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   Muslim Lies Matter... wrote   
      
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   > Don't worry shithead.  We're going to keep you around for as   
   > long as we can to make a mockery of the Democrat party and their   
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   If you love trump you love muslims.   Muslims are rightists just like you!   
      
      
   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!   
      
   LEVERAGED   
   Trump’s Personal Saudi Deals Loom Over His Khashoggi Apathy   
   Adam Rawnsley   
      
   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.”   
      
      
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