It Can't Happen Here

Or can it? The symbol you're seeing is that of the Union of Supreme Islamic Courts. Islamic law is slowly creeping into the jurisprudence of some western democracies. For now, treating Muslim criminal defendants differently from all others is the first step in full Islamization of the secular courts. This travesty occurred in Australia. Next stop--America.
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The parallel between Australia and America is the widespread belief that there actually is something called Islamophobia, and that it is violent and pandemic. This ridiculous belief has been spread by the left and the mainstream press. But its main source is the "moderate Muslim community" which is maneuvering for special treatment in the courts. It signals that Muslims, unlike Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, Christians and Jews are particularly vulnerable to unwarranted attacks and police brutality. That totally unsubstantiated propaganda is starting to work.

The Australian case involved a man accused, among other things, of attempting to murder a police officer. The defendant was found guilty of illegal weapons possession (multiple counts) and terrorism charges. But the judge refused to find him guilty of attempted murder. The reason? The Islamophobia defense. Even though the defendant possessed multiple handguns and assault rifles, along with explosives, and a record of violence, the judge still maintained that his deliberate pointing of one of those guns at the police officer and firing was justified by his realistic fear that a non-Muslim cop was out to assassinate him just because he was Muslim. In other words, self-defense. The corollary to that defense is that the action was based on good faith but mistaken belief.

England is already allowing special "no police entry" Islamic enclaves, with the residents therein being judged by sharia law. Australia has now accepted Islamophobia as a legitimate defense to attempted murder. As Vladimir Lenin (repeated by Josef Stalin) is reputed to have said of weak-kneed western capitalists: "They will sell us the rope to hang them with." In order to appease the wounded feelings of "endangered" Muslims, several states have caved in to CAIR's propaganda and allowed "cultural differences" to be used both at trial and sentencing. The Islamists are using our good will and sappy multiculturalism to hang us.

Passing laws which prohibit the use of sharia law in any court matter is a good thing. But it's important to note that what is occurring now has nothing to do with sharia law. It has to do with creating a special defense for people who are hallucinating about widespread hatred toward and attacks on Muslims. For every imagined wound sustained by an American Muslim, there are a hundred examples of actual attacks on Jews. Yet the last time I looked, there were no special defenses to attempted murder being set up for frightened Jews. Blacks attempting to use the "racist cop" defense have been largely convicted anyway. Where's their right to a special defense?

The Islamist propaganda designed to give Muslims special standing not granted to any other group in court is succeeding beyond even their own wildest dreams. If they continue to succeed in advancing their own special agenda, they won't even need to impose sharia law in American courts. We'll do it for them by ignoring the Constitution's mandate of equal justice for everyone, regardless of race, creed, color or national origin.

And if you don't think it can happen here, let me remind everyone that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appointed a sharia-compliant lawyer to the Passaic bench solely for the stated reason that "there is a large Islamic community in Passaic, and they deserve to have a judge who understands their special needs." The Islamophobia defense is not even a very long leap in New Jersey.