This Week With Christiane Amanpour

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This is the link to the Town Hall debate on This Week with Christiane Amanpour.  The debate includes Franklin Graham, Daisy Khan, who is the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who plans to build a mosque at Ground Zero, Robert Spencer, a British Imam by the name of Anjem Choudary and many other speakers for and against the threat of Islam.  It was a very interesting discussion.  There was an element of the discussion that tried very hard to downplay the threat of Islam to America.

At one point, Anjem Choudary, a British Imam, made the following statements within the discussion:

"Islam has a solution for all of the problems that mankind faces"

"The idea that you have moderate Muslims and radical Muslims is complete nonsense.  A  Muslim is the one who submits to the creator.  If he submits, he is practicing."

"If you are a Muslim you submit to the Sharia....I believe that one day the flag of Islam will fly over the White House."

We can ignore these statements or we can pay attention.  Imam Anjem Choudary represents a significant element of the leadership of Islam.  A relative of one of the victims of September 11 kept on saying that she did not understand the position of the people warning about the dangers of terrorism within the Muslin religion.

The dangerous part of this debate was the framing of the Ground Zero mosque issue as a freedom of religion or tolerance issue.  The radical element of Islam was painted as being insignificant and the call for tolerance was issued.  I believe this call for tolerance is similar to the peace agreement that was signed between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain. 

The problem with Islam is that it is not simply a religion--it is a political movement.  Countries that have Islamic governments do not allow freedom of religion and severely limit the freedom and movement of the women within their countries.  Compliance with Sharia law is enforced by the government.  The goal is to create a perfect peaceful society by preventing people from doing anything wrong.  Although that is a noble goal, it is not a realistic one.  Most societies attempt to create law and order.  The differences are in the ways that governments try to bring order.  Dictators bring order through force and creating fear among the population.  Democracies bring order through elected officials who make laws to bring order.  If we want to retain our democracy, we need to listen to the words of Imam Anjem Choudary.  He is serious.

The irony of this whole discussion was that Franklin Graham was called a hate-monger and islamaphobe for stating that Saudi Arabia does not allow freedom to practice Christianity or build Christian churches while the Imam who said that he believed that one day the flag of Sharia would fly over the White House was not criticized at all! 

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