THE LAST DEFENSE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

March 30, 2009
Obama nominee sees no "reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States"

Big fan of "transnational legal process"

On top of that, this Obama pick believes that "America's focus on the War on Terror [is] 'obsessive.'" And his list of countries that flagrantly disregard international law highlights North Korea, Iraq, and the U.S.A. -- which he collectively calls "the axis of disobedience."

"Obama's most perilous legal pick," by Meghan Clyne for the New York Post, March 30 (thanks to Doc Washburn):

JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.

Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.

President Obama has nominated Koh -- until last week the dean of Yale Law School -- to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.

What would this look like in a practical sense? Well, California voters have overruled their courts, which had imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Koh would like to see such matters go up the chain through federal courts -- which, in turn, should look to the rest of the world. If Canada, the European Human Rights Commission and the United Nations all say gay marriage should be legal -- well, then, it should be legal in California too, regardless of what the state's voters and elected representatives might say.

He even believes judges should use this "logic" to strike down the death penalty, which is clearly permitted in the US Constitution.

The primacy of international legal "norms" applies even to treaties we reject. For example, Koh believes that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- a problematic document that we haven't ratified -- should dictate the age at which individual US states can execute criminals. Got that? On issues ranging from affirmative action to the interrogation of terrorists, what the rest of the world says, goes.

Including, apparently, the world of radical imams. A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says that, in addressing the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, Koh claimed that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."

A spokeswoman for Koh said she couldn't confirm the incident, responding: "I had heard that some guy . . . had asked a question about sharia law, and that Dean Koh had said something about that while there are obvious differences among the many different legal systems, they also share some common legal concepts."

Score one for America's enemies and hostile international bureaucrats, zero for American democracy.

Koh has called America's focus on the War on Terror "obsessive." In 2004, he listed countries that flagrantly disregard international law -- "most prominently, North Korea, Iraq, and our own country, the United States of America," which he branded "the axis of disobedience.[...Source: Jihad watch.com

With this in mind I decided to re-print the blog I did in 2006 as it explains my feelings and more important what the feelings are of the leader of over one billion Catholics World wide!

THE LAST HOPE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
THE ONLY PLACE THAT THIS BLOGGER BELIEVES WILL RESIST THE RELENTLESS WAVE OF ISLAMIC INTOLERANCE FOR OTHER RELIGIONS IS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MOST OF THE FACTS AND QUOTES I WILL WRITE IN THIS BLOG ARE FROM A CONFERENCE IN CASTLE GONDALFO, ITALY THAT WAS ATTENDED BY POPE BENEDICT XVI AND FATHER JOSEPH FESSIO. FATHER FESSIO IS A CLOSE FRIEND AND STUDENT OF BENEDICT XVI. THE BASIS FOR THIS REPORT COMES FROM A BLOG PUBLISHED BY HUGH HEWITT. I HAVE TAKEN WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT FOR BREVITY, BUT NO CHANGES WERE MADE IN CONTENT.
THE CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE ISLAMIC FAITH. THE CONCLUSIONS ARE NOT VERY ENCOURAGING. AT A RATE OF 2.1 PEOPLE PER HOUSEHOLD IN EUROPE THERE IS DECLINING CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH POPULATION WITH A GROWING MUSLIM POPULATION DUE TO EUROPEAN OPEN BORDER IMMIGRATION POLICIES. MOST OF THE IMMIGRANTS COME FROM TURKEY AND AFRICA. MORE MUSLIMS WERE BORN IN FRANCE IN 2005 THAN TO TRADITIONAL FRENCH BACKGROUND PEOPLE. THE CONFERENCE, USING DEMOGRAPHIC FIGURES, PREDICTED THAT IN FOUR YEARS IN HOLLAND 4 MAJOR CITIES(POPULATION BASED) WOULD HAVE MUSLIM MAJORITIES.
HISTORY SHOWS THAT MANY CITIES WHICH WERE CHRISTIAN HAVE BECOME MUSLIM WHERE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM NO LONGER EXISTS. THERE ARE 98 ISLAMIC COUNTRIES AND 97 HAVE NO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. ALGERIA, MOROCCO,LYBIA AND EGYPT ARE EXAMPLES OF COUNTRIES THAT WERE CHRISTIAN BUT ARE NOW ISLAMIC, AND PRACTICING CHRISTIANITY OR JUDAISM ARE NOT ALLOWED! YOU CAN'T EVEN BRING A BIBLE INTO MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES.
MUSLIM RELIGION IS BASED UPON GODS WORD TO MOHAMMAD WHICH CANNOT BE CHANGED OR ADAPTED IN ANY WAY. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE WORDS IN THE KORAN ARE THE WORDS OF GOD, NOT THE WORDS OF APOSTLES LIKE MATTHEW, MARK AND LUKE AS REVEALED TO THEM BY DIVINE INSPIRATION IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE.
THE POPE WAS ASKED: "CAN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM ACCOMMODATE EACH OTHER." POPE BENEDICT'S ANSWER WAS AS FOLLOWS. "SINCE MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT THE KORAN IS THE WORD OF GOD GIVEN DIRECTLY TO MOHAMMAD IT CANNOT BE CHANGED AS IT IS THERE FOR ETERNITY AS GOD IS. THEREFORE, THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY THAT IT MAY BE INTERPRETED OR ADAPTED TO CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE ,INCLUDING THE DIGNITY THAT WE CHRISTIANS ASCRIBE TO WOMEN. ISLAM IS STUCK WITH A TEXT(KORAN) THAT CANNOT BE ADAPTED OR EVEN INTERPRETED AS CHRISTIANS AND JEWS HAVE DONE WITH THEIR BIBLES THROUGH THE YEARS. THE WORD GOD SUPPOSEDLY GAVE TO MOHAMMAD ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS AND WRITINGS OF ISLAM IS TO CONQUER THE WORLD OR RENDER EVERYONE SUBJECT TO THE "ONE TRUE RELIGION."IT IS A RELIGION OF MISSIONARY CONVERSION. THE ISLAMICS BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE OF OUR RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE ,ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE, THEY WILL OVERTAKE YOU. THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO IT SINCE THE SEVENTH CENTURY. THEY BELIEVE THAT ONCE MUSLIMS BECOME THE MAJORITY POPULATION IN ANY COUNTRY THEY WILL ELIMINATE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND EUROPE IS WELL ON THE WAY TO THIS SITUATION.
IT IS LONG PAST THE TIME THAT OUR LEADERS AND FUTURE LEADERS OF THIS COUNTRY STOP A COURSE OF APPEASEMENT AND ACCOMMODATION WITH ISLAMISTS. THEIR RELIGIOUS FERVOR HAS COMMITTED THEM TO CONVERT OR DESTROY ALL "INFIDELS". THIS IS A FIGHT FOR OUR LIBERTY AND WAY OF LIFE, AND NO MEANS TO WIN SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OR WE SHALL LOOSE ,AS I AM SURE EUROPE WILL. ONE THING THAT MIGHT HELP IS TO FORBID IMMIGRATION FROM THE 97 ISLAMIC COUNTRIES THAT DO NOT ALLOW RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. I WON'T HOLD MY BREATH ON THIS ONE THANKS TO OUR "TWISTED" STATE DEPARTMENT.

If the Senate confirms this travesty of a man, you can throw the Constitution away! Only in an Obama administration, which I believe is the worst prepared to lead a Republic like ours, but is prepared and ready to lead us into Godless Socialism could a man with suchfeelings even be nominated. He must be stopped or GOD help US!