I sometimes think those who warn of creeping Sharia just don’t have enough confidence in its inevitability. I like to think of it as the political world’s kudzu or wisteria. Ignore it for too long and pretty soon it takes over everything in sight. It even sounds botanical: I have a terra cotta pot of Creeping Sharia over there next to that lush Wandering Jew.
But those most fervently on-guard for creeping Sharia lack the assuredness you’d expect from diehards. They’re always on the look out for creeping Sharia where you’d least expect it, and they find evidence of it in the most amazing places.
Here’s the best example I’ve heard in a while: Obama is going to use the thwarted attack on Pam Geller’s anti-Islam Muhammad cartoon contest as a pretext for bringing the First Amendment in compliance with Sharia’s anti-blasphemy restrictions. “Imagine, a nation founded on Judeo-Christian ethics changing the rules for a Muslim prophet!” Jeanine Pirro warned on Fox News.
Imagine.
