INTRODUCING SHARIA LAW: Kathryn Jean Lopez notes one example of the consequences of following Sharia, in a case last year in Yemen

in which 19 alleged members of al Qaeda were exonerated for plotting to kill Westerners by blowing up a hotel frequented by Americans because the presiding judge ruled, “Islamic Sharia law permits jihad against occupiers.”

There is also the recent case in Germany where a judge denied divorce for an abused Muslim woman because according to the Koran “men are in charge of women."

Can what happened in Germany--and is happening in Europe--happen in the US?
It depends on who you ask.

Ibrahim Hooper, before becoming CAIR spokesman, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1993:

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

CAIR Chairman Omar M. Ahmad in 1998 addressed a Muslim crowd in California in July 1998, and told them:

Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.

Imam Zaid Shakir, an American Muslim leader, is quoted by the New York Times this past June as saying:

"Every Muslim who is honest would say, I would like to see America become a Muslim country," he said.

Based on the outcry in Germany and the work in the US of men like M. Zuhdi Jasser, who has come out openly against CAIR's lawsuit on behalf of the flying imams, Lopez is optimistic.

But there is a long way to go.

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