A growing number of innocent people, many of them children and a high proportion African American, are becoming caught up in violent law enforcement raids that are part of an ongoing trend in America towards paramilitary policing.
Sharia is a violent law that is buried in barbaric convictions.
David A. Semonian, a spokesman at the Witnesses' world headquarters, responded in a statement, saying: "Prosecuting non-violent, law-abiding citizens as if they were terrorists is clearly a misapplication of anti-extremist laws.
It is not clear what effect the Supreme Court decision will have on New Jersey, one of 18 states with "sexually violent predator laws" authorizing the civil commitment of sex offenders upon their release from prison.
If Mr. Wilcox's trial in Superior Court here last week is any indication, sexually violent predator laws raise deeply troubling questions for many of the lawyers and psychologists involved with them.
The sexually violent predator laws are "one of the most extreme responses we've had in society to dealing with sex offenders," said Mr. Matson, a research associate at the Center for Sex Offender Management, a federally financed project that trains those who work with sex offenders.
Questioned about this, Paul did not point to any specific law, but said the reference was "primarily really to non-violent drug laws".
In many cases Americans simply do not realise how capricious and violent their law-enforcement system is compared with those of other rich countries.
Since the nineties, twenty states have passed similar statutes, known as sexually-violent-predator laws, for offenders who suffer from "volitional impairment" — a legal term that does not correspond to any medical diagnosis.
