Andrew Bostom – who has written books on the subject – makes mincemeat of Michael Gerson’s attack on Newt Gingrich’s critique of Shariah law.
Former President George W. Bush’s aide Michael Gerson posted a distressingly ignorant column on 12/13/11 which attacked both former speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and my colleague Andrew C. McCarthy, for their sober, if frank conceptions of the Sharia. The counterfactual basis for Mr. Gerson’s diatribe is his own thoroughly deficient understanding of Islam’s religio-political code for personal, societal, and Muslim state behavior. He glibly—and wrongly—imputes unique Western notions of individual rights, equality before the law, or even rational legal procedures of evidence to the Sharia’s so-called “set of transcendent principles of justice.”
Gerson condemns Gingrich’s apt summary conclusion (made during a July 2010 speech at the American Enterprise Institute) that “Shariah in its natural form has principles and punishments totally abhorrent to the Western world,” while deriding the former speaker’s “qualifications” to make such an assessment. The crux of Gerson’s vitriolic, uninformed “argument”—that Gingrich has deliberately misrepresented as normative Sharia “the most radical form of Islamic law”, and dared to identify this sacralized code as “totalitarian”—is factually-challenged—and dangerous—drivel.
With vanishingly rare intellectual honesty and resolve, Gingrich has described how normative Sharia—antithetical to bedrock Western legal principles—by “divine,” immutable diktat, rejects freedom of conscience, while sanctioning violent jihadism, absurd, misogynistc “rules of evidence” (four male witnesses for rape), barbarous punishments (stoning for adultery), and polygamy.
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At last a serious presidential candidate with a clear understanding of the enemy we face. Anyone who would dispute the fact that Sharia is antithetical to Western values either lacks understanding (at best)or is a mendacious tool for the scuzzy barbarians.
Yes, Western Civilization is superior to Islam. Yes Western Civilization is worth fighting for. We must stand together and say no to those tribal, backward religious bigots coming here in droves to colonize and subjugate us in the name of their vile religious gangsterism.
A candidate who is intellectually serious. A candidate who speaks the truth about the world. A candidate who believes in America. I’m comfortable with that.
The link in “mincemeat” leads to PJM homepage.
If you would like to read more of the violence promoted by Islam, go here:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/023-violence.htm
Who should we oppose, Democrats who hate us or establishment Republicans who hate us? How about both? One of the two pretends they are conservative.
How refreshing it is to have a candidate say what he actually believes and to actually know what he is saying is the truth. Newt has his flaws but telling it like it is is not one of them. National Review just made fools of themselves by calling Newt unqualified to be president. Was GWB? Was Clinton? No need to ask about Obama. I’ll take Newt’s style of talking about anything to get others to join in the debate, over the closed mouth timidity of Romney who is afraid of making a mistake. Ideas? Have you ever heard one from Bachmann. Paul, Romney, Santorum? Only Perry and Newt offer real solid solutions to some of our big problems. Romney says “I’ll make America great again”. Bachmann says “I’ll fight for you”. Paul says “If we leave everyone alone they will leave us alone”. Santorum says “When I was in the US Senate I sponsored every bill that was worth sponsoring”. Huntsman, who cares.
This is the article I believe the author is refering to.. http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/12/17/gingrich-gerson-and-the-sharia/
It’s a little long but well worth the read.