I was actually serious. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. The us vs them chasm on both sides of the "thin blue line" and stoked by the media every chance they get grows wider every day. I truly believe most police forces would toe the line and quash any civil uprising like good little brownshirts.
The second part. Islam currently plays a much larger role in the ME political world than Christianity does in the western world.
You were, so again I ask.... Which "over-militarized police force" has shown this??? I must've missed it.
That would make sense since Islam is a form of government. True Muslims recognize no secular government.
In other words, they don't recognize the authority of that government, so it does not govern them. I'm sure they know of the existence of governments.
That's a ridiculous statement. I was brought up Catholic and there is no equivalent of sharia law in Catholicism.
Sure they do, as long as it doesn't supersede religious law. They recognize speed limits and stuff just fine.
If you were brought up Catholic then you know the history of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was virtually the only government for hundreds of years in Europe and Western Asia.
I'm just glad the cop scouting traffic from the lot at my shop didn't jump out guns blazing when I pulled out of the shop pulling the boat behind me... Cuz the dipshit would have had a hard time explaining why he jumped out of his car with it still in reverse.