Islam And America
The following article succinctly describes the difference between Islam and Western Civilization, and the continuous threat posed by Islam to America.
Islam And The American Experiment, by Button Gwinnett, American Thinker, 16 May 2026:
There is nothing new about America’s conflicts with Islam. That aggressive theocratic system has been at war with America almost since the U.S. was born.
Islam is not a religion in the sense that Western Civilization understands the word. Islam is a fusion of social, political, and theological authority. It is antithetical to our constitution and, in practice, has been militarily hostile to America since our nation’s inception...
Sharia law is ecclesiastical law, and in Muslim society, it is administered by religious courts headed by Muslim clerics. The Western institution most like this arrangement was the now-defunct Spanish Inquisition, which has a deservedly black reputation...
Islam has three core religious texts: the Koran, which many Westerners are aware of even if they haven't studied it; the Haditha, containing Islam's collected traditions; and the Sirah, containing Mohamed's collected biographies...
In the years of the Articles of Confederation, 1782-1787... the Barbary States, particularly Algeria and Tripoli, had taken it upon themselves to prey upon American flag merchant ships plying the Mediterranean Sea...
... the Koran informed all Muslims to attack, despoil, and enslave all Infidels wherever they may be found. Jihad... is commanded by Allah of all his faithful...
How many U.S. presidents have been compelled to respond to Islam?...
The actual answer is a shock to most Americans: Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, van Buren, Fillmore, Roosevelt 26, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, Obama, Biden, and Trump...