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Satire for Sanity
On the Fourth of July: None of us has Inalienable Rights if American Muslims don’t
On this day when the United States was first conceived in rebellion against people being deprived of their God-given rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, it is worth remarking on our political season.
One of our two major presidential candidates has targeted America’s some 3 million Muslims as second-class citizens who need not be granted their constitutional rights to freedom of worship and freedom of movement. He has talked of closing mosques and excluding their relatives from coming to this country.
It is too little appreciated that such a stand does not only deprive the minority of their constitutional rights but rather makes our entire society unfree for all. Lord Acton wrote, in his History of Freedom and other Essays, “The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities:”
http://www.juancole.com/2016/07/inalienable-american-muslims.html
Amen.
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