I suppose it is not impossible to figure out why billions of people who have lived under political systems that could imprison, torture, or execute the citizenry, would live ‘peaceably’. I suspect most people will do whatever they have to, in order to live - whatever personal convictions they may claim to hold.
But I would think this would be of interest to someone in the legal profession.
or these comments Taken from zero hedge article and then looked up myself
These aren’t fringe players. These are the top officials representing the Muslim establishment
in America today.
Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of both the Fiqh Council of North America, which dispenses Islamic rulings, and the North American Islamic Trust, which owns most of the mosques in the U.S.: “As Muslims, we should participate in the system to safeguard our interests and try to bring gradual change, (but) we must not forget that Allah’s rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction.”
Omar Ahmad, co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the top Muslim lobby group in Washington: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”
Imam Siraj Wahhaj, director of the Muslim Alliance in North America: “In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.”
Imam Zaid Shakir, co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif.: “If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we’d take over this country in a very short time… What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold and ranks of the Muslims.”…