Spencer: Is Sharia Really Benign? Wake up.

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In Human Events this morning I take apart one of the many whitewashes of Sharia that are being published these days:

Now that 20 states are considering legislation to outlaw Islamic law (Sharia), Islamic supremacist advocacy groups in the U.S—particularly the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—have launched an energetic media campaign to whitewash Sharia and gull Americans into believing that it is as benign as a game of dominoes.

To that end, Nezar Hamze, executive director of the South Florida chapter of CAIR, published a piece in the Miami Herald assuring us that Sharia was as American as baseball and fishing—and conveniently leaving out everything about Sharia that makes people believe it is a threat in the first place.

Hamze attributed concern about Islamic law to those who “claim that 'Moozlims' are trying to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Sharia” and are ready to “run out with pitchforks and protest signs.”

“Moozlims.”  “Pitchforks.”  Hamze was semaphoring that the only people who could possibly be concerned about Sharia are ignorant racist yahoos.  This is just a smear tactic, but it works insofar as it warns unreflective and uninformed leftists (i.e., virtually all leftists) not to dare to oppose Sharia:  We wouldn’t want to align with rednecks, now, would we?

Hamze quoted Florida politician Adam Hasner as saying that “today there is an enemy, and that enemy is Sharia-compliant Islam.”  Then Hamze commented:  “This statement is ridiculous.  When I wash before praying, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.  When I offer a greeting to someone, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.  What in the world is Hasner talking about?”

Hamze left out a few details.  When I cut out a woman’s clitoris, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.  When I forbid non-Muslims to practice their faith openly, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.  When I count a non-Muslim’s life as less valuable than a Muslim’s, that is Sharia-compliant Islam.  When I brutally lash a woman, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.  When I smash musicians’ instruments and threaten them, saying they better not play music again or else, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.  When I wage war against and subjugate unbelievers, this is Sharia-compliant Islam....

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Yeah, and I can also kill my children and grandchildren with no Islamic penalty...ain't that great? Under sharia, there would be no Casey Anthony trial, no guilty people, let all the parental baby murders out of prison, they did nothing wrong, according to sharia...wonderful...

Under the banner of sharia law the United Nations estimates that at least 5,000 women are murdered every year in "honor killings" by Muslim family members aggrieved by a wife or daughter thought to have disgraced their family.

Of course that doesn't even began to count the number women who are horribly maimed for life from acid in their faces,cutting off of the ears and nose-- the horror that is Islam reflects the most hateful of Gods. No God is worth following that reflects such disdain for the human race.

Meanwhile in the land of Saud, the 'keepers of the faith' (sic):

Domestic workers' rapes, physical abuse, entrapment, and now beheadings in Saudi Arabia, the 'perfect' Sharia compliant Islamic state?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13860097

Who'd a thunk it. What would Allah say to this?

As said earlier on another post, the answer to Sharia is an absolute "NO"!!

Don't we forget the bright side of Sharia-compliant Islam: Elevating Women!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/garbage-bagsac-ordures.html

So, if the Nazis claimed that evil Nazi laws are benign, we're supposed to accept it? And if the Muslims are claiming that evil Islamic laws are benign, we're supposed to accept it? Fundamentally, as Robert brilliantly argues, Islam is a political supremacist ideology right from the beginning - I really think it's about expanding savagely Arabic Imperialism. Islam, an evil Arabic cult, through and through, is created by the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner (including sexual slaves such as young Jewish captive girls), and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, in order to construct pure Arabian kingdom and legitimize his and his tribe’s evil and savage Arabic socio-cultural practises and god, especially against Judeo-Christian shared God and civilized tradition and laws!

... but it works insofar as it warns unreflective and uninformed leftists (i.e., virtually all leftists) not to dare to oppose Sharia

Except for Lorna Salzman, Pat Condell, Oriana Fallaci, Hugh Fitzgerald and Benno Barnard, I really can't think of any other leftists who could see what mahoundianism really is, rather than willingly allow themselves to be blinded by the fog of their dogmatic beliefs in the wonders of inbred bedouin savagery and nazism from the Arabian Peninsula.

BLIND EYES allowed in Islam, Quran 5:45 “eye for eye”
(Qiyas law fundament of Sharia law)

http://newstime.co.nz/islam-is-a-pervert-kindergarten.html

As usual Muslim liars talk about benign requirements of sharia such as greeting some body with"salaam" while forgetting to tell the world a few examples that Robert has cited in his article >" When I cut out a woman’s clitoris, this is Sharia-compliant Islam. When I forbid non-Muslims to practice their faith openly, this is Sharia-compliant Islam. When I count a non-Muslim’s life as less valuable than a Muslim’s, that is Sharia-compliant Islam. When I brutally lash a woman, this is Sharia-compliant Islam. When I smash musicians’ instruments and threaten them, saying they better not play music again or else, this is Sharia-compliant Islam. When I wage war against and subjugate unbelievers, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.."

Isn't Islam wonderful.... - yeah a religion of demons!!!

Never trust Muslim liars - if only our politicians and the media could learn this much, we ould be much better off!!

yes, sharia is as American as baseball and fishing,(and yes, apple pie), ONLY IF you consider beheading for apostasy (where's religious freedom guarenteed by the constitution) stoning for adultery (our Christian heritage in US law remembers the words of Jesus in John8:1-11) amputations for theft, UNequal treatment for people before the law based on gender or religious beliefs, and the cannoniztion of slaverythose (remember the constutional amendMemt abolishing it after the civil war)! IN FACT IF YOU ARE FOR SHARIA YOU ARE A TRAITOR TO THE US CONSTIUTION!

SORRY for my typos in the above blog.

"We come in peace." Yea. That is what they ALWAYS say.

As we know here on jihadwatch, the ONLY peace with Islam is within Islam. In other words, AFTER you have been conquered and are submissive. A fundamental flaw with Islam is that it is NOT at peace with itself. The penalty for leaving Islam is death. This makes it certain that fundamental disagreements can never be resolved. Take the Sunni and Shiite disagreement. It came about in 690 AD. They are STILL killing each other over that battle.

Another flaw with Islam is that it is so totalitarian that anger can be the only natural emotion. Frustration for even the men (Who are much better off than the women) is rampant. I guess this just comfirms the old saying that misery loves company.

If there is a more draconian, more awful, legal system than Sharia, offhand right now I can't think of what that legal system would be. Sharia is a prescription for legalized tyranny. It is not enlightened in the least and it is directly in conflict many times over with the Constitution of the United States of America, a document which is infinitely superior to the entire corpus of the Islamic faith---Sharia, the Koran, the Hadiths, schools of theology, et al.

OT

Salafist threat growing, interior ministers say

German state interior ministers are warning of a rise in radical Salafist Islam that poses a risk of home-grown terrorism, with one politician calling for changes to residency laws so “hate preachers” can be more easily deported.
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110621-35793.html

it is amazing how decietful some of these articles are, like the one yesteday in NYtimes from some proffesor at chicago university. but the bigger problem is that our people are naive and loving so they buy this Bull...

what really amazes me is that this country lets people in with open arms. instead of them giving back, they want to take it to the 6th century. let me tell you something very intresting: this applies to Pakistanis, Bangladeshie, Yemeni and Afghani the most. they are here to only exploit our economy. making money and sending it home. that is it. they give a f...less about the country that is feeding them. period.
how the f... they make here is mind buggling.

Running out with pitchforks????

I can see my arsenal of agricultural tools is sadly deficient. I have a scythe (that big, Grim Reaper tool) which is wonderfully relaxing to use and doesn't provoke bees to sting. I also have a sling-blade, an axe, a rake, a couple of machetes and a rather strange shovel, but nary a single pitchfork. :(

Oh, well! I'm off to the local feed store to buy a pitchfork! I'd hate to be caught unprepared!

"Hamze was semaphoring that the only people who could possibly be concerned about Sharia are ignorant racist yahoos."

Yep. It's the mind set of the coastal elites and Liberal Left commentariat. Except for isolated urban areas like Chicago, or small pockets of Liberalism, usually university towns, like Madison, Iowa City, and Boulder, virtually the entire population living West of I-95 and East of I-5, in the region referred to as "fly-over country, is considered to consist of little more than ignorant racist yahoos.

Only a low class MORON could ever believe that shari'a is benign.

Yeah, comments are still open over there.

I've weighed in.

Now that 20 states are considering legislation to outlaw Islamic law (Sharia), Islamic supremacist advocacy groups in the U.S—particularly the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—have launched an energetic media campaign to whitewash Sharia and gull Americans into believing that it is as benign as a game of dominoes.
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The "game" it more truly resembles, of course, is Russian Roulette—using a gun with most of the chambers loaded.

Proud_Kafir7908 wrote:

Except for Lorna Salzman, Pat Condell, Oriana Fallaci, Hugh Fitzgerald and Benno Barnard, I really can't think of any other leftists who could see what mahoundianism really is...
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Certainly, there aren't many, Proud Kafir. Bill Maher—while I disagree with him on many other matters, *does* seem to have come to recognize that Islam represents a particular threat.

I would include Christopher Hitchens and the more jocular Dennis Miller, but they probably should be considered *former* leftists at this point. Slim pickings, in any case...

And it *is madness*. "Politically correct" groups—liberals, ethnic minorities, women, gays–are every bit as much at risk under Shari'ah as are conservatives, caucasians, and Christians.

Of course CAIR want sharia in the states …this way they can marry 4 wives and it will be no risk of jail …they just want to have the cake and eat it too ….

They are dreaming of course …they are fooling no one here.

"Never trust Muslim liars - if only our politicians and the media could learn this much, we ould be much better off!!"

It never hurts to send a friendly letter or email to your 2 state senators and representative in congress, that is, assuming you are an American in the United States.

It also helps to remind them that you are a registered voter and are more than happy to keep them in office if they keep you happy as well.

It probably doesn't hurt to show them what REAL sharia compliant means, but try not to be too graphic--just enough to get the message across.

Reliance of the Traveller, a standard Islamic law reference text certified by Al-Azhar, the chief center of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world, supports extreme discrimination against non-Muslims and women:

From page 590 of The Reliance of the Traveller/Umdat Al-Salik:

The indemnity [compensation for damages] for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man.

The indemnity for a Jew or a Christian is one-third the indemnity paid for a Muslim.

The indemnity for a Zoroastrian [the Persian pre-Islamic religion, to which some Iranians still adhere] is one-fifteenth of that of a Muslim.

From the back cover of Reliance of the Traveller:

"There is no doubt that this translation is a valuable and important work, whether as a textbook for teaching Islamic jurisprudence to English speakers, or as a legal reference for use by scholars, educated laymen, and students in this language."
- Dr. Taha Jabir al-Alwani, president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought
The back cover also says the book
...is the first translation of a standard Islamic legal reference in a European language to be certified by Al-Azhar, the Muslim world's oldest institution of higher learning. It presents an explanative interpretation of Umdat al-Salik, a classic Sunni manual of Sacred law...
­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­For some of the juiciest core texts of Islam, all well-referenced, check out Quoting Islam.

In addition to states voting in to stop Sharia law, perhaps we should dust off those old RiCO Laws as well? I think Sharia and their imams, mosques, apologists, seditionists, and one and all who hinder investigations into Islamic criminal activities, from terrorism to extortion to sex slavery, should feel the weight of the law on them, even if it displeases Allah's 'major sins'... Don't know about #6, but for sure #8 fits into RICO. ;)

Excellent article. Sharia is the code that was developed to regulate the conquered Arab lands back in the day. It has no place in the modern world.
I suspect that a lot of the chaos afflicting the Islamic countries has more to do with the hatred and discrimination implicit in Sharia and Islam than with emerging democratic trends. Sharia is a poor recipe for social cohesion.

unreflective and uninformed leftists (i.e., virtually all leftists)

And the majority of Americans. We'll find out in November of next year. Eating from the palms of John Stewart, Anderson Cooper, Joy Behar and the like, without realizing it in 2012 they'll be voting on Moslems as much as on the economy.

*** Bukhari Vol 1 Bk 22 Nbr 28 ***

Mohammed said: "I was shown the Hell Fire and the majority of its dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful." When asked what they were ungrateful for, Mohammed answered, "All the favors done for them by their husbands."

When I cut out a woman’s clitoris, this is Sharia-compliant Islam.

And self-defeating, unless your sex-kink is the denuding of women to transform your sex partner into a precious bodily fluids dumpsters.

Of course CAIR want sharia in the states …this way they can marry 4 wives and it will be no risk of jail …they just want to have the cake and eat it too ….

They are dreaming of course …they are fooling no one here.

While they ain't fooling me, I see Moslems with multiple wives all the time. And they know full well that they would never, ever, be prosecuted by an uppity DA, cuz there's no DA in this country with the balls to prosecute such a felony.

What sort of freakish 'religion' allows its acolytes to prey on its own women?
The very daughters, sisters and mothers who bear the children are savagely raped and beaten by these animals calling themselves men.
A case here in the states where a Islamic nutcase brutally raped and shot down his own daughters ought to be a clear indication to ALL women everywhere what is in store for them if they join Islam and dont do precisely what they are told...and in a lot of cases absolute obedience did not save their flesh.

These pitiful jihadists seem to make the mistake of making 2 erroneous assumptions.
1. That their 'religion' will ever unite them enough to even remotely have a chance of taking power over humanity, and;
2. That the rest of us are even remotely less determined as they are. A lot of non violent men and women on this planet will certainly take up arms when push comes to shove and if Islamic sharia types want the 'mother of all wars' then all they need to do is keep pushing the rest of us rather than acting like real men, getting along with others, minding their own damned affairs and learning to treat their women like human beings.

Islam is making a horrible mistake if it believes for a second that we are any less determined or any less capable of violence if pushed into defending our homes, our families, our women and our country.

Alarmed Pig Farmer said: '' I see Moslems with multiple wives all of the time''. .just so over here in ol' Blighty too APF. .an they ain't no tourists passin thru. They got residency and somebodys in the halls of governance are not applying the monogamic Rule of Law to these non-tourists. Same as y'good self, they ain't foolin' me neither.

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