Thankfully, not everyone in government is practicing the ostrich manuever and ignoring the creeping threat that is sharia law.
I can understand the attraction for liberals. Much like progressivism, sharia cloaks itself in the garb of a reasonable request, and moves along by inches. It is like the object you see out of the corner of your eye that you swear just moved toward you, but when you turn your full attention on it, it seems to not be moving at all. Only when you practically meditate on it, spending time between the passing seconds, that you actually realize that it is indeed moving, and that it is a threat.
And Progressivism, hating what America was established to be as much as an other enemies of our freedoms, sees a ready ally for today, and an opportunity to tar its opponents as the real extremists with nary a thought given to threat that sharia poses to them, and the choices that they themselves have embraced. Thankfully, not everyone in politics has chosen to be blind to this threat, or cowed by the oft-brandished club of political correctness used to silence those who would speak frankly about the threat to the American public. Case in point? Rick Santorum:
“Jihadism is evil and we need to say what it is,” he said at the Strafford County Lincoln-Reagan dinner, remarks that show how the former Pennsylvania senator continues to establish himself as the candidate most-aligned with the Republican Party’s conservative base.
“We need to define it and say what it is. And it is evil. Sharia law is incompatible with American jurisprudence and our Constitution.”
Santorum added, “Sharia law is not just a religious code. It is also a governmental code. It happens to be both religious in nature an origin, but it is a civil code. And it is incompatible with the civil code of the United States.”
Santorum said the Democrats talk about entitlements the way dealers talk about drugs.
“Close your eyes, like you’re listening to a drug dealer outside a schoolyard,” he said. “They see entitlements as a way to make you dependent, weaker, less of a person than you are, drugging you into submission to a government who promises a high to take care of you.”
This man isn’t just bucking the trend in American politics, he’s daring the lightning to hit him. If he keeps recklessly saying true things, he just might rouse a few people from their slumber.
Taxes, Stupidity, and Death 
The biggest obstacle we have to fighting the creeping of Shari’a is the ignorance over its political ideology. It is political power disguised as a so-called moral religion.
Santorum has nothing to lose by coming out of the Establishment closet. And by doing so, he is prickling the hairs on the back of old GOPers, and poking sticks into their soft bellies. Let’s hope they bleed 😉
Seconded Aggie,
It is in the left’s interest to hide the hegemonic tendencies of the so called religion of peace . They misrepresent clearly enunciated doctrine and spin it as equally valid to the western paradigm or as a prophylactic to the evils of America and it’s Zionist puppet. Any examination of what Islam as it is practiced and advanced is is met by the predictable shouts of “bigot” which is cruelly ironic as it is our beliefs that both the left and Islam attack constantly in the most base, hateful and vitriolic terms.
There has been an “Unholy Alliance”(as documented by David Horowitz and Andrew McCarthy) between the Islamists and the left in this country for decades as they both seek to supplant freedom and self governance with the vision of the self anointed. Both movements are messianic in nature and are all encompassing socio/economic/political systems which must be taken on faith as the empirical evidence shows that they have ruined or are ruining every country in which they hold sway.
Like Stalin and Hitler before them, they do not disagree on the goal just who will be running it when the dust clears. The only question is if they prevail will the ultimate ruler be the new Caliphate or the alledgedly secular Caliphate embodied by the UN.
I know some one will shout “Godwin’s Law” but the two sets of actors have too much in common to be dismissed by such piffle. They share a thirst for world domination, racism, virulent anti-semitism and complete economic and social control of the poplulation.
If a ligthweight establishment pol like Santorum( he supported that nasty, pompous turncoat weather vane jack ass Specter in 2004. Of course he had good company Shrub did too) can see the writing on the wall it must be patentlt obvious that our self proclaimed betters in the ruling class and their media shills are running a disinformation campaign on the citizenry.
Anyone who disavows and poo-poohs these alliances at this point is being purposefully and belligerently ignorant or dangerously complicit.
Oh and as a bit of arcania Santorum lost his re-election bid basically to a dead man.
His opponent, the son of the late Robert Casey, former two term governor and last pro-life democrat in the country, Robert Casey, Jr is a indescribable nothing as a senator who’s biggest claim to fame so far is co sponsoring a bill for the government to bail out union pension funds in addition to whatever may be required by ERISA.
Casey, in my opinion, won on his father’s name recognition as probably many of the uninformed here in Pennsylvania thought they were voting for his father.
Of course it didn’t help that his endorsement of Specter over Toomey two years earlier didn’t endear him to the more hardcore conservatives amongst us who may have just stayed home.
I hate to summarize your post with such simplicity but when you open the post with that quote, you come off like a paranoid schizophrenic. It’s hard to read anything else beyond the first sentence.
The notion that “progressives” love sharia law and want it to be the law of the land is laughably absurd. There is no “creeping threat” of sharia law in this country. It’s equivalent to the communist witch hunts of the 1950’s.
As I said in a comment on another blog, Keith Ellison’s tearful testimony at the King hearing was simply the 21st century version of:
Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Yes, Rutherford, it’s paranoid.
Its paranoid when in parts of Europe, the adherents to the Religion of Pieces have demanded Sharia law and Sharia courts.
And its paranoid when you consider the acts of the followers here who committed horrible and detestible acts, in accord with Sharia law and have used it as a defense, which has even been affirmed (at least initially) in some US Courts.
It has slowly made its way into the jurisprudence of other western countries, and they keep trying to bring it here, R.
That isn’t paranoia. Its fact. And much more salient than your tears over public sector unions losing “the right” to extort genereous pay and compensation from their friends and neighbors.
The “communist witch hunts of the 1950’s” have proven to be an exposure of the threat posed by a very real and active Russian-supported clandestine war to weaken our government and society that continues to this day.
It should be equally obvious that all of the claptrap about the “peaceful intentions” of Islam (again made clear to be fallacious if one simply researches the aggressive nature of this “religious” movement) is either an attempt to camouflage its intent or the foolish prattle of political correctness, depending upon the source.
Yeah, but “Blacklisted By History” really isn’t on the OFA-approved reading list that Rutherford has next to his bed, maine.
Maine, you’re STILL afraid of the communist threat in 2011?
Concerned, yes. Check out their participation in the Wisconsin “union demonstrations”.
Afraid (def. ,”filled with fear”)? Hardly. But threats against me, the safety of my loved ones, or my country tend to really piss me off. And I fought against communists in different places for many years and am well familiar with their goals and the evil means that they employ to advance their doctrine.
And I am convinced that I can see better to recognize danger if my head is not buried in the sand (or any other location that prevents detection of potentially harmful actions).
Rutherford says:
The communist threat is sitting in the White House for all the world to see. He and his merry band of Marxists have advanced the ball further than anyone since Roosevelt.
B is W says
Twas a very enlightening book. Treated Tailgunner Joe very fairly. If Mc Carthyism is to be falsely accused of that which you have not done then the biggest victim was Mc Carthy himself. It did not paint a very flattering portrait of either Truman or Eisenhower both of whom’s idea of communist penetration of the bureaucracy was naive at best(as Venona later confirmed), complicit at worst. Their most pressing concern seemed to be their public image if the “red scourge” was discovered on their watch.
Classic case of the ruling class looking after itself.