Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 15, 201

During a panel discussion in a recent installment of The McLaughlin Group, Fox News commentator Monica Crowley declared that ?the only Arab democracy that we currently have in the [Middle East] is the one built by the United States in Iraq.?

This sound-bite has been recited numerous times, typically by Republican-aligned pundits, since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in Egypt. Those who retail that talking point don?t examine their logic very carefully.

The Iraqi ?democracy? extolled by Crowley and her ilk has a national constitution ? written by the Bush administration ? that enthrones Sharia Law. Iraqi Christians who had endured Saddam?s dictatorship are being murdered or driven from their country.

Whatever may be the result of Egypt?s upheaval, it was led by people who don?t seek the establishment of Sharia, but rather an end to the 30-year state of emergency under military rule.

From the perspective of those who defend the war in Iraq, ?democracy? exists wherever we find a regime obedient to Washington ? even one that imposes Sharia law at gunpoint.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.