A Comprehensive, Factual Exposure of Sharia Law

 

This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as “shariah.” It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate “second opinion” on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government.

Today, the United States faces what is, if anything, an even more insidious ideological threat: the totalitarian socio-political doctrine that Islam calls shariah. Translated as “the path,” shariah is a comprehensive legal and political framework. Though it certainly has spiritual elements, it would be a mistake to think of shariah as a “religious” code in the Western sense because it seeks to regulate all manner of behavior in the secular sphere – economic, social, military, legal and political.

On that side of the divide [Islamists], which is the focus of the present study, shariah is an immutable, compulsory system that Muslims are obliged to install and the world required to adopt, the failure to do so being deemed a damnable offence against Allah. For these ideologues, shariah is not a private matter. Adherents see the West as an obstacle to be overcome, not a culture and civilization to be embraced, or at least tolerated. It is impossible, they maintain, for alternative legal systems and forms of governments peacefully to coexist with the end-state they seek.

If we are to face down shariah, we must understand what we are up against, not simply hope that dialogue and “engagement” will make the challenge go away. Those who today support shariah and the establishment of a global Islamic state (caliphate) are perforce supporting objectives that are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, the civil rights the Constitution guarantees and the representative, accountable government it authorizes. In fact, shariah’s pursuit in the United States is tantamount to sedition.

Whether pursued through the violent form of jihad (holy war) or stealthier practices that shariah Islamists often refer to as “dawa” (the “call to Islam”), shariah rejects fundamental premises of American society and values:

a. the bedrock proposition that the governed have a right to make law for themselves;

b. the republican democracy governed by the Constitution;

c. freedom of conscience; individual liberty (including in matters of personal privacy

and sexual preference);

d. freedom of expression (including the liberty to analyze and criticize shariah);

e. economic liberty (including private property);

f. equal treatment under the law (including that of men and women, and of Muslims

and non-Muslims);

g. freedom from cruel and unusual punishments; an unequivocal condemnation of

terrorism (i.e., one that is based on a common sense meaning of the term and

does not rationalize barbarity as legitimate “resistance”); and

h. an abiding commitment to deflate and resolve political controversies by the ordinary

mechanisms of federalism and democracy, not wanton violence.

The Explanatory Memorandum goes on to explain that the “Movement” is a “settlement process” to establish itself inside the United States and, once established, to undertake a “grand jihad” characterized as a “civilization jihadist” mission that is likewise led by the Muslim Brotherhood. Specifically, the document describes the “settlement process” as a “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….”

As America’s top national security leadership continues to be guided by its post-modernist, scientific, and high-tech world-view, it neglects the reality that 7th Century impulses, enshrined in shariah, have reemerged as the most critical existential threat to constitutional governance and the freedom-loving, reason-driven principles that undergird Western civilization.

Sun Tzu stressed the imperative of warriors understanding both themselves and their enemy: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” The U.S. military has carefully followed Sun Tzu’s guidance in the training and education of its warriors. Yet, today, America is engaged in existential conflict with foes that have succeeded brilliantly in concealing their true identity and very dangerous capabilities. In this, they have been helped by our own willful blindness – a practice in which, given the real, present and growing danger, we simply can no longer afford to indulge.

Sharia, The Threat to America

C O N T E NT S

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION by Andrew C. McCarthy, Harry E. Soyster and R. James Woolsey

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

KEY FINDINGS 

KEY TENETS OF SHARIAH 

PART I: THE THREAT POSED BY SHARIAH

What is ‘Shariah’? 

Shariah and Jihad

Shariah’s Security-Relevant Attributes 

The Muslim Brotherhood: The Threat Doctrine Operationalized

Other Shariah-Adherent Organizations

Al Qaeda 

Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Hezbollah 

Hamas 

Hizb ut-Tahrir 

Tablighi Jamaat 

Jamaat ul-Fuqra

PART II: THE UNITED STATES AND SHARIAH

The Anti-Constitutional Character of Shariah

The U.S. and Western Vulnerabilities to a Threat Masquerading as a Religion

U.S. Leadership Failures in the Face of Shariah

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX: Shariah-Compliant Finance

NOTES

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