In a recent post, I criticized people who fear Islam for being irrationally worried. Today I will explain how it is impossible to implement sharia law in the United States of America. IrealizethatI’vealreadyasserteditisanimpossibility.I addressed this in a past post however I have realized there is a further piece of evidence available. Therefore the topic merits readdressing.
As evidence for this contention, I shall point to the presidency of Ron Paul. I have seen (even within this blog) the accusation that Ron Paul’s presidency would open the USA to the implementation of sharia law. In fact, the Ron Paul presidency proves my assertion that sharia law would be impossible within the USA.
Our nation has a long tradition of freedom. We were born in a revolution against tyranny. We glorify leaders in our past who stood up for and advanced freedom. We react strongly to even mild indications of wrongdoing by our leadership. It is because of these unchallengable facts that I have asserted in the past that sharia law is impossible. Ron Paul’s insurgent campaign is a far stronger datapoint though. For it proves not only that we would never have accepted sharia law in the past, it proves that we will not accept it in the present.
Consider: If we will throw our time and effort en masse to Ron Paul and his message of freedom, what sort of reception would sharia law recieve? It would recieve a chilly reception indeed. The reaction from the public would be terrible to behold – and possibly bloody. In response to any action smelling too much like sharia law, it would not be inconceivable to have riots and lynch mobs reacting.
Islamic fundamentalists are not a valid threat. They have no way to touch the hearts and minds of the people in our country. They lack the funds and manpower to touch the bodies of the people in our country. We do not need to react with genocide. We can contain Islamic terrorism quite effectively with conventional police actions and well-defended borders.
The only source of sharia law that could ever work in our country is the power of our elites in politics, business, and the media. In other words, the very groups which the Ron Paul platform opposes most strongly are the only chance that fascism would have in our nation.
It’s being said that the Ron Paul candidacy isn’t just insurgent, it’s revolutionary. To those who worry about sharia law – you need not fear. The same ‘revolutionary’ sentiment that’s driving Ron Paul into prominence and our media elite into confusion will react with hostility to any effort to implement Islamic law. Nor will it be ‘merely’ the same group reacting to both. The reaction against sharia law would be even broader still.
Perhaps if Ron Paul’s campaign was failing, the argument that sharia law has a chance would be more sincere. It isn’t failing though. It’s succeeding in an extraordinary way. If it stopped at this point and went no farther, there’d already be enough evidence to conclude that the power of Islam to enact laws in our government is zero.
