Newt Gingrich’s Sharia Law Stance Raises Questions

[Purveyor]

December 16, 2011 10:56 AM EST

If former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's past statements are to be believed, the primary threat facing the U.S. isn't a foreign adversary but the gradual imposition of Islamic Sharia law in America.

Gingrich likes to couch his policy positions in broader ideas, invoking his training as an historian to offer context and clarity. So it went in a 2010 speech to the American Enterprise Institute. He depicted a clash of civilizations and ideologies between western liberalism and radical Islam, which he likened to World War II in its importance and the Cold War in its duration.

Gingrich's View of Sharia's Status in U.S.

But Afghanistan, the current presidential frontrunner asserted at the time, is not the central front in this conflict. It is in the United States, where Gingrich contended Sharia principles were slowly and insidiously taking hold.

"Stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools; violent jihadis use violence," Gingrich said. "But in fact they're both engaged in jihad and they're both seeking to impose the same end state, which is to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Sharia."

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[kestrel91316]

1. Admit it, Newtie, you want all Muslims dead. And all liberals. And all gays.

[SomethingFishy]

2. The man is a fucking loony...

And he's not the only one.

Yes the worlds biggest army, the worlds biggest superpower is in danger of being taken over Fuck You Newt.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Newt, you dumbass. STFU!!!!

gradual . . . moving slowly. outnumbered. out armed. least of our worries . . . even if it is true.

Please, somebody, let me smack him.

just so I can watch those jowls flop back and forth.

[tularetom]

4. Seems to me newt would be happy with Sharia law here in the US

as long as he was the one doing the Sharia-ing.

Let's see, death to non christians, enforcement of a fundamentalist brand of christianity, a paramilitary state with centralized power maintained by a highly militarized police force, a;; hallmarks of Sharia law, and all concepts embraced by many Americans with Gingrich's authoritarian mindset.

[Angry Dragon]

5. tell the newt to list them and he would pull a perry ............