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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked yesterday whether he would support a Muslim for president. His answer may have been one of the most important teaching moments of the long and difficult campaign season.
Speaker Gingrich responding by saying it depends on whether the candidate was "a modern person who happens to worship Allah." Or "a person who belonged to any kind of belief in sharia, any kind of effort to impose that on the rest of us." He rightly concluded by saying that the former would not be a threat while the latter would be a "mortal threat."
Newt is absolutely right in making such a distinction. The danger we currently face from the so-called Muslim world arises not from the fact that people are Muslim, but from the extent to which they adhere to the totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine of sharia.