Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the Qur’an?

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Some of the nation’s highest authorities have helped to ensure Americans’ obliviousness to the true tenets of Islamic law. In his Second Inaugural Address on January 20, 2005, President George W. Bush spoke of “integrity, and tolerance toward others, and the rule of conscience in our own lives.” He asserted that “that edifice of character is . . . sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people.”

His conflation of Biblical and Islamic values was a rhetorical sleight of hand that many U.S.-based Islamic activists have employed. Even before Bush said this, Agha Saeed of the American Muslim Alliance recommended that U.S. government and media figures begin speaking of “Judeo-Christian-Islamic values” rather than “Judeo-Christian values,” and should do so “in all venues where we normally talk about Judeo-Christian values, starting with the media, academia, statements by politicians and comments made in churches, synagogues and other places.”

As is clear from the preceding discussion, however, Judeo-Christian values are in fact dramatically different from Islamic ones. Thomas Jefferson, the most famous non-Christian among the Founders, once wrote, “The philosophy of Jesus is the most sublime and benevolent code of morals ever offered to man. A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen.” It is hard to see how such words can be applied with equal accuracy to a creed that, instead of telling people to love their enemies (Matthew 5:44) tells them to be “harsh” or “ruthless” to those who do not believe (Qur’an 48:29).

And indeed, not only do Christianity and Islam differ markedly in moral and ethical as well as dogmatic content, but Islam contains a supremacist imperative that rejects the very notion of equal coexistence with non-Muslim value systems; it must dominate. An Islamic tradition depicts Muhammad himself saying this in unequivocal terms: “Islam must dominate, and not be dominated” (Sahih Al-Jami 2778).

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams noted this tendency back in 1786, after their meeting with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, Tripoli’s Ambassador to Britain. While trying to negotiate a settlement to end raids on American ships by Barbary pirates, Adams and Jefferson asked the Ambassador how he could justify such attacks. Adja replied, as they explained in their report to the Continental Congress, “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.”

Nothing has changed within Islam since then. Americans must realize that at its core Sharia entails the negation of freedom, for the only freedom that Sharia recognizes is the freedom to obey Islamic law, a “freedom” enforced by the power of the state. And many Muslims today are working to advance that notion of “freedom” in America, though not by means of terrorism. As the September 11 attacks retreat farther and farther into memory, and politicians and public officials increasingly revert to what is now known as a September 10 mentality, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic groups in service of the stealth jihad remain active across the country. As we shall see, many of them are furthering various initiatives for “Muslim accommodation,” often under the guise of civil rights, that are in fact far removed from the spirit of American Constitutionalism and the U.S. civil rights movement that they invoke as inspiration. In reality, they are part of this “grand jihad” aimed at destroying U.S. Constitutional government and establishing an Islamic autocracy in this country.

Distracted by internal divisions, the endless efforts to resist and destroy President Donald Trump, and the burgeoning civil war over Trump’s attempt to enforce immigration laws that Democrats also supported up until recently, Americans pay little heed to the true agents of intolerance in their midst. The stealth jihad advances largely unopposed because it is largely unrecognized.