I didn't quite know where to post this -- it is dated, but this brings to light what is happening and how much influence the Muslim culture has on our country. It is rather lengthy but worth reading....
Policy Brief: The Threat of Radical Islam and Sharia LawThe danger of Sharia law is growing in the United States. The implementation of Sharia is largely occurring in enclaves of Muslim communities and surrounding areas, many of which are composed of significant numbers of imported foreign nationals from predominantly Islamic nations such as Somalia, Iraq, and Syria. To understand the seriousness of this threat, it is critical to note that Sharia requires strict adherence to Quranic law and that its binding authority is universal, incorporates nearly all elements of life, and recognizes no distinctions between Muslims and non-Muslims. For its Islamic practitioners, Sharia supersedes the United States Constitution and explicitly rejects both biblical moral authority and the longstanding Christian understanding of natural rights—two foundational elements of Western civilization.
The rise of Sharia in the United States is merely the latest chapter in an ongoing story of spiritual, ideological, and political conflict. Radical Islam and its adherents have long been a threat to the United States and the foundational tenets of Western civilization. Since its earliest days, America has fought against Islamists—in particular the Barbary pirates of North Africa, who are mentioned in the opening lines of the Marines’ Hymn.2 While the United States fought the Barbary Wars primarily to keep trade lanes open, a letter from envoys and future presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson revealed that the Barbary nations had a very different motivation.
We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the Grounds of their pretentions to make war upon Nations who had done them no Injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.
The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”3
The list of atrocities committed by Islamists and radical Muslims against Americans is lengthy and could fill multiple volumes. Among the most prominent incidents are the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by a Palestinian jihadist, the Iran embassy hostage crisis, the Beirut barracks bombings, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 9/11 attacks, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the 2025 New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans. Some of these events sparked wars, led to sustained military responses, and created tensions between the United States and Islamic nations that exist to this day.
Sharia law and radical Islam have always been and will likely remain an existential threat to the republic. Of all the major world religions, only Islam expressly directs its adherents to carry out the conquest of nonbelievers as proof of personal devotion and the truth of its tenets. Woven through the Quran is a martial calling that encourages the faithful to wage war against and conquer non-Muslims. Just a few prominent verses include the following (all quotations follow the Ahmed Ali edition):
“And fight those wheresoever you find them, and expel them from the place they had turned you out from. Oppression is worse than killing. Do not fight them by the Holy Mosque unless they fight you there. If they do, then slay them: such is the requital for unbelievers.” —Surah 2:191
“Enjoined on you is fighting, and this you abhor. You may dislike a thing yet it may be good for you; or a thing may haply please you but may be bad for you. Only God has knowledge, and you do not know.” —Surah 2:216
“O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; and if there are a hundred then they will vanquish a thousand unbelievers, for they are people devoid of understanding.” —Surah 8:65
“But when these months, prohibited for fighting, are over, slay the idolaters wheresoever you find them, and take them captive or besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every likely place. But if they repent and fulfill their devotional obligations and pay the zakat, then let them go their way, for God is forgiving and kind.” —Surah 9:5
“Fight those people of the Book who do not believe in God and the Last Day, who do not prohibit what God and His Apostle have forbidden, nor accept divine law, until all of them pay protective tax in submission.” —Surah 9:29
“So, when you clash with the unbelievers, smite their necks until you overpower them, then hold them in bondage. Then either free them graciously or after taking a ransom, until war shall have come to end. If God had pleased He could have punished them, but He wills to test some of you through some others. He will not allow the deeds of those who are killed in the cause of God go to waste.” —Surah 47:4.............
https://americarenewing.com/issues/policy-brief-the-threat-of-radical-islam-and-sharia-law/
