Sharia is a package deal, as even Imam Rauf knows. As the deputy PM makes clear, once Sharia has attained sufficient strength within a society, the rest of it will fall into place. A society that has not resisted Sharia when it was a minor force will be even less able to do so when it is a major force. Hence the gradualist approach in Britain, and as seen here in Malaysia.
Denial is not reform, but often passes for it in the West. The moment a non-Muslim notes a troubling tenet of Sharia, Sharia becomes a shape-shifting jellyfish of a law: that's not really Sharia, we're told, or that's only Sharia in scary places like Saudi Arabia. Or it's cultural and tribal baggage that could never, ever happen in the West because the West is "different" (And how and why is it different?). Or those punishments only happen in special cases to very bad people -- as if punishments like amputation or stoning, which are cruel and unusual in principle, are any less so when applied if we really didn't like the defendant.
And yet these same punishments enter the discussion wherever Sharia gains sufficient strength. That, of course, is because they are prescribed in the Qur'an, and in ahadith -- the recorded sayings and example of Muhammad -- that were deemed reliable ("Sahih," or "sound") by the consensus of Muslim scholars. That includes amputation for theft (Qur'an 5:38) and for "spreading corruption in the land" and "waging war against Allah" (5:33), lashes for adultery (24:2: "let no compassion move you"), and stoning for adultery (Sahih Bukhari 8.82.816).
"Malaysia Not Ready To Practise Hudud Law, Says Muhyiddin," from Bernama, September 22:
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is not ready for the implementation of hudud law, says Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
The Deputy Prime Minister said as a multi-racial and multi-religious country, Malaysia was not ready to introduce hudud laws as brought up by PAS leaders.
"Our stand is that in Malaysia, we cannot implement it in the present situation. I do not think in the present condition, it is suitable for implementation. We did not question the need to implement hudud law," he told a news conference after chairing a Cabinet Committee on Supply and Prices meeting here Thursday.
Muhyiddin said hudud laws could only be implemented when the situation was really conducive.
He said explanation and understanding of theses laws needed to be extended to cover all the people in the country so that they truly understood them.
"As a Muslim, I cannot reject hudud law. This is a fact from the Islamic law aspect but its implementation has become a subject of debate today. If Nik Aziz (Kelantan Menteri Besar) said it would be implemented in Kelantan, it is his wish," he added.
Under hudud laws, thieves hands [are] chopped off, adulterers will be stoned to death and murderers executed.
"country not ready for amputations.."
One must be pure evil to be "ready" for this kind of atrocities.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/islamic-amputations.html
"As a Muslim, I cannot reject hudud law."
No you can't, but as a decent reasonable human being you can reject Islam!
When it gets down to the nitty-gritty, Islam is too barbaric even for many of its own followers.
Malaysia: Deputy prime minister says country not ready for amputations, stonings under Sharia -- yet
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It's a similar situation in neighboring Indonesia, which doesn't appear "ready" for full Shari'ah either. But it's just a matter of time—Aceh has already imposed Shari'ah law, and a little over a year ago *put stoning on the books*.
How long will it be before the first sentence? Likely they will go through a short period where victims are sentenced to stonings, but the sentences are commuted at the last moment or the victims given asylum somewhere in the West—this is what happened with Nigeria—and, foolishly, those in the West have gotten complacent, and believe they *never will* be carried out.
It's a slippery slope, though—from the imposition of Shari'ah to its full practice is not a big step.
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Muhyiddin said hudud laws could only be implemented when the situation was really conducive.
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What he means is that Malaysia is still too comparatively civilized—and still has too many uppity Infidels about. They have been cowed by decades of the oppressive and discriminatory "Bumiputera Laws", though. These Muslim supremacist laws are derived from Shari'ah—but lack its full oppression and full bloody nature.
But likely it has softened up the country for the full imposition of Islamic law in time...
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He said explanation and understanding of theses laws needed to be extended to cover all the people in the country so that they truly understood them.
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"All the people in the country"—including the Infidels. Taqiyya artists who claim Shari'ah is just for Muslims *are lying*. As hideous as Shari'ah law is for Muslims themselves, it is *even worse* for oppressed Kuffar.
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"As a Muslim, I cannot reject hudud law. This is a fact from the Islamic law aspect but its implementation has become a subject of debate today"...
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This is what it comes down to—no Muslim can *ever* reject Shari'ah...the most he can do is waffle on whether the time is right for its full implementation...
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If Nik Aziz (Kelantan Menteri Besar) said it would be implemented in Kelantan, it is his wish," he added.
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Nik Abdul Aziz is a Malaysian politician and member of the Ulama. Kelantan state is officially a Muslim Sultanate—and one of the most heavily Muslim districts in Malaysia. In this way, it is similar to the situation with Aceh province in Indonesia, as I noted above.
If full Shari'ah law is implemented in Malaysia, it will likely begin with Kelantan.
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Under hudud laws, thieves hands [are] chopped off, adulterers will be stoned to death and murderers executed.
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Surely not—everyone knows only greasy Islamophobes say such things...sarc/off
Shape-shifting law? Sounds like Medusa.