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As a professor at Georgetown University and Washington Post columnist, Shadi Hamid is a made guy in today’s leftist establishment, and it is from those positions of oracular authority that he has delivered a sobering message to the growing movement to ban Sharia in the United States. In the WaPo on Wednesday, he declared that Muslims should not have to assimilate into American society and should not be expected to do so, and that efforts to ban Sharia were not only bigoted and “Islamophobic,” but also futile, as Muslims simply weren’t going to give Sharia up. And he’s right about that part, albeit in the midst of being wildly disingenuous about the nature of Sharia itself.
This being the Washington Post, and the leftist establishment being what it is, Hamid strikes the expected victimhood pose. He complains that “the Sharia-Free America Caucus has swelled to 60 House members. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) recently said, ‘I’m ready to get rid of the Muslims.’” Hamid claims that this sort of thing is completely unjustified in the face of evidence that Muslims are loyal, patriotic Americans: “The instinct, when faced with this, is to marshal the evidence. Over the past decade, surveys have shown that American Muslims are patriotic, civically engaged and more likely than the U.S. general public to say that political violence is never justified. You’d think that would be enough. Except it shouldn’t have to be. And this is where it gets uncomfortable — for me, at least.”
Hamid is uncomfortable because he believes that Muslims in America shouldn’t be expected to become like other Americans. “The assimilation defense — look how well we’ve integrated — is satisfying to make. But it concedes a premise I no longer accept: that a minority community’s right to be in the United States depends on its willingness to converge with the cultural mainstream. It shouldn’t depend on that. It shouldn’t depend on anything.”
Muslims are different, he says, and that’s a good thing: “This is where the conversation needs to shift, and where it becomes less about politics and more about culture: Muslims are different in certain ways. How could they not be? Islam shapes how its adherents think about family, sexuality and what it means to live a good life. Simply put, Islam is also a more public religion than Christianity. Muslim prayer is visually striking and often communal. If a Muslim doesn’t drink alcohol or fasts during Ramadan, that will be more noticeable to others. Moreover, practicing Muslims — despite being repeatedly asked to — can’t disavow ‘sharia’ even if they wanted to. Sharia, roughly translated as Islamic law, includes guidelines on how to pray, fast and otherwise observe what it means to submit to God in daily practice.”
The bad faith that is manifest in this and all other recent defenses of Sharia against the supposedly bigoted “Islamophobes” who are trying to oppose it is that all these defenses of Sharia completely ignore the political, supremacist, expansionist, and violent aspects of Sharia, and bank on their audience’s ignorance of the fact that those aspects even exist. Hamid, as a professor at Georgetown’s Saudi-funded Islamic apologetics mill, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), certainly knows that Sharia isn’t simply about “guidelines on how to pray, fast and otherwise observe what it means to submit to God in daily practice,” and that it asserts authority over non-Muslims and institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims in numerous ways.
Yet he doesn’t come even close to hinting that those aspects of Sharia exist. Anyone who isn’t sure whether Hamid or I are telling the truth about this need only look at the fact that Iran, Saudi Arabia, and several other Muslim countries are Sharia states. Their entire systems of law are based on Sharia. If Sharia were simply religious law, governing one’s observance of Muslim practices, that would make no sense.
Shadi Hamid, however, as a Georgetown professor and Washington Post columnist, is a cosseted member of the leftist establishment. That establishment has decreed that anyone who is outside that establishment and questions anyone within it is simply a racist “Islamophobe,” and thus safely ignored. Shadi Hamid is thereby freed of any obligation to confront the reality of Sharia or his disingenuousness in this article. He can and will simply wave it away as “bigotry.” And the whole charade will go merrily on.
Practicing muslims will disavow sharia if it furthers their mission to conquer the world. Deception is a fundament precept of Islam in order to gain acceptance and influence in lands being invaded.
The Cult/Religion of Islam is totally based on Satanic Deception, I can not find any Truths in Islam.
The only real question is why does the Washington Post feel the need to even have a Muslim writer on its staff.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) recently said, ‘I’m ready to get rid of the Muslims.’”
Me too. Fortunately I haven’t been subscriber to the Post since I left Virginia some 40 years ago.
Why are people so afraid of being called islamaphobe or homophobe or racist? The truth shall set you free. I grew up with “sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt me.”
As they say, the devil is in the details. Just don’t let those American infidels learn the details of Sharia.
Of course the Muslims are not going to assimilate. Sharia is part and parcel of being a Muslim. The mosque and the state are one. The question then becomes, why are they here (in Western countries)? Winston Churchill said it best: Islam is a “militant and proselytizing faith… no stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” And if that’s not enough, President Erdogan of Turkey: There is no moderate or immoderate Islam.
Islam is Islam and that’s it.” (H/t Roger Kimball in Notes and Commentary, The New Criterion).
The only reason Muslims come here is in fulfillment of their multiple forms of jihad, one of which is immigration and then rapid-birth multiplication to become dominant and thereby increasingly influential wherever they are in their longterm pursuit of their Islamic Caliphate goals.
Americans need to pull their heads out of the sand!! Don’t have time to sit down and read, get audible books and plug in and get this freakin’ information!
They have a long list of terror cells here just waiting and Americans remain in the vast wasteland of dopamine hits scrolling social apps.
If our freedom and our constitution have become so meaningless to people here, the horrible truth is when freedom is gone, it’s not coming back.
Do your homework America!!!!!
More dangerous than illegal ALIENS. Islam is a male-centric theocracy. There us no place for women. Nor is there anyplace for us enjoying the tenets of the Declaration of Independence. 1. all men are created equal; 2. The citizens are endowed with inalienable rights; 3. that government derives its just powers from consent of the governed. Good luck with these credos if the Sharia governs this country. We just do not care what the Muslims say. They can’t push us around under the guise of being in a “democracy” Screw them. if they don’t like it, Please move to Iran. See where that gets you.
“surveys have shown that American Muslims are patriotic, civically engaged and more likely than the U.S. general public to say that political violence is never justified”… what kind of mushrooms has he been smoking? American Muslims (not all of them, of course) hate America, chant “death to America”, refuse to integrate (I don’t mean assimilate) into American society and openly cheered Hamas after October 7th.
In the interest of religious freedom every Muslim in America should be given 30 days to abandon their superstition and find a religion characterized by less anger.
A celebration then held at The Waffle House where everybody gets a half priced ‘bacon lovers BLT’ would close the grand conversion day.
All that is needed is a simple question when they apply for citizenship. “To apply for American citizenship, you must renounce Islam and all of it’s teachings and assimilate into our culture” ? If you reply ‘yes’, then any breach of that promise will be cause for immediate deportation with no possibility of re-applying.
“Do you renounce Islam and all of its teachings”?…….YES…………..NO…………
End of story. As they cannot renounce Islam, at the penalty of death, 99% will not sign. A few may practice Tequiyya (intentional lying to advance the cause of Islam), so maybe a lie detector test would be in order as well.
Rev. Roy………………<
but Taqyia says that it is fine to lie to the Infidel and say “I renounce Islam” for it is to further the will of Alah.
He wries, “A minority communities’ right to be in America……: [It] shouldn’t depend on anything.” Absolutely wrong. That is a key concept that underlies this whole unwelcome immigration mess.
Being in America is a privilige, not an entitlement. One has to earn it. Besides, why should a Muslim want to be here if their culture is so different. For the money, some of them say, not for anything else, proudly pointing out our many civic problems.
In that case, one can ask the proud Muslim, “Are you really that shallow and materialistic to put up with a culture you find inferior just for the money? Is your sharia that devoid of spirituality?”
Mr. Hamid sounds quite confused. And for a paid public thinker, surprisingly unaware of it.
Sun Tzu says know your enemy. The problem is with Infidels that don’t know what Islam stands for, i.e.- rape, pillage, beheading and burning the Infidels.
Islam is Islam. And it is our enemy.
Did anyone bother to ask him if an AMERICAN could go to a muslim nation and NOT assimilate? Could one of the leftists’ most precious members (the rainbows) go to Iraq or Iran and OPENLY exhibit their homosexuality? Oh sure, right before the exhibited their strangely inefficient ability to FLY!! We should not only forbid sharia, but begin to actively repatriate all muslims back to their sharia compliant societies!
Dr. Roy, do you understand the implications of your suggestion? If the government asked a Christian applying for entry and citizenship the same question, Do you disavow and renounce your belief in Christ, his kingdom authority and his sovereignty ahead of the government of the United States, what would you say? Think of the implications.
A Christian belief is in line with the American culture AND it is in fact, the basis for our American culture and precepts of our government – so your proposition does not make any sense, anymore than asking a prospective immigrant to disavow and renounce America as part of application for entry into this country.