DC Rally to Convert America to Sharia Law Postponed on Account of Lunacy

posted at 12:14 pm on March 3, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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It is a testament to the freedoms embodied by our Constitution that a radical figure like UK cleric Anjem Choudary should even be permitted to stage a rally outside the White House invoking fellow Muslims to “rise to implement the Sharia in America.”

It is a testament to the sheer lunacy of Choudary’s beliefs that his website Shairah 4 America espouses plans for an “Islamic demolition of the Statue of Liberty” and remodeling the White House into a “White Masjid” (click for slideshow).

In any case, the following video by Choudary released this morning confirms that plans for today’s rally in DC have been scrubbed so that he and his fellow believers can turn their attention to thwarting the U.S.’s current “colonization” efforts in the Arab world.

To hear Choudary tell it, he is nothing more than a humble “missionary,” spreading the “gospel.” But what he hopes to proselytize Americans into accepting is not just an alternative to their current faith but an alternative to capitalism, which he perceives as the root of America’s financial woes.

As his fellow British extremist, Omar Bakri Mohammad, explains:

You see, the problem of the economy of the West is that you have a bunch of capitalists who control all the resources and the remainder of the people are living in a very difficult position, some of them are below the lines of poverty….

You begin to understand why liberals are so quick to defend Islamists and claim that their intentions are benign. The two groups speak the same language. They both even claim that the “media” (FOX News Channel and conservative talk radio in the case of liberals) have been distorting their message.

And what is Choudary’s true message? He spells it out in this morning’s video, explaining that

the call for the Sharia is a universal one, and it must be implemented—immediately, wherever we are in the world…

Part of that plan, as noted earlier, is to drape what looks like a giant dish towel over the face of Lady Liberty to shield “this horrendous eye sore from public view” until the statue can be razed and replaced by a giant minaret.

It all sounds perfectly reasonable—harmless, too, unless you’re a pedophile, in which case you will be impaled at the top of the Washington Monument.

NOTE: In this era of spoofs and parodies, let me iterate a point made by Meredith Jessup at the The Blaze—namely, the images and descriptions at the Shariah 4 America website look a little too silly and contrived to be the real deal. By the same token, as Jessup further notes, Choudary does link to this website from his own, AnjemChoudary.com.

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