Sharron Angle: Sharia Law is Already Taking Over

WingnutsOctober 2010 • Views: 6,838

On Thursday night the Nevada member of the GOP’s Crazy Candidate Club, Sharron Angle, met with a hand-picked group of teabaggers behind closed doors and told them (among other things) that sharia law is already taking over America.

One of the last questioners asked about “Muslims taking over the U.S.,” including a question about Angle’s stance on the proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York.

“We’re talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe isn’t a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it,” Angle said.

“Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don’t know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.”

Angle’s not alone in this; a growing number of far right Republicans and anti-Muslim demagogues are pushing this silly fear mongering idea, utterly disconnected from reality.

Also see

GOP Candidate Sharron Angle Speaks at John Birch Society Event

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37 comments

Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:33:28am

The freedom for any religious group to build their place of worship where they can legally purchase and build according to code is according to American law, not sharia law.

Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:33:47am

[quote]Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don’t know how that happened in the United States.[/quote]

Truly a mystery for the ages.

Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:33:57am

oh ffs.

Ojoe Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:35:55am

Snitty-poo

Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:38:41am

re: #1 EmmmieG

The freedom for any religious group to build their place of worship where they can legally purchase and build according to code is according to American law, not sharia law.

But, but, they’re Muslims!

goddamnedfrank Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:39:05am

I know who to blame:

Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
Ash: Yeah, basically.
Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
Ash: Look, maybe I didn’t say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.

Ojoe Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:39:38am

re: #6 goddamnedfrank

Whom to blame.

Ojoe Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:40:22am

BBL

Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:42:44am

re: #5 eclectic infidel

But, but, they’re Muslims!

…Quakers…
…Jews….
…Popists….
…Mormons…

ClaudeMonet Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:46:43am

We have met the enemy, and he is us—Walt Kelly’s Pogo

If “we the people” elect nitwits like Angle, O’Donnell, and Paladino (to name a few of the many), Mr. Kelly will be proven correct.

Someone in or near Nevada, PLEASE tell me that the campaign of the almost as bad Harry Reid is jumping on Angle’s statements with track shoes. Or is he being wimpy, as I fear?

Decatur Deb Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:50:17am

re: #10 ClaudeMonet

We have met the enemy, and he is us—Walt Kelly’s Pogo

If “we the people” elect nitwits like Angle, O’Donnell, and Paladino (to name a few of the many), Mr. Kelly will be proven correct.

Someone in or near Nevada, PLEASE tell me that the campaign of the almost as bad Harry Reid is jumping on Angle’s statements with track shoes. Or is he being wimpy, as I fear?

The Dems are going to take some big hits in November. It’s scary to think how bad it would be if the TPGOP hadn’t run nut-cases.

Kronocide Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:51:37am

The GOP has the ‘Charlie’s Angels’ of kooky super kooky candidates.

It’s the Year of the Teabagger Woman.

wrenchwench Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:52:12am

SPLC posted an article yesterday about a new group promoting this nonsense, “Veterans Against Sharia”:

The latest fairy tale to emerge from the paranoid right is the idea that the United States legal system is haunted by the specter of Sharia law. Although strict Islamic legal codes are the rare exception even among Muslim-majority nations, anti-Muslim groups and individuals — including well-known politicians like Newt Gingrich — are now warning with straight faces that mullahs could soon be caning American schoolchildren if they get caught chewing gum.
Among the groups decrying this make-believe threat, a relatively new organization called Veterans Against Jihad (VAJ) seems particularly well positioned to benefit from the current Sharia hysteria. Founded last spring by two retired Marine Corps veterans, the goal of VAJ is to “to encourage Veterans to more actively respond to challenges threatening our Constitution [and] awaken American Citizens to Islam’s Jihadist religious mandate, which dictates the teaching of Shari’ah law, and how Shari’ah Law will impact our way of life.”

[…]

The group (which is linked to in the SPLC article) has a list of recommended links. LGF is on it. I hope somebody comes over and meets a cluebat.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:53:04am

I think I will take the time to find out what sharia law actually is. Everyone keeps trying to scare me with it, and while I’m not in favor of changing out US law with any other nation or creed’s laws, sometimes you need to take the flashlight and take a good look at the bogey man to see if it’s worth being scared of.

What, me worry? Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:56:46am

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, 1946

ClaudeMonet Sat, Oct 2, 2010 11:59:17am

re: #13 wrenchwench

SPLC posted an article yesterday about a new group promoting this nonsense, “Veterans Against Sharia”:

The group (which is linked to in the SPLC article) has a list of recommended links. LGF is on it. I hope somebody comes over and meets a cluebat.

Some of these people really need to meet the Clue x Four. Or the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Or both.

Look, I’m no kid, and I know there have always been kooks as candidates. The problem is that there seem to be more and more of them, louder and louder, dumber and dumber.

Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:03:00pm

Okay, I’ve been searching for Frankford, Texas but haven’t found anything. What’s the deal with that town?

Decatur Deb Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:06:18pm

re: #16 ClaudeMonet

Some of these people really need to meet the Clue x Four. Or the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Or both.

Look, I’m no kid, and I know there have always been kooks as candidates. The problem is that there seem to be more and more of them, louder and louder, dumber and dumber.

It’s just progress. 30 yrs ago, if you were an idiot, you could only prove it with cumbersome print technology or expensive vacuum-tube transmitters. Now you can convince millions of cable customers that you are a fool at the cost of a few electrons.

Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:07:25pm

re: #16 ClaudeMonet

Some of these people really need to meet the Clue x Four. Or the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Or both.

The HHoA is the only choice, as this is a holy war.

A Reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy
mercy.” And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals …

Now did the Lord say, “First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”

ClaudeMonet Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:14:04pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It’s just progress. 30 yrs ago, if you were an idiot, you could only prove it with cumbersome print technology or expensive vacuum-tube transmitters. Now you can convince millions of cable customers that you are a fool at the cost of a few electrons.

Thirty years ago, we had transistors and integrated circuits. Vacuum tubes are pre-Sixties.

We also had only three to five TV stations in most cities, and one or two sometimes readable newspapers. Back then, to peddle your ridiculous opinions, the only mass media truly available was radio.

nines09 Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:19:03pm

Sharron Angle and The John Birch Society. Perfectly normal relationship. That about says it all. Normal.

Surabaya Stew Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:24:54pm

See all those halal kebab and chicken/rice guys on street corners serving delicious food? That’s how Sharia spreads, one tasty bite at a time….

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calochortus Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:25:49pm

re: #17 eclectic infidel

Okay, I’ve been searching for Frankford, Texas but haven’t found anything. What’s the deal with that town?

I can’t even find a Frankford, Texas on Google Maps. I can find a reference to some Texas court decision dealing with Sharia law on Atlas Shrugs, but when I Google “Texas Sharia Courts” I get right wing ramblings that don’t deal with reality, so I suspect the Atlas Shrugs site made things up. I can only assume she was trying to link the horror of evangelists not being allowed to annoy Muslims at some cultural event in Dearborn, Mich. with the imminent threat of Sharia in Texas.

wrenchwench Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:25:51pm

re: #22 Surabaya Stew

See all those halal kebab and chicken/rice guys on street corners serving delicious food? That’s how Sharia spreads, one tasty bite at a time…

///

The way to a man’s soul is through his stomach.

Decatur Deb Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:26:20pm

re: #20 ClaudeMonet

Thirty years ago, we had transistors and integrated circuits. Vacuum tubes are pre-Sixties.

We also had only three to five TV stations in most cities, and one or two sometimes readable newspapers. Back then, to peddle your ridiculous opinions, the only mass media truly available was radio.

How time do fly. My first IT professor reported that he had seen an integrated circuit, and that someday computers would be as small as a (large black) telephone. Then we went back to punching tape for the PDP-6.

HappyWarrior Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:33:39pm

News to me since I am going to a fundraiser today that will probably have grllled sausages and beer.

Romantic Heretic Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:34:06pm

re: #25 Decatur Deb

How time do fly. My first IT professor reported that he had seen an integrated circuit, and that someday computers would be as small as a (large black) telephone. Then we went back to punching tape for the PDP-6.

A professor whose class I was taking about the time the first personal computers (Apple II, PET, TRS-80) came out had this to say about them, and I quote; “They’re just toys. They’ll never amount to anything.”

Dropped the class soon after. I knew I couldn’t learn anything useful from that man.

HappyWarrior Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:36:11pm

I know why they refused to have her talk to the media because they know they nominated a crazy person. Seriously well done GOP, I am not a fan of Harry Reid’s but you ran a lunatic against him and it will cost ya.

Decatur Deb Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:37:05pm

re: #27 Romantic Heretic

A professor whose class I was taking about the time the first personal computers (Apple II, PET, TRS-80) came out had this to say about them, and I quote; “They’re just toys. They’ll never amount to anything.”

Dropped the class soon after. I knew I couldn’t learn anything useful from that man.

An Army personnel genius tried to downgrade my slot because I was computerizing our processes: “Computers are just for GS-5 secretaries.”

sagehen Sat, Oct 2, 2010 12:49:28pm

re: #25 Decatur Deb

How time do fly. My first IT professor reported that he had seen an integrated circuit, and that someday computers would be as small as a (large black) telephone. Then we went back to punching tape for the PDP-6.

Isaac Asimov said the biggest mistake he ever made in his writing was in the 50’s/60’s, when he plotted novels on the assumption that computers would get bigger and bigger and bigger….

William of Orange Sat, Oct 2, 2010 1:55:24pm

I though Sharia law started at the Texas school board of educasjun…

William of Orange Sat, Oct 2, 2010 2:05:55pm

More craziness. Remember that assistant D.A. that went after that college kid via outrageous blog posts? you know, from this thread.

Well, this happened in New Jersey.

The tragic death of a Rutgers University student who killed himself after two classmates allegedly streamed his sexual encounters online has renewed a national debate over cyberbullying, with one member of Congress calling for a law designating it a federal crime.

Now, I expect Armstrong to stand much firmer in his shoes. He’s gay and makes no secret of it. I don’t thing Shirvell’s antics will make him lose his marbles and let him do funky stuff like blowing up the justice department or suicide.

But this can be the result of cyberbullying…. I hope Cox realizes that!

Cyberbullying is the sodomizing of the first amendment.

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sun, Oct 3, 2010 3:11:22am

re: #27 Romantic Heretic

A professor whose class I was taking about the time the first personal computers (Apple II, PET, TRS-80) came out had this to say about them, and I quote; “They’re just toys. They’ll never amount to anything.”

Dropped the class soon after. I knew I couldn’t learn anything useful from that man.

I rocked a TRS-80 in grade school, made a lot of LOGO programs

Fortitudine Sun, Oct 3, 2010 12:26:07pm

Sharia law in Dearborn? My dad lives there, and I’ve heard no mention of it.

Wait a minute…a Lebanese couple opened a halal restaurant across the street from his nursing home this summer. Obviously the camel’s nose in the tent.

JG2K7 Sun, Oct 3, 2010 8:21:58pm

I actually grew up in Dearborn, MI. (Born in ‘80, moved out West in 2002), and I can assure you, Angle has no idea what she’s talking about.

Yes, Dearborn is the largest arabic community in the US, but she neglects to mention that right down the street from the largest Mosque in the country is a Presbyterian church and a Jewish synagogue.

So much for Sharia law, eh? The only other thing I ever noticed while living there is SOME restaurants offered menus in both english and in arabic for their customers. AHHHHH RUN FOR THE HILLS! A TRAVESTY! Pfffft.

Wow, the moderates in the GOP have got to be feeling sick to their stomachs that the Tea Partiers elected a clueless stiff like this as a Senate nominee to beat a guy whose political career has been on life support for more than a year.

Anybody else running against Reid right now, and they’d be leading by 10 or more points in the polls. Pathetic. Just pathetic.

Ming Mon, Oct 4, 2010 12:33:33pm

Yes, many Muslims want to impose Sharia Law, and many Christians want to impose Biblical Law. Both these Muslims and these Christians will be resisted by those of us who prefer the wall of separation between Church and State.

The strange thing is, it’s the Christians who want to impose Biblical Law who are screaming the loudest about the Muslims who want to impose Sharia Law.

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