{"id":1534,"date":"2007-11-19T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:05:55","slug":"tancredo-confronts-heckler-on-sharia-islamic-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Tancredo Confronts Heckler on Sharia (Islamic Law)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vdare.com\/\">Brenda Walker writes on VDare<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently Presidential candidate <strong>Tom Tancredo<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtancredo.org\/\">reminded America<\/a> in Churchillian fashion of the still active threat from Islamists to destroy Western civilization. For Tancredo&rsquo;s trouble, his ad was called<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/headlines\/ci_7454531\">&ldquo;fear mongering&rdquo;<\/a> <\/strong>and worse.<\/p>\n<p>Did these critics sleep through 9\/11? Did they not notice the follow-up attacks in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vdare.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/13\/media-mostly-amok-over-london-bombings\/\">London<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/shared\/spl\/hi\/guides\/457000\/457031\/html\/default.stm\">Madrid<\/a>, Beslan, Indonesia and <a href=\"http:\/\/thereligionofpeace.com\/\">many other places<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Osama would love to kill millions of Americans &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2004\/7\/14\/215350.shtml\">he has said so<\/a>. We should be listening to the stated goals of our enemies, and supporting elected officials who keep their eye on those unpleasant facts.<\/p>\n<p>In a more direct confrontation with an enemy of America during a campaign Q&amp;A in New Hampshire, Tancredo did not take any guff from an civilization-hating Islamist.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I speak the same language as the people that flew into the towers; I speak the same language as all the Iraqis we are killing; I speak many languages, and I&rsquo;m proud of it,&rdquo; said Siham Elhamoumi, 22, who recently graduated from St. Michael&rsquo;s College in Vermont and traveled to the event with a group from the college. &ldquo;Am I the enemy?&rdquo; Elhamoumi then pulled her shawl over her head, so it covered her hair. &ldquo;Am I the enemy if I do this?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you take us for idiots, for people who have no appreciation of <strong>our<\/strong> history?&rdquo; she asked. &ldquo;Perhaps you don&rsquo;t have an understanding of <strong>your<\/strong> country right now, of its composition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tancredo repeatedly broke in, asking Elhamoumi to pose a question. He finally asked her a question of his own: <font color=\"red\"><strong>&ldquo;Do you believe that we should replace the Constitution with Sharia law?&rdquo;<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is below me,&rdquo; Elhamoumi replied. &ldquo;Do not belittle people&rsquo;s opinions and people&rsquo;s beliefs and people&rsquo;s religions. Do not put one religion above the other.&rdquo;<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071118\/NEWS01\/711180314\"><em>Tancredo wants one tongue<\/em><\/a> Concord Monitor 11\/18\/07]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The correct response from any normal person would have been, <strong>&ldquo;Of course not.&rdquo; <\/strong>But the heckler outed herself with her non-reply as a pro-jihad snake.<\/p>\n<p>Further, when she said<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/comment\/spencer200409150556.asp\">&ldquo;our&rdquo;<\/a> <\/strong>history, she was obviously referring to Islam, not America. She is here to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vdare.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/20\/sensitivity-as-a-weapon\/\">conquer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vdare.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/23\/muslim-fifth-column-polled\/\">colonize<\/a> as part of the Islamist movement for a worldwide authoritarian caliphate, not assimilate to American values.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Walker writes on VDare: Recently Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo reminded America in Churchillian fashion of the still active threat from Islamists to destroy Western civilization. For Tancredo&rsquo;s trouble, his ad was called &ldquo;fear mongering&rdquo; and worse. Did these critics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1534\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,24,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-politics","category-terror"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}