Yesterday, Power Line posted an article about Andrew McCarthy's new book The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. Andrew McCarthy was the federal prosecutor who prosecuted the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, after the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
In responding to a request from the Power Line writers to provide something about his new book, Mr. McCarthy replied. This paragraph was included in his write-up:
"The problem is that those who say Islam is the problem have the better case. I was first struck by this sad fact during our terrorism trial in 1995, when I had to get ready to cross-examine the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman. Though he ended up opting not to testify, I still had to prepare. Back then I thought that if what we were saying as a government were true - if these terrorists were lying about Islam and perverting its doctrine in order to justify mass-murder attacks - then surely I should be able to locate three or four places where the Blind Sheikh had misstated the Koran and the other species of Muslim scripture. I searched high and low, but there were none."
Just as there are Christians who have no idea what the Bible says (or feel that it is not relevant to today's world), there are Muslims who are quite comfortable ignoring many aspects of the Koran. As long as those Muslims live in a country (or area of a country) that is not ruled by Sharia Law, that is not a problem--they can dress as they like, hold hands in public, and women have basic human rights. However, if they live in a country with Sharia Law, the option of being a 'moderate Muslim' is not available. The problem is that there is an element of Islam that seeks to make the entire world a caliphate ruled by Sharia Law. The goal is to achieve this by both violent and non-violent means. The non-violent means are already at work in America--that is what Andrew McCarthy's book is about.
We ignore both the violent and non-violent attacks on our culture at our own risk.
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