The Week in Sharia: New York’s Peter King Hearings

Let’s have an adult conversation:

• One week after bragging that he would not permit Muslims to serve in his administration, GOP presidential candidate and pizza magnate Herman Cain alleged that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has pledged his loyalty to Islamic law, rather than the Constitution. Per the Allen West Theorem—which states that anytime someone says anything that ridiculous, the freshman Florida congressman probably said it first—we’ll just note that Allen West said this first.
• Other people who probably won’t be a part of the Herman Cain administration: Herman Cain, who trails President Obama in his home state of Georgia.
• South Carolina came one step closer to becoming the third state to ban Islam law from being enforced in state courts.
• The British Royal Family is in on it.
• Nebraska State Sen. Mark Christensen introduced his state’s anti-Sharia bill after a meeting with his local chapter of ACT! for America, reports Salon’s Justin Elliott. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies ACT! as a “hate group.”
• Former Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner wants to be the next United States senator from the Sunshine State, which is why he was in the Orlando area on Wednesday warning tea party activists about the threat of “progressive Sharia-compliant Islam.” We have no idea what that phrase even means, and Hasner, for his part, hasn’t clarified.
• The New York State Senate held hearings on the threat of Islamic extremism to the Empire State. To demonstrate just how seriously they take the threat of Islamic extremism, senate GOPers selected as their star witness Frank Gaffney, who once wrote an entire column arguing that the Defense Department‘s missile defense logo is a gateway to Islamic law (heaven forbid Gaffney ever finds out about these). Also testifying: Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who told the committee that 99-percent of American Muslims are “outstanding Americans.”