Liberty Alliance holds Press Conference in Lafayette Park on Shariah Law and the Constitution

On Thursday, March 3rd, the Liberty Alliance Coalition and Center for Security Policy, a partner organization, held a press conference regarding the threat of Shariah law to the Constitution.  The press conference, held in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House, presented speakers including Constitutional law expert Andrew Cochran, Faith McDonnell of the Institute for Religion and Democracy, African democracy activist Khalid Gerais of Rescue Nubia, and a prepared statement from prominent Muslim American reformer Tawfik Hamid of the Islamic Society for Liberty and Modernity.    Video from the press conference will be posted at the Center’s website shortly.   A flyer detailing the conflict of laws between Shariah and the Constitution was distributed to the media attending, including NBC, Fox, Daily Caller, CBN, and Voice of America.   The final list of speakers included:

• Tim Brown, Liberty Rocks and Coalition to Honor Ground Zero
• Andrew Cochran, The 7th Amendment Advocate
• Frank J. Gaffney Jr., Center for Security Policy
• Khalid Gerais, Rescue Nubia
• Faith McDonnell, Institute on Religion and Democracy
• Beverly Perlson, Band of Mothers
• Tawfik Hamid, Islamic Society for Liberty and Modernity (statement read and distributed)

Tawfik Hamid, in his statement, addressed the theme of the press conference:

Shariah law is a threat not only to the US Constitution, but also to our security.  This law encourages discrimination against women, accepts slavery, and devalues the life of non-Muslims.  In addition, it promotes that Muslims must declare wars against non-Muslims to spread Islam.   The real problem is that such laws are unchallenged in modern times in Shariah and represent the mainstream Shariah.  

According to an article at Foxnews.com in advance of the press conference, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, supported the Center’s event and called on "all people of conscience to counter these ideas and demonstrate the fact that these are the very ideas that radicalize Muslims."

The Center for Security Policy has been a leader on the issue of the threat of Shariah law to the Constitution.  The Center for Security Policy Press has published an authoritative book on the topic, Shariah: The Threat to America, authored by national security and legal experts, available for free download at shariahthethreat.com, or in paperback or kindle at amazon.com.

The Center’s President Frank Gaffney commented:

The American people, including Muslim-American leaders, are beginning to voice their concerns that Shariah is utterly antithetical to the U.S. Constitution. We call on our elected officials to follow their lead, and to repudiate any application of Shariah law in America.

 

Materials from the Press Conference

• ‘Shariah vs. the Constitution’
• Statement by Tawfik Hamid
• Statement by Faith McDonnell