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Trump Got Elected Bashing Sharia Law. Now He’s in Bed With Its Lethal
Champion.
Trump rode to the White House on Sharia scaremongering—and now he’s
placating its most zealous practitioners in the Saudi court over the
alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Christopher Dickey
PARIS—When will Donald Trump bring Sharia law to America? Of course the immediate answer is “never.” He campaigned against Muslims. He campaigned against Sharia! But in light of recent events, one has to say, as Trump
would say, “Who knows?”
What’s certain is that the president’s reactions to the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and his administration’s fawning relationship
with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, should provoke questions —especially among Trump’s core supporters—about just how subservient the
United States has become to a regime notorious for exporting its radical terrorist-inspiring vision of Islam and Islamic law around the world.
After all, if the Saudis can get away with a murder as sordid as the
alleged torture and dismemberment of U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist Khashoggi (latest reports suggest the hit-team at the Saudi
Consulate in Istanbul started cutting him up while he was still alive) what else might they try to do?
And what else might Trump try to accept?
Given the toadying on display from Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week, it’s not entirely impossible to imagine a day when Trump
announces that U.S. laws should be informed by the wisdom of the Quran
because, you know, his instincts on this are good and the Saudis are great friends and it’s going to mean more jobs for Americans!
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Again, that probably won’t happen, but ... who knows? An administration
built on instinct and disdain for facts can easily come to believe it can
do anything it wants, which is one reason the Saudi royals and the Trump wannabe royals have so much in common.
For the moment, Trump’s inclined to give the crown prince more time to
perfect his implausible cover story, and the president vaguely promises "severe" measures if that doesn’t pan out. But experience has shown that if Trump can stall long enough he can move the news cycle to some other distraction like, say, a confrontation at the Mexican border, or his own continued demonstrations of violent contempt for the press, like his praise Thursday for a politician in Montana who body slammed a reporter. (Trump
and the Saudis just love the phony thrills of wrestling "entertainment," another thing they have in common.)
But let’s get back to Trump’s core supporters and the Sharia question.
Because you are sane and we have a Constitution that is supposed to rule
out such things, you may never have worried about the Sharia-in-America "threat." But many grassroots Republicans loved it when the background was
the administration of a president they claimed was a secret Muslim born in Kenya.
Indeed, it was a classic dog-whistle. The notion of a creepy, creeping
Islamist takeover of America was a histrionic refrain from Donald Trump,
Ted Cruz and others throughout the 2016 elections, but it started before,
and has continued since.
The Sharia “threat” was a great distraction. At the same time that Republican-controlled state legislatures were gerrymandering and vote suppressing, they were scrambling to pass legislation banning “foreign
laws,” meaning “Sharia.” By the beginning of this year, 201 such bills had
been introduced in 43 states, and 14 legislatures actually passed them, according to numbers compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC.
“A questionnaire posted by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee
earlier this year asked, among dozens of leading questions, “Are you
concerned by the potential spread of Sharia Law?””
Although scholars can debate the true meaning of "Sharia," and do, the political discourse in the American heartland is not about the texts of the Quran and the sayings of Prophet Muhammad. It’s about the notorious
practices of regimes that claim their legitimacy based on those
scriptures—the kind of regimes with arbitrary religious courts that lop off hands and feet and heads, like the so-called Islamic State or, yes, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (The basic difference between ISIS executioners
and KSA headsmen? Fewer selfies.)
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Trump and his supporters have been reluctant to let the Sharia issue go, knowing it is a hot item with core supporters, which is why an online "questionnaire" posted by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee
earlier this year asked, among dozens of leading questions, “Are you
concerned by the potential spread of Sharia Law?”
The SPLC, which monitors hate speech and is acutely (sometimes excessively) sensitive to the issue of Islamophobia, calls “the mass hysteria
surrounding a so-called threat of ‘Sharia law’” in the United States “one
of the most successful far-right conspiracies to achieve mainstream
viability.”
To get a sense of the other side, I called Robert J. Muise, Esq. of the American Freedom Law Center, who is co-author with David Yerushalmi of the monograph “Offensive and Defensive Lawfare: Fighting Civilizational Jihad
in America’s Courts.”
I asked Muise what he thought of Trump’s performance in the Khashoggi
affair, and the threat that the Saudis were imposing their Sharia-type
values on America.
“I don’t think that there’s any secret that in Saudi Arabia Sharia law is
in force, certainly with regard to their free speech codes,” Muise said.
“If you want to find a place where First Amendment freedoms are not
afforded to journalists you don’t have to look too far beyond Saudi
Arabia.”
Muise then fell back on the basic legal arguments given for anti-Sharia
laws or, as he prefers, the model American Law for American Courts statute.
The narrow gauge argument is that the Constitution’s guarantees against the imposition of foreign laws are undermined by the principle of comity, accommodating the laws of other countries, and a handful of divorce and
custody decisions show Sharia rulings can “work their way into our laws.”
He also said free speech in the United States doesn’t seem to be protected
when it’s criticizing same-sex marriages, or Islam, or abortion. He
complained that attacks on “hate speech” are infringements on free speech. “There’s nothing in the First Amendment about ‘hate speech,’” Ruise said.
Okay, I said, but given Saudi Arabia’s record on free speech, like
murdering people who speak out, what sort of example does it set that
President Trump is basically an apologist now for Mohammed bin Salman in
this Khashoggi case?
“You’re going to have to talk to the White House about where you’re going
with that,” said Ruise. “I’m not going to comment on that.”
Of course.
To be sure, in the aberrant Age of Trump, irony has just about died. The preposterous contradictions of a Republican administration making America
great “again” are too many and too tragic to list. But to watch the frantic efforts of the administration to cover for a murderous Saudi prince— this
from a president who came to power Muslim-baiting and harping on the
“threat” of Sharia—adds a particularly gruesome note to the narrative, and
an irony that should not be ignored.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-got-elected-bashing-sharia-law-now-hes- in-bed-with-its-lethal-champion
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