As an average person I assumed that the roles of the US Attorney General (AG) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) were established to defend our Constitution and the interests of the American people. It appears to me that President Obama’s AG, Eric Holder, and his DOJ are repeatedly protecting Islam, often at the expense of the Constitution and the American people.
Those who have little to no exposure to Islam probably do not realize that sentences under Islamic (Sharia) law are based on the Quran. By modern Western standards many of Sharia punishments are barbaric. It is not unheard of, in Islamic countries, to chop off one’s hand for stealing. Another punishment that makes no sense is finding a rape victim guilty of adultery and sentencing her to death. Then there is the one that scares me the most, the curtailing of free speech. Their blasphemy laws make speaking ill, of the Quran, Muhammad or Islam punishable by death.
According to columnist, Michelle Malkin, the US AG has, what many believe is, a conflict of interest. Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemeni Islamic terrorists held at Gitmo.
Our US AG decided to use special treatment and try Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the believed Islamic terrorist combatant mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attack on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, in a New York criminal court in place of the normally used Military Commission for combatants. This action was taken in spit of outrage across America.
In December 2010 the US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the Berkeley, Illinois School District for failing to reasonably accommodate the religious practices of Safoorah Khan, a Muslim teacher. The school district denied the teacher’s request for a 19 day leave, mid semester, rather than between semesters. The leave was not related to her professional duties, nor was it for any of the specific purposes set forth in the Professional Negotiations Agreement between the district and the teachers’ union.
In April 2011 the U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, confirmed that the Justice Department headquarters intervened to quash the prosecution of several top Muslim leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, and the now-defunct SAAR. The investigations were for a wide range of activities including money laundering and supporting foreign terrorist organizations.
The Center for Security Policy’s study identifies 50 cases in 23 US state courts where Sharia Law was attempted to be used. In a number of these cases judges actually stated they based their decision on Sharia Law (contrary to our law) such as a New Jersey Judge allowing a Muslim man to beat and rape his wife because it was in accordance with his religion. Muslim women and children are looking to American courts for protection.
Due to the push to use Sharia law in American courts Muslims and non-Muslims are now fearful. Over the past year and one half at least 16 states have been seeking to prohibit the use of foreign laws, which includes Sharia law, in their courts. The states of Tennessee and Louisiana have succeeded in passing a version restricting the use of any foreign laws. Mississippi and Utah have failed to pass such a law. States such as Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming are working to pass such a bill. Seventy percent of Oklahoma voters approved banning the use of foreign laws..
In April 2011 a DOJ Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard Callahan, assured Missouri Muslims that the Obama Administration would likely step in on behalf of Sharia law should any state try to ban Sharia law. In other words, if Missouri passes such a law the Administration or higher-ups would challenge it.
President Obama’s DOJ has taken states to court to protect the right of Muslim women to wear the hijab because New Jersey contended that while on duty as a corrections officer, women should wear religiously neutral clothing. A similar case was recently tried by the DOJ against the Philadelphia police department. While in Tennessee they defended the expansion of a Mosque contrary to the town board’s unanimous vote against it.
In June 2009 the US DOJ sponsored a booth at the Islamic Society of North America convention underwritten by none other than the Muslim Brotherhood.
In June 2010 President Barack Hussein Obama, announced that he will allow an additional 80,000 immigrants, mostly from Islamic countries, to resettle in the United States during fiscal year 2011. In early 2011 the President announced that he is allocating an additional $20 million to emigrate people from Iraq
There appears to be significant leaning by our US Department of Justice and our administration to extend special treatment to the Islamic people as not ever seen before for other religions. The American citizen, you and me, must start making our voices heard by our representatives and the Obama Administration.
