Conservatives don't destroy the museum of antiquities in the heart of ancient civilization and then sit back and say, "Shit Happens."

Here are some examples of Sharia we already have had in the USA:

1. Molly Norris, who had the idea of an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day", has changed her name and gone into hiding. The FBI says it cannot protect her. Where is the outcry from journalists that freedom of the press is under siege? When the fatwa came out with a death sentence for Salmon Rushdie, journalists were outraged. Now they accept it.

2. Where are the people standing up for the loony Florida pastor's right to burn the Koran? Protecting freedom of expression means protecting the right even to offensive expression, like burning flags, pissing on Bibles, etc. When the president etc. got involved to convince this pastor not to burn the Koran, in effect they are enforcing the idea that Islam should be treated better than other religions are. That is Sharia all over.

3. During the Danish cartoon controversy, most American newspapers declined to reprint the cartoons, even though they did show representations of artwork that is offensive to Christians. Again, Islam gets special treatment, just as it does in an Islamic state. Violent intimidation works.

Muslims are succeeding, bit by bit, in enforcing their Sharia laws against blasphemy in the USA. Don't think for one minute that we've seen the end of it.

Penn State student artist Joshua Stulman created an art exhibit satirizing Islamic terror. Penn State censored it. Graz College later scheduled the exhibit, then canceled it because they were afraid of a terrorist attack.

Speech that is deemed "offensive to Muslims" is being censored. That is Sharia. People who have offended Muslims are living in hiding. That is Sharia.

Funny, isn't it, and not so funny: right-wing whackadoodles not understanding irony!

Why worry about their Sharia when we already have our own? Law Number One: money is God.
So, when Saudis who admitted fully aiding and abetting the 911 terrorists were allowed to simply go home, we were merely obeying that primary directive of our US Sharia.
The Saudis already control enough US currency and are invested enormously in "American" corporations to the point that they can tell the government what they can and cannot do.
Simply Google these two names, Omar al Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, check any site you want, and see what comes up.

13:39 Anonymous,

Nothing that you have said in your response makes a bit of sense. You have to understand what you are saying before anyone else can. Did you also compose the 1:45 opinion? It seems that you could be responding to its subsequent entries. If you are the writer I have some advise for you: try to say only things that make sense logically. I think that you write very well, but it is just "hog wash " if not logical. Try and learn something from T Day, Brian and 12: 54 anonymous; they all gave great responses to 1:45.

06:25 YES! That is my point exactly. We have Sharia law IN EFFECT because of fear. People "voluntarily" modify their behavior to fit the mandates of Sharia, not because of our laws, but because we already have Sharia law enforced on the street.

If we already are modifying our behavior out of fear with a very small Muslim population, then in the near future we can expect to have zones where women wear headscarves (out of fear) like they already do in many places in Europe.

This fear has already caused our President to advocate self-censorship rather than exercising First Amendment rights with regards to the Koran burning. You are kidding yourselves if you think this same fear will not ultimately be used to create laws giving Islam a "special" status. "Hate speech" laws, which are essentially Sharia blasphemy laws, are already on the table.