Sinai: Sharia group threatens "very harsh" punishments for smoking, drug use

Tareyton.jpgLooks like they have a fight on their hands


"There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways..." -- Reza Aslan

And yet whenever we see Sharia implemented, it looks the same. Now, why is that?

"Islamist vigilantes step up threats in Egypt's Sinai," from Reuters, December 26 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Islamist group in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula threatened to launch a crusade against drug use and cigarette smoking in the lawless desert region on Wednesday, prompting fears about the growing influence of radical groups in post-revolutionary Egypt.

The country's new constitution, adopted this week, states that the principles of sharia, Islamic law, are the main source of legislation.

Rights groups say the document contains vague language, such as references to "national" morals, which they believe hardliners can take advantage of to impose religious restrictions on people.

The Sinai vigilante group, which calls itself "Group for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," issued its warning in a leaflet distributed around North Sinai, saying its punishment of those who did not comply would be "very harsh".

"This statement is the first warning, and there will be no second. It is directed at those trading in drugs, specifically cigarettes," it said. "Those traders are destroying the families of Sinai, and flouting God's laws."...

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'I would walk a mile for a camel'...Years ago I searched the entire Sinai looking for Virginia Slims...I never did find her and eventually gave up...I was offered Camels, there were lots of them...But one Virginia is worth a hundred Camels...Soon you won't be able to buy a Camel if the sharia doctors get their way...

does raping and sodomizing a 9 year old girl also fall within their guidelines?
M

Funnily enough, I seem to recall that drug use is rife in Iran under the reign of the Mullahs, and that the Taliban and Hezbollah are up to their ears in the drug trade, and that Yemen and Somalia are awash with the psycho-active qat, and that in the USA Muslims have been caught making money by financial scams involving cigarette smuggling.

And about the first thing that Lebanese Muslim 'refugees' from the civil war in Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 80s did when they arrived in Australia was to start importing and trading in heroin (and they have since branched out into the importation, production and pushing of every other kind of drug as well, and infiltrated and begun to take over the outlaw bikie gangs, and so on).

From this article - 'The Rise of Middle Eastern [sic: he had better have said, 'Muslim' - dda] Crime in Australia' - by retired policeman Tim Priest, who was on hand as a cop at the time and saw it happen.


http://www.australian-news.com.au/Tim_Priest.htm

QUADRANT Volume XLVIII Number 1 - January-February 2004

Excerpt:

I BELIEVE that the rise of Middle Eastern [i.e. Muslim - dda] organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen.

{Yes, it did: we had to create 'The Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad' to deal with it...- dda}

"In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB.

" I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin.

"I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Beaker [sic: for Bekaa, in Lebanon – dda.] Valley Heroin, markedly different from any heroin I had seen.

"Number Four heroin from the golden triangle of South-East Asia is nearly always off-white, almost pure diamorphine. This heroin was almost brown.

"But more remarkable were the occupants of the house.

"**They were very recent arrivals from Lebanon, and from the moment we entered the premises,

we wrestled and fought with the male occupants, were abused and spat at by the women and children,

and our search took five times longer because of the impediments placed before us by the occupants,

including the women hiding heroin in baby nappies and on themselves and refusing to be searched by policewomen because of religious beliefs.** {My emphasis - dda. IN other words, they were Muslims. 'Don't make me take off my hijab...you daren't search me you filthy kuffar policeman because I'm an oh-so-pious-and-modest-Muslimah; but hey, I've got stashes of raw heroin hidden in my bloomers and my bra and inside my baby's nappy"..}.

'We had never encountered these problems before. {All their previous drug gangs having been, presumably, non-Muslim Aussies and East Asians who were more compliant with police when raided...dda}.

'As was the case in those days, we arrested every adult and teenager who had hampered our search.

"When it came to court, they were represented by Legal Aid, of course, who claimed that these people were innocent of the minor charges of public disorder and hindering police, because they were recent arrivals from a country where people have an historical hatred towards police, and that they also had poor communications skills and that the police had not executed the warrant in a manner that was acceptable to the Muslim occupants. {!!!! - dda}

"The magistrate, well known to police as one who convicted fewer than one in ten offenders brought before him during his term at Burwood local court, threw the matter out, siding with the occupants and condemning the police. I remember thinking, thank heavens we don’t run into many Lebanese [i.e. Lebanese Muslim – dda] drug dealers.

{He didn't realize that it was only the beginning...dda}

'In 1994 I was stationed at Redfern.

'A well-known Lebanese [and, I would bet on it, *Muslim* - dda] family who lived not far from the old Redfern Police Academy were terrorising the locals with random assaults, drug dealing, robberies and violent anti-social behaviour...".

Drug-dealing.

If there's a sharia ban on drug-dealing and drug use it sure as hell doesn't exactly seem to be observed by very many Muslims, at least when they're living inside the dar al Harb; and I think since the days of the Assassins (hopped up on hash) pretty well every Infidel who visited dar al Islam and lived to tell the tale has reported that the use of psycho-active substances is simply epidemic there.

Interesting historical note: Hitler's Sturmabteilung (the SA) sold its own brand of cigarettes up to 1934 as a means of raising money to fund the Party's bid for power. Hitler, a notorious vegetarian and all-round health-nut, had planned to end smoking in Germany when he won the war. The parallels between Nazi "Sharia" and Islamic Sharia are eerie but quite logical, given that the ideologies were and remain compatible in means and ends. Hitler's patronization of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is a notable instance of that alliance.

That compatibility can also be seen in the West's campaign against smoking, especially in the U.S. The totalitarian Left, aka the Progressives (in both major parties), sought and continues to seek full control of the lives and actions of Americans. The Prohibition era was a notable episode of that quest. Yet, not only do the federal and state governments derive tax revenue from cigarette sales, while demonizing and regulating smoking, the Taliban raises revenue from the cultivation and sale of heroin with which to wage jihad. Drug cartels profit from a similar prohibition. Call it ideological schizophrenia.

The growth of criminal gangs is a direct result of government prohibition campaigns and policies. Legislative altruism always, without fail, spawns criminal rackets, invariably violent and fruitlessly policed by the government. The proposed ban on the sale and possession of various kinds of "assault" weapons will only result in the creation of a black market for such guns, and the biggest customer base will be criminals.

An Islamist group in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula threatened to launch a crusade...
Reuters really said that?
An unfortunate turn of phrase or a deliberate provocation?
As Basil Fawlty would put it, "Don't mention the Crusades".

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