Veterans Against Jihad Takes on ‘Threat’ of Sharia Law

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Posted in Anti-Muslim by Alexander Zaitchik on October 1, 2010

The latest fairy tale to emerge from the paranoid right is the idea that the United States legal system is haunted by the specter of Sharia law. Although strict Islamic legal codes are the rare exception even among Muslim-majority nations, anti-Muslim groups and individuals — including well-known politicians like Newt Gingrich — are now warning with straight faces that mullahs could soon be caning American schoolchildren if they get caught chewing gum.

Among the groups decrying this make-believe threat, a relatively new organization called Veterans Against Jihad (VAJ) seems particularly well positioned to benefit from the current Sharia hysteria. Founded last spring by two retired Marine Corps veterans, the goal of VAJ is to “to encourage Veterans to more actively respond to challenges threatening our Constitution awaken American Citizens to Islam’s Jihadist religious mandate, which dictates the teaching of Shari’ah law, and how Shari’ah Law will impact our way of life.”
Toward this end, the group is asking all veterans to “renew and retake The Oath of Enlistment, reaffirming their loyalty to our Constitution, our Country and it’s citizens.” But the VAJ’s understanding of that loyalty is an unusual one; its manifesto specifies the kinds of orders its members can respect as well as what sort of authority it deems legitimate. The VAJ code promises only to cooperate with those officials “legally enforcing, and/or preserving our nation’s security.” Judging from the VAJ site, it is clear the group does not consider that the current Democratic White House fits the bill.

The VAJ’s distaste for religiously flavored law, however, is selective. Among the far-right groups and individuals linked to on its site is Reclaim America for Christ, which is on a mission to “educate our pastors, legislators, educators, students and all citizens as to the truth about America’s Christian Heritage and the role of fundamental, Biblical Christianity in the establishment and function of our legal, legislative and educational systems.”

Full article: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/01/veterans-against-jihad-takes-on-threat-of-shariah-law/

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. They are determined to make this into the Crusades

[applegrove]

2. In canada they had many different cultural tribunals until some people wanted to institute sharia

law. So the government cancelled all cultural tribunals which I think was the right thing to do.

[Roland99]

3. K&R

[bullwinkle428]

4. Sharia law, kind of like what the U.S. helped to establish in Iraq

when we decided to depose a secular leader?

Facepalm x infinity!

[madmom]

5. This is projection at it's finest. With the groups these people are

embracing it is clear to me THEY are the ones who want to instill bits of Sharia law.