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March 1, 2011

Radical cleric to lead D.C. pro-Sharia demonstration

Opponents to hold counter protest near White House

Mark Schlachtenhaufen The Edmond Sun

EDMOND — Hardline British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary will lead a pro-Sharia demonstration later this week outside the White House. A counter protest is also planned.

The Shariah4America project will become “an unanticipated wild card for the West, galvanizing the immense support for Sharia in the Middle East and bringing it directly to the doorsteps of the United States of America, organizers say at shariah4america.com/.

They call on Muslims in the U.S., particularly in New York, Michigan, Chicago and Washington, D.C., “to take lessons from their Muslim brothers and sisters in North Africa and the Middle East and rise to implement the Sharia in America.”

Communism is dead, capitalism is dying and Islam is the solution, Shariah4America project organizers say on the site.

On Thursday afternoon outside the White House, the “Muslims will let the tyrant Barack Obama” and Americans know that “a new constitution beckons the U.S. called the Shariah, and that this worldwide revolution will see it implemented God willing very very soon.”

Counter protesters will be meeting at 11 a.m. in front of the Lincoln Memorial, then march together to the White House, according to information posted at Stand Up America!’s Web site (www.standupamericanow.org).

“Now is the time that we make a very, very clear statement to radical Islam,” counter-protest organizer Terry Jones says via the site. “It is necessary that we set very clear lines for Muslims that are here in America.

“They are welcome to be here. They are welcome to worship. They are welcome to build mosques. But we do expect them to honor and obey our Constitution. If they desire to change our Constitution, in other words to institute Sharia, then these Muslims are no longer welcome in our country.”

 According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, there are an estimated 7 million Muslims in the United States. The Muslim community in America is made up of people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and national origins. And there are almost 2,000 mosques, Islamic schools and Islamic centers in the country.



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