Miss. LoS: Defund Muslim Museum in Mississippi
Press Release :
Mississippi League of the South Calls for Defunding of Muslim Museum in Jackson
Tue. Jan. 16, 2007 AD
Thomas Jefferson, in the Virginia Declaration of Religious Liberty said "To require a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he himself disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical."
After years of having their Christian heritage, symbols, and traditions pushed out of the public square by Marxist lawyers in the ACLU & their allies in the judiciary, Mississippians are now being forced to pay for black Muslim propaganda & mythology. According to their web site, the "International Museum of Muslim Culture" http://www.muslimmuseum.org receives funding from -- among others : The City of Jackson; Hinds County; Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau; the Mississippi Arts Commission; and the Mississippi Division of Tourism.
These agencies are funded with tax dollars. Imagine the "Separation of Church & State" outcry if a "Mississippi Southern Baptist Evangelism Museum" received taxpayer money.
In our society, the owners, supporters and free-will financial backers of this Muslim Museum are welcome to believe whatever historical fantasies and religious blasphemies that they chose. They are free to try and convince others of the merits of their position. They are not, however, free to force the Christian majortiy in the state to pay for it.
Beyond this, in a time when Mississippi's young people are sent to the far reaches of the world to bleed and die in the name of fighting Islamic terrorism, it is unconscionable for the state of Mississippi to be funding a museum that promotes the religion that is the foundation of this terrorism. Mosques and Islamic Centers have repeatedly been found to have ties to terrorists. Even if this not the case, the great Southerner, Richard Weaver warned us that "Ideas have Consequences".
Therefore, we call on the Mississippi Legislature to immediately cut off any & all taxpayer funds to this religious organization, and Mississippi citizens to hold them accountable -- at the ballot box & in the courts -- if they do not.
P. Leslie Riley, Jr.
Mississippi League of the South
www.lesriley.net
