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Opposing the advance of sharia , Gaffney calls America “secular”
In an alarming article, Frank Gaffney tells that the Saudis are conditioning loans to America on U.S. approval of sharia-compliant banking rules. This would be the biggest establishment of Islam in America ever, and must be stopped. Unfortunately, Gaffney starts the article off on a gratuitously jarring note:
This week, there is growing evidence that people who have in mind doing away with the presidency of the United States—and all other aspects of our secular, democratic and constitutional form of government—are similarly convinced of their inevitable success. [Emphasis added.]Oh, so now we have a “secular” form of government. Prior to, say, the last ten or fifteen years, did we describe our form government as “secular”? No, we did not. But in recent years the usage has been spread, both by liberals who want to remove any notion of God and Christianity from America’s identity, and by neocons and anti-jihadists, who either are in accord with the liberal agenda, or who, in trying to distinguish America from Islamic theocracy, call America “secular.” Prominent among the secularizers is Robert Spencer, whom I have criticized extensively on this point. See my November 2004 article, “De-Christianizing the West in order to save it?”, and particularly this comment. I would like to remind Mr. Gaffney, Robert Spencer and others that the American people are, and see ourselves as, a nation and government UNDER GOD. The opposite of an Islamic society is not a secular society. The opposite of an Islamic society is a non-Islamic society, such as we and our forebears have had for our entire history.
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