Friday, April 3, 2009

Why do I feel like I'm being baited?

In her latest post, Ms. FreeAmerica continues her all to predictable "Obama is a Muslim" line. This time, she's thrown us a little curve ball by appearing to have a little knowledge about Islam. Heck, she even threw in a link to an outside "source".
Does Obama have a Muslim past and why does it matter? Muslims are suggesting that Sharia "Koran Law" be added to our Constitutional law and practiced side by side. Sharia law uses public beatings, decapitation, limb removal and other very unacceptable punishments, is this what Americans want in our country?
I can't be positive, but I think I know where she's getting this from. Rather than me trying to explain where she got this latest reason to don her tin foil hat, I'll let Fox News "do the talkin' for me".
ALISYN CAMEROTA (Fox anchor): The White House is defending its nominee to be State Department Legal Adviser. Now, some of the criticism of this nominee, Harold Koh, is based on remarks that he reportedly made saying that Islamic Sharia law should apply in U.S. courts, even though those laws are used in some countries to justify stripping women of basic rights and even worse, frankly.
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He reportedly back in 2007 told the Yale Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, that, quote, “in an appropriate case, he didn’t see any reason why Sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States.” What might that appropriate case be?
There's a great piece in Slate that takes this little piece of hackery apart at the seams:
The New York Post today published a letter from Robin Reeves Zorthian, who actually organized the Yale Club dinner to which Stein refers. In that letter, Zorthian writes that "the account given by Steve Stein of Dean Koh's comments is totally fictitious and inaccurate" and that she, her husband, "and several fellow alumni ... are all adamant that Koh never said or suggested that sharia law could be used to govern cases in US courts." Why should we believe her and her colleagues over Stein? Well, for one thing, Koh in all his academic articles and many public statements has never said anything to suggest some dogged fealty to sharia. But the right-wing blogs have yet to take note of Zorthian's version of events; the sharia fable is chuffing along on its own steam now; and Fox can continue to pass along Stein's account of the story in a breathless game of sky-is-falling telephone. [Emphasis Added]
Since I've already tried to get her off the "Obama is a Muslim" bandwagon by reminding her that it really just makes her look crazy [which, to her credit, she published], I thought I'd keep my comments simple this time:
I can't be positive where you're going with this, but I'm begging you to do a little research before you go any further. Just in case you don't want to, I've given you a little start here.
Let's face it, anytime you can be compared to the "He's an Arab" lady and you don't even flinch, you need help. I'm just trying to pull her back from the edge.

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