Seen as the front-runner to challenge incumbent president Barack Obama in next year's presidential elections, US Republican president hopeful Newt Gingrich has a history of anti-Islam slurs, who sees Shari`ah a mortal threat to the United States.Posted on 12/22/2011 6:35:29 AM PST by Cronos
Seen as the front-runner to challenge incumbent president Barack Obama in next year's presidential elections, US Republican president hopeful Newt Gingrich has a history of anti-Islam slurs, who sees Shari`ah a mortal threat to the United States.
“I believe Shari`ah is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it,” Gingrich said in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington in July 2010and cited by The New York Times.
“I think it’s that straightforward and that real.”
The former speaker of the House of Representatives in the mid-1990s believes in the theory that advocates of Shari`ah are radical Islamists.
"Stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools; violent jihadis use violence,” Gingrich said in the speech.
"But in fact they’re both engaged in jihad, and they’re both seeking to impose the same end state, which is to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Shari`ah."
In 2010, Gingrich and his wife produced and narrated a film, "America at Risk", about what they say the threat of "radical Islam".
In the film, they discuss what they say the danger of terrorism and Shari`ah against a lurid background of terrorist bombings, bloody victims, wailing sirens and chanting Muslim crowds.
Gingrich had once called for a ban on all mosques near Ground Zero "so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia."
Shari`ah has come under scrutiny recently in the US, with right-wing campaigners and politicians questioning its role and operating system.
Lawmakers in at least 15 states have introduced proposals forbidding local judges from considering Shari`ah when rendering verdicts on issues of divorces and marital disputes.
In Islam, Shari`ah govern issues in Muslims’ lives from daily prayers to fasting and from to inheritance and marital cases to financial disputes.
The Islamic rulings, however, do not apply on non-Muslims, even if in a dispute with non-Muslims.
'Islamic Terrorism'!
Gingrich has also been critical of president Obama's refusal to label terrorism as "Islamic" or "jihadist".
“The left’s refusal to tell the truth about the Islamist threat is a natural parallel to the 70-year pattern of left-wing intellectuals refusing to tell the truth about communism and the Soviet Union,” Gingrich said.
Administration officials say that labels smear the entire Islamic faith with terrorism.
Gingrich was the front-runner in the Republican race recently, just ahead of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
However, Gingrich's lead has evaporated in national polls amid a barrage of Romney television ads that have cited, among other things, the ethics charges Gingrich faced as House speaker.
Gingrich, who had a reputation in Washington for counter-punching when criticized, has fired back at Romney on occasion, but vowed to continue running a positive campaign.
Gingrich's anti-Islam slurs are not the first by Republican presidential aspirants.
Former candidate Herman Cain had said that he would not appoint a Muslim in his administration.
Cain, who withdrew from the race for the White House, later modified his position by calling for an unconstitutional "loyalty" oath for Muslim appointees.
Republican aspirant Rick Santorum had also describes Islamic Shari`ah as "an existential threat" to America.
US Muslims have been sensing a growing hostility following a hearing presented by Republican representative Peter King on what he described as “radicalization” of US Muslims.
Recently, a Republican Missouri lawmaker described Islam as a disease like polio while another Alaska Rep. branded Muslims as ‘occupiers’ of American neighborhoods.A US survey has revealed that the majority of Americans know very little about Muslims and their faith.
They never evolved. The mullahs are their voice and rulers and their faith calls for death to christians and jews. They also use our prisons as recruiting grounds..mostly blacks have joined their cause..black muslims.
If Janet Reno could send in the military to bring down Waco..how can we embrace islam as a religion of peace? women are abused and murdered..children in terrorists training camps. They will never blend into a democrat or free republic. Gingrich is right.
They never evolved. The mullahs are their voice and rulers and their faith calls for death to christians and jews. They also use our prisons as recruiting grounds..mostly blacks have joined their cause..black muslims.
If Janet Reno could send in the military to bring down Waco..how can we embrace islam as a religion of peace? women are abused and murdered..children in terrorists training camps. They will never blend into a democrat or free republic. Gingrich is right.
Clear thinking, obviously. I wonder what Big Dig Mitt would have to say.
ML/NJ
Newt clearly gets the threat of Islam to the West, better than any of the other candidates. For that alone, he deserves the support of conservatives in this race.
And the reasons for supporting Newt just keep rolling in.
This the main thing Gingrich has going for him. He is right on just about any subject. He is dead on with his comments about Islam.
My kind of guy.
This info. needs to be spread far and wide, should get Newt a good million more votes. LOL
Hey, he might lose Dearborn, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.
Tell it like it is, Newt!
Forget about votes for the moment, Newt needs money if we can hope for him to win.
It amazes me, that Palin fanatics sent her huge amounts of money for vague concepts that she Might, just maybe, possibly, run, if the conditions are right, Venus aligns with Jupiter, The sky turns red in the East at Sunset, etc,,,, But keep that money coming in! (And it did).
While Newt can hardly pay his phone bill.
He just went up 10 points for me.... still undecided and he has some big negatives....but this is a HUGE positive. He GETS this and that is key.... one thing in a Gingrich Presidency - NO BOWING!
He is beginning to make me think I need to take another look at Newt. I don’t trust him, but at least he is identifying the enemies of the USA correctly.
Islam will be at war with the non-Islamic world until the whole world follows Shariah law.
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Watch this: "Three Things About Islam." 8:10 long. Very educational.
Read this: 10 Myths About Islam
Download this: "Shariah, The Threat To America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis". 177 pages that will give you a full understanding of how Shariah is affecting the United States.
oh, Newt has BIG negatives for me, and I still think his divorces were wrong. But, he is fiscally conservative and can balance the budget, he will protect our nation from Islam and he will push back the pro-abortionists and pro-gaymarriage advocates
That is exactly why I’m supporting Newt.
He get what Islam is trying to do to us.
Muslims themselves say that any Muslim-majority area is part of the global Caliphate.
Have you seen this:
He da man!
Most americans know all they need to know about muslimes. They are the enemy. Every stinking one of them. They are a fifth column. Every stinking one of them. Deport all muslimes.
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