Sharia Coming to America?

Last week Robert Spencer wrote a column for Human Events which discusses a new book by Tony Blankley called The West's Last Chance.  In the article Spencer notes that the potential for the American government to embrace sharia law in America is possible in the coming years.

“It’s time for sharia in America.” He continues: “There are only a handful of terrorists. Our challenge is to reduce that number, not expand it. We’ve been in the Muslims’ faces for too long. Of course, all Americans must be law-abiding. But for our Muslim citizens, let the law they abide by be the peaceful law of sharia. Sharia is a friend of strong family values, and therefore of strong American values.”

Sound crazy to you yet, well the article goes on to remind us that persecution of Christians is also forgotten.  And obviously with this mindset that "we've been in the faces of the Muslim's for too long" makes us also forget that it was radical Muslims who killed around 3000 people on 9/11/01.

Left unmentioned is the widespread persecution of Christians in Iraq, not only by proponents of sharia, but on sharia grounds: selling alcohol in violation of sharia prohibitions for subservient non-Muslim dhimmis, women going out in public with heads uncovered, etc.

The prevailing and never-to-be-questioned dogma that Islam is a religion of peace leads to the concomitant assumption that the sharia, Islamic law, is essentially benign. No official notice can be taken of its institutionalized oppression of non-Muslims and women, its draconian punishments, its disapproval of so much that is central to human experience, even music.

Jihad terrorists around the world are, by their own account, committing violence in order to institute sharia governments first in the Muslim world and then over the entire globe.

Let's pray that the eyes of the leaders in America as well as other countries, will be opened to the truth about sharia and the persecution of those who do not agree.