The US Constitution and Islam: Introduction

There is a debate going on at Pedestrian Infidel regarding amending the US Constitution due to the threat to American security and the American way of life posed by an increasingly radicalized Islamic world. Here are my comments to that debate:

Yankee Doodle said...
A few points:

1) I think the readers here in the blogosphere have a very good handle on what Islam really is -- there is disagreement on some points, and on some phraseology, but we're getting an education. And, with every terrorist act that occurs, more people outside the blogosphere are getting an education, too.

2) The First Amendment protects not only religious beliefs and religious speech, but also political speech. Islam, as founded by Muhammed and as practiced throughout the world and throughout history, is a political as well as religious ideology. It is an ideology of conquest -- absolute conquest, of the people, their bodies, their minds and their souls, both in this world and in the hereafter. In principle, it matters not whether we call it a religion or a political movement, since both are protected by the First Amendment.

3) Islamic law itself is unconstitutional. To implement it, the US Constitution would have to be essentially done away with. That in and of itself argues not for changing the Constitution, since changing it is what the other side wants, but for enforcing it. The Constitution, as it is, is one of our biggest strengths. Our weaknesses are in the understanding of our Constitution among our citizens, so many of whom have been dumbed-down, and in abiding by it among our politicians, so many of whom lean whichever way the wind blows.

4) While many Muslims are sent here by certain elements in the Islamic world to subvert us, many come here to escape the radicalism; they are in search of freedom. They are quiet, since there are so many violent radicals in the Muslim community who intimidate them. It is difficult for them to organize, since they in particular get targeted by the terrorists. We need to not turn the decent people away by labeling them our enemies.

We defeated Communism without amending the Constitution, we defeated Nazism without amending the Constitution, and we will defeat Islam without amending the Constitution.

Do not prohibit the preachers of hate from preaching hate; rather, let them speak, and let's identify who they are. If they are not US citizens, kick them out of the country. We need to stop allowing Saudi Arabia and other countries, with government money, to establish mosques in our country preaching a political doctrine which means the destruction of our country. We should consider pressing for the freedom to preach other religions and political ideas in those countries, such as Saudi Arabia, where Christianity is basically illegal. We should also consider holding the Saudi government and others responsible for the actions of their citizens, when it can be shown that they have not only negligently failed to prevent such actions, but have actually aided and abetted them.

The main thing we need is elected leaders with 1) wisdom and 2) guts. Perhaps Tom Cruise and his Impossible Mission Force could find us some candidates?

The bottom line, though, is that the faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves; the US Constitution was never intended to be used by anyone to foist Islam or any other political or religious agenda on us, but rather, to prevent that. (Click here for some quotes.) If, in battling Islam, we establish a mirror society that is every bit as evil, only anti-Muslim, then the devil, attacking from the opposite direction, will still have won, and we, outflanked, will still be in Hell-on-Earth.

7:18 PM

Some of my comments came from the following, and was linked: (Click here for some quotes.)

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

Ramsey Clark (U.S. Attorney General)

"Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us."

Katharine Hepburn