I wonder just what percentage of the American citizenry has not even heard of Islamic shariah law, let alone is aware that it has already infiltrated our system of justice.
About a year ago, I responded to an online poll concerning the latter. Ignorantly, I joined about 65% of respondents who believed that shariah law was not present in American society. Today, I know differently. So if you are thinking something like ‘Preposterous! Impossible!’ – think again.
Last October (2011), a Halloween parade participant, dressed as a ‘zombie Muhammed’ and wearing a sign declaring, “Only Muhammed can rape America!”, was assaulted by an offended Muslim man. It is reported that the Muslim attacker grabbed the costumed man, pulled his beard, choked him from behind & spun him around in an attempt to pull off the sign. Now, in the U.S. legal system, the assaulted parade-goer would be considered a victim. The attacker, as defendant, would normally be the party jailed, fined, etc… or at least reprimanded! Somehow, in this case, we find a complete reversal.
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this case should have been judged purely as an assault incident. An American citizen, exercising his free speech rights, was roughly man-handled because of that. The attacker should have been judged to be the one in the wrong.
But the judge was a Muslim.
He dismissed the charges( filed by the police officers on the scene) against the Muslim attacker.
Judge Mark Martin informed the parade-goer that he was “way outside {his} boundaries of First Amendment rights.” Really? Really? That doesn’t even make sense. Free speech is free speech. Who sets up boundaries? Decency, kindness or tolerance may indicate the use of tact or discretion, but such a choice is voluntary. Sure, often it may be the wise choice, but even if so, again – voluntary, not a legal mandate. Judge Martin accused the man of using his First Amendment rights to enrage Muslims, suggested he learn more about Islam before mocking it, slammed a Quran down & allowed the attacker defendant’s lawyer to tell him to read it. Martin announced that he himself was a Muslim and was offended by the actions of the Halloween parade-goer. Martin also introduced into the proceedings the fact that such actions, in many Arabic-speaking countries, are against the law and punishable by death.
So? This is America, not an Arabic-speaking country. Why would the judge even mention that? Such a practice does not factor into Constitutional law.
So are you seeing that this case was made to be primarily about Islam? Not Constitutional law, but Islamic practice and shariah law. Which have no place in an American court room.
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The Judicial Conduct Board issued a ‘ letter of caution’ to this judge, as a private rebuke, and closed the case.
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Since then, the victim of the attack has been bombarded with threats of all kinds, from being shot, run down or hanged to…well, enough said. Of these threats, 471 are reported as being verifiable.
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This is happening in America. This particular case occurred in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, but similar events have occurred throughout the nation. I recently read that 53 court cases in 28 states have been tried according to shariah law. American rights are trampled right here on our own soil, and some in our legal system allow it. Don’t you see how insidious such patterns are? And to what they are leading? Nothing, at first, seems like it will really happen…then, one day, it has taken over.
Several days ago, Rep. Trent Franks (R) of Arizona, chairman of the House Constitution subcommittee, repeatedly questioned Tom Perez, the progressive who runs the Justice Department’s civil rights office, regarding their support of free speech – specifically, religious free speech. Rep. Franks asked Mr. Perez four times if he could promise that this administration “will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?” Mr. Perez would not give a clear and simple answer. He would not commit to protecting religious free speech. Wonder why…..
Late last year, Perez had attended a meeting which included the leader of the Islamic Society of North America. During that meeting, this leader called for “legal punishment of people who criticize Islamic texts that call for violence against non-Muslims and for the subordination of women to men.” Are you getting this? Another Islamist at this meeting called for the Justice Department to “redefine religious free speech as illegal discrimination.” It is reported that Mr. Perez said nothing in response, yet he complimented these Islamists on protesting airline security measures. And he actually embraced the Islamic Society’s leader – that’s right, the man who wants to punish you and I for speaking out against Quranic instructions to harm us.
What’s wrong with this picture?
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I usually try to look at a situation from the other’s perspective. It helps to understand through empathy. So, in a way, I don’t fault the upset & offended Muslim who assaulted the Muhammed-costumed man. His core beliefs catapulted him into the fray, so to speak. Perhaps he didn’t know we in America have no such beliefs. It is not in our law, that we should kill the infidel! I’m not saying this Muslim should be allowed to continue such behavior, just that I can see how he would behave such a way in the first place.
And though we surely and absolutely have the right to free speech in America, I’m not so sure that I don’t agree with some of Judge Martin’s statements. The judge issued a challenge to find anywhere in the Quran where it states that Muhammed rose from the dead, meaning, it doesn’t & he didn’t. So ‘zombie Muhammed’ means what? I don’t get it, myself. And crudely ridiculing one’s beliefs, especially religious ones, helps how? Though I am concerned about the death threats directed towards this man, I can see why Judge Martin called him a ‘doofus’ during the trial proceedings.
I could list other points of more-or-less agreement on my part, but bottom line, this issue is Constitutional. It is a case of shariah law operating in a United States courtroom, if not overtly, then influentially. It happened.
I repeat, it happened.
Wake up, people.
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The Kingdom of God, the Republic of America & You 