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Reader comment on item: Trump: You Should Ban Islamists, Not Muslims
in response to reader comment: I've been pushing that the idxeology of Sharia is the problem - not the religion of Islam

Submitted by AlbertE. (United States), Dec 13, 2015 at 22:45

With regard to screening Muslims or banning them and that be counter to American values and law, Rabbi Akiva almost 2,000 years ago said that during a time of war [or emergency?] all laws maybe set aside except for murder and apostasy.

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