Hey, what’s with American Muslim “moderates” saying they want to make America into an Islamic country, albeit by non-violent means? In “Theocracy on the 100 Year Plan,” Paul Sperry cites these statements: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad once told a Muslim audience in Fremont, Ca. “The Quran should be the highest authority in America.”Lest anyone think he was misquoted, CAIR’s own spokesman, Dougie “Ibrahim” Hooper, let it slip to the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he essentially wants the same thing: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” Sperry provides numerous other quotations along the same lines: * The former head of the American Muslim Council — supposedly the “most mainstream Muslim organization in America” — exhorted Muslims to turn the U.S. into an Islamic nation ruled by Quranic law even if it takes “a hundred years,” according to federal court records.* Popular New York imam Siraj Wahhaj told his flock in a taped sermon available at his mosque: “In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.” * Another so-called moderate cleric, Zaid Shakir, admitted in a recent interview with the New York Times: “I would like to see America become a Muslim country.” Hasn’t anyone told these Muslims about the proposition, and the ideas upon which America is founded? Has no one told them that American freedom does not entail seeking to install Islamic rule here, even by peaceful means, because that would destroy American freedom? The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Well, these Muslims believe that as they become a greater percentage of the population, due to immigration and higher birth rates, no one will be able to stop them from advancing sharia. As Paul Sperry asserts, America has its own “Islamic fascists” right here at home. Once they amass the numbers, they secretly plan to nullify our Bill of Rights and religious freedoms and create their own Muslim state ruled by Islamic law. They’ve got a 100-year plan, but they’re already making inroads. Sperry offers examples of the inroads that have been made in this direction. And here is the testimony of an American convert to Islam at a website called “Islam, the Modern Religion”:I was born and raised here. This is my land. I’ll raise my children here, Insha’allah and probably be buried here as well. I knew that by accepting Islam I was declaring that America needed to do so too. America, my home, would naturally become an Islamic country one day. There is no other way to think if you are a truly conscientious believer in Allah. (Emphasis added)Where are the constitutional scholars to proclaim that this is not permitted? That our Constitution is based on absolute rights derived from nature and nature’s God and is not subject to emendations deriving from Islam, let alone being made subordinate to the Koran. This line of thought about installing Islamic rule in America should be de-legitimized and these arrogant speakers should be checked. The fact that they can even make such statements without opposition emboldens them further. Making the Koran the highest law in America cannot be done. But with Americans knowing less and less about their own history and government, perhaps it will. If we are unwilling to say that working for Islamic rule in America even by peaceful means is not permitted, can we at least declare that it is wrong, that it is not in keeping with American ideals of freedom and equality (as Lincoln said of Douglas’s insistence that slavery could be extended into the territories), and that those who proclaim it are enemies of our country, our government, and our way of life? Furthermore, if we find that we cannot say that Muslims have no right to advance sharia in our nation, then we must admit that the whole notion of America consisting of nothing more than her ideals has to be revised. Obviously the cultural make-up of the American people in the future will have everything to do with whether these ideals are preserved. Failure to speak out now and to challenge these threats puts at risk the very freedom that is the essence of our nation, if not for ourselves, then for our posterity.