Earlier this week, Tanya Somander wrote about a bill in Tennessee that would criminalize Muslims for adhering to Sharia, as well as "two or more persons conspiring to support, or acting in concert in support of, sharia or in furtherance of the imposition of sharia within any state or territory of the United States," with up to 15 years in prison. Melissa Jeltsen has a copy of the bill.
The bill was drafted by David Yerushalmi, the Sharia "expert" relied upon by Frank Gaffney and Andy McCarthy on their "report" on Sharia in the U.S. Yerushalmi has also written in the past that "there is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote," as part of a piece in a 2006 publication lamenting the lack of "frank discussion" about racial differences. He also lamented that "a retarded
person can vote," because "literacy tests have been outlawed."
After Matt Duss pointed out Yerushalmi's rank bigotry, Yerushalmi responded by publishing this graphic at one of Andrew Breitbart's websites:
That would be the logo of the Muslim Brotherhood on Duss' ear.
The Tennessee legislation is blatantly unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and in a particularly dumb form of irony, it also manages to mirror the criminalization of minority religious expression that are the hallmark of repressive Islamist societies. state Sen. Bill Ketron and state House Rep. Judd Matheny of Tennessee should really explain why he thinks that someone who supports literacy tests, and thinks there's wisdom in denying blacks and women the right to vote, has any business writing laws in the state of Tennessee.
