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What exactly are these values? More importantly, which of these values are different from Islamic values? Because A LOT of them are the same.

Are we talking the Ten Commandments?

Also, have these values changed over the years? (hint: suffrage, slavery)

So what specifically makes our law “Judeo-Christian?”
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Pri: First off, I drew no comparisons with Islam, and my comments weren’t intended to. I’m also not of that ilk that believes all Muslims are terrorists, either. I simply believe in killing those that try to kill or harm us, and I couldn’t care less if they’re communists, muslims, bomb-throwing anarcho-syndicalists, or Girl Scouts. Cross that certain line and you get center-punched with a 5.56mm round and sent to whatever deity you happen to believe in (or not, in the case of bomb-throwing anarcho-syndicalists).

Second, American law is based on English Common Law, which traces its systemization to Henry II and the codification he instituted regarding trial by jury, property ownership, use of a grand jury, etc. Given that this was the 12th century, the Mother Church was omnipresent, and thus provides the background and context to many of the laws, which remain in force to this day.