Nearly 20 people gathered along Woodmen Road in El Paso County on Saturday to protest a potential mosque in the undeveloped area just outside of Colorado Springs city limits. According to the Islamic Society of Colorado Springs, the mosque will consist of a 14,680-square-foot facility on 5 acres.
“It’s not about the mosque per se,” said organizer Annette Yebba. “It is about the sharia law that’s usually behind it because all we need to do is look at what’s going on and other parts of the world and other parts of our country and see that sharia law is being imposed and that goes against our constitution.”
Yebba went on to enumerate her concerns about sharia, the body of Islamic religious law based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith. “A lot of what they push is essentially no women’s rights,” she said. “I mean, these women essentially don’t have the education of men. All they essentially do is take care of the household and all these children. And they don’t even know that they have other options out there that our Constitution gives to them. And then the same thing with the gays, they’d just as soon throw gays off roofs. So it’s like, if this is the kind of stuff you’re for — you know, gay rights and women’s rights — sharia law is against that. And then we’re protecting their so-called religion, which is really an ideology, but if you go against Islam you can be killed for that because they don’t want any other religion besides their own.”…