Electing Muslims and Why it Matters
By Dan Burmawi
So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from an Italian winning an election?
Let me tell you.
An Italian has a national identity, Italian, that is tied to a defined territory: the borders of Italy.
He may celebrate Italian holidays, follow Italian politics, send money home, or even dream of returning one day. None of this is inherently antithetical to the American nation-state.
The Italian American immigrant does not believe Ohio is part of Italy. His attachment is territorial. It is confined to a nation whose boundaries are recognized by everyone, including himself.
Islam presents something fundamentally different.
Islam is not merely a religion practiced by people from many nations. Muslims belong to a single civilization that transcends every nation.
A Muslim may be Egyptian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Bosnian, or Indonesian, but he belongs to something larger than the nation-state: the ummah.
The ummah is not a country with fixed borders. Its political horizon encompasses the entire world.
That is why Muslims repeatedly say that Islam will enter every home.
The ummah is not Italy. It has no border because it is the entire world.
This transnational identity is fundamentally antithetical to the American national sovereignty.
An Italian American may work to advance Italian causes, but those causes remain bounded by Italy.
A Jewish American may work to advance Israel’s interests, but those interests remain tied to a particular state with defined borders.
No Italian wants Italy to govern America. No Jew wants Israel to govern America. Muslims want Islam to rule America.
Islam is a state being presented to Americans as a religion, and Americans are electing Islamic politicians to rule them without realizing that they are electing citizens of another country whose priorities will never be American.
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