Groups Mobilize for and Against Upcoming Pro-Shariah Rally

Posted by El Cid
Mar 2nd 2011 at 6:04 pm

From the Center for Security Policy, a member of the Liberty Alliance:
On Thursday, March 3 in Lafayette Park, the Liberty Alliance will call for an end to false accusations of “bigotry” and “Islamophobia” designed to silence those voicing concern about the threat of Shariah law to the Constitution. The news conference will begin at 12:00 noon, March 3rd, at the southeast corner of Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington.
And a news story from Foxnews.com on the same event:
A New York-based Muslim group planning a rally to advocate for Shariah law in the U.S. is facing a wave of opposition — including from other American Muslims.
The Sharia4America rally, organized by the Islamic Thinkers Society and headed by controversial British Imam Anjem Choudary, aims to gather Muslims and non-Muslims outside the White House Thursday afternoon to “let the tyrant Barack Obama and the American people know that a new constitution beckons the U.S. called the Shariah, and that this worldwide revolution will see it implemented inshaa’allah (God willing) very, very soon,” according to the rally’s website.

But if the Shariah4America rally does go off, it will be facing several counterdemonstrations and press conferences Thursday, including at least one from another American Muslim group, the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD).
The forum will be joining a counter press conference lead by the Center for Security Policy Thursday and is calling on “all people of conscience to counter these ideas and demonstrate the fact that these are the very ideas that radicalize Muslims.”
“Shariah, any time it’s enacted by man, is not God’s law. It becomes man’s instrument of oppressive theocracy in the name of Islam,” Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told FoxNews.com “ In order to be religion, you have to have a choice to accept or reject it. Otherwise, it’s not faith.”