a speaker told an anti-Sharia conference being held in Tennessee last week.
“They do not have a First Amendment right to do anything,” said John Guandolo, a former FBI agent and the conference’s first speaker. “They exist to break the law.”
Guandolo spoke to a crowd of about 500 people who filled the main floor for “The Constitution or Sharia?: Preserving Freedom Conference.”
One of the conference’s main themes was to recruit ordinary people to fight jihadists in America. Guandolo said that battle has to be fought on the local level, the Nashville Tennesseean reported.
“We are going to win or lose this war based on what you do,” he told attendees. “The enemy is right here in your neighborhood.”
He says that the federal government has been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood activists. “When I say the national security loop is corrupted, it is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
The thrust of Guandolo’s remarks reminded many of the anti-Communist rage of a half-century ago, when assertions were flung about that Communists had infiltrated and taken over the State Department, US Army, churches and other institutions.
Speaker David French of the American Center for Law and Justice focused the discussion on the kind of Sharia law that inspires terrorists. French said that he’s not worried about Sharia being imposed in Tennessee courts in any significant way. “I can’t see that happening any time soon,” he said.
But French does see the influence of a dangerous form of Sharia – with some Muslims being arrested for planning terrorist acts and honor killings in the United States and where male members of a family murder women who they think have dishonored the family.
“We are seeing the Sharia of our enemies lived out around us,” he said.
The anti-Shariah law conference also heard from Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-born psychiatrist and author of “A God Who Hates.”
She said when Americans learn about Islam, it’s usually in interfaith gatherings where Muslims lie to them.
“Mostly everyone leaves the event feeling in light about Islam instead of being cast further into the darkness,” she said.
