20 Mar “For all that are in Authority”: The Constitution has NO Suicide Pact with Islam, and Sedition is a Crime
American officials—on school boards, city councils, county commissions, state and federal legislative bodies, the judiciary, and mayors and governors—are facing an onslaught of legal issues posed by Islam and its sharia.
For decades, these officials have been way behind the learning curve as to what exactly Islam and sharia are. Their default perspective is that the First Amendment protects ‘freedom of religion’ and so their presumption is that they must accommodate whatever ‘rights’ that Muslims are demanding.
It’s time for all of these officials to wake up, and think more clearly and decisively in understanding what is really at issue, and definitively say “NO” to essentially all of these demands.
There is no need to engage in intellectual gymnastics or navel-gazing philosophical debate about what is or is not ‘religion’. There is only a need to understand two preeminent practical/legal concepts:
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The foundation of the American rule of law is the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (especially including the first ten amendments to the Constitution called the Bill of Rights). These two are abundantly clear on many issues, among them:
Islam/sharia imposes strict inequality between men and women. Men are superior. They are authorized to beat their wives. They are given exclusive rights to property and child custody; they can divorce their wives by the simple repetition of words.
These ‘rules’ of Islam/sharia are categorically opposed to the American rule of law.
Islam/sharia compels the killing of apostates (those who attempt to leave the ‘religion’) and of Jews and other infidels and non-believers, and allows the ‘honor killing’ of children by their parents if the parents determine the children have brought shame upon them.
These ‘rules’ of Islam/sharia are categorically opposed to the moral code embodied in the American rule of law.
Islam/sharia is taught to Muslims to aid them in pursuit of a Koran-directed goal: the establishment of a global caliphate governed by sharia and Islam, to the exclusion of all other religions. Imams currently residing in the USA openly insist that Islam/sharia shall eventually replace the Constitution. And sharia specifies jihad, or ‘holy war’, as the legitimate means to help achieve these goals.
These ‘rules’ of Islam/sharia are categorically opposed to the First Amendment’s ‘freedom of religion’ and constitute per se ‘conduct [jihad] [and] language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state’—i.e., resistance to and rebellion by force or violence, or threat of force or violence, against the American rule of law established by the Constitution. They constitute the crime of sedition.
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Let’s get specific and granular with just one of the ‘Islamic/sharia’ issues facing American officials. Islamic K-12 schools (in Texas and elsewhere in the USA) teach sharia, including jihad, as described above; they teach Islam’s goal of establishing sharia as the exclusive law of the land; they teach Islam’s goal of a global caliphate to the exclusion of all other religions.
In the simplest of terms, they teach sedition. And if they are not categorically STOPPED, they will effectively enforce a suicide pact on America under the Constitution.
Therefore…and this is not complicated and it is not hateful (it is simply loving and defending the Constitution) and it is not racist (Islam is not a race):
Islamic schools in the USA must be compelled to stop teaching sharia, or close[6]; and they must not receive a penny of financial assistance from federal, state or local governments, a/k/a the American taxpayers. The answer to any demands to the contrary: NO.
Let’s pray for ‘all that are in authority’ to see this quickly and clearly, and to act without fear to enforce that NO.
Eric Georgatos
[1] This statement is attributed to Abraham Lincoln as he responded to heavy criticism when he suspended the right of habeas corpus during the Civil War; it’s also been quoted with approval in the US Supreme Court.
What does it mean? Even the CIA-controlled leftist Wikipedia gets it about right: “the belief that constitutional restrictions on governmental power must be balanced against the need for survival of the state and its people”.
[2] No less an apt authority than the “American Heritage Dictionary” defines sedition as:
Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
State statutes have varying definitions of sedition, and many add that the crime must include the use of force or threat of force or violence.
[3] ‘Created equal’ means no subset of men and women individually or collectively, are legally superior to anyone else. All are created equal. Their life experiences and individual abilities and qualities may put them over time at differing levels of wealth, fame or other measures of stature or achievement, but they enter the world at birth and interact thereafter with the American rule of law as equals. Whether or not American history shows a perfect fulfillment of this ideal, the ideal itself stands and is unchangeable.
[4] The reference to rights endowed by the ‘Creator’ is a reference to the God of the Bible. Atheists and many others dispute the very existence of God, much less that such a God endows humanity with unalienable rights. Debates about the existence or practical power of the God of the Bible or of other gods have their place in academia or seminaries, but for purposes of understanding and applying American law, there is no need or justification for debate; the Declaration says what it says and is the cornerstone of the American Republic.
[5] ‘Unalienable’ means that, absent actions or behavior that violate the duly enacted laws of the nation or a state, no citizen can be deprived of life, liberty or their pursuit of happiness. Example: duly enacted laws of the federal or state governments can define murder and manslaughter as crimes, and punish (after due process) those guilty of such crimes, but no other entity or group or individual can define or punish crime.
[6] Some might say ‘we can’t just immediately close all Islamic schools in America—it’s too sudden and disruptive’. On the contrary, the factual response is ‘yes, we can’; but for those not ready for that response, it is important to remember: just as there is no moderate Islam, there is no moderate sedition. Sedition must not be taught in any American school; and any school that teaches any form of it, ought to be closed.