Report Calls Shariah a Challenge for America, Fault Line for Muslims
by IPT News • Sep 16, 2010 at 10:04 am
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2184/report-calls-shariah-a-challenge-for-america
A new report challenges government officials to reassess their view of "moderate" Muslims who support advancing Islamic law in American society. The Center for Security Policy Report, "Shariah – The Threat to America," was put together by a group including former CIA Director James Woolsey and former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy.
In a Washington Times column promoting the report, the authors argue that American policy makers fundamentally misunderstand the nature of Shariah law and those who advocate it. Advocates "see the West as an infidel enemy to be conquered, not a culture and civilization to be embraced or at least tolerated."
Because they do it through incremental political and legal methods, and not necessarily through violence, government officials mistakenly characterize Shariah advocates as moderates worthy of cooperation.
Support for Shariah, or the incorporation of Islamic law into society, is a fault line dividing Islamists who seek a takeover of Western society and true Muslim moderates who embrace pluralism and the separation of mosque and state, the authors say:
"It is vital to the national security of the United States that we do what we can to empower Islam's authentic moderates and reformers. That cannot be done by following the failed strategy of fictionalizing the state of Islam in the vain hope that reality will, at some point, catch up to the benign fable of a thriving moderate Islam beset by a mere handful of aberrant "extremists." Empowering the real moderates requires a candid recognition of the faux moderates and the strength of their Shariah agenda, just as defeat of 20th-century totalitarian ideologies required a gimlet-eyed appreciation of their malevolent capabilities."
The full report can be read here.
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Reader comments on this item
Islamic "moderates" are irrelevant
Submitted by Gracie, Sep 18, 2010 23:46
Unfortunately, Islamic "moderates" are irrelevant, because they are essentially powerless to effect change in Islam. Both dissent and criticism are not "allowed" in Islam, so it's dangerous for them to speak out against Holy War. Not many do this, and they usually live in a non-Muslim country. One brave woman is Brigitte Gabriel of Act for America, also Noni Darwish; both have good books on the subject.
I think the way our govt. leaders ignore the truth that Islam in incompatible with our way of life and freedom is either willful ignorance or compliance, and either way, they are as guilty of subversion as those advocating sharia law. In my book, they should all be charged with subversion, and any Muslims advocating sharia law and/or jihad should be deported.
It's criminal the way imams advocating jihad are allowed into our prisons to indoctrinate converts to jihad. It's criminal the way the (disloyal) Muslims in our security agencies seem to have the power to keep loyal Arabic speaking Jewish Americans from being hired as linguists. It's criminal the way the heads of our security agencies have swallowed the "sensitivity training" given by the (non-moderate) Muslim groups like CAIR, ISNA, and others.
In "Muslim Mafia" authors Gaubatz and Sperry show with captured documents that without a doubt, all the major, so-called "moderate" Muslim groups, and all the major American mosques, are under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, sworn to establish sharia law in America. With all the information out there today, there is no longer any excuse for ignorance.
Office of Threat Assessment
Submitted by Civilus Defendus, Sep 17, 2010 23:34
In this world, after the rise of a technologically more savvy islam and the long list of attacks - in the name of islam and allah - shouldn't we have an Office of Sharia Threat Assessment? If not, why not? Insensitivity to those attempting to subvert our bureacracy, overthrow our government and replace our Constitution? Akin to appeasing Hitler, and as (in-)sensible.
Islam is here to impose cultural supremacy by enforcing sharia. Whether through armed or covert means matters little, they both must be stopped. Is the willful blindness of our "leadership" criminally actionable?