Is Concern Over Sharia Just a GOP Talking Point? That’s What One Leftist Columnist Claims. But He has to Ignore the Evidence to Do So

Is Concern Over Sharia Just a GOP Talking Point?

That’s what one leftist columnist claims. But he has to ignore the evidence to do so.

The battle over Sharia is getting heated in Texas, and leftists are still insisting that the whole controversy is over nothing, for Sharia is no more threatening than a teddy bear, and even if it does have some draconian aspects, no one, absolutely no one, is even thinking about bringing it to the United States, much less to Texas.

And so it was that Houston Chronicle columnist Chris Tomlinson recently wrote that “Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Senate candidates John Cornyn and Wesley Hunt are all stoking fears of Islam in campaign ads. Others, like Railroad Commission candidate Bo French and attorney general candidates Chip Roy, Mayes Middleton, and Aaron Reitz, have promised legal action against Texas Muslims for their religion.” Tomlinson wants you to think that the poor Muslims, of course, have done nothing whatsoever to warrant any of this. The fears that Abbott, Cornyn and Hunt are “stoking” are groundless, and the “legal action against Texas Muslims” as unwarranted as it is unconstitutional.

Tomlinson goes on to fume at Aaron Reitz in particular: “‘Islam is not compatible with Western civilization,’ Reitz declared in one of the most hateful and ignorant ads of this election. ‘Politicians have imported millions of Muslims into our country. The result is more terrorism, more crime, and they even want their own illegal cities in Texas to impose Sharia law.’” Tomlinson adds: “None of that is true; it is pure bigotry. GOP candidates are trying to gain traction from a fake Islamic threat that Christian nationalists implanted in the imaginations of Republican primary voters.”

But is it really fake? Is Islam actually compatible with Western civilization? Can Tomlinson produce a sect of Islam or school of Islamic jurisprudence that does not prescribe death for criticizing Allah, Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur’an? That kind of law can cut into the freedom of speech. Can Tomlinson produce a version of Islam that does not call for women “from whom you fear disobedience” to be beaten (Qur’an 4:34), or that does not allow for polygamy, easy divorce for males, and lesser rights for women regarding inheritance and court testimony? Is Tomlinson aware of Sharia’s laws for non-Muslims, and does he believe them compatible with the Western principle of equality of rights of all before the law?

Ignoring mountains of evidence that Islam is actually not compatible with Western civilization, Tomlinson goes on to pretend that the Republican stance on Sharia in Texas is all such an elaborate deception that even Republicans are calling it out: “‘The Muslim community is the boogeyman for this cycle,’ Texas GOP consultant Vinny Minchillo told Politico. ‘One hundred percent this message works — there’s no question about it. This has been polled up one side and down the other, and with Texas Republican primary voters, it works. It is a thing they are legitimately scared of.’”

Nevertheless, Tomlinson insists, all such concerns are absolutely groundless: “But there is nothing legitimate about those fears. No jurisdiction practices Islamic law, known as Sharia, and no serious politician has suggested making Sharia the law of the land. No foreign Islamic organization has carried out a violent attack in the United States in more than a decade, while the eight attacks and 46 disrupted plots since 2020 were by self-described, homegrown jihadists with no external support, according to research by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Radical Islam is rare.” --->READ MORE HERE

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