I discussed Mohamed Kamal Mustafa and his wife-beating book in Islam Unveiled, which I wrote in 2001. In it I reported that an association of Spanish women's groups had brought suit against him; it has taken that long for this case to wend its way through the Spanish courts, while Mustafa has been able to continue to preach his views in Spain unhindered.
I also noted that Mustafa had merely restated and elaborated upon Qur'an 4:34: "good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them." Now a judge has ordered him to study Spain's constitution; what will he find in that constitution that will convince him to set aside the Qur'an?
This judge has given us yet another example of how ignorance of Islam and the jihad imperative cripple our response to it. If he knew that Mustafa was simply working from the Qur'an itself, it is unlikely that he would think that an Imam would allow himself to be turned from that path by studying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the constitution of Spain. After all, another Muslim theorist, the Iranian Sufi Sheikh Sultanhussein Tabandeh, wrote a book criticizing the Universal Declaration on Islamic grounds: A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- indicating that it is at least possible, if not probable, that a Muslim religious teacher, when confronted with the incompatibility of Qur'anic directives with Western notions of human rights, will discard not Islam, but Western notions of human rights.
After all, right here at Jihad Watch I once had an exchange with an English convert to Islam, who signed his name "Yusuf Smith Indigo Jo)." I said: "I would like nothing better than a flowering, a renaissance, in the Muslim world, including full equality of rights for women and non-Muslims in Islamic societies: freedom of conscience, equality in laws regarding legal testimony, equal employment opportunities, etc." To that he responded: "So, you would like to see us ditch much of our religion and, thereby, become non-Muslims."
In other words, he saw a call for equality of rights for women and non-Muslims in Islamic societies, including freedom of conscience, equality in laws regarding legal testimony, and equal employment opportunities, as a challenge to his religion. Will Mustafa think anything else after reading over the Universal Declaration?
Or maybe the judge is hoping that Mustafa, when seeing this incompatibility, will leave Spain voluntarily.
From The Telegraph:
The judge told Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, imam of a mosque in the southern resort of Fuengirola, to spend six months studying three articles of the constitution and the universal declaration of human rights.Mr Kamal was sentenced to 15 months in jail and fined £1,500 last year after being found guilty of inciting violence against women. However, despite objections from Spain's socialist government, a judge released him after 22 days in jail on condition that he undertake a re-education course.
A commission recommends that imams should speak Spanish and have a basic knowledge of human rights and Spanish law.
In his book Women in Islam, published four years ago, Kamal wrote that according to Islamic law, a disobedient wife could be beaten.
"The blows should be concentrated on the hands and feet using a rod that is thin and light so that it does not leave scars or bruises on the body,'' he wrote.
Ever seen a crocodile perform in a circus?
Can you turn a cat into a sniffer dog?
Ever seen a Mohammedan mother Theresa?
Mustafa must have a European Publisher & printing house?
Under EU Law, I thought it was illegal to form, print or distribute any material,either hardcopy or electronic, that incites violence against any section of Humanity. Probably another one of those "cultural sensitivity" things that European Socialist Dhimmi's carp on about.
If anyone knows either his publisher, please make them known here so I can start something.
The mega appeasing Spanish left wing socialist Government, elected only with & by the invaluable help of Osama Bin Laden, should be ashamed of themselves. I don't believe that they even tried to make him serve his sentence or object in anyway to his release.
Do the Spanish think he will become enlightened by reading the UDHR after a lifetime of indoctrination?
I've argued with Yusuf Smith and some of the moronic commenters on his blog. It is like trying to swim through treacle. The frightening thing is he isn't actually stupid, just impervious to any argument that goes against his religion.
As for Mr 'Thin, light Rod', making him take a 're-education course' is just a joke. It won't change his views, but it may well teach him to talk the talk of human rights when dealing with a Western audience. Taqiyya training at taxpayers' expense.
The French deported an Algerian iman and his family a year ago for preaching exactly the same things in the mosque. Sarkozy the Interior Minister said "we want these kind of people removed far away from our territory." How much Spanish taxpayers money was wasted on the incarceration and "re-education" of this man?
Hey Ontario! See what you missed out on? Are you sure you don't want to reconsider institution of Shariah family law in Ontario?
What a farce!
That a Spanish judge would even attempt to enegnder in Mr Kamal some basic common sense is profoundly pathetic, and - needless to say - doomed to fail.
Many things in this world can be given away. Knowledge cannot. It must be earned, generally through hard work. First and foremost - or so it seems to me - a necessary precursor to gaining any sort of education would be a desire to learn.
I find it highly unlikely that Mr Kamal would possess this basic desire.
To paraphrase a former Australian Prime Minister, this punishment will bother Mr Kamal as much as being flogged with a wet cabbage!
In any event, what is with this alteration of sentence once handed down by a court?
At the end -- essay, multiple-choice, or what?
Perhaps the Infidel countries could get together and have a special Examination Committee set up, for their various scarcely-distinguishable groups of local Muslims.
In order to save on examination-preparation, what about one country-specific essay, of course to be written in the language of the country in which the particular test-taking Muslim happens to live, and then a large number of multiple-choice questions based on apt hypotheticals.
For example, there could be one about a lawsuit, in which the defendant is Muslim and a plaintiff Jewish. Permissible? Or one where a Muslim woman marries a Christian man and not only does not force him to convert to Islam, but converts to Christianity. Is that okay -- why, or why not? Or something involving a Muslim who declares to his wife three times that he divorces her. Is the divorce valid? Or a television comic reads aloud from the Qur'an and the Hadith and the Sira, and makes a series of jokes about Muhammad and little Aisha. Later, he is shot and killed by an outraged Muslim. In a subsequent prosecution for murder, the outraged Muslim should be found guilty or not guilty? And his best defense should be....what?
These are the kind of questions that, if properly fine-tuned, can be given, four times a year -- like the SATs and MCATS and LSATs and all those other unendurable things that must be endured -- in selected cities around the country, around all countries in the Lands of the Infidels.
Yes, I think that the best way to proceed is with one or two essays, that are country and local-language specific, and then a few hundred multiple-choice questions, based on short hypotheticals.
And please -- don't write your name, but only your Social Security number (if you have a real one, honestly obtained), and your Passport Number, if you have one, on the front of the first-blue book. And in the essay, write ONLY on one side of the page.
You may start now.
And in the essay, write ONLY on one side of the page.
Are you a good plain crook?
Are you insane? If so state whether permanently or only temporarily.
What have you done with your Mother? (If nun write none.)
How do you intend to die? (Write your answer in BLOCK CAPITALS)
Or as the old joke has it, one could also ask,
"And when did you stop beating your wife?"
I would be very careful about any endorsement of the far left-wing UN Declaration of Human Rights since it among other things implicitly protects the "right" of Muslims to practice Jihad! Here is Article 18:
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
I would say that to the serious Muslim, Jihad is definitely "manifest(ing) his religion in...practice...and observance"!