It’s Time for the Truth About Shariah

After a British citizen was beheaded by the Islamic State on Saturday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron insisted that, “Islam is a religion of peace.” President Obama made a similarly false claim last week, contending that the Islamic State is “not Islamic.”

Such statements are problematic for three reasons:

First, they demonstrate complete ignorance of the jihadist nature of Islam as practiced not by “extremists,” but by its authorities.

Second, downplaying this threat misleads Western populations about the growing danger posed by those – like the Islamic State – determined to impose globally through jihad the form of totalitarianism they call shariah.

And third, when our leaders lie about shariah, that ideology’s adherents perceive them as submitting to it. Which only further emboldens our enemies.

It’s time for the truth about Islam’s shariah.