Pro-American Islamic Organization AIFD defends Newt's claim!

Last night, Dr. Zudi Jasser, founder of American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) strongly defended Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

CAIR launched an attack on Gingrich after his stating "A truly modern person who happened to worship Allah would not be a threat," Gingrich continued. "A person who belonged to any kind of belief in shari'a - any kind of effort to impose that on the rest of us, would be a mortal threat." In response to a question during the S.C. debates.

CAIR and the Tampa chapter is dealing with its own controversy accused of indoctrination in the Hillsborough public schools just as the city prepares to host Newt Gingrich, and other presidential candidates during the primary debate on Monday, January 23, 2012.

CAIR Tampa's executive director Hassan Shibly and other CAIR member have been speaking in local public schools for the past three (3) years, ostensibly with no opposing view according to parent of one students, who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.

CAIR leaders have openly stated Sharia Law should be the law of the land in America, and they would achieve these goals through education.  It appears CAIR and others are making great strides across America in these efforts.

Jasser said Gingrich had "correctly contextualized his comments with the way shari'a is implemented in Saudi Arabia's hate-filled public policy."

Saylor's comments, Jasser said, "demonstrate exactly how irrational Islamist groups like CAIR can get when they are directly confronted with the incompatibilities of Islamism and its instrument of shari'a with western society and modernity."

"One would be hard-pressed to find any public repudiation of Saudi Arabia's or Iran's interpretation of shari'a by CAIR."

When asked during a South Carolina campaign event whether he would ever endorse an American Muslim running for president, Candidate Gingrich replied, "It would depend entirely on whether they would commit in public to give up shari'a." He went on to say, "A truly modern person who happened to worship Allah would not be a threat. A person who belonged to any kind of belief in shari'a - any kind of effort to impose that on the rest of us, would be a mortal threat." (Read full article here)

Education Coalition spokesman Tim Curtis said, "We agree with Speaker Gingrich on this issue. Radical Muslim organizations that advocate for the imposition of Sharia law in America are a threat to our culture and our freedom!" He added, "That's why we vehemently oppose the presence of a representative of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Hillsborough County Classrooms."

Muslim leader M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islam Forum for Democracy said, "...Islamism and its inherent desire to implement the ... doctrine of shari'a as an instrument of an Islamic state ... is a dangerous theo-political ideology ...". (Read full article, including denunciation of CAIR and similar organizations here)

The Education Coalition is in contact with the Hillsborough School Board and is insisting that a system be put in place to insure that students won't be put in a potentially harmful situation like this again.

The Coalition will exert continued efforts including rallies, appearances at School Board meetings, email and letter writing campaigns, and press events to make parents in Hillsborough County aware of this threat until such time as their request is adequately addressed.

The Coalition's position is supported, in addition to Speaker Gingrich's statement, by many groups, Muslim and non-Muslim, who recognize that Sharia compliant Islam is not solely a religion, but a theocratic form of government, with Sharia law as the "constitution".

CAIR is one of the organizations that promote the recognition of Sharia in America. Some groups advocate for the violent imposition of Sharia while others like CAIR favor a more subtle, propaganda-like approach.

Noted writer Andrew C. McCarthy says it well in his article, "It's About Sharia", where he wrote: "...Gingrich is going about the long-overdue business of resetting our understanding of the civilizational jihad that has been waged against the United States for some 31 years. It is a jihad begun when Islamists overran the American embassy in Tehran, heralding a revolutionary regime that remains the No. 1 U.S. security challenge in the Middle East. . . .

The single purpose of this jihad is the imposition of sharia. On that score, Gingrich made two points of surpassing importance.

First, some Islamists employ mass-murder attacks while others prefer a gradual march through our institutions - our legal, political, academic, and financial systems, as well as our broader culture; the goal of both, though, is the same. . . .

Second, that outcome is the death of freedom. In Islamist ideology, sharia is deemed to be the necessary precondition for Islamicizing a society - for Islam is not merely a religious doctrine, but a comprehensive socio-economic and political system. . . ."

Note, AIFD was one group recommended by the Education Coalition as an alternative to CAIR.