Are You Muslim or 'Merican?

        I became quite incensed over a blog post by The TexasFred Blog. Essentially it is a tactless, and illogical attack on the Muslim community in Texas, and the United States. While it was evidently written to support both Irving, Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne and the State bill "American Laws for American Courts", it only shows the sad ignorance and intolerance of it's author. The State bill forbids the use of foreign laws in the judgments of American judges, something which is already against the law. Though not stated explicitly, this bill is intended to target the Islamic Tribunals which have recently become popular among Muslims in areas including the DFW metro-plex. The tribunals are voluntary, non-binding mediators which use Shariah law to inform their decisions, and would be completely unaffected by the state bill, though they oppose it on the basis that it targets their religion and free expression of it.

         I could create a whole sepreate blog dedicated to explaining how ridiculous the bill is and makes its supporters look. "TexasFred"'s handling of  it is adolescently asinine. The vast majority amounts to yelling at people as he sits on his porch drinking Natural Light out of a 24 can pack. The only real argument he makes in his post is that Muslims are "liars to the core". As evidence he provides only a mishmash of decontextualized versus from the Quran, a whole host of grammatical exclaimatories, and American patriotism a facist would aspire too. It edifies absolutely no one in any possible way. It is an uninformative though passionate rant, on an issue that is extremely compelling when debated with logic and general good will towards people even if they are a little different.