Shariah Law on America’s Shores: Townhall Magazine Examines ‘Terror’s Secret Weapon’
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The impending threat of radical Islam is not one that stops at America’s borders. A detailed new analysis featured in the April issue of Townhall Magazine, posted here as an online exclusive for Blaze readers, examines how Muslim radicals are aggressively using liberal courts, American businesses and outspoken activists inside our own country to implement Islamic Shariah law — an uncompromising religious code that runs counter to freedoms preserved in the American Constitution.
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The Shariah Threat
by Kathy Jessup
A judge refuses a protection order for a woman raped by her Muslim husband, ruling the man’s abuse is allowed under Shariah law.
(Image: Townhall Magazine)
A cartoonist is in hiding after a tongue-in-cheek “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” promotion earned her a fatwa death order for violating a Shariah edict banning drawing the Muslim prophet’s image.
A Shariah-compliant investment fund is camouflaged as a charity and funnels more than $12 million to finance Hamas suicide bombers.
Not exactly shocking in some Muslim countries where strict adherence to centuries-old rules, based on Islamic teachings, shines a spotlight on stonings and beheadings.
But these occurred recently in the United States.
Now “honor killings,” publicly funded accommodations for Islamic prayer and billions in Wall Street investments linked to potentially dangerous terror activities are raising political and constitutional questions in America.
Can or should Shariah law co-exist with the Judeo-Christian foundations of U.S. jurisprudence and the Constitution? Will imposition of Islamic-based edicts, enabled by so-called religious tolerance and political correctness, open the door to radical forms of the religion in Western democracies?
A growing number of states are drafting constitutional amendments to prohibit state judges from applying Islamic or international law in deciding cases. But even the 70 percent of voters who passed Oklahoma’s measure in November hasn’t settled the issue for Sooners.
When the director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) challenged the amendment in court, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction, ruling the amendment could be interpreted to single out Shariah law and discredit Islam, violating the First Amendment.
WHAT IS SHARIAH LAW?
Shariah (meaning “path” in Arabic) codifies the words, practices and teaching of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, serving as a guide/law for everything from Muslims’ family and religious practices to financial transactions.
Several hundred years after the death of Mohammed, the prophet’s model living practices were assembled into the hadith, initially melding Islam and local customs. Various hadiths eventually developed into four schools of Sunni thought and one that guides Shiites. Each differs in the degree they draw from the Koran, Islamic thought and community practices.
Shariah identifies five hadd offenses, serious charges resolved by an Islamic judge. They are unlawful sexual intercourse (adultery or sex outside marriage), falsely accusing unlawful sexual intercourse, consuming wine (sometimes all alcohol), theft and highway robbery.
Punishments ordered for hadd crimes by conservative Shariah schools—stonings, executions, amputations and beatings—shock Western sensibilities. However, Ali Mazrui, of the Institute for Global Cultural Studies, says less severe penalties are more typically imposed.
Still, Islam has not uniformly banned so-called “honor killings,” genital mutilation, pre-teen marriages, polygamy, and divorce and inheritance rules that undercut the standing of women. Testimony from non-Muslims and even Muslim women is given less weight than that of Muslim men.
The size of a country’s Islamic population and its level of religious orthodoxy typically influence the degree to which Shariah law is inculcated in national legal codes.
Conservative Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen and Iran declare Islam the official religion and Shariah the source of law. In more secular Muslim countries where Islamists are the minority, Shariah has gradually gained legal legitimacy through local c
ustoms. Other countries, including Turkey and Azerbaijan, enforce separation of state and religion, sometimes resulting in political clashes.
Some countries operate a dual system where Shariah is applied to family law, while secular statutes govern criminal cases. For example, Britain introduced Shariah tribunals in 2008 that apply Islamic law to inheritance, marriage and divorce disputes where the parties all agree to the jurisdiction.
SHARIAH AND THE UNITED STATES
In 2009, Dalia Mogahed, an Obama administration adviser on Muslim affairs, told a British television audience that the West misunderstands Shariah law, calling its perceptions of Islamic tenants “oversimplified.”
But deaths, abuse and threats involving Muslim women in the United States and Canada have put a Western face on facets of Shariah that had been cloaked in long-standing Middle East practices.
Pakistani-born Muzzammil Hassan was convicted in February for beheading his wife inside the Buffalo, N.Y., television studio the couple had created to promote Islamic cultural understanding. Jurors didn’t buy Hassan’s story that he suffered spousal abuse and killed his wife in self-defense. Hassan had been served with divorce papers the week before, and his children testified he had been the abuser in the couple’s relationship.
In 2008, a New Jersey judge ruled Shariah permitted a Moroccan man to rape his Muslim wife, despite state law making it a crime. The New Jersey Appeals Court overturned that decision and remanded the case, finally allowing the woman to get a restraining order against her husband while she sought a divorce. The appeals court decision said neither Shariah law, giving a husband physical authority over his wife, nor Muslim beliefs on the role of women provided the man an exemption from criminal intent under U.S. statutes.
“[T]he [trial] judge determined to except defendant from the operation of the State’s statutes as a result of his religious beliefs,” the appeals judges wrote. “In doing so, the judge was mistaken.”
Irfan Aleem went to a Pakistani embassy and performed talaq in 2007, exercising Shariah provisions that he said allowed him to divorce his wife Farah by proclaiming his intention three times. Although married several decades earlier in Pakistan, the couple had lived in Maryland for 20 years. Irfan said Shariah allowed Farah no claim on a lucrative pension he would receive from his job with the World Bank.
Maryland judges didn’t agree, ruling the Shariah practices were “contrary to public policy of this state.” The decision set aside the divorce Irfan had quickly proclaimed and afforded Farah a right to claim marital property in a Maryland divorce.
- Honor murder victims Amina and Sarah Said of Texas were featured on Stop Islamization of America’s Freedom Taxi campaign in Chicago to raise awareness of the horrors of honor killing. (AP)
The deaths of at least 10 women in the United States and Canada have been linked to so-called Islamic “honor killings” in the last seven years.
In 2004, a 14-year-old girl who had been raped in Newfoundland was strangled by her father and brother to “restore the family honor.” A 20-year-old daughter of Afghan parents was shot dead in 2006, allegedly because she had moved in with her fiancé before their wedding. The killer was her brother.
In Ontario, a 16-year-old was stabbed to death in 2007 by her father while her mother held her down. The teenager had reportedly fought with her parents over wearing a hijib, a Muslim head covering. In another Canadian case, three teenage girls were drowned in their father’s car in 2009. Also found dead was their father’s first wife, who relatives say he never divorced. The father, his current wife and the girls’ 18-year-old brother were all charged with first-degree murder. Relatives told the media the killings were precipitated by one daughter’s dating decisions.
A Muslim father in Texas shot his two teenage daughters, Amina and Sarah Said, to death in January 2008. The murders allegedly were prompted by the girls having “unsanctioned boyfriends.” Later that year, a Pakistani man beat his 25-yearold daughter to death in Atlanta, reportedly because she opposed her arranged marriage.
Rifqa Bary, an Ohio teenager, made headlines in 2009 when she fled to Florida and foster care, saying she feared she would be the victim of a Muslim “honor killing” for her decision to convert to Christianity. She continued her religious choice a year later when she turned 18.
In a situation much like the 2008 Muslim assassination order against Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris went into hiding at the FBI’s recommendation last spring after her “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” hit Facebook. A Seattle newspaper said Norris is “essentially wiping away her identity” in reaction to a fatwa urging her killing issued by Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Muslim cleric connected to the Fort Hood killings, the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing over Detroit and the failed Times Square bombing.
And in February, radical Muslims announced plans to take their demand for American Shariah to the White House, calling for thousands of Islamists to rally on Pennsylvania Avenue March 3. But just hours before the rally was scheduled to begin, its organizer, British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, called it off, alleging the cause had been “distorted by the media.”
Choudary said the demonstration was merely “postponed until we gather even more Muslims;” no new rally date was announced.
In an online video statement, Choudary said Muslims are obligated to implement Shariah law “immediately, wherever we are in the world,” and he said America can reverse “poverty, child abuse, rape, robberies, theft, crime and anarchy-type scenarios” only after the United States embraces the Islamic code for living. In the meantime, Choudary predicted “the dollar will soon lose its status.”
British Muslim Cleric Anjem Choudary (AP)
Other elements of America’s Shariah debate are more nuanced. Some, like CBSNews.com’s political reporter Brian Montopoli, believe Shariah fears are “overblown at best,” and Jeffry Goldberg, The Atlantic’s national correspondent, said, “A Martian takeover of New Jersey is more likely than the imposition of a caliphate, or of Muslim law, on America.”
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR, says the enjoined Oklahoma amendment is “an indication of growing anti-Muslim sentiment.” Hooper said CAIR has “not found any conflict between what a Muslim needs to do to practice their faith and the Constitution or any other American laws. We are, in fact, relying on the Constitution as our last line of defense.”
But conservative Jewish blogger Pamela Geller delivers an aggressive “creeping Shariah” warning: “It’s a drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. [In] the mosqueing of the workplace where you’re imposing prayer times on union contracts, non-Muslim workers have to lengthen their day. It’s wrong.”
Consider the political reaction Americans would have seen if these Muslim accommodations had instead been made for Christians:
- The Christian Science Monitor reported a California elementary school made accommodations when it absorbed Muslim students from a shuttered charter school, including revising its instructional schedule to add a 15-minute “recess” after lunch to allow Muslim students to pray in a separate room. The school district’s attorney defended it, saying “the Muslim faith requires specificity of prayer obligations … that most other religions do not,” a claim questioned by even some Muslims. Pork also was removed from school-lunch menus, according to media reports.
- In Massachusetts, where a firehouse was ordered to take down a “Merry Christmas” greeting, public middle school students took a “cultural diversity” field trip to a local mosque, where the boys participated in Islamic prayers while girls were excluded.
These public school incidents are not isolated instances.
“Starting about two years ago, school attorneys have been asking more and more questions about accommodations for Muslim students,” said Lisa Soronen, senior staff attorney for the National School Boards Association.
- Four Christian evangelists attending a July Muslim cultural festival in Dearborn, Mich., were arrested for “disorderly conduct to ensure they did not provoke violence from others attending,” according to a Detroit media report. The four said they were attempting to engage in a dialogue about faith. Shariah law prohibits Christians from engaging Muslims about Christianity.
- The University of Michigan-Dearborn, where about 10 percent of students are Muslim, spent $25,000 to install two foot-washing stations on campus to accommodate ablutions before Islamic daily prayers. The university said it is one of about 18 U.S. higher education institutions providing the unusual facilities, calling its decision “a reflection of our values of respect, tolerance, and safe accommodation of student needs.”
The Michigan Civil Liberties Union mounted no challenge, saying the foot baths have “no [religious] symbolic value.”
“They’re in a regular restroom and could be just as useful to a janitor filling up buckets, or someone coming off the basketball court as to Muslim students,” said Kary Moss, MCLU director.
- Thomas More Law Center, a conservative, public-interest law firm headquartered in Michigan, is challenging the constitutionality of federal bailout money to investment firm AIG, claiming AIG’s involvement in Shariah-compliant financing violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. A federal district judge in Michigan ruled that despite the fact the bailout gave the federal government an 80 percent ownership in AIG, there was no evidence the government’s money had funded “religious indoctrination.” And if there were evidence, the court said the $153 million of federal bailout money used to support Shariah compliance was an insignificant portion of the total $47.5 billion the government provided AIG.
That ruling is being appealed.
THE POWER OF MONEY
Conservative author Dick Morris says airplanes may have taken down the Twin Towers, but he predicts Shariah-compliant investing of billions in Western financial markets has the potential to “hijack our institutions, our social policies and ultimately our values in the name of Islamic rule.”
Huge oil profits and unease with their own Middle Eastern financial institutions brought Islamic investors to Wall Street in the 1990s in search of special funds that would meet Shariah restrictions. But it was complicated turf for bankers who knew investing but not Shariah.
Enter Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Usmani, a former Pakistani Shariah Appellate Court justice, hired by Dow Jones in 1999 to help establish a process that could attract trillions of investment dollars, generating handsome commissions and agency earnings.
In just a decade, most major U.S. and European investment firms have retained Shariah advisors and paid them millions. Those advisors assure Muslim investors their gains are not connected to interest charges, pork farming, alcohol, pornography or Western defense industries—all activities prohibited by Shariah.
But are those adviser fees—paid to highly placed Muslims—or the billions of dollars in “donations” financial institutions must contribute to specified Islamic “charities” in exchange for an investment’s Shariah stamp of approval actually bankrolling deadly extremist activities? Morris followed the money in his 2009 book “Catastrophe,” reporting that the U.S. government shut down at least three of the largest charities for financing terrorism.
The seal of the Muslim Brotherhood
In a 2008 article titled “Jihad Comes to Wall Street,” Alex Alexiev, vice president for research at the Center for Security Policy, called Shariah-compliant investing “an essential part of radical Islam’s efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within.”
It’s also been a bumpy road for some of those hired consultants. Dow Jones severed ties with Usmani after the Center for Security Policy detailed some of Usmani’s writings, including one that urged Muslims living in the West to “conduct violent Jihad against the infidels at every opportunity.”
The CSP identified another paid Shariah investment advisor, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to Morris, Shariah-compliant funds must donate a small percentage of annual earnings to Islamic charities designated by the advisory boards. Those amounts are not inconsequential. For example, a typical 2.5 percent contribution can amount to billions of dollars.
And if a Shariah-compliant fund is found to have earnings from an outlawed investment activity, the advisors can “purify” those gains by donating more to the approved charities. Morris calls some of the charities “thinly veiled fronts for terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah.”
Is the lure of trillions of dollars from Muslim portfolios strong enough to open civil law to expanding Shariah influences?
Consider Great Britain where, just a few years ago, then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he wanted London to become the world’s Islamic-finance capital. Britain’s most senior judge subsequently proclaimed the country’s Muslims can use “Islamic legal principles” as long as the punishments and divorce rulings comply with English law.
According to Morris, that’s already made U.K. Muslims eligible for extra benefits if they have more than one wife, even though polygamy—allowed under Shariah law—is illegal in Britain.
TOLERANCE: AN ASSET OR A WEDGE?
Janet Levy, a prolific writer on Islam and national security, asks why Islam “is sacred, supreme and beyond reproach” in the United States, while other religions are “freely criticized, lampooned in cartoons and denigrated in artwork?” She concludes America is already embracing de facto Shariah law.
“Our uniquely American virtues of tolerance and freedom have worked against us to produce intolerance and oppression,” Levy says. “This has led to the stealthy introduction of Shariah law and a climate in which criticisms of Mohammed and Islam are no longer possible without serious repercussions.”
Are political correctness and moves to cool the osmosis of the American melting pot fundamentally changing us? Is the arena of ideas—where Americans have historically tested competing beliefs—being shut down so as not to offend?
Recall 1960 when Americans considered it fair game to question Democrat John F. Kennedy about whether he would look first to his Catholicism or to the Constitution in making presidential decisions. Former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith has come under scrutiny during his political campaigns, sans shouts of profiling.
European nations that have led the West’s embrace of Shariah law have recently begun to retreat from their policies of “multiculturalism,” suggesting failure to maintain a single national identity has actually cultivated Islamic extremism in countries like Britain.
In a February speech at the Munich Security Conference, British Prime Minister David Cameron argued European “multiculturalism has been a failure” that’s fostered Islamic extremism, adding that the West has been “cautious, frankly even fearful” of standing up to it.
“We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run completely counter to our values,” Cameron said. “This hands-off tolerance has only served to reinforce the sense that not enough is shared. … What we see—and what we see in so many European countries—is a process of radicalization.”
(Image: Townhall Magazine)
Something also gets jumbled in the translation when East/West cultures talk about democracy and its relationship with religion.
In 2008 polling conducted by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes, 82 percent of Egyptians said a democratic political system should govern their nation. At the same time, 73 percent said they supported stronger application of Islamic law in Egypt.
Of those, 68 percent said Egypt’s government should apply Shariah law to regulate moral behavior; 64 percent supported using traditional punishments like stoning for adulterers; 62 percent want the government to police women’s dress; and 59 percent said Shariah rules should be used to provide for Egypt’s poor.
So what does this all mean for Shariah in America?
The U.S. Constitution does not assign superiority to a particular religion. However, the idea that liberty is man’s God-given—not government-granted—right is a Judeo-Christian principle. America is exceptional because the people—regardless of how or whether they embrace God—allow government limited power.
America does not vest all authority in a theocratic government, where law and even daily life is dictated by a single religious code. But that does not mean the United States is Islamophobic, says New Jersey blogger George Berkin.
“[S]upporting the [Oklahoma amendment] does not make one anti-Islamic. But not being anti-Islamic does not mean that we should not insist that American legal principles—not foreign ones—apply here.”
Kathy Jessup is an award-winning, veteran journalist in Michigan whose writing career has focused on government, politics and criminal justice.
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Author’s note: Special thanks to Townhall Magazine for providing The Blaze with this exclusive online content.
(Full disclosure: Kathy Jessup, the magazine article’s author, is related to The Blaze assistant editor Meredith Jessup.)
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Comments (257)
poppop13
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:54pmI think shariah law will get rid of all our problems. All parents of girls won’t have to worry about boys drooling over their daughters figure because the hijib will cover them up. If a date is allowed they will be chaperoned by a male family member.If your wife is to vocal just use a cane on her. If not in the mood just go right ahead. I read somewere that 14% of lawyers are queer. After stoning they will be eliminated. I am vegertarian so the pork can go and all those filthy pigs will be gone also.People that say they are christians can learn from someone that prays 5 times a day. In the old testiment when a waman commited adultry she was stoned to death so it’s no big deal. Forget the 70% of people who voted against shariah law in oklahoma, the judge knew that religion trumps the 30% that is being descriminated against.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:20pmAnd of course it will be fine to cut off the head of anyone unwilling to convert? Unless of course we just blow yours’ off first? Works for me:-)
Report Post »fastfwd
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:01amThen move your brain dead ass over to Iran idiot ! This is AMERICA !
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:27amAh the familiar argument, “I can save all of them, I will make sure that not one soul is lost.” I didn’t loose one third my brothers and sisters just to go throw away my agency to someone who will enforce morality at gunpoint.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:53pmOh yes, think of you grand children and great grand children – they will live with this Islamic Shariah law. either that or speak Chinese. These people are playing our game – and they intend to win. They have the will and the force to make it so. and then, with the government we have, Godless and Constitution – less, it’s right over the hill.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:50pmgive these rabid animals an inch and they will have thier dull knives at your children’s throats in a matter of years. ask Europe, look at Europe.
Report Post »jaxson
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:26pmsearch: chop chop hill in Saudi Arabia
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:50pmAnd don’t worry about that Florida case. This was a special circumstance. The two parties to the contract AGREED to have problems arbitrated by a Muslim doctrine. The fact is the judge would have been interfering in a binding contract by deciding anything else.
Report Post »Igno Ramus
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 11:05pmThat is correct as long as neither party gives up any of its rights or protections under the law. There is no contract if the law is not followed. Most states require written agreement to have a contract, so a hand-shake agreement has no legal standing.
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:46pmAny state like Oklahoma trying to pre-empt these barbarians from implementing sharia, need only draft the measure so it encompasses all non-american jurisprudence. There is no need to single out sharia. This just gives the PC police ammo in court!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:25pmGreat point. Moreover, Hussein and his judges are seeking to place the United States under the jurisdiction of International Law. Remember the Traitor took his fight against AZ before the UN Human Rights Council.
Report Post »tom
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:34pmObama is destroying America, because he is anti-America.
Report Post »kathydan59
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:32pmjust checking
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:30pmwe need to speak out and tell the 1% of this country that claims to be muslim to move to the back of the bus and sit down. our judeo/christian founding fathers gave us the rule of law and it isn’t sharia, it is not even the 10 commandments. and to the liberal judges who are allowing sharia law into their court rooms, you need to leave the bench. you are loons who have lost all prespective. shame on you.
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:10am“we need to speak out and tell the 1% of this country that claims to be muslim to move to the back of the bus and sit down.”
Right there with you, Friend. One of the first battles this country fought was with this bunch. Does “…to the shores of Tripoli..” ring a bell? They haven’t changed a bit since then. Interesting (and heroic) part of our history, not hard to find on the internet. We whipped their butts then, looks like we‘re going to have to do it again before it’s over.
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:23pmChanging the foundation upon which this great Country began is like building a home on sticks and bushes. The USA was founded on Judeo/Christian beliefs because our God is the God of the universe. There is no other.
Report Post »Either the Country continues on with the Constitution or this is not the USA anymore. I will not go lightly if this is tried. I am 67 and was reared by third generation Irish immigrants who came here for the right reasons and taught me about what is important. I will not forget.
MrObvious
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:48amOur government was founded by religious people; but, it is not a religion based form of government.
For the benefit of everyone government and religion are constitutionally kept out of each others’ hair.
If people want to live their lives, peacefully, based on Sharia, then they have that right – provided they don’t violate the rights of others. This means that, none of Sharia’s enforcements are available to them except voluntary things, like praying more or giving more to charity; and, they can only expect themselves to obey it. If people other than person J disobey Sharia, J can choose not to associate with them; but, is not allowed to harm them or seek harm to be done (of any kind).
Under no circumstances should any American law ever be overruled by Sharia. It does not matter how big or small the law. The only exception should be one that specifically bans it; as, you can’t ban a religious practice, in and of itself. You can ban actions by rule of law – as long as your not specifically targeting a religion when you do it. The is not need to make laws that ban Sharia; as, it’s already, mostly, illegal anyway.
ps: Federal tax exceptions for religious institutions are not constitutional.
The best way to protect religious institutions is to repeal the 16th Amendment. This amendment violates other constitutional systems and, in effect, weakens the Constitution as a whole. Without the 16th Amendment, income taxes go away, along with the exemptions for religions. The argument some make that taxes would infringe on freedom of religion actually applies to freedom of the people as well. If a religious institution can’t be free and independent while being directly taxed, then people can’t either. Treating a religious institution differently from anything else, is exactly what was intended to be prohibited. Likewise religion should never be used as a justification, or reason, for actions of government. A religious belief, quote or practice, is not a valid justification for the creation of a new law; although, arguments that reference religious quotes can be instructive during debate.
With some minor tweaks (repeals), our constitution can serve as an example to the world.
We can be the proof that it really works.
Most of the world was on a path to follow us, until we started to follow them.
Income based taxes are oppressive; but, we were not the first to create them.
Copying the mistakes of other nations is not how we make ours stronger.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 3:08amWhat happens if someone starts a new cult religion that commands the destruction of the Islamic culture? Is that Constitutional?
Report Post »restoretheusa
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:21pmThey, (these smelly, dirty animals… I hope some of them are reading this) can kiss my ass with their sharia/diarrhea law. I will never ever bend to their way of life. Dirt bags. I am sick of it.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:58pmPriority #1: Get rid of the Walking Rectum.
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:18pmOne more thing, you installed foot washing stations for these clowns ???????????? Are you freakin kidding me ?????? But yet they [ the left ] have a sh– fit if we put up a cross or say GOD in the pledge of alegions. Lock and load biotchesss !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:15pmI used to have reading material in the restroom, but now I have my laptop at Mickey D’s. I was so into this story I failed to notice we are out of koran paper.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:19pmdarn !!!!!! use the modified dew rag.. okay maybe not,it might be grease
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:20pmGood one
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:04pmOh wait! Here‘s Obama’s certification of live birth. Use that.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:04pmLock and load, folks. Buy ammo and guns because we are going to need to use them.
muslimes are barbarians. They do not follow our GOD. The follow satan under another name, but satan, nonetheless.
Chances are we won’t be here for this, but if we are, we must be ready and willing to stand and fight against them. We are the ONLY ONES standing in the gap for AMERICA.
May GOD BLESS AND PROTECT US, HOLD US CLOSE AND KEEP US STEADY IN HIS ARMS.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:23pmI can tell you right here unless you get run over by a damned old train you will be right here for the fireworks. this nation that I have loved so dearly has been dying for a long time with it accepting murder and perversion and nationally legalizing it. Nations have to be judged here and now as God does not resurrect nations as he does individuals. We are truely cursed and these are the chains God has to put on a nation of murderers and perverts. We should have spoke up loud many decades ago. This curse can only be lifted by repentance and laws enacted to protect the innocent. Other wise the chains will come. They are coming even now. I can hear them, can you not. God is changeless and he took Israel into bondage for their sins. Read about it in Daniel. We are no better. There is still salvation for the individual through personal repentance and trust in Gods only son Jesus. He said he is the only way. It is laid out for all mankind. God help us. This is real. All the other stuff is fantasy. Satan is also real and he will kill us all without Gods protection. The word of God says there those who love death.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:02pmFor the first time in my life……….I am saying get these animals out of this country, now.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:02pm@I WANT THE TRUTH
The answer to your question is………Lt. Colonel Allen West
Report Post »That’s who is out there………now lets get busy and put him in the white house.
APatriotFirst
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:30pmSorry, but did I miss his saying anything about all this out loud lately?
Or anyone in our so called Govt. saying anything lately?
West, and all the rest are as bad as Obama.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:06pmYes, you did miss something, do a little reading and research. Sheeeesh
Report Post »MacWell
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:44amI’m sorry to say this but, I believe the preverbal poop is gonna hit the fan very soon. Americans like me are only going to take so much before we REALLY lock and load.
Report Post »Allen West is the man, he has more character than any of the so-called front runners. Allen West will not be bullied by anyone and I’m sure if he were our next president, along with a republican Senate and House, he will put a screeching halt to all the PC nonsense and restore America to it’s rightful place in the world.
ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:57pmIt sounds to me that the women in the first story could sue the sh– out of the police department beacause a crime had been commited against her and they refuse to protect her…. If I was a lawyer I would be calling her right now.Note to the left and the ******* ” We do not want this sh– shoved down our throats, please go away NOW ” Correct me if I am wrong but have’nt most of the wars in the last 15 years been started by the ******* ????? Just sayin
Report Post »darlenekay
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:57pmNo way in hell will I allow Sharia law in my country. I am a free woman and I will die a free woman.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:49pmI’m with you!
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:06pmThis is not to be taken as a personal attack. But God is waiting for a Nation to repent of its national sins and take a stand against murder and perversion. He does not resurrect nations and they are judged now. We are truely under a curse from God. Please if we cannot raise up a nation to stand for righteousness we will never possess liberty and we truely will wear the chains of deep opression. Have you not asked yourself how can such be happening. It is the hand of God. He took Israel in to captivity under the King of Babylon , Persia , Iraq. Do you think it will be less for us. This is not a Constitutional republic it is a stink in Gods nostrials. I know what freedom and Liberty means and I have never tasted it . Fear God and realize if we as a nation do not repent of our national crimes of abortion and homosexuality we will wear chains, oh yes we will. We are going there to fast. No matter what comes we as individuals can still be saved out of by repentance and putting our trust in Gods only son Jesus. God has said ” Fear not for I am with you alway even to the end of the Earth. Thanks
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:51pm@DARLENKAY … Look around … it is the WOMEN who MUST save the country .. sorry guys but those wimpy RINO men aren’t going to do it .. look at the TEA Party — who do you see? … a lot of WOMEN! WE CAN DO IT!
Report Post »Bigbug61
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:57pmPC and racism are the weapons these people use to force their values and traditions upon us. For a school to give accomadations to students for prayer is in violation of church and state. If we can’t have the same then they need not ask for it either! Wake up America! Your way of life is under assault on many different fronts! From Soros and his socialist to the Imans they are comming after us! I say be damned with PC and anyone who wants to us into their way of “life” (slavery)
Report Post »michaeljay
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:13pmThis sad state of affairs is not an overnight thing. It has a long history of indoctrination in our schools, our religions, our social clubs, etc. All under the disguise of tolerance and diversification.
Our children and grandchildren have had been force fed this dogma for the past 20 years. The mainstream media have glorified it and the left-wing politicians bask in it.
We need to get our message into the public square and the voting booths that we shall no longer tolerate this slow death of America. Either that or we lock the doors, hunker down and wait for them to come get us.
Report Post »i want the truth
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:52pmWhat are we going to do?? I am not sure is anyone that works for our gov’t. working on our(the good) side?? Who is going to secure our Constitutional Rights?? Barry? LMAO Seriously WHO is out There Let me know!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:05pm@ i want the truth. WE THE PEOPLE, just take a stand and get ready for the fight, there are people who are still fighting for our constitutional rights,so support them and let them know you are with them. don’t give up yet,we have just begun to show what we can do when real americans stand elbow to elbow,and are not afraid to get dirty and a little bloody.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:53pmIwantthetruth
God is putting us all in America in a position where we find no help until finally we look up and seek our delieverance from him. We will need to fall on our knees literally before him and confess our national sins of Abortion and homosexuality. Take a national stand ie laws and then plead for his mercy and he will hear our crys and give answer . He will make America a terror to evil and restore our land. If not then we together will wear the chains such a nasty life of national murder and perversion has brought upon us. Never forget God always has a way out for the individual. It is through repentance of your own sins and a trust in Jesus for salvation. I wish I could give another answer but I would be doing a disservice to all.
Report Post »veruca salt
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:22amPC, I‘m sure you’re a nice person, but your comments are a real mix of Fred Phelps and the mother from the movie “Carrie”.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:47pmAh, Sharia law… no gays, no promiscuity, no alcohol, no porn, no strip clubs, no Jews, no Pledge of Allegiance, no Christians, no Christmas, no religious diversity at all, NO women’s rights at all, no disobedient children, no social justice at all…… NO wonder the LEFT is all over this? hahahahahaha HELLO Michael Moore? You and QUITE a few others would be stoned to death, dude.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:53pmOh well, at least if the Muslims do takeover here and institute Sharia law, I can laugh my self sick, watching all the politically correct lefties that sold their souls, get dragged out and stoned to death. I hope they have lots of people with tons of rocks when its time to stone Michael Moore, or they will never get the job done…..he appears to be very blunt object resistant.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:00pmtrue that,i can not understand how muslims can even be alive under this kind of rule,hell everything is against the rules. HEY WOMEN rights groups,WHERE ARE YOU AT is this what you want’ raped, stoned, what the hell is wrong with us,this crap,is not gonna happen here in texas as long as i am a live,i know plenty of country women who will never go along with this crap… this muslims that want sharia law,should not cash those checks just yet the bank{ we americans } are not ready to cover them, only with a ass whipping first,then it still ain’t going to happen.
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:18pme4…Just thought of a new business opportunity….”rocks for sale, get your rocks here, two for a dollar or 12 for five dollars, rocks for sale”.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:53pmTXPilot,
Report Post »Except that if you‘re a Christian you’ll go first.
Igno Ramus
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 10:52pmWar Pigs— I got a buncha ‘rocks’ that weigh about 250 grains each. Them‘s the ones i’ma gonna use when the time comes.
Report Post »Country
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:44pmMuslim who want this country to be their home should comply with our constitution and pledge allegiance to our flag or get out of our country.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:44pmHey…..Moderate Muslims (I use that term loosly)…..where is your outrage?….Ya thats right, sit on the fence and dont speak up because like inner city blacks that wittness a crime you dont want to be involved. Heres the deal …..if you dont speak out and USA becomes Likes England and Northern Germany dont come crying when you are raped and beaten…Democracey and the American constitution has a price
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:43pmThere‘s a battle brewing and it’s not going to be the North vs. the South this time.
It will be much worse. Prepare yourself, there’s not much time left. Hunker down
Report Post »and defend those you love!
P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:45pmAmericans have sold ourselves out. The acceptance of abortion and homosexual lifestyles have led us down this road to the chains such a nation deserves. The only out is to repent to God of our grevious sins and to beg him to restore us. God has no choice in the mater as his righteousness forces his hand to curse a nation of such values. He cannot resurrect nations so they must meet their judgement while they stand. We are not a constitutional republic of righteous men as our founders said were the only ones who could possess such freedom and Liberty. We are a stinch in His nostrials. God Please forgive us for our great sin against you, and help us stand as righteous men. Please don’t let it be too late.
Report Post »GENZERO
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:38pmThe secret is out! So what are we going to do about it?
Report Post »7.62AirMailComeGetIt
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:20pmSharia law
THE DISEASE THAT CAN DESTROY AMERICA if WE DO NOTHING
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:10pmVery simple…if the islamist invaders insist on forcing their laws on us, and the government will NOT enforce the will of the people, then the PEOPLE have the moral obligation to remove the invaders ourselves.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:31pmWe are facing two dangerous enemies that will destroy the foundation of the USA .
1 : Radical Islam .
2 : Communism .
& they both mean death to America .
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:35pm7.62
Report Post »No disrespect but the disease that will destroy America is Abortion and acceptance of Homosexuals as normal. Hell Shariah laws are just the chains that comes with the disease.
avenger
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:37pmhere is the live link for the joys of islam http://thereligionofpeace.com
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:50pm“No disrespect but the disease that will destroy America is Abortion and acceptance of Homosexuals as normal. Hell Shariah laws are just the chains that comes with the disease.”
Because Muslim countries are known for their progressive laws according homosexuality and abortion.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:02pm@ Robert-CA
I agree, but you left out one thing:
3. APATHY of the average US citizen is the petri dish that allows both to flourish in.
Report Post »NotaLemming
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:06amHere is the secret that is not a secret! ex-CIA Agent Reveals: “Muslim Brotherhood” has infiltrated Obama Administration http://ow.ly/4meFi
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:38pm“Can or should Shariah law co-exist with the Judeo-Christian foundations of U.S. jurisprudence and the Constitution?”
NO!!! You don’t like it go back to your homeland toilets … quit trying to turn us into the same!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:44pmWhat we are seeing now in this country are the symptoms of a potentially fatal disease currently infecting and spreading through the Republic……Islam……about time we started to apply the anti-biotic before the patient is done for.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:57pmWe already have many islamic financing Co. in USA which give halal ( sharia compliant interest free) loans exclusivly to muslims . Its common knowledge , but I‘m sure the DCDBs don’t have a clue ( or are wilfully ignorant) .
Report Post »These Cos run websites in arabic and urdu, and hold private meetups with clients in islamic centers. No one knows where they themselves get their money to give out to muslims ( specially to new converts) to buy homes, gas stations, mini-marts and land to build mosques.
kryptonite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:00pmWell, Obama has been faithfully about his Muslim duty of producing a son. After all, no Muslim on earth will respect Hussein as long as two females are all he has to prove his manhood.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:02pmTxPilot dont think anyone could say it any better.
I am still baffled on how quickly Islam is growing, esp knowing what we all know. What is so attractive that make so many convert esp women? They have no rights are treated like property and in worst case scenario a piece of garbage. Islam/Shariah are creating bigger problems than offering a solution and are breeding ground for radicals. Shariah is quite barbaric I have seen things on other sites many of you could not stomach…. of course the typical beheadings but so much more all in the name of Islam with powers granted via Shariah. We dont need it here it will not be tolerated here.
I saw a piece about a judge in FL defending Shariah to be used in arbitration. ( I would post the link but TheBlaze is censoring me wont even let me post a Lt Col Allen West vid agreeing to debate a CAIR heckler!) I also heard but havent confirmed NJ Gov Chris Christie appointed a judge who is pro shariah!? We have one law here its called the Constitution and its based on Judeo-Christian beliefs, not to mention doesn’t advocate violence we dont need Shariah and anyone pushing it is as TX said a threat to the Republic!
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:02pmIf Shariah Law becomes law then we should rise up and create a law called Country Justice,and anyone using Shariah law beating or stoning someone will be hanged
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:12pmCatB
I agree absolutely, in America you have to follow American laws and statutes, if one set of faith is allowed to have a seperate set of rules to go by, then anarchy will result. Look unto the multi cultural garbage of Europe the last decades and see what will result here in the USA.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:17pmRight on CATB, they simply can’t co-exist. If these people want Sharia law, go live in a Muslim country, it’s as simple as that. I am so sick of people that live in America but don’t like the way we do things. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4X2RDvw5E
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:40pmHi, CatB!
I am absolutely outraged. The judges are to uphold the laws of the United States. We have laws on our books. We are a nation of laws.
This judge is setting a precedent. There is no such law in the U.S. If they cannot abide by OUR laws, they need to pick up their Shariah Sh– and take the road to “pave the way with good intentions.”
WHERE are the women’s rights people?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:46pmPatriots, It is useless to ask Muslims to comply with our laws. They won’t.
It is useless to expect Obama and Holder to go after Islamists and jihadists. They won’t.
It is useless to demand justice and righteousness of evil. Obama is evil.
Therefore, either we live with the Muslim commie and suck it up, or we get rid of him. Why can’t we see those are our only two options? Why?
Has our military forgotten their oath to defend the Constitution against DOMESTIC enemies? When did waiting become an option in the face of a domestic threat? I know what I would do if I were in charge.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:46pmThe judges that used Shariah law as a determining factor in passing judgement should be disbarred. Using their thinking, then we better use Israeli law for Jewish litigants, Japanese law for those of Japanese descent, and so on. How did these judges get away with it in their states? Why didn’t an appeal court judge overrule these Shariah decisions? And then why weren‘t these judges held accountable by their state’s Supreme Court panel?
We will have to be more vigilant and timely in reporting these lib judges who are not following US laws. Shine the spotlight on them and they will shrink back into the darkness where they belong.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:53pmPlease correct me if I am wrong, but I thought US Law was the only basis a judge could base a decision on. I know if a lawyer started arguing European laws and precidents, most judges would throw out the arguement or tell them to give them a US law to cite their arguement on. So, what is the basis or precident on the decision? It will most likely get thrown out.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:56pmWe are suppose to be a nation of laws, but look at who we apply the laws to. The banks and their crazy finance schemes don’t get enforced, politicians who don‘t pay taxes or cheat on them don’t have the laws enforced on them, Wall Street appears to be above the laws, people coming into this country without the proper immigration procedures and the laws are not enforced, and now we are suppose to bend over for Islam and their twisted laws. About the only people who MUST abide by the laws are the tax payers who don’t have the necessary funds to hire high price attorneys. Pretty soon somethings gonna give, and my bet is on the middle class taxpayers who are continually getting the shaft. I remember someone once saying “We have the best justice system money can buy”, really makes you wonder…..
Report Post »Rick54
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:19pmShariah Law doesn’t Fly here, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness does.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:19pmIf anyone is interested, http://www.shark-tank.net is the online conservative site in FL. It has the story about CAIR and Allen West.
Report Post »SNOW, what’s going on, are you okay?
Showtime
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:30pmgrandmaof5
Report Post »Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:19pm
If anyone is interested, http://www.shark-tank.net is the online conservative site in FL. It has the story about CAIR and Allen West.
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Grandma, I subscribed to it with the one you sent me. (Hope what I told them works!)
Large Eagle
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:31pmTurn the hogs loose
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:44pmLet’s hear it for Oklahoma. The judge who ruled the 2010 law was Vickie Miles LaGrange and she is experiencing her own legal problems. I hope she is disbarred and goes to prison.
Report Post »DarthVader
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:18pmI’m NOT AFRAID of wacky aspects of any religion affecting our American values, I’m afraid of undue influence of big corporations on our political process. Ask yourself what has more influence on our culture and politics.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:22pmI’m in bizaaro world!! Muslims attack on 9-11 and kill 3000 Americans. Bush declares war on terror and the left howls!!! 8 years later America elects a Muslim President and Sharia law is introduced into our court system. United States team up with Muslim countries and threaten Israel and destablize Middle East peace.So what happens if he is not re elected? Will we get that far or is Marshall Law next??
DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:32pmIf I wanted to live under Sharia law I would convert to Islam and move to an Islamic country. Since I do not wish to, I will stay in the US where Constitutional Law governs me and I will worship as I please. If the Muslims in the US want to live under Sharia law they should move to a country where it is the law of the land. If you are not willing to allow me to follow my Christianity or Jewish beliefs, you should go to the middle east where countries have laws based on your beliefs. I can guarantee you that I will not move to your country or try to convert you to my beliefs!
Report Post »zippo
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:35pmI live in a city right next to the craphole of Dearborn Michigan, These people have completely taken over the whole city. Its beyond comprehension how that could happen in this country. What’s even worse is that they are starting to buy up all the foreclosed property in the surrounding cities. What the hell for? There is a reason, and the reason is a total take over. They need to have enough numbers to convert us, or kill us! I just learned it from their quran! Know your enemy!!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:56pmI think if the United States allows Shariah law to infiltrate our country that they make Shariah punishment retroactive to apply to ALL inmates currently serving in incarceration and that the punishment be carried out accordingly.
I imagine a lot of vacant cells in the times thereafter.
Deal?
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:14pmHow long until we start making public school kids bow to mecca at the start of the school day? It seems Islam is okay with the liberals. Haven forbid if anything Christian is spoken in public. Somebody help me understand. What is going on with the left in America today?
Report Post »TnTrader
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:03amA nation that has no unifying identity is not a nation. Islam understands that simple tenet and uses Shariah as the binding theme to unify its subjects. Wether America , as a political body, accepts the tenets of Shariah is the question. There is no question that the American people will reject the imposition of Shariah.
America is a primarily matriachal society. The adoption of Shariah will literally outlaw that centuries old way of life. While liberalism has done its best to erode the American family, it has failed to erase the matriachal structure from our society. In fact, IMO, liberalism has reinforced the matriarchal system. Liberalism has sought to remove the father figure from American society by ostracising maledom and denegrating traditional male/female roles in society. This has resulted in an even stonger matriarchal identity within the urban areas. Most rural areas never bought the seperation, traditional division of responsibility has barely been infringed in most rural comminities.
The push now to complete the re-invention of American society, the modern nuclear family, has only partly paved the way for a radicalized changed. That change, if Shariah is a final step, will fail utterly.
The fact is, if Shariah attempts to insinuate itself into the lives of non-muslims it will move first against its , percieved, weakest enemy.. Females.
That Islam hates females is codified in its own laws and is outlined in its Jihadist rewards. The 72 virgins aint chicks, if you actually read the writings. They are “Doe eyed boys with soft skin”..
The admitted hatred of Islam for women will be its undoing in America. In part thanks to the liberal attempt at redefining the American family. By attempting to remove the father figure from society, liberalism has brought even the urbanites into the matriarchal fold.
Daddy may bring home the bacon, but mama rules the roost. Go after mama there Islam.. See what happens when ya’ try stoning one, it wont be stones you get back.
De Opresso Libre
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:26amAny judge, or any one in politics that has taken an oath to up hold and defend the constitution of the United Stated of America that want to take into consideration the Shariah law within the U S borders in trying to settle a case should be deported to a country that lives by that law and NEVER allowed within our borders again
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:54amYour right about there own countries. I did some investigative learning and there societies are terrible. Then because we have a lot of people addicted to pornography and other sexual problems they say they want to come over here to fix us. People will all come face to face with there decisions eventually. At least we do not cut women and girls private parts. Even if they say, “oh we do not practice sharia law or if we do it’s watered down.” This article proves it. Again the good Muslims are being defaced by the radicals, just like the good Americans are being defaced by the left. Now I see why the left and the Islamic Extremists are on the same side. They are addicted to telling other people what to do instead of minding their own business.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:02amIt is time to MOVE people! I have had this really sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since I realized that Obama was off vacationing on foreign soil while “the girls” were orchestrating the bombing of Libya! Somehow this man found his behavior to be appropriate…THEN it hit me like a ton of bricks…”Of course he can call for war while standing on foreign soil because HE DOESN;T BELIEVE that any land is FOREIGN!” He is not loyal to this country and he is NOT LOYAL to it’s constitution! For the first time in American history OUR TROUPS will be under the leadership of the UN! If that doesn’t boil your blood, I don’t think you belong in this great nation! Any Progress, any Freedom, any Justice that exists in this lousy world today, exists because of AMERICA and those who have fought to obtain it and to preserve it! AMERICA does not take a BACK SEAT to ANY ONE, EVER!!!!! Of course Shariah Law is being implemented in this country! Every single member of a “legitimate” Congress should be standing up on the floor of the Capital screaming at the top of their lungs! Where are they? How many were standing with Rep King at his hearings? Not many! This is NOT a Democrat/Republican matter…THIS IS AN AMERICAN TRAVESTY!
Report Post »DarthVader
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:58am@Exdem
Report Post »YOU really do live in a bizaaro world. Radical extremists Muslims attacked us on 9-11 and killed 3000 Americans, including Muslims, including some trying to save victims. There are over 2 million Muslims in the US right now, just trying to live their life peacefully, so relax. Bush “declares war on terror”, by lieing us into war with Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 911. And I assume you know what the primary religion of Iraq is? Aren’t we fighting side by side with Muslims to defeat the extremists, and give them freedom? Do you have so little faith in America that you think Sharia law could affect the best justice system in the world?
Ruler4You
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:49amThey have found our weakness. Our stupidity. This will work. We will lose this battle.
Report Post »GIDEON612
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:32amThe infallible Word of God
Genesis 16:11-13 (King James Version)
11And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
13And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:53amIf a judge rules according to sharia law then that judge should be judged according sharia law as well and no western judge would survive being judged that way. But, if that’s the way they want it let them be judged.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:01pmI’m waiting for the left to start screaming about separation of Church and State. Waiting… Waiting…
Report Post »trigg
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:22pmNo…..I have a great idea. America should always have limited government and all religions should be flushed down the toilet. I did not say God, or Jesus…….I said RELIGION! I do not like when THAT religion comes to our country and tries telling us what to do. I will die to protect anyone from this dogma……I declare war on THEM!
Report Post »captainaubrey
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:24pmThis is one of the single worst pieces of junk I’ve ever read. Poorly written (tenants = tenets), poorly sourced, and idiotic. I think the real threat to America comes not from Shariah but from fake journalists, posting fake stories in fake publications.
Report Post »yazzledazzle
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:48pmExactly CatB!! Weh vae one of them in office now so they feel they have the right to do so.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 9:35amWE’VE ALREADY SEEN how different standards applied in hiring/promotions with regards to affirmative-action have divided us racially.
NO LAWS should favor any ethnic group.
NO LAWS should favor any religion.
Case closed!
The groups that promote the practices above should be immediately abolished (CBC,LCC).
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