Religion only makes up approximately 10 to 15 percent of Islamic doctrine. It’s a mistake, Andrew C. McCarthy says, for Americans to assume otherwise. The remaining 85 to 90 percent is a comprehensive authoritarian, societal framework with its own legal code known as the sharia. Islam is made up of more political ideology than it is religious.
A former Assistant U.S. Attorney of NY, Andy McCarthy has written on jihad extensively and is perhaps most known for leading the prosecution against terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (a.k.a. the ‘blind sheik’), who orchestrated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
McCarthy expresses the importance of the debate of Muslims entering into the U.S., whether they enter as refugees or as immigrants. This debate, whether politically correct or not, is one that must be had. In National Review, he says this debate would likely not be taking place had Donald Trump not called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
The problem with the current immigration and refugee systems, McCarthy explains, is one of ideology.
Some Muslims come to the United States to practice their religion peacefully, and assimilate into the Western tradition of tolerance of other people’s liberties, including religious liberty — a tradition alien to the theocratic societies in which they grew up. Others come here to champion sharia, Islam’s authoritarian societal framework and legal code, resisting assimilation into our pluralistic society.
Since we want to both honor religious liberty and preserve the Constitution that enshrines and protects it, we have a dilemma.
The assumption that is central to this dilemma — the one that Trump has stumbled on and that Washington refuses to examine — is that Islam is merely a religion. If that’s true, then it is likely that religious liberty will trump constitutional and national-security concerns. How, after all, can a mere religion be a threat to a constitutional system dedicated to religious liberty? […]
He further explained the issue on Tuesday on the Mark Levin Show:
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