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...does this piece of legislation demonstrate that Republicans are more in touch with those same interests and concerns?

Considering this:

Upon their return to the apartment, defendant forced plaintiff to have sex with him while she cried. Plaintiff testified that defendant always told her this is according to our religion.

You are my wife, I c[an] do anything to you. The woman, she should submit and do anything I ask her to do.

While recognizing that defendant had engaged in sexual relations with plaintiff against her expressed wishes in November 2008 and on the night of January 15 to 16, 2009, the judge did not find sexual assault or criminal sexual conduct to have been proven. He stated:

This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.

http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/courts...07-08.opn.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/07/sh...s-religio.html
http://volokh.com/2010/07/23/cultura...ted-on-appeal/


And this:

I tell them that the Muslim approach to law and justice begins with religious language because secular movements have failed to deliver what Muslims want – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

If that sounds suspiciously like the Declaration of Independence, that's because – contrary to what many people in the West believe – Islamic law and American democratic principles have many things in common.

"All the law that a Muslim needs is in the Qur'an and the Hadith, sayings of the Prophet Muhammad"
~Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf~

http://www.commongroundnews.org/arti...=en&sid=1&sp=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxjocm5fCc

YES!!!