Dear County Commissioners, County Administrators and Sheriffs,

I urge you to take steps and prepare now to insure that the Muslim City planned by the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) does NOT enforce tenets of Sharia law that conflict with the United States Constitution. 

Allowing Sharia to move forward in East Plano could have epic consequences on the constitutional rights of citizens and set a dangerous precedent for similar Sharia based communities proposed in the future in other Texas and American jurisdictions.

Islamists in America have made it clear for decades that they want Sharia law to govern the people instead of the United States Constitution.

Dr. Yasir Qadhi, the top official listed at epicmasjid.org/epics-team, has publicly declared that:

•    Democracy is illegitimate: “No Supreme Court, no system of government, no democracy where they vote… What gives you the right to prohibit something or allow something?”
•    Any legal system outside Sharia is disbelief: “To believe that it is permissible to follow a system of laws other than the Sharia negates one’s testimony of Islam.”
•    Rejecting full Sharia is rejecting Allah: “To compartmentalize Islam… shows that you really don’t believe in Islam, you don’t believe in Allah.”
•    Apostates: He declares that believing in any law other than Sharia negates one’s Islam, effectively labeling Muslims who accept democracy as apostates.
•    He has previously asserted that a true Muslim cannot be neutral about Islam—he must either accept it or reject it and become an enemy.

Based upon the above proclamations and statements it is fairly clear that EPIC leaders are very likely to enforce Sharia law in the new Muslim township that EPIC is organizing.  To think otherwise would require one to totally ignore the dangerous proclamations and statements that Dr. Qadhi has made regarding Muslim dominion, Muslim rule, Sharia enforcement and disregard for American values and the rights afforded all Americans by the United States Constitution.  Additionally, it would require ignoring the fact that Sharia law is Islam and Islam is Sharia law.  They are one and the same.  Muslims operate under the dictate of Sharia law.

Many of the tenets of Sharia law are antithetical to the rights afforded under the United States Constitution.  Sharia law deprives women, apostate Muslims and infidels of many of the legal protections that are otherwise afforded them under the United States Constitution.  Additionally, Sharia law calls for cruel and unjust punishments, fatwas, honor killings, genital mutilations, discrimination, religious persecution and a host of other unconstitutional tenets.

Federal, state, county, city and school board officials take an oath to uphold the United States Constitution.  Advancing or allowing Islamist Sharia law violates that oath.

I urge you to protect citizens from Sharia law and defend and protect the constitutional liberties afforded to and enjoyed by all Americans.

CC   Magistrate Court, County Judge