Christian Stealth Jihad?
A favorite theme of the right-wing nutjob community in the US is to fantasize about the threat of an Islaimc Shariah takeover of the United States.
They accuse every effective Muslim leader and every successful Muslim organization in one way or another of scheming to institute Islamic law (Shariah) as the official law of our government.
The pictures they paint in their books, radio shows, and blogs range from Muslims conspiring for a hostile takeover (through violent Jihad) to Muslims conspiring for a peaceful takeover of the United States (through perfectly legal means). The latter is what the sages of the nutjob community – yes I am aware that’s an oxymoron – are terming stealth Jihad.
Stealth Jihad of course is the take over from within, the slow and gradual but forced transformation of American government from our current constitution to Shariah (Islamic law), a process to be achieved through the system, in the light of day, in a perfectly legal and peaceful manner.
There are many problems with this old wife’s tale of which the following are a few:
- - Muslims constitute less than 3 million people according to the Pew Research Center, that’s less than 1% of the United States. So whatever effort they are going to invest in, it had better subdue more than 99% of the American people, that’s 297 million free, discerning, intelligent people.
- - If Muslims indeed are working on a peaceful takeover of the country, what does that assume about the 3 million, that they have superhuman ability to influence and brainwash everyone else? And what does it assume about the 297 million others, that they are hapless, helpless, gullible morons that can easily be brainwashed?
- - There is in fact not a single Muslim organization of note that has as its mission “the Islamization of our legal system” or anything even close to suggesting replacing the US constitution with the Shariah. Not ISNA, not CAIR, not MPAC, not MAS, not MSA. The claim originates from lifelong detractors of American Muslim organizations and leaders and their efforts to enfranchise their minority communities, never from the mission statements of Muslims themselves. (I challenge any of those detractors to point LoonWatch to any of the mission statements of the above organizations that would prove us wrong.)
So far so good.
Well so what about working to replace our secular constitution that separates between Church and State with some religious canonical rules and regulations that does not? Are there any organizations out there that in fact claim such a thing as their mission?
The answer is yes.
One such organization is a radical group by the name of Reclaim Oklahoma For Christ (reclaimoklahoma.org). Here is the mission statement from their website:
To educate our pastors, legislators, educators, students and all citizens as to the truth about America’s Christian Heritage and the role of fundamental, Biblical Christianity in the establishment and function of our legal, legislative and educational systems; and to work towards the successful reestablishment of these values in our society today.
Hmm, America’s Christian Heritage? So America only has one heritage? There are no Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, Buddhist Americans, Atheist Americans, etc? We are all one big homogeneous group with a single religious heritage determined for us by this group. If you are anything but Christian, tough luck for you, drop your heritage and get in line to assume THE American heritage as this group sees it.
More importantly, notice the explicit language involved in the phrase: the role of fundamental, Biblical Christianity in the establishment and function of our legal, legislative systems.
So basically, the goal of this group is not just see the US government, schools, universities and society at large dominated with their religion and it’s holy book, the Bible, but with a “fundamental” interpretation thereof.
So, here’s a pop quiz, what does one call working to subject America – its “legal, legislative, and educational systems”, as well as “all citizens” to the “fundamental” teachings of someone’s religious holy book, its values, rules, etc? Oh yes, “working to dominate America with Sharia via a stealth Jihad!”
That’s right folks, there is an ongoing stealth Christian Jihad out there for Christian Shariah to dominate US government and society.
Mind you, unlike with the Muslims, it’s not a mother population of 3 million mostly struggling immigrants we are talking about here, but a mother population of 70 million linguistically native, religiously fervent, politically savvy mainstream looking citizens. Talk about stealth.
And guess what? The “reclaiming America for Jesus” bible-thumping bunch ARE in fact in full “infiltration” (to use a favorite Spencer term) of our government, our educational system, and society at large. It’s a population that does not just have 2 members in congress like with the Muslims, but dozens in congress and the senate, not to mention the sprawling mega-churches, the business tycoons, media conglomerates, universities, and well-funded lobby groups. Their tangible effect can be seen from changing tax-payer funded school curricula and student history books in Texas to affecting our federal laws on abortion, to influencing our foreign policy (including the push for misguided wars in the Middle East some of which have occurred like Iraq and others for which they are still pushing).
Hutaare (Christian Warriors) Militia
And guess what, it turns out it’s not all stealth. There are pockets of this population that is willing to go the violent terrorist route to reclaim America for Jesus!
Where is the excitable hairball known as Robert Spencer? Why the silence, Bob? This is totally up your ally if indeed your beef is with “stealth jihad” and “religious shariah” taking over the US, and not necessarily Muslims per se as you often claim? Do you see why people think you are a blabbering hypocrite?
And where are the screeching wails of your foul-mouthed sidekick, Pamela Geller? Cat got your tongue Pam?
Where is Brigitte Gabriel, and Nonie Darwish and Wafa Sultan and the other sweaty cheerleaders of the big cry against the imminent “Islamic takeover”? No good book deals here for you ladies? No speaking tours opening up where you get cash bags and back pats from your ringmasters?
Where are the monitoring websites, and the blog craze, and the concerned members of congress, and the warnings of the expert talking heads, and the tell-all books? No money in this business? Thank God for the Muslims!
March 31st, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Zingel is back. Back again. Zingel is back, tell a friend! And a great hit he has got on his hands too! How true, thanks for filling in the massive void on the hypocritical blogoshphere Zingy!
March 31st, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Excellent article by Zingel exposing the true villains of America and the hypocrisy of the idiots’ brigade (that’s what I call Spencer and his “sweaty cheerleaders”). You won’t hear a peep out of these crazies because there is no money and fame in talking about a Christian militia taking over America. The most lucrative business out there is to attack Islam and talk about its secret plans of world domination!
March 31st, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Great piece Zinger! I don’t see how Spencer and the other freaks can ignore the Dominionist threat to this nation, oh wait I can but man do they think we are dense.
March 31st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Don’t Dominionists of this type believe in “convert or die”? (IOW there’s no equivalent of “dhimmi”?)
That would make them worse than Islamists, even from a viewpoint critical of religion in general…
April 1st, 2010 at 2:43 am
It is an open secret that Islam plans to conquer the whole world and put it under the yoke of Sharia barbaric laws just like in Afghanistan,Pakistan and Iran.I am glad the threat of Islam has woken up the Christians in America to be ready for the FINAL CRUSADE all over the world against Islam and crush it for ever.To trust a Muslim beside you is just like having a poisonous SNAKE under your pillow and try to have a peaceful sleep.
April 1st, 2010 at 3:27 am
by all accounts Sarah Palin is also a dominionist …
April 1st, 2010 at 9:48 am
“And where are the screeching wails of your foul-mouthed sidekick, Pamela Geller?”
Dude, it’s the other way around. Spencer is Geller’s lapdog.
April 1st, 2010 at 10:22 am
Yay! Great to see Zingel back!!
Awesome piece!
April 1st, 2010 at 11:22 am
Someone should contact someone at CDAC about this piece they put up on their website:
http://www.christianadc.org/news-and-articles/488-christians-defamed-by-abc-cnn-and-mainstream-media
Typical that they would say a muslim attempting to kill innocents is doing so SPECIFICALLY in accordance with “islamic teaching” but not the other way around.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:36 pm
“It is an open secret that Islam plans to conquer the whole world and put it under the yoke of Sharia barbaric laws just like in Afghanistan,Pakistan and Iran.I am glad the threat of Islam has woken up the Christians in America to be ready for the FINAL CRUSADE all over the world against Islam and crush it for ever.To trust a Muslim beside you is just like having a poisonous SNAKE under your pillow and try to have a peaceful sleep.”
I’m loving your sarcasm here, Lawrence.
April 1st, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Thank you lawrence for confirming the violent and conquering nature of ChristINSANITY
April 1st, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Lawrence the Looooon >
Heavily armed Muslim armies are present all around the world & they all have a unified commander with a PNAC-style plan don’t they?
Talk about recycling all the classic paranoid Conspiracy Theories e.g. Nazi anti-Semitism, Protocols of the Elders of Zion & The Chetnik Serb using forced Hijabs & attacks by a powerless minority.
Sorry but don’t let the FACTS get in the way of the “Moooooslims they’re heeeeere” hysteria e.g. lack of faceless non-sectarian monolithic unity & the combined economic power of something like Spain or even less!
April 1st, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Being in the 21st century, you’d think Christians living in first world countries would be able to see beyond their primitive tribalism, but it seems some still cannot.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Using the term “Jihad” for Crusader activities is halfway subscribing to the Loon-claim that violence is inartistically Islamic and incidentally Christian , so please use the good old term “Crusade” for Christian terrorists ..
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:52 am
Lawrence, there is something seriously wrong with you. Get help.
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:30 am
Loons, and conservatives as a whole, take things way out of concept. This often leads to fantasizing and dumb conspirancy theorists. Disagree? You’re a Marxist apparently.
April 2nd, 2010 at 8:43 am
Sorry about that computor meltdown where was I?
I am so glad that I live in a country with strong gun controls after seeing that picture .
I would be afraid to live in a country where such loons and proto terrorists such as these can can buy automatic weapons.
In Britain and France I know such violent headcases first of all have to try to get or make weapons and often come to the authorities attention at this point (Try to buy Hair Bleach and Nail Varnish remover in bulk and see what happens folks. It wont be the fashion police at your door ,it would be the Special Branch in the UK or the CRS if you are in france, other countries have there own similar brands of police) .
Is it true that Walmart sells guns still in the US? The thought of ASDA or Carrefour selling them in Europe does not bare thinking about.
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:20 am
The FBI has certainly been infiltrating the Muslim community in the U.S. over the past several years, but that’s NOTHING compared to the money and manpower they have been pouring into tracking and infiltrating Christian Dominionists and Reconstructionists. These groups constitute an extreme threat, unlike a few scattered would-be “jihadis.”
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:28 pm
yeah lawrence thanks for providing this week’s entertainment for loonwatch..:D
April 4th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Well put together..you don’t hear much of this in the mainstream media…wonder why? And Lawrence…get a life!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:51 am
OMG ROFL….you guys are off the richter scale. This article is a waste of cyberspace
April 7th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
BOTH sides are pots calling the kettles black.
Religious fanatics of any kind are dangerous to society. All religious fanatics are alike in that way be they Christian or Muslim or what have you. We have Christian wing nuts here trying to create a Christian state, and Muslim wing nuts abroad trying to establish Islamic states (and unfortunately been successful – what there is now 56 or so Islamic states). All religious wing nuts are a menace to the world. This is why secular democracy is important to preserve here and promote abroad. Religious states are bigoted states. Church/Mosque/Temple should all be separate from the state and one civil law for all. It is the best way to create a society for people of all religions and no religion or belief in the supernatural to live as true equals where no one is above or below another because of their religion, where no one religion has more claim to a country than any other in that country.
The religion the fanatics promote is irrelevant – any wingnut of any religion who tries to join their religion to the state and claim the land for their faith should be fought against. A “rose” by any other name still stinks.
April 10th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
@ TYO you conveniently forgot the facts about non-religious ideologies being far more destructive from the longview of history i.e. numbers of human beings killed. Why ignore the inconvenient elephant in the room?
September 5th, 2010 at 2:19 am
It’s urge time to bringback crussade spirit and pure martir honour to our heart and start to spiritualize your self at once. Are you remember to Jesus? That name is the only name that stoping islam invasion in the time of islam with his ottoman empire (nonislam head cutter) but i see now that name start to dissapear in our heart. First thing to do is stop wearing skirt and talk like a sissy girl and be a informed man, faithful, and prepare for a martir live. It is a great idea to nuke mecca and get rid koran (al’quran) from this world that book is a pure sattan word. Extreme act is needed to fight extreme ideology like islam. I am 100% agree to establish christian millitia, great idea! Kingdom of heaven in the world needs an army too.
October 9th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Can a non muslim enter any mosque in the united states,if not ,why not
October 9th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Can a non muslim enter any mosque in the united states,if not ,why not this is america,not the middle east