Tunisia: Thousands rally to demand Sharia law

At another recent rally, we saw some signs of self-delusion about what they would be getting under Sharia. Many others, however, know exactly what they want to impose on the country. "Thousands rally in Tunis to demand Islamic law," from Agence France-Presse, March 25:

At least 8,000 Islamists staged a mass demonstration in central Tunis on Sunday in the latest show of force to demand the adoption of Islamic law in the north African country.

"The people want an Islamic state", "the people want sharia (Islamic law)," chanted the protesters, whose number was estimated by a police officer on site at between 8,000 and 10,000.

Tunisia's moderate Islamist leaders, who took power following last year's ouster of strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after a popular uprising, are under pressure to adopt sharia law in the new constitution.

Demonstrators also condemned as "an unacceptable crime" and a "provocative act" the desecration of the Koran and religious sites in incidents in Tunisia last week.

Copies of the Muslim holy book were found torn in a mosque in the southeastern town of Ben Guerdane and eggs splattered on its walls while in Tunis, the Star of David was daubed on the walls of a mosque used as a base for Salafist rallies.

One can't help but speculate about a false flag operation, given what a strategic disaster it would be. In any case, it is all too likely to be used against Tunisia's vulnerable Jewish population at some point, as an excuse for collective punishment.

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"The people want an Islamic state", "the people want sharia (Islamic law)," chanted the protesters, whose number was estimated by a police officer on site at between 8,000 and 10,000.

Between 8,000 and 10,000! That's a lot of lone wolves!

Is there possibly a segment of the global population that is yearning for a "tried, true, pure, religiously based foundation" for their lives? While dramatically different in precise lines of action, is the yearning of the "US Christian Conservative Community" to live in righteousness and "God's good grace" very similar in overall spirit?

At issue, then, might not be so much Christian vs. Muslim but how do we find out: "How does God view all of these tensions between peoples from a distance?"

"Tunisia: Thousands rally to demand Sharia law"

But first they want to have democracy, just like in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Turkeys! "Squawk!" Christmas, "Awk!"

One should not take anything a Muslim says at face value.

An engineer, who refused to give his name, added: "A Muslim should live under the tenets of Islamic law. The secularists would have one believe that Islam chops off the hands of thieves but... one must study Islam. The West has failed."

On the basis of this flimsy evidence, Marisol assumes that "self-delusion" could be at play among some Tunisian Muslims who want Sharia. Far more plausible is the likelihood that this "engineer" was playing to the camera and lying through his teeth, knowing full well what full-blooded Sharia means, and desiring it, but just unable to help himself from purveying the same tired old lie that Islam isn't as bad as people think it is.

When dealing with Muslims -- particularly with Muslims at a mass rally supporring Sharia for God sake! -- one must always assume the worst; not take what could be something slightly exculpatory at face value, as Marisol has done with her editorial comment. This meme -- that there are innumerable Muslims who "are ignorant of their own Islam" has really got to stop. It's a reckless meme capable of mass replication and real consequences -- such as trusting Muslims who will turn out to be complicit in plans to mass murder us.

"Copies of the Muslim holy book were found torn in a mosque" ...

Aw, now that's a welcome sight ...and the only thing that would make this scene that much better for me would be some lighter fluid and a match. Poof!

From the article:
"Demonstrators also condemned as "an unacceptable crime" and a "provocative act" the desecration of the Koran and religious sites in incidents in Tunisia last week.

Copies of the Muslim holy book were found torn in a mosque in the southeastern town of Ben Guerdane and eggs splattered on its walls while in Tunis, the Star of David was daubed on the walls of a mosque used as a base for Salafist rallies."

Memo to any Jews who have foolishly remained in Tunisia thus far: GET OUT, in the name of G-d,. GET OUT! FLEE! NOW. FAST. Every last one of you: drop everything, and get OUT while you still can. Don't wait till the howling allahu-akbaring mob is hammering down your door.

I do not believe for one second that any Jew in a Muslim country like Tunisia would be crazy enough to graffiti a mosque. These two paragraphs smell of Muslims getting ready to gin up a pogrom.

A Muslim acquaintance tried years ago the line that he had "not read" the verse I told him about, which was 8:12. He generally avoided anything leading to the truth about his religious texts, and begged me to take him to the West (I didn't). Nowadays the cat is well and truly out of the bag, and he is happy to shout all kinds of Islamic nastiness at me. He knows the lot, including the implications for the West of Muslim immigration. It's all about shameless revenge and destruction. No Islamic murder or rampage is undeserved by us, it seems. Any of us, even tiny children.
Why pretend any more? If we keep letting them in even though we know their intentions, why should they bother to pretend? Obviously we WANT them to destroy us.
Well, it must look like that to them.

"We want to be slaves!" "Deny us freedom!" "Democracy is for people who think too much!"

Thinking of historical change processes at work and jihad several trajectories come to mind:

- That countries will stop fighting if the civilian population is beaten down enough has not proven true: Britain, Germany, Japan, and Vietnam were all practically leveled but the will to fight kept on. Long term, the will for Jihad will need to be changed by means other than "beat sense" into the entire population?

- Countries have stopped fighting when their military capability is wiped out? That is what it took with Germany, Japan; Israel with Egypt, Syria and Jordan; but also the US in Vietnam and Israel in Lebanon. Is there a reality that there are not 50 million in the "active Jihad ranks" because people realize that their military capability is insufficient? Suicide bombers might not defeat the World? (But neither can the US take on the whole World all by itself? Everyone on the planet will ultimately need to decide what vision of World Development they want to vote for with their feet?)

- The power of a positive, principled, hopeful vision of human happiness is very significant? This is what energized the abolitionist movement for a very long and kept pushing against slavery from the day the very first slaves were dropped off the boat in Jamestown, VA? Is this also the power that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had? When Dr. King stood up to George Wallace the intellectual, moral and psychological weakness of the Governor became apparent. The vast majority of Americans refused to rally to the Governor's cause? Today he seems laughable. As the World tries to sort out how to define a global civilization what are the chances that the majority of the planet will want to practice Sharia, particularly the women? Could the study of this dynamic be useful in considering how we discourse about our values and visions?

Respectfully yours, TS

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