This site is very well informed. http://www.aina.org/news/20080213165617.htm
EXCERPT.
This Islamic calling can be accomplished through techniques ranging from gentle persuasion, propaganda and public relations, intellectual disputation, moral authority, implied threats, actual threats, political power, and violence. The goal remains the same: all of the non-Islamic world, and indeed all of the Islamic world, must submit to Shari'a. A Muslim who refuses to do so will be killed. That is the legal judgment in every major school of Islamic law. A non-Muslim, assuming he is not a pagan (typically a Christian or Jew) might be given the opportunity to live in a subservient status in an Islamic society and pay a special head tax to prove his submission. But this option is left to the Caliph or ruler at the time. Historically, even pagans (such as Hindus) have been given this option but the different schools of Islamic jurisprudence differ on the appropriateness of this dispensation.
Now to the Why? The question should be answered by just taking a look at your neighborhood mosque or Islamic day school. Because this country does not “discriminate” in its immigration policy, we now have several millions of Muslims in this country (the exact number is disputed but we can safely say it is at least 3 million and others suggest it might be as high as 6 million). Take a look at these statistics from a US government open source web site:
Demographic Facts
>Mosques in the United States: 1,209
>American Muslims associated with a mosque: 2 million
>Increase in number of mosques since 1994: 25 %
>Proportion of mosques founded since 1980: 62 %
>Average number of Muslims associated with each mosque in the United States: 1,625
>U.S. mosque participants who are converts: 30 %
>American Muslims who “strongly agree” that they should participate in American institutions and the political process: 70 %
>U.S. mosques attended by a single ethnic group: 7 %
>U.S. mosques that have some Asian, African-American, and Arab members: nearly 90 %
>Ethnic origins of regular participants in U.S. mosques:
South Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Afghani) = 33 %
African-America = 30 %
Arab = 25 %
Sub-Saharan African = 3.4 %
European (Bosnian, Tartar, Kosovar, etc.) = 2.1 %
White American = 1.6 %
Southeast Asian ( Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino) = 1.3 %
Caribbean = 1.2 %
Turkish = 1.1 %
Iranian = 0.7 %
Hispanic/Latino = 0.6 %
>U.S. mosques that feel they strictly follow the Koran and Sunnah: > 90 %
>U.S. mosques that feel the Koran should be interpreted with consideration of its purposes and modern circumstances: 71 %
>U.S. mosques that provide some assistance to the needy: nearly 70 %
>U.S. mosques with a full-time school: > 20 %
Given the almost universal respect Muslims give to Shari'a (even if they fail to live up to its standards), it should be apparent (GO TO the above site for more.
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