Washington Times: Shariah a danger to U.S., security pros say. No kidding? We already knew this.

Yesterday, the web site of the Washington Times newspaper reported about a most remarkable insight into the problem facing America with the spread of Islamic Sharia Law. In a copyrighted article entitled: Shariah a danger to U.S., security pros say, Obama policy change urged, written by Bill Gertz, it says:

A panel of national security experts who worked under Republican and Democratic presidents is urging the Obama administration to abandon its stance that Islam is not linked to terrorism, arguing that radical Muslims are using Islamic law to subvert the United States.

In a report set for release today, the panel states that "it is vital to the national security of the United States, and to Western civilization at large, that we do what we can to empower Islam's authentic moderates and reformers."

According to the report, proponents of Shariah are "Muslim supremacists" waging "civilization jihad" along with the Islamist terrorists engaged in violent jihad, like al Qaeda.

Read the entire story on the Washington Times to hear all the comments on this important article. The 19 member panel of experts who wrote this report include retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence in the George W. Bush administration, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Harry E. Soyster, Defense Intelligence Agency director from 1988 to 1991. Included in the team of former defense, law enforcement and intelligence officials were Clinton administration CIA Director R. James Woolsey and Andrew C. McCarthy, former assistant US attorney in New York, a career counterterrorism prosecutor during the Clinton administration.

Today, the web site Family Security Matters  has published that complete 177-page report in .pdf format that was written about in the Washington Times news story.

SHARIAH: THE THREAT TO AMERICA
AN EXERCISE IN COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
REPORT OF TEAM ‘B’ II

The Washington Times story is the latest public admission to a serious threat facing America that prominent members of the anti-Jihadist movement have been talking about for a long time. On July 5, 2010, Nonie Darwish writing for Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace, said in her article: Sharia: A National Security Threat:

The mainstream media and our politicians are in denial of any existential threat from Sharia.  To them, Islam is just another co-equal, peaceful religion.  As far as it pertains to personal faith,  that is fine;  but Sharia (the political and legal movement) must never be considered a religious right but be outlawed.  To this day,  slavery and oppression of women and minorities are the law and highly regulated by Sharia.  Our president and congress must act to prevent us falling to our very own underground Islamic groups demanding Sharia or else!

Jeffrey Breinholt wrote an article on July 15, 2010 in the CounterTerrorism Blog  Shari’ah Courts in America? in which he reports about another hidden danger to the spread of Islamic Sharia Law in America.

An issue in Zeyno Baran’s recent Counterterrorism Blog post jumped out at me because of my current research into how Islam has been treated by U.S. courts. Zeyno’s note dealt with the recent appointment of Imam Talal Eid to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which she questioned, in part, because of his suggestion in his Harvard Divinity School dissertation of “the establishment of Shari’ah courts which would manage the family affairs of American Muslims and mediate their religious affairs within the scope of American law.”

When she posted the article, I was attending a transnational counterterrorism conference sponsored by Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and I had occasion to discuss the implications of Eid’s idea with a constitutional law professor in attendance, Wayne McCormack of the University of Utah. How radical Eid’s idea is in American law would depend on the specifics, but I am convinced it is grounds for concern, for the reasons Zeyno puts forth.

In plenty of situations in American life, citizens agree to be bound by the rulings of institutions that do not have any force of law, other than the consent of the parties. Private arbitration, for example, is an established form of resolving labor and stock trading disputes. The legality of arbitration judgments, and their enforceability by U.S. courts, is generally determined by contract law. What happens when religion is injected into the equation?

For the most part, our dimwitted progressive mainstream news media has been consciously covering up the details about the spread of Islamic terrorism in America. Terrorism that has been emanating from Muslim mosques that have sprung up across America like weeds. More importantly, the spread of mosques across America is more likely compared to the building of our Army Forts across America in the 1800's during our own Western expansion. 

Some groups of people such as the web site Religion of Peace have been keeping track of the growing number of incidents perpetrated by radical Muslim terrorists. Check the left hand margin of this blog to see the daily counter of Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide. But the apologists of Islam in America refuse to make the connection to what has been taking place on our own soil. The Religion of Peace has also compiled a list of the terrorist attacks within America. While 16,051 deaths have been recorded worldwide at the hands of Muslim extremists, well over 3,000 people have been murdered right here in America. Here is the list of dates and places compiled by the Religion of Peace.

For anyone wondering about the history of deadly Islamic terror on American soil in the last 35 years, here’s what we could find:

Date	Country	City/State	Killed	Injured	Description
4/14/1972	USA	New York, NY	1	3	Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one.
1/19/1973	USA	Brooklyn, NY	1	1	Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm.
7/18/1973	USA	Washington, DC	8	2	Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad.
10/19/1973	USA	Oakland, CA	1	1	Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead.
10/29/1973	USA	Berkeley, CA	1	0	A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists.
11/25/1973	USA	Oakland, CA	1	0	A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists.
12/11/1973	USA	Oakland, CA	1	0	A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth.
12/13/1973	USA	Oakland, CA	1	0	A woman is shot to deah on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists.
12/20/1973	USA	Oakland, CA	1	0	Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor.
12/22/1973	USA	Oakland, CA	2	0	Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day.
12/24/1973	USA	Oakland, CA	1	0	A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1/24/1974	USA	Oakland, CA	4	1	Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women.
4/1/1974	USA	Oakland, CA	1	1	A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman.
4/16/1974	USA	Ingleside, CA	1	0	A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists.
3/9/1977	USA	Washington, DC	1	1	Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died.
7/22/1980	USA	Bethesda, MD	1	0	A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam.
8/31/1980	USA	Savou, IL	2	0	An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife.
11/6/1989	USA	St. Louis, MO	1	0	A 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her parents for bringing 'dishonor' to their family by dating an 'infidel' African-American.
1/31/1990	USA	Tuscon, AZ	1	0	A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid.
11/5/1990	USA	New York City, NY	1	0	An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel.
1/25/1993	USA	Langley, VA	2	3	A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters.
2/26/1993	USA	New York, NY	6	1040	Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers.
3/1/1994	USA	Brooklyn, NY	1	0	A Muslim fires on a vanload of Jewish boys, killing one.
3/23/1997	USA	New York, NY	1	6	A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack.
4/3/1997	USA	Lompoc, CA	1	0	A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim.
3/17/2000	USA	Atlanta, GA	1	1	A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner.
9/11/2001	USA	Washington, DC	184	53	Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
9/11/2001	USA	Shanksville, PA	40	0	Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building.
9/11/2001	USA	New York, NY	2752	251	Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured.
3/19/2002	USA	Tuscon, AZ	1	0	A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course.
5/27/2002	USA	Denton, TX	1	0	Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard.
7/4/2002	USA	Los Angeles, CA	2	0	Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people.
9/5/2002	USA	Clinton, MD	1	0	A 55-year-old pizzaria owner is shot six times in the back by Muslims at close range.
9/21/2002	USA	Montgomery, AL	1	1	Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one.
9/23/2002	USA	Baton Rouge, LA	1	0	A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers.
10/2/2002	USA	Wheaton, MD	1	0	Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot.
10/3/2002	USA	Montgomery County, MD	5	0	Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period.
10/9/2002	USA	Manassas, VA	1	1	A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team.
10/11/2002	USA	Fredericksburg, VA	1	0	Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas.
10/14/2002	USA	Arlington, VA	1	0	A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot.
10/22/2002	USA	Aspen Hill, MD	1	0	A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers.
8/6/2003	USA	Houston, TX	1	0	After undergoing a religious revival, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man.
12/2/2003	USA	Chicago, IL	1	0	A Muslim doctor deliberately allows a Jewish patient to die from an easily treatable condition.
4/13/2004	USA	Raleigh, NC	1	4	A Muslim man runs down five strangers with a car.
4/15/2004	USA	Scottsville, NY	1	2	In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested.
6/16/2006	USA	Baltimore, MD	1	0	A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim gunman in an unprovoked terror attack.
6/25/2006	USA	Denver, CO	1	5	Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
7/28/2006	USA	Seattle, WA	1	5	An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.
10/6/2006	USA	Louisville, KY	4	1	In an 'honor' attack, a Muslim man rapes and beats his estranged wife, leaving her for dead, then savagely murders their four children.
2/13/2007	USA	Salt Lake City, UT	5	4	A Muslim immigrant goes on a shooting rampage at a mall, targeting people buying Valentine's Day cards at a gift shop and killing five.
1/1/2008	USA	Irving, TX	2	0	A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle.
7/6/2008	USA	Jonesboro, GA	1	0	A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing.
2/12/2009	USA	Buffalo, NY	1	0	The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
6/1/2009	USA	Little Rock, AR	1	1	A Muslim with 'religious motives' shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center.
11/2/2009	USA	Glendale, AZ	1	1	A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09)
11/5/2009	USA	Ft. Hood, TX	13	31	A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
12/4/2009	USA	Binghamton, NY	1	0	A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for 'persecuted' Muslims.
4/14/2010	USA	Marquette Park, IL	5	2	After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'

(3,098 killed by Muslims in America in 67 terror attacks)

The above tally of victims and incidents does not account for the number of attempts to commit acts of terrorism that failed or were stopped by law enforcement. We know about the bomb attempt on a Detroit bound Northwest flight with 300 passengers on Christmas Day by Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. We know about Faisal Shahzad, who constructed the Times Square bomb that failed to go off. In court, Faisal Shahzad said: "One has to understand where I'm coming from," he told U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum. "I consider myself a Mujahid, a Muslim-soldier." And we have read about the attempt to kill soldiers in Fort Dix New Jersey by six Muslim terrorists. All these have failed but could have accounted for hundreds or thousands of more Americans murdered on our soil by Islamic terrorists.

Isn't it time to wake up and see what's going on? If Islam is at war with America, why doesn't our government and news media admit it?