Quixote2
19th September 2010, 01:07 PM
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=166953
A Sobering Read On Shariah
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/upload/wysiwyg/article%20pdfs/Shariah%20-%20The%20Threat%20to%20America%20(Team%20B%20Repor t)%2009142010.pdf
I have, in the last couple of weeks, posted two articles related to 9/11 which dealt with the threat that "Radical Islam" bears not only for the United States, but for the world.
It drew lots of comments, many of which were of the form "can't we all just get along?"
Well, perhaps not.
It is not within the scope of this study to solve the widely divergent estimates of the strength of these respective camps. The imperative driving this study is America’s national security and, by extension, the security of its friends and allies.
Like their counterparts a generation ago, the members of Team B II collectively bring to this task decades of hands-on experience as security policy practitioners and analysts, much of it involving shariah’s proponents of both the violent jihadist and pre-violent dawa stripes. They have distinguished backgrounds in national defense policy-making, military, intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement communities, in academia and in the War of Ideas. Thanks to their expertise and dedication, this new report represents an authoritative, valuable and timely critique of the U.S. government’s present policy towards shariah and its adherents, an assessment of the threat it entails and a call for a long-overdue course-correction.
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If we are to face down shariah, we must understand what we are up against, not simply hope that dialogue and “engagement†will make the challenge go away. Those who today support shariah and the establishment of a global Islamic state (caliphate) are perforce supporting objectives that are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, the civil rights the Constitution guarantees and the representative, accountable government it authorizes. In fact, shariah’s pursuit in the United States is tantamount to sedition.
Whether pursued through the violent form of jihad (holy war) or stealthier practices that shariah Islamists often refer to as “dawa†(the “call to Islamâ€), shariah rejects fundamental premises of American society and values....
The paper referenced is a long and exhaustive read.
It is also extraordinarily well-researched and constructed by people who know what they're talking about.
Ignore this, in my opinion, at your considerable peril.
A Sobering Read On Shariah
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/upload/wysiwyg/article%20pdfs/Shariah%20-%20The%20Threat%20to%20America%20(Team%20B%20Repor t)%2009142010.pdf
I have, in the last couple of weeks, posted two articles related to 9/11 which dealt with the threat that "Radical Islam" bears not only for the United States, but for the world.
It drew lots of comments, many of which were of the form "can't we all just get along?"
Well, perhaps not.
It is not within the scope of this study to solve the widely divergent estimates of the strength of these respective camps. The imperative driving this study is America’s national security and, by extension, the security of its friends and allies.
Like their counterparts a generation ago, the members of Team B II collectively bring to this task decades of hands-on experience as security policy practitioners and analysts, much of it involving shariah’s proponents of both the violent jihadist and pre-violent dawa stripes. They have distinguished backgrounds in national defense policy-making, military, intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement communities, in academia and in the War of Ideas. Thanks to their expertise and dedication, this new report represents an authoritative, valuable and timely critique of the U.S. government’s present policy towards shariah and its adherents, an assessment of the threat it entails and a call for a long-overdue course-correction.
....
If we are to face down shariah, we must understand what we are up against, not simply hope that dialogue and “engagement†will make the challenge go away. Those who today support shariah and the establishment of a global Islamic state (caliphate) are perforce supporting objectives that are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, the civil rights the Constitution guarantees and the representative, accountable government it authorizes. In fact, shariah’s pursuit in the United States is tantamount to sedition.
Whether pursued through the violent form of jihad (holy war) or stealthier practices that shariah Islamists often refer to as “dawa†(the “call to Islamâ€), shariah rejects fundamental premises of American society and values....
The paper referenced is a long and exhaustive read.
It is also extraordinarily well-researched and constructed by people who know what they're talking about.
Ignore this, in my opinion, at your considerable peril.