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Reta
October 27th, 2012 | 3:49 pm

I’d like to add my congratulations to Prof Vischer as well to his appointment as Dean to St. Thomas Law School. It’s interesting that he is your good friend, Matt, so not coincidental that you share the same opposition to anti-sharia laws. That is disappointing. Here we have a Dean of a law school no less who thinks it isn’t necessary to concern ourselves about the ever growing possibility of Muslim encroachment on our laws to the point of slowly not only inserting them into our own, but in the end overtaking them – which is their goal. ‘Submission’ is their fave word.

Being Catholics like Professor Vischer and you, Matt, one would think you would be concerned about the anti-life quotient that is part of the sharia law mix – having laws that say you can out your wife or daughter for divorce or ‘going western’ by stoning, stabbing or running them over in a car – it is appalling you would argue for protection of this kind of law to be conjoined with ours. While Muslims oppose aborting their unborn and don’t condone embryonic stem cell research why is it you don’t seem to think much of killing or abusing women which is part of the sharia mix.backed by them.

Another prong to my opposition to anti sharia laws that I’d like to bring out at this time whle I’m at it……..is their physical encroachment and how determined Muslims are in taking over cities and towns in our country, little by little. I said to myself, Matt of First Things, who is after all an editor of that great magazine, must not be quite as informed as I had thought about how serious the situation is. But evidently you are not aware that CAIR, along with other Islamic activist groups, continues to push back with demonization of character and follow up of lawsuits to any kind of criticism of Islam that presents the gravest danger to America…one that the Muslim Brotherhood and its Salafist organizations regard as key to limiting individual rights of the rights of the community.

Nor do you give any impression that you are aware of the intimidation and character assassination that have been used against U.S. politicians who question Islamism or want hearings on issues relating to radical Islamic terrorism, along with those Congressmen who introduce state legislation to ban all foreign law.

Matt, when I wrote to you that I was concerned about this by reminding you of how the Muslims now will spread themselves out on the public sidewalks of New York at prayer time never mind the encroachment on laws forbidding such or the inconvenience it causes the people in the city trying to get by them, I wasn’t expecting you to out-of-hand dismiss this to the place where you say you really aren’t concerned about it whatsoever, it gave me serious pause.

In my letter to the editor of First Things back in March responding to Professor Vischer’s article re anti Sharia laws, I mentioned that the ‘settlement’ of Muslims taking over cities and towns and quietly inserting themselves coalesces with their aim toward getting sharia into our court system.

The possibility that Muslim-only towns and urban enclaves could be created in the U.S. seems unimaginable to most Americans, but it already is a reality. Just travel 150 mile northwest of New York City to the woods of the western Catskills, and you will find Islamberg, a private Muslim community founded in 1980 by Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani. Sheikh Gilani is said to be one of the founders of Jamaat al-Fuqra, a terrorist organization believed to be responsible for dozens of bombings and murders in the U.S. and abroad.
Islamberg is only one of twenty to thirty Muslim-only communities and training compounds that this Pakistani group supports through Muslim affiliates in America. This radical group has purchased land in isolated areas close to city networks and infrastructure. Jamaat al-Fuqra now has sites in Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Colorado, Michigan, and Illinois.

So, it isn’t merely the Koranic laws we ought to be concerned with, although that’s quite load as it is, it’s the need to forestall the potentially invasive entrenchment of the ever growing populations of Muslims who have as a mandate in their laws commanding them to conquer other people who don’t embrace these laws. We’re seeing this now and it’s becoming more and more obvious and problematic.

The pervasiveness of creeping sharia getting a foothold can be seen in how the schools are being invaded by teaching of the language, Muslim history , even their prayers to many of our children in public schools….due to mistaken political correctness of those who run the schools. If you’d like a rundown – I won’t go into that right now because my post is overlong as it is – I surely can give you data on it.

We Americans are a very friendly and welcoming people and most foreigners who emigrate to the U.S. are treated as one of us for the most part. We don’t tend to isolate anyone or shun them. And that’s part of the problem with trying to deal with the Muslims ……too many of our countrymen here in America have been and continue to be unable to use common sense and they are run over by the more aggressive attitudes and tactics of the Arabic culture. And they continue to fool the naive among us….even college professors and editors of Catholic magazines.

peg
October 28th, 2012 | 9:53 am

“While Muslims oppose aborting their unborn and don’t condone embryonic stem cell research…”

I think Muslims have a mixed view of abortion. Some devout Moslem friends of mine argued amongst themselves about this. Either the Koran or Hadith describe a period when “the spirit is blown into” the gestating child, which is fairly late—four months or so. They said this is when the mother can feel the baby move, or what we call “quickening”. these women thought aborting at any stage was terrible, but seemed to believe it was only unlawful (according to Sharia, and thus also immoral) after quickening.

They were all adamantly opposed to abortion, wanted several children and saw them as gifts from God. By the way, they said they admired the pope, because they had heard he was opposed to abortion—they saw this as a mark of great virtue.