the deeply mistaken portrayal of Islam—a religion of nearly 1.6 billion people worldwide, including 2.6 million Americans—as an inherently violent ideology that seeks domination over the United States and all non-Muslims. sup]1[/sup] Spencer neatly sums up their inaccurate and perverse view of Islam as “the only religion in the world that has a developed doctrine, theologyand legal system that mandates violence against unbelievers and mandates that Muslims must wage war in order to establish the hegemony of the Islamic social order all over the world.”2
]The latest calculated smear against Islam and Muslims in America
by the small but vocal members of the Islamophobia network is the
deliberate misdefinition of Sharia, or Islamic religious law. This network
mischaracterizes Sharia as a totalitarian ideology of hate and triumphalism committed to replacing the U.S. Constitution with a radical Islamist
Caliphate that will subordinate and punish all non-Muslim adherents.
This description is unrecognizable to the overwhelming majority of
Muslims here and abroad. In fact, Sharia is followed in part and in
different ways by every practicing Muslim. There is no Ten Commandments that encapsulate Sharia. Instead it is, for Muslims, the ideal law
of God as interpreted by Muslim scholars over centuries to achieve
justice, fairness, and mercy through personal religious observance
such as prayer and fasting.1
Undeterred, the Islamophobia network’s description of Sharia is
spread based on a sophisticated misinformation campaign designed to draw donations to the right-wing foundations, think tanks,grassroots organizations, and conservative Christian fundamentalist
groups, to drum up political campaign contributions and votes for
radical right-wing politicians, and to boost the political power of
right-wing media organizations that promote such hate and fear.
Here’s a sampling of the Islamophobia network’s consistent public
campaign to use their skewed version of Sharia over time for their
own monetary and political ends.
The Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney warns that a new
missile defense logo is evidence of Obama’s submission to Sharia:
Quote:Team Obama’s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply
acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected
from an Alinsky acolyte. They seem to fit an increasingly
obvious and worrying pattern of official U.S. submission
to Islam and the theo-political-legal program the latter’s
authorities call Shariah.
2Islamophobia grassroots activist Brigitte Gabriel promotes her ACT!
for America conference on Radical Islam:
Quote:They also need to understand the many ways in which jihad
is being carried out against the United States, from violent
jihad to “stealth” jihad to the advance of creeping shariah
Islamic law into our society.
3Propagandist Andrew McCarthy, a leading purveyor of the “creeping
Sharia” myth, writes an article on The National Review with the title: The President Stands With Sharia
4 Sound familiar, Soren? It's very much in the same vein to what you claim, isn't it?