How did these legal experts from the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Prime Minister’s office get the crazy idea that Sharia mandated intolerance? We are constantly told in the U.S. that it is a benign system of laws governing Muslim marriages, inheritance and the like, and that anyone who believes that it has any content that may impinge upon the freedom of non-Muslims is a greasy Islamophobe. Are these Muslim authorities in Brunei Islamophobes in disguise?
“Propagating religion other than Islam a crime under Syariah law,” from the Brunei Times, February 14 (thanks to Twostellas):
PRIVATE education institutions have been cautioned against propagating religions other than Islam as it is a crime under the Syariah Penal Code Order.
During a briefing in Tutong on the law yesterday, legal experts from the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Office told 300 representatives of private education institutions it was an offence to propagate religions other than Islam to a Muslim or atheist.
The offence is punishable by a fine of up to $20,000, imprisonment for up to five years or both under Section 209.
Exposing beliefs and practices other than Islam to a Muslim child, or a child whose parents are atheist, carries the same punishment.
Under Section 212, it is an offence to “persuade, tell, cause, offer payment to, influence, incite, encourage or let” the child accept such teachings.
Additionally, it is a crime to expose the child to any ceremony, act of worship or religious activity of any religion beside Islam, or to participate in any activity held for the benefit of other religions.
Several provisions relating to the publication, possession and distribution of materials that propagate religions other than Islam are also included in Brunei Darussalam’s Syariah Penal Code Order.
This law applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims. However, there are certain offences that are applicable only to Muslims.
Brunei is set to enforce the first phase of the new law in April, ushering in Ta’zir or general offences that are punishable by fines, imprisonment or both.
Harsher punishments for serious crimes, such as amputation of limbs for stealing, will be introduced in the second phase, while the death penalty will only come into force in the third phase, pending the finalisation of the Syariah Courts Criminal Procedure Code Order.
Assistant Director of Private Institutions Section at the Ministry of Education Pg Othman Pg Mohd Daud said the new law would “ensure the prosperity, well-being, peace and solidarity” of the people in the Sultanate.
Pg Othman, in his speech at the briefing, said the Syariah Penal Code Order would serve as a platform to overcome the negative problems and challenges brought about by the “rapid development of a borderless world”….
Jay Boo says
Boycott products like COFFEE and CLOTHING from Islamic countries like Indonesia that oppress other religions. In other words boycott all Islamic countries.
Insist that STARBUCKS and other coffee outlets include country of origin and that they have ‘religious persecution’ in the FAIR TRADE seal of approval.
mortimer says
Jay Boo is right. There are legal means for fighting and winning the battle against intolerant Sharia…such as boycotts. The non-Muslim world consists of 4/5 of the planet. We can stop Islam in its tracks by sticking together. Sharia discriminates and is no solution to “rapid development of a borderless world”… Sharia is enslavement of non-Muslims.
The West fought two world wars, a Korean War, a Cold War, a Viet Nam War, a war in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan over the issue of freedom. We are not going to comply to Sharia, a supremacist code that takes most of those freedoms away.
Jay Boo says
1 Avoid appeasing Islam. You wouldn’t reward a bad dog, so why let Islam get away with bad behavior? If you let them get their way, they’ll only be encouraged.
Cost /Benefit calculation
2 Identify ideology and their leftist collaborator’s true agenda.
3 (Coexist) is not an option with Islam. Islamic ideology deliberately manipulates people and is concerned only with the ability to gain power over others. Islam is not concerned with finding a solution that benefits everyone therefore there is no basis for a ‘negotiation’ toward mutual understanding.
Jim says
It is nice to see they are bringing sharia in stages. Allah will bless them somehow in stage three.
Salah says
Read between the lines:
“..the Syariah Penal Code Order would serve as a platform to overcome the negative problems and challenges brought about by the “rapid development of a borderless world”….
Translation:
The borderless world is causing many problems to Islam.
Indeed it is!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html
Defcon 4 says
Will the “third phase” also feature enslavement of the untermenschen of islamic theology, the najjis kaffir? Or will jizya payments suffice? Jizya might even be a quick way for the Zero to ameliorate the vast national debt of the USA.
islamisdeath says
We will of course meticulously adhere to their sensitivities in this regard here in the west in the name of freedom of religion.
Christian and Jewish Children are forced to go on field trips to satans temples the mosques kneel down and pray there! The outrage and revulsion I feel about this is not measurable.
Libra55 says
Same here ! As a parent, no way would i allow my child to take part on such a field trip to a satans temple and say the Muslim prayer of conversion !!
( or to consume halal anywhere as against my religion, Christians are forbidden to eat ” meat sacrificed to idols” an edict from James and from Jesus in Revelation)
But it has also been reported in some cases the parents were not even informed of the field trip to a satan temple ! Stealth jihad, children at risk !
Grissom says
“Meat sacrificed to idols”
You do realize that the Islamic and Christian faiths worship the same God right?
I don’t think the good Lord will be happy to be compared to a pagan idol.