GOP Candidates and Shariah Law

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Islamism is today's Communism, fascism, and Nazism rolled into one. Containing Islamism is not possible because Islamism seeks to expand worldwide. We must outlast Islamism if we are to survive as a nation. Our goal must be for Islamism to become just another footnote in history, responded to when it made a move against freedom.

Islam is not a religion in the manner that the United States views a religion. Islam is a political ideology that uses religion to achieve its means. Its potential is worse than Communism, fascism, and Nazism combined.

One of the goals of Islam is to introduce Shariah law into the United States, as it has successfully accomplished in many European regions. With Shariah in place, the collapse of the host country is imminent. Therefore, we must stand firm against the introduction of Shariah into the United States. Part of fight includes making sure we vote in leaders that understand the dangers of Shariah, and the attempt by Islam to introduce it into our society.

Two Republican Presidential candidates have proven that they do not take the dangers of Islam's Shariah law seriously. The candidates are Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty.

At the Republican Presidential debate in New Hampshire on June 13, 2011 a question regarding Shariah law was asked. Herman Cain answered firmly. He said:

“I don’t believe in Sharia law in American courts, I believe in American laws in American courts, period. There have been instances in New Jersey, there was an instance in Oklahoma, where Muslims did try to influence court decisions with Sharia law, I was simply saying, very emphatically, American laws in American courts.”

The Center for Security Policy had a recent study that found Shariah law used in recent court cases in 23 states.

Mitt Romney did not seem to embrace Cain's response emphatically, and even appeared to some to brush aside Cain's remarks. Romney said, “Of course, we're not going to have Sharia law applied in U.S. courts. That's never going to happen. We have a Constitution and we follow the law.”

In November 2007 Mitt Romney spoke with [Mansoor] Ijaz about an opinion piece in Tuesday’s Christian Science Monitor. Ijaz said of the conversation, “I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans of the Islamic faith in his Cabinet as advisers on national security matters, given his position that ‘jihadism’ is the principal foreign policy threat facing America today. He answered, ‘ ... based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a Cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration,’”

Tim Pawlenty has been an early favorite of mine, though I have been wondering about his ability to hang in there when the going got tough. In a Dick Morris video, Mr. Morris discusses Tim Pawlenty and Shariah Law, where he criticizes Pawlenty for a Shariah compliant housing loan program in Minnesota. Former Governor Pawlenty accused Mr. Morris as being "reckless" "offensive" and "absolutely crazy". To Pawlenty's credit, once he realized the program was in place, he shut down the program.

The following is Morris' rebuttal:



Gingrich's response to the question of Shariah at the New Hampshire debate:

“I'm in favor of saying to people, 'If you're not prepared to be loyal to the United States, you will not serve in my administration, period.' We did this in dealing with the Nazis and we did this in dealing with the communists, and it was controversial both times, and both times we discovered after a while, there are some genuinely bad people who would like to infiltrate our country. And we have got to have the guts to stand up and say no.”

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