After reading some of the comments, I am pleased that others are as unimpressed as I am with this column. It is delusional to think that there is nothing to fear from Islam and Sharia law. Think back a generation and compare that time with what we live with today; the porn, the filth on TV, the gimmie attitude of the American people. Now tell me again that this subtle takeover can't happen. Wake up, Mr. Chapman.
In the 19th century, Catholicism was regarded by many people in this country as thoroughly incompatible with Americanism. They saw it as a hostile foreign element that would subvert democracy. Today, a majority of the justices on the Supreme Court are Catholic, and they are taken to be as American as Mountain Dew.
We've come a long way in religious tolerance. Or maybe not. The belief that Catholics are irredeemably alien and disloyal has given way to the fear that Muslims pose a mortal threat to our way of life.
That distrust is behind a push in state legislatures...
Ingratitude is an ugly thing, as you so aptly prove.