Now that opposing Sharia is fashionable, here are some recent Sharia atrocities for Jay and Ellen and their friends to protest. My latest in PJ Media:
Opposing Sharia is fashionable now. According to Fox News, “the Beverly Hills Hotel just lost two more big-name clients, Clive Davis and Jeffrey Katzenberg, because its owner is introducing an Islamic Shariah-based penal code in the oil-rich East Asian country of Brunei. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announced last week that he would push ahead with the criminal code that would eventually include severing of limbs and death by stoning for people who are gay or commit adultery. The Sultan – through the Brunei Investment Agency – owns the Dorchester Collection luxury hotel chain, which manages the Hotel Bel-Air and The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.”
It wasn’t just Davis and Katzenberg: “the Feminist Majority Foundation also relocated its Global Women’s Rights Awards, co-chaired by Jay Leno and his wife Mavis, that had been scheduled for Monday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Leno and actress Frances Fisher joined protesters at the famous hotel speaking out against the Sultan.” Fox noted other “outraged stars,” such as Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Osbourne, Stephen Fry and Richard Branson.
This Hollywood outrage against Sharia oppression is refreshing and welcome, but it is a bit out of focus. Brunei is not the first country to implement Sharia. Nor is it the only Muslim country stoning adulterers, amputating thieves’ hands, and systematically oppressing women, gays and non-Muslims. The sultan of Brunei isn’t implementing some eccentric form of Sharia that has never before been seen in the world. What he is implementing is essentially the same as that which has been in place for years wherever Sharia is fully implemented, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, and (mostly) Pakistan.
So for consistency’s sake, here are five recent Sharia outrages that Jay and Ellen and the rest may wish to protest as well:
5. Egypt: Woman kicked off TV show for expressing skepticism about Islam
Last Tuesday, Egyptian TV talk show host Riham Said interviewed a Dr. Noha, a woman who had abandoned her Islamic faith. Dr. Noha was wearing a niqab, the Islamic face covering that leaves only the eyes unconcealed. She explained that she was wearing it “to conceal my identity. I fear for my life. I don’t want to be killed like Farag Foda” – a skeptic whom Islamic jihadists murdered in 1992. “Also,” she added: “I wouldn’t want to offend my family, who are very religious. I don’t want to hurt their feelings. They get upset when I talk about religion.”
Dr. Noha went on to deny the divine inspiration of the Qur’an, whereupon an aghast Said affirmed her Islamic faith and declared: “I want to implement every detail of Allah’s Sharia, but I am against killing people who do not wish to implement it. I hope Allah’s Sharia will be implemented everywhere, alcohol banned, and the cabarets will be shut down. I am a Muslim and, therefore, I must implement Allah’s Sharia.” She continued: “A thief’s hand should be cut off, and an adulteress should be stoned to death.”
Said grew increasingly agitated. Finally she told Noda to get out of the studio, and lamented having “wasted my time talking to a crazy woman.” Islamic law forbids any criticism of Islam on pain of death, and she may not only have been personally upset by Noda’s unbelief, but also afraid that she herself might be physically attacked for having her on her show.
The stifling of the freedom of thought, and the physical intimidation of those who dare to question Islam – surely these are worthy causes for the attention of the glitterati.
4. Malaysia: Two nuns viciously attacked on church grounds
The Malaysian Insider reported Wednesday that “two Catholic nuns were viciously attacked on the grounds of the Church of Visitation in Seremban in what is believed to be a robbery attempt early this morning.”
Apparently it wasn’t universally believed that this was a simple robbery attempt: the Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM) issued a statement strongly suggesting that Islamic supremacists had attacked the nuns: “The voices of antagonism and hatred have been on the increase in the country and it would be no surprise if the attack on the nuns were not conspired by those out to cause inter-religious conflict in the country.” The CCM demanded that police investigate “this case of outright religious intimidation and fear creation and bring those responsible to justice.”
Islamic law stipulates that Christians may live in an Islamic state as long as they know their place and accept the denial of basic rights, so that they “feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29). If they question their status, their “contract of protection” (dhimma) is revoked, and their lives are forfeit. Malaysia doesn’t implement Sharia in its fullness, but such provisions still have a strong cultural influence. And with the recent controversies over the prohibition of Christians to use the word “Allah” for God, these attackers may have regarded the nuns, and all Malaysian Christians, as having forfeited any protection they might have previously enjoyed.
The brutalization of innocent people in an attempt to intimidate a minority community into submission: Jay, call your office!
3. Sudan: Pregnant Christian convicted of apostasy, adultery
It was revealed Tuesday that in Sudan, “a Christian carrying her second child to term has been convicted of adultery and apostasy, penalties that are punishable in Sudan by 100 lashes and death, respectively, according to International Christian Concern.”
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim is a Christian, but has a Muslim father, so under Sudanese law (and Sharia), she is a Muslim and as a professing Christian is an apostate from Islam. The adultery charge arises from her marriage to a Christian – an illegal marriage for a Muslim woman according to Sharia.
Forcible coercion of the conscience, and the death penalty for exercising it in a way unacceptable to the establishment: sounds like the stuff of a great, dramatic Hollywood movie upholding the freedom of conscience….
Read the rest here.
mark says
Marxist-minded celebrities only complain when Muslim extremism comes to their doorsteps.
Isabella says
I see Jay Leno’s intervention as something in the right direction to make more people aware of the stealth jihad. Boycotting is not a bad move. Au contraire I say.
Dabigragu says
Leno is far from a Marxist.
RCCA says
Can you come up with any prominent US product or institution which supports sharia we can collectively boycott (besides gasoline)?
Max Publius says
This is a good start, but these are Muslim countries. Where are the Sharia-compliant companies and banks? Much easier to stop buying a product than to boycott a country. Well, except for oil–for now.
Elana Starr says
J. Jill is a sharia compliant company. It positions itself as very American but it’s actually owned by Bahrain-based investment firm Arcapita Bank. Arcapita’s trying to sell it, but until they do, you can read about their involvement here:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/37503/what-not-to-wear-muslim-jihadist-bank-buys-j-jill/
mortimer says
ALL gay, lesbian and transgender groups should be PROTESTING THE SULTAN whose plan is to MURDER THEM ALL.
If they do not protest NOW, they will not have the chance to protest after they are ARRESTED AND EXECUTED BY A MUSLIM MOB!
dumbledoresarmy says
Copies of this article need to be sent – with polite covering letters – to Leno and De Generes. Be sure to state that you thoroughly approve of the boycott.
And – I particularly address our friend “Gay Warrior” and any other gay folks who post and/ or lurk at this forum (and there *are* others) – when you send your letter, tell Ms DeGeneres that you would just *love*, *love*, LOVE to see her invite Mr Robert Spencer as a guest on her show to answer any questions she and her audience may have. Tell her that you’ve found him to be a very reliable source of information. Recommend him as sharp, classy, funny, and brave; mention casually that he lives with continual death threats. You could also, perhaps, suggest the names of Phyllis Chesler, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq and Wafa Sultan as people you’d like to see on her show. You could enclose copies of the articles that both Chesler and Ali have written on the subject of the kidnapped Nigerian girls.
dumbledoresarmy says
And when you write your letter saying how much you’d like to see Mr Spencer as a guest on her show, be sure to mention (human interest) that he’s totally into *jazz*, that he plays the jazz saxophone. Here he is (at least, I’m pretty sure it’s him), writing about jazz rather than about Islam!
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/billy-bang-billy-bang-by-robert-spencer.php#.U32q5OAe9Ic
Imagine, if you will, a segment in which Mr Spencer requests the playing of a recording of one of the great jazz solos, and then says he’s dedicating it to the memory of Asma Bint Marwan and Abu Afak and Theo Van Gogh and all the other poets and artists and thinkers and critics – and *musicians* – who have been silenced by Muslim assassins, from the very beginning of Islam right up unto the present day.
Jay Boo says
All the same it is good news that some celebs are willing to rise above Hollywood’s slime. Hollywood must first give itself permission to question Islam and this is a start.
Jay Leno has more credibility than leftists (Dave Letterman & Jimmy Kimmel)
and Ellen DeGeneres is way better than Islam pandering (Rosie O’Donnell)
If Clive Davis and Jeffrey Katzenberg wish to join in all the better.
Wow! … Boko Haram and the Sharia Sultan in the spotlight —- all in the same month.
Salah says
“5. Egypt: Woman kicked off TV show for expressing skepticism about Islam”
I would like JW readers to understand the context of this incident.
Two years ago, during the Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, Riham, the TV host, invited a Muslim sheikh on her show. As a pre-condition, the sheikh asked her to cover her hair, which she did. During the show she took off her hair cover and threw it away. She did her best to humiliate the sheikh and she did a good job at this.
I think, though not sure, that following this incident she realized that she made a mistake and that her safety became at great risk.
Again, I think, though not sure, that by kicking Dr. Noha out of the studio she was actually trying to redeem herself in the eyes of the islamic thugs.
Bottom line, Muslims live in constant fear, they are afraid from each others.
Michael McGee says
The left defend these hideous regimes; I have had a gut-full of the lelf’s total (”intellectual?”) dishonesty in their defence of Islam.
Mirren10 says
”I think, though not sure, that following this incident she realized that she made a mistake and that her safety became at great risk.”
Hasn’t Dr. Noha risked just a teensy bit more ?
”Bottom line, Muslims live in constant fear, they are afraid from each others”
Dr Noha wasn’t.
Salah says
From the original article:
Dr. Noha: I did so (wear a hijab) to conceal my identity. I fear for my life. I don’t want to be killed like Farag Foda.
BTW, here’s my response to you on another thread, in case you missed it:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/long-island-mosque-chipped-in-to-support-jihad-terrorists/comment-page-1#comment-1050937
Mirren10 says
”Dr. Noha: I did so (wear a hijab) to conceal my identity. I fear for my life. I don’t want to be killed like Farag Foda”
It didn’t actually **conceal** very much. I’m sure I would recognise her. Point is, though, she did go on telly and state her antagonism to sharia, so in fact risked **more** than the screeching harpy host.
Yes, I did see your response, and I still don’t agree with you. You have yet to provide any proof of those ”millions ” of wannabe apostates, you know. Assertion is worthless without evidence.
Salah says
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xS9qcYhdls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVnILalpeo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnh8kdnfYyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTpvaEWjXWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO8BH9D7US8
Al-Jazeera TV:
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
onisac says
I’m thinking I wonder if Jay Leno and his wife Mavis, real what they are up against? I realize they are not alone. But when the stuff hits the fan will they be ready? Have they any clue the danger they ‘re putting themselves in to?
If I were one of those Hollywood super-stars or talk show hosts, I’d get more research behind me. Islam is not like any other culture on earth. To be sure they are much more like Adolph Hitler’s ideology than civil laws or freedoms.
Islam has it’s own law called Sharia and they will only obey Sharia. Why? Because Muhammad did and the Qur’an teaches it.
Islam’s best weapon is deception (taqiyya) it has been since they took over Mecca. Be very careful what you say, and when you say it. Unless of course you have your own security and body guards.
dumbledoresarmy says
Most of these people are rich enough to be able to *afford* bodyguards, if they start getting death threats from sharia assassins. For all we know, they most likely have bodyguards *already*, and assorted security measures.
I’d say some of them have probably already been afflicted with stalkers and death threats and such, from the (non-Islamic) unhinged; it comes with the celebrity territory, so to speak.
After all: it wasn’t a Muslim who assassinated John Lennon.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 5 Sharia Atrocities for Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres to Protest
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I hope they do. In any case, it may be a start. There are a small handful of Hollywood celebrities who appear to have at least a small inkling that all is not right with the “Religion of Peace™”—Bill Maher (although he can be quite inconsistent), Dennis Miller, and Ben Affleck. Let’s hope others join them.