And I'm saying:
1) Bullshit. The point of the legislation is not that they're afraid Sharia will be passed. Anyone with even a perfunctory understanding of US law will tell you that barring a Constitutional Amendment, Sharia
cannot be codified into US law. The efforts to pass a law banning Sharia are not to address a fear of Sharia, but to
stoke it, make it seem closer, and more of a threat than it actually is, and moreover to imply that the threat of the paper tiger they're setting up is not only serious but
imminent.
2) Again, bullshit, as such legislation would be as redundant as a law specifying that it's illegal to murder someone with arsenic would be. Murder's already illegal. There is literally no benefit in making an additional law repeating that with greater specificity.
3) SHARIA IS ALREADY NOT POSSIBLE!
4) In all frankness, you're neatly illustrating why that's not true. That Sharia already cannot be put into law doesn't stop the fearmongerers from continuing to claim that we need greater safeguards against Sharia.
5) That stupid laws exist is a mark of shame, not an excuse to put forward more stupid laws.
6) Setting aside that that's blatant and vapid fearmongering on your part...You do realize that you're trying to bullshit a US Citizen on one of the most well known US Constitutional Amendments, do you not? And let's be clear here: this point is pure nonsense unless you're literally assuming the US will give way to a setting like Shadowrun in which the corporations
are the government. And if you're assuming that, then you're assuming in effect that the country has been supplanted and its laws no longer apply. There is no interpretation where the logical consequences of the argument fosters the conclusion you're imagining it supports. In all frankness, you need to think long and hard about what it means for your argument that it first requires effectively supplanting the government the States, that the corporation that became the new government is dead set on an Islamic theocracy (despite, as you yourself note, the overwhelming majority of US muslims not wanting it), still doesn't support the conclusion you want it to, and is based entirely on an insipid 'gotcha' technicality that no serious legal mind would entertain. It requires so many additional (often ridiculous) assumptions that it is effectively divorced from reality.
7) Nominally. It would, however, predictably be used as propaganda against Muslims in general. Let me be perfectly clear here: Nobody is trying to implement Sharia in the States. There is no movement calling for it. There are no politicians championing it. There is no petition to have it added to the books. It is not taught in our schools. There are no judges that are making rulings interpreted through Sharia. What we do see, however, are efforts to paint Muslims as overwhelmingly favoring Sharia,
expel Muslims on the assumption that they want Sharia (and indeed have
been trying to implement it) and that as consequence
Islam is incompatible with American values. The people pushing this law are literally using it to push the narrative that Muslims not only want to overthrow America but want to destroy the entirety of Western civilization. It's part of a
long pattern of demonizing Muslims and pushing the narrative that Islam is intrinsically at odds with American values, that the identity was - and I quote - "inconsistent with the Constitution", that Islam is a "false religion" that is "completely opposite to what our First Amendment stands for. That one was Senator Roy Moore, just last year. A few years before that, Senator Ted Cruz suggested that - and again I quote - "We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized".
The list goes on and on and on and on...and they aren't going to stop if you give them a wholly redundant, unnecessary, and unprompted ban on Sharia, because banning Sharia is not the end they're working towards, it's a means to an end, something they can use for propaganda purposes, "proving" that Muslims are not only unamerican but an imminent threat that was only just stopped from toppling our way of life. You don't stop that with Appeasement! We've seen this fucking song and dance so many times before! We saw it in the Jim Crow South, we saw it in Nazi Germany, we saw it with the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire...bigotry and the unfounded fears it fosters do not end when people decide it's not worth fighting their codification into law, they get
worse.
