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I've got more than my fair share of crazy relatives. One of my cousin's wife is one of those folks that is at church whenever it opens, and she drags her kids with her. Even my second cousin that's a Babtist minister thinks she's crazy. And I should add that besides being crazy, she's a prime example of the failure of the Georgia school system.
So Maude (a name I know would piss her off) sends an email to about 100 recipients last year. She does this every few months. In it, she says that she needs all of our help to stop the Muslims from starting a Shariah court in Savannah, GA (where she and my cousin live). She "explained" that it would replace the current criminal system and that they'd start cutting off heads and hands and that they'd institute the bhurka and that they'd outlaw bacon and othersuch nonsense. Honestly, if she weren't serious, it would have been absolutely comical, and I'm sorry that I didn't keep a copy of it when I left my job.
Being me, I responded and pointed out that Shariah is a "companion" court system, kind of like arbitration. If both parties agree to stand by an imam's ruling, there's no law saying that a lawsuit has to be filed.
Needless to say, I haven't gotten another email from her, and my cousin won't return my calls. But his gay brother (which is a whole other story) emails me a couple of times a week now.
By the way, I completely agree, Willravel. That's the historical pattern in this country, and you can already see it at work in suburban Detroit. I see no reason that it won't continue.
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