Sharia law is not too great a step from present American practices. We already have tribal court systems on Indian reservations based upon the legal fiction that each Indian tribe is a separate nation. In non-tribal courts—state and federal courts—there is a slippery slope developing where experts are called in to explain the cultural beliefs and rituals of particular ethnic groups which participate in American life.
I wonder if the last bastion of hope lies in the “guarantee clause” of the United States Constitution, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” This requires that each state admitted to the union shall have a republican form of government. (“Republican” in this context is a form of representative democracy having legislative, executive, and judicial branches—-not the political party.) I doubt that Sharia law would fit within this Constitutional requirement.
Of course, the “Constitution is a living breathing flexible document” crowd never want to be bound by the letter of the law. Instead, the Left would readily go along with Sharia in deference to political correctness, without considering that once Sharia law is imposed, homosexuals and women having children out of wedlock would be the first to be stoned by rabid Muslim crowds. Likewise, the “dissent is the essence of patriotism” crowd would be non-plussed that Sharia brooks no dissent.
The reason we in the Christian West have so much freedom and prosperity is we as a culture struggled through the Reformation with all its violence. The Muslim world needs to go through a similar self-examination and reformation before Islam can become a religion of peace rather than intolerant and aberrant jihad.
