Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 8, 2011

Many of Barack Obama?s critics have accused him of promoting radical Islam ? either by supporting it directly, or passively acquiescing to it. A recent essay in Human Events magazine managed to criticize Obama for being insufficiently zealous in his efforts to impose Sharia law on Afghanistan.

According to Tara Servatius, ?The Obama administration is so desperate to appease the Islamic savages and cut a peace deal with them that U.S. negotiators no longer require preconditions of Taliban fighters we negotiate with?.? By way of illustration, she complains that ?U.S. negotiators and their British counterparts aren?t even requiring that the Taliban embrace the Afghan constitution that our troops and many Afghans paid for with blood .?

The Afghan constitution for which Americans have killed and died states:

"Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic... The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.... In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam."

According to Servatius, ?If the American public got the full story on this, they?d be outraged.? This is true, albeit not for reasons that reflexive war promoters like her would appreciate.

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