Shari`a Law?

In the 2012 Don S. Browning Lecture, "Shari'a in the West? What Place for Religious Family Law in America and Other Western Democracies?" Professor Witte outlines to what extent Islamic and other religious communities have the freedom to develop their own internal religious laws governing sex, marriage, and family.

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“One day, millions of [Muslim] men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” –--- Houari (Mohamed) Boumedienne, President of Algeria, 1965 – 1978, in a 1974 speech at the UN

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Just like Nazism started with Hitler's vision, the Islamic vision is a caliphate; a society ruled by Sharia law, in which women who have sex before marriage are stoned to death, homosexuals are beaten, and apostates like me are killed. Sharia law is as inimical to liberal democracy as Nazism. ---- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ex-Muslim Feminist, Writer, and Politician, former Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer

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“The Ikhwan (Muslims Brothers) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.” ---- by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991, Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America

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"It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated; to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet." ----Hassan al Banna, (1906 – 1949) teacher and imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood

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“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qu’ran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.” ----Omar Ahmed CAIR (Council for American Islamic Relations) Founding Chairman

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"They came only after centuries of sometimes hard and cruel experience, with gradual adjustments and accommodations on both sides,” Based on history and current events, there appears to be no “accommodations” in Islam. Mr. Witte-less is living in a fantasy world. There is only one legitimate method for passing laws in the United States.

Step 1: Debate and ratify proposals in both houses of congress.

Step 2: Obtain the signature of the Executive officer.