The Catholic mafia founded the journal, Islamochristiana in 1975, which was designed to develop the dissonance between religions including their symbologies. We can closely link the chron to Pine Ridge and to Linda Greenhouse.
'As I said earlier, I'm a realist. There is no chance the Supreme Court will be receptive to Establishment Clause arguments. That's all the more reason not to lose the Establishment Clause from our working civic vocabulary. Indeed, before the end of the current term, we will have a better idea of whether there's anything left of the Establishment Clause when the court decides the pending case on the constitutionality of a 40-foot cross on public land in Maryland. Lurking in the background of this case is the argument that the Establishment Clause permits any religious favoritism short of actual coercion of non-adherents. You don't like the public display of sectarian symbols? No problem -- no one's making you look at them.
It took Ireland many years and much pain to claim the secular freedom its people now enjoy. It's almost exactly a year since Irish voters, by an overwhelming two-thirds majority, threw off the shackles of the Roman Catholic Church and repealed the country's constitutional provision banning abortion. It's taken just a few years of disingenuous politics to hurl us backward to a place many of us never imagined.'
(Greenhouse L, Let's Not Forget the Establishment Clause, New York Times 23 May 2019)
Linda Greenhouse, the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, writes about the Supreme Court and the law. She reported on the Supreme Court for the New York Times from 1978 to 2008, and is the author of several books.
Inside the U.S., these hijab symbols (must [italics]) be looked at in public spaces, especially in situations where they are worn by someone who asks for an ID. When the cross as jewelry has been taken for granted, rest assured it will find a dissonant accomplice.
