Yussra Ebrahim

This bill is evidently discriminatory against a minority group that the federal government is already persecuting domestically in the form of state repression and abroad in the form of colonization and genocide. It is Western imperialism that is the true existential threat, and it's not merely an empty ideological threat to public peace, but rather one with a very real death toll attached of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and counting whose blood is on the hands of AIPAC-funded American politicians. This bill is a prime example of "punching down," of ratifying oppression into law, of attempting to retroactively justify the extreme violence of the Western world by casting its victims as villains, and the effort is tragically transparent. The text of the bill is full of fallacious errors and fundamental misunderstandings of Islam that any of the billions of Muslims on the planet would find embarrassing. - Moreover, there is a great irony to the bill, which incorrectly states that Sharia law "includes a moral imperative to extend the Islamic state across the entire world." There is no basis for this claim aside from a willful misunderstanding of Islamic jurisprudence, and it is tremendously ironic for the colonizers of Muslim lands to claim that it is Muslims who wish to colonize the West. There is also an irony to the bill's preposterous bad faith mention of sex slavery and rape gangs, which are obviously forbidden and punishable in Islam according to Sharia law. So actually, it's understandable that some American politicians would take issue with Sharia law, given that convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and many Zionist politicians working with him in the US and around the world displayed a propensity for engaging in sex slavery and human trafficking themselves. This bill's clear hypocrisy and blatant contempt for marginalized peoples is in line with what Epstein's exposure has made the American public come to expect of American politicians. The authors and supporters of this bill also demonstrate contempt for the ideal of freedom of religion. This sad attempt at a distraction has failed, as it is too late to try to reclaim the narrative or turn back the clock on the decline of the public's trust in the American government, and not even trying to blame your problems on immigrants and refugees can save you this time. - As a Muslim living in New Hampshire, I have to wonder how often any New Hampshire politician actually encounters Sharia law in their daily work. What requests have Muslim citizens asked of you, aside from the right to live and worship as they choose to? When has a Muslim personally or administratively tried to impose their ways on you? This bill seems to ignore the fact that New Hampshire's Muslim population is not only peaceful, but such a small fraction of the overall population, while the bill is phrased as though Muslims are somehow in power here and hungry for more. While Sharia law wouldn't be the threat the bill makes it out to be, the matter is also not an issue in the first place, because no one in the Muslim community in New Hampshire is even asking for Islamic laws to be implemented. In fact, the imposition of Sharia law on people who are not Muslim is itself not in compliance with Sharia law. What we do ask of our less tolerant New Hampshire politicians is for them to stop worrying about delusional threats, to engage in less self-victimization and more self-reflection, and to start paying more attention to true local threats, like state terror from ICE agents, or the way foreign agents representing Israeli interests divert New Hampshire taxpayers' money away from serving the struggling people of New Hampshire, who have a big place in this Muslim woman’s heart.