A thoughtful, reasoned response to the Republican cray-cray that seems to be spewing from a fire hose lately…
"At the risk of taking Gingrich's nonsense seriously, just imagine for a moment what translating his proposal into action would mean. The government would round up 3.3 million American Muslims, then "test" them to see "if they believe in Sharia," a notion about which Gingrich doesn't have the remotest clue. Sharia is the Arabic word for "law"; there's no guidebook of official Sharia, and Islamic scholars have a multitude of ideas about how Koranic ideas could or should be translated into civil rules. But even if there were, Gingrich is literally proposing to prosecute thought crimes, as well as jettisoning the First Amendment to throw people in jail for visiting certain web sites. And where is he going to "deport" the Americans whom he decides believe in Sharia to?
Frankly, I think we need to ask just how Newt Gingrich got radicalized, and what caused him to reject the values of the country that gave him so much. Was it some radical cleric who did this to him? Is there a church somewhere in Georgia we need to be monitoring?" ~ Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
Go read the whole thing. It's worth your time.
Nothing of Mr. Gingrich is worth my time.