Dearborn Mayor Jack O’ Reilly plans to send Sharron Angle a letter regarding remarks she made recently claiming that his city is being ruled by Islamic law. “She’s doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” said O’Reilly on Friday. “I’m going to send her a letter and invite her to take a tour of Dearborn. I think she would be amazed.” Angle recently told an audience of supporters that the country needs to address a “militant terrorist situation” that has allowed Sharia to take hold in some American cities, citing Dearborn as an example.
In a recording of the gathering given to the Associated Press by the Mesquite Local News, a man asks Angle: “I keep hearing about Muslims wanting to take over the United States ... on a TV program just last night, I saw that they are taking over a city in Michigan and the residents of the city, they want them out. They want them out. So, I want to hear your thoughts about that.”
Angle responded that “we’re talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn’t a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it.”
“My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas, are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don’t know how that happened in the United States,” she said. “It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.”
O’Reilly stated that Angle should know that “the U.S. Constitution is the greatest protection against Sharia law and any government-controlled religion.” He said that Angle should realize that not everyone who comes from the Middle East is Muslim.