Islam in America, Part Four: Lawfare

by Kathy Shaidle
RightSideNews
March 10, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/212

Excerpt:

 Military strategist Karl von Clausewitz famously said, "War is merely politics by other means."

It could just as easily be said that "lawfare" is war, politics and religion by other means.

What is lawfare? Lawfare is sometimes known as "stealth jihad," "soft jihad," "legal jihad" or "creeping sharia." In the same way that Muslim terrorists hijacked American planes and flew them into American buildings on 9/11, some Muslims are hijacking the West's freedoms and legal system to undermine civilization itself. The strategy might even be called "jihadist jujitsu." (also see parts 1-3)

As expert Brooke Goldstein of the Legal Project of the Middle East Forum) explains in a new report in The Counter Terrorist (Feb/March 2009), in the last decade, lawfare involves Islamist activists,

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