Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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Andrew McCarthy: Beyond Terrorism, The Islamist threat is worse than you think - '...All of this can be reversed. American law need not embrace sharia. Our system guarantees only freedom of conscience -- to believe what one chooses to believe -- not a right to have those beliefs accommodated, adopted, or imposed. Regulations codifying sharia can be undone. It is unlikely, short of another terrorist attack, that Congress would revisit the 1990 Immigration Act, which, at the behest of leftist Democrats, effectively gutted ideology-based exclusions of aliens committed to the eradication of American constitutional democracy. Still, though such a reconsideration would be welcome, there is no reason, in the meantime, for U.S. government agencies to be "partnering" with Islamic groups that take their cues from the Muslim Brotherhood. Those organizations are radical, and mean our society mortal harm, even if they're not blowing up buildings. The main challenge today is not protecting the buildings; it's protecting ourselves from what's going on inside the buildings.'
With Harold Koh's appointment the scenario described is all the more likely, not less likely. As to Koh specifically, Power Line has two pieces, here and here.