*then go with D.Black comparison, inverse law, social control* | | | | |
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< | When you want to fix something, it helps to know what hurts. 9/11 hurts. It hurts us all really bad. For that man holding the sign, and for the many others who admire the likes of Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, and Frank Gaffney, 9/11 was a natural consequence of Muslims carrying out Islam. For them, Islam is inherently promotes violence. | | |
**use this section to explain how other forms of social control are more powerful than law. |
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