The salient point is that Siddiqi has misrepresented Sharia to his audience when he says that it is in conformance with the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Siddiqi's statement and the statement of the Fiqh Council of North America regarding Sharia and the US Constitution is a lie.
Update: Below is a translation from the opening Koran reading last Sunday as provided by someone who was present:
The opening Quran reading at the Town Hall Meeting was from Surah 2:235 Say, "We believe in God and that which is revealed to us; in what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the tribes; to Moses and Jesus and the other prophets by their Lord. We make no distinction among any of them, and to God we have surrendered." What was not included was a couple of lines later which says, "Say, 'Would you dispute with us about God, who is our Lord and your Lord? We shall both be judged by our works.'" Those verses were from Muhammad's first two years in Medina, when he was still trying to reconcile with Jews and Christians. Here is Mohammad's last revealed Surah: "Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given (i.e., Jews and Christians) as believe neither in God nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His apostle (i.e., Muhammad) have forbidden, and do not embrace the true Faith (i.e., Islam) until they tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued. " (9:29)
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The same thing could be said about the Roman Catholic canon, or those wierd Jewish sects who want political control of their own school district in upstate New York...
...ANY religious law CAN be practiced in a manner consistent with the United States Constitution. ALMOST any religious law can be asserted in a manner that directly contradicts the Constitution of the United States, especially when supremacy is claimed for the religion on question as the One True Faith.
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