In recent years, a difficult but necessary conversation has emerged in America – one that few leaders are willing to have publicly. The question is whether ideologies rooted in Islamic law can coexist with the Judeo-Christian principles that form the foundation of our nation’s Constitution.
As I discussed on a recent episode of At the Core, this isn’t about individuals of Muslim heritage. It’s about a belief system – political as much as religious – that often places allegiances to religious law above allegiance to the rule of law itself. Sharia law, as practiced in many countries, governs every aspect of life and directly conflicts with the individual freedoms guaranteed in America’s Bill of Rights.
Across parts of Europe, we have already seen this clash play out. In communities where Islamic populations have grown significantly, parallel systems of justice have emerged. While that level of legal separation hasn’t happened in the United States, we would be naïve to think it never could. In a nation where moral relativism and political correctness dominate the conversation, we are steadily losing the courage to defend the very principles that preserve our freedom.
America’s founders built this country on an absolute truth – that our rights come from God, not government. When any ideology demands submission to a law higher than the Constitution or denies the equal worth of every human being, it poses a threat to liberty itself.
It is not immigration that is at the root of ideological threats, but the refusal of our nation’s leaders to insist that anyone who comes to America embrace the principles that make her free. We are not a nation of cultural neutrality. We are a nation built on moral clarity – and that clarity comes directly from our Judeo-Christian heritage.
If we continue to silence honest discussion out of fear of being labeled intolerant, we risk handing our children a nation that no longer knows what it stands for. Protecting liberty begins with telling the truth and standing firm on the values that made this country exceptional in the first place.
Listen to the full episode of At the Core here.
Sincerely,
