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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never met a Muslim in America who feels they need a Muslim government. Most Muslims I know much prefer the US because you are free to worship in whatever manner you choose.

FWIW I'm married to a Muslim and have tons of Muslim friends, both those  born here and immigrants from many different cultures. The ability to worship freely is about the only common denominator they have.[/quote]This is so true.  The Muslims I know are the same.[/quote]

I absolutely agree and I, too, have Muslim friends who have zero desire to live under a Muslim government.

One difference between our friends here in America and the Islamists may be partly down to a selectivity about which laws to follow. One of my best friends from college is Muslim, and she doesn't veil except when she prays. She doesn't eat pork, but she eats shrimp and likes a glass of wine.

The thing is, the Quran is, among other things, a set of rules governing many aspects of how to live your life as a man or woman, rituals, punishments, and laws regarding things like usury. If you're ISIS or the Taliban, you think a good Muslim needs to follow all of these laws, sharia, not just some of them. From there, it's not a very big step to think it would be easier to live by these sharia laws if they were the laws of your land. Yet the Quran doesn't explicitly call for separation of church or state; it doesn't say to follow the laws privately. So ISIS, by its own lights, is being consistent with the Quran by calling for full implementation of sharia which, by extension, would be easier with an Islamic government.
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