MPAC responds to report's claim that Shariah Law is leading to Islamic world domination
September 26, 2010
The Center for Security Policy once again struck at the Islamic community by releasing "Shariah: The Threat To America," a report that claims that the United States is under attack, "stealth jihad," by the Global Islamic "mafia" under the guise of such American Muslim organizations as the Muslim Student Association and the Islamic Medical Association. Truth-out.org, a non-profit progressive news organization, examined the report in their article "Scaremongering Report About Islam Reveals Political Posturing" and asked the Muslim Public Affairs Council's government liaison Alejandro Beutel to respond.
"It's the Red Scare all over again," said Beutel, adding that "Gaffney's team used a definition of Shariah that's accepted only by radicals such as Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and that the report is 'bigoted,' 'factually wrong' and is simply 'painting the entire Muslim world with a broad brush.' "
The Center for Security Policy report, which was released on Sept. 15, is the brainchild of many conservative non-Muslim authors, including Frank Gaffney the former U.S. Intelligence official who incorrectly alleged that President Barak Obama could be Muslim. It goes on to say that Shariah Law demands that Muslims work toward totalitarian world domination.
"Few Americans are aware of the diversity and success to date of such efforts to insinuate Shariah into the United States -- let alone the full implications of the mortal threat this totalitarian doctrine represents to our freedoms, society and government. Fewer still understand the nature of the jihad being waged to impose it here.
Truth-out also quoted a report by the Council on Foreign Relations that ascertained that Islam allows for a wide-variety of opinions, and even the Muslim Brotherhood, though conservative and against the U.S. Foreign policy, has no interest in world totalitarianism.
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