Sharron Angle Was Right to Raise Concerns About Sharia Law in America
Sharron Angle, the Tea Party Republican Senate nominee running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, has been roundly criticized by the mainstream press for raising concerns about the imposition of Sharia (Islamic) law in some United States communities. “It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States,” Ms. Angle said.
The press got all over Angle for expressing such concern and for the examples that she used to support her point. It appears that one of the examples she cited, Frankford, Texas, has not existed since 1975. Her other example was Dearborn, Michigan, which does have a large Muslim population but, as its mayor has assured us, is in no danger of succumbing to the rule of Sharia law anytime soon.
Yet, while Sharron Angle’s examples were off the mark, her central concern about the potential for the spread of Sharia law in the United States is a valid one.
By way of clarification, I am not talking about the extreme versions of Sharia law found in Iran and Saudi Arabia, where stoning of adulterers, amputations and beheadings are sanctioned. Those are red herrings that Angle’s mockers say – correctly, we can assume – will not be making their way to our shores in the foreseeable future.
Rather, what I am talking about are the core tenets of mainstream Sharia law – the body of Islamic laws rooted in the Koran, the holy book of Islam; the Sunna and Hadith, the religious actions, customs and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad; and the interpretations of the classic Muslim legal schools that were largely frozen in place by the twelfth century. Under Sharia law, women are inferior to men, ‘infidels’ are inferior to Muslims, criticism of Islamic law or the prophet Muhammad is considered blasphemy, and a Muslim’s conversion to a non-Islam religion is a capital crime.
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
