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Brunei: Sultan calls for even “stronger” Islamic teachings as country implements stoning for gays

Apr 5, 2019 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Brunei has been in the news over the last few days because of its implementation of the sharia stoning of gays. Actor George Clooney called for a boycott of Brunei-owned hotels, and UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet condemned Brunei’s new “inhuman” laws, but in reality, such barbaric practices are nothing new.

To understand the fact that Brunei is simply implementing Sharia, read here.

One prominent voice is notably missing from among those condemning Brunei:  CAIR. CAIR officials are always ready to claim victimhood and charge “Islamophobia,” while calling itself a “leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding.” It also claims to “enhance understanding of Islam.” Since Brunei is following Sharia, CAIR (and its affiliates, such as CAIR-CAN/NCCM) should have a great deal to say about Brunei’s adherence to Islam. It should also have much to say about the injustice of stoning gays and amputating limbs, in accord with its stated mission of working for justice. But for CAIR, it’s all about “Islamophobia”: they’re too busy policing the speech of non-Muslims regarding Islam to acknowledge Sharia abuses. Instead, they attack those who do care about human rights, as they advance their stealth agenda and chip away at the freedom of speech.

US Muslim scholar Daniel Haqiqatjou, by contrast, has spoken honestly and unabashedly about the “divine” sharia. Haqiqatjou, who was born in Texas and attended Harvard, praised Brunei and asked: “When will other Muslim countries follow suit?”

Brunei’s new laws also include amputation for theft and “capital punishment for insulting the Prophet Mohammed,” and “apply to non-Muslims as well as Muslims.” Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is more committed to Sharia than ever: in the face of kaffir criticism, he has now called for Islamic teachings to be strengthened, and has commanded that the “Muslim call to prayer ring out in all public places, not just in mosques, to remind people of their Islamic duties.”

“(Update) Brunei sultan calls for ‘stronger’ Islamic teachings,” New Straits Times, April 3, 2019:

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei’s sultan called for Islamic teachings in the country to be strengthened as strict new sharia punishments, including death by stoning for gay sex and adultery, were due to come into force on Wednesday.

The tough penal code in the tiny country on tropical Borneo island – ruled by the all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah – is set to be fully implemented following years of delays.

The laws, which also include amputation of hands and feet for thieves, will make Brunei the first place in East or Southeast Asia to have a sharia penal code at the national level, joining several mostly Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia.

Rape and robbery are also punishable by death under the code and many of the new laws, such as capital punishment for insulting the Prophet Mohammed, apply to non-Muslims as well as Muslims.

The decision to push ahead with the punishments has sparked alarm around the world, with the United Nations labelling them “cruel and inhumane” and celebrities, led by actor George Clooney and pop star Elton John, calling for Brunei-owned hotels to be boycotted.

In a public address to mark a special date in the Islamic calendar, the sultan called for stronger Islamic teachings but did not mention the new penal code.

“I want to see Islamic teachings in this country grow stronger,” he said in the nationally televised speech at a convention centre near the capital Bandar Seri Begawan.

“I would like to emphasize that the country of Brunei is a… country that always devotes its worship to Allah.”

He said that he wanted the Muslim call to prayer to ring out in all public places, not just in mosques, to remind people of their Islamic duties…..

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Filed Under: Brunei, Featured, Sharia Tagged With: Bandar Seri Begawan, Hassanal Bolkiah


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  1. Charles says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 8:13 am

    The left have smeared critics of Islamic law as “Islamophobes”, “bigots”, and “racists”. Now we can turn the tables and maybe get some of the big $$$petrodollars from Qatar and the OIC. There’s big money in defending Islam and smearing its critics.

    • christianblood says

      Apr 5, 2019 at 8:25 am

      Saudi Arabia is just as barbaric and savage and does the same Islamic punishments as ISIS and yet America and the West are so in bed with ISIS-like Saudi Arabia that the U$ is even transferring its nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and no one is talking about it!
      It is an EVIL world!

      • Niemoller says

        Apr 5, 2019 at 8:32 am

        Saudi Arabia is ISIS at “peace”, and ISIS is Saudi Arabia at war. Same coin, different sides.

        (I know SA is actually bombing the hell out of Yemen these days, so it isn’t even really at peace. What a demonic sh-thole SA is.)

        • christianblood says

          Apr 5, 2019 at 9:36 am

          Niemoller

          +1

          And yet the U$ is transferring nukes to Saudi Arabia!!!!!!!

      • seabird says

        Apr 5, 2019 at 1:10 pm

        “and no one is talking about it”
        Why don’t you (cb) talk about Russia building 2 nuclear power plants in Turkey and its proposal to build up to 12 nuclear power plants in Saudi Barbaria as well as supplying those countries with weapon systems?
        Why don’t you post the footage of
        Putin’s “high fiving bro shake” with Saudi MBS at a recent economic
        meeting?
        It is all about the benjamins (Franklin) and the rubles.
        You have no moral ground to stand on.
        You’ve been used and sold-out too.

        • tom parry says

          Apr 5, 2019 at 2:54 pm

          Nucular power is part of the solution to global warming, so what’s the problem with nucular energy= North Korea has no nuke energy but they got the bomb.

        • christianblood says

          Apr 5, 2019 at 6:42 pm

          seabird

    • Charles says

      Apr 6, 2019 at 5:41 pm

      Charles, how come this site is doubling down on my name??

  2. Niemoller says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 8:22 am

    When liberals decided that communism was a bad thing around the time of the Cambodian Killing Fields, they smeared conservatives as being “prematurely anti-communist.” I wonder if liberals will decide that Islamism is a bad thing and smear counterjihad activists as being prematurely anti-Islamist?

    • Elizabeth Baklaich says

      Apr 5, 2019 at 9:39 am

      Prematurely anti-Islamist…

      If this happens we should ask the ignorant apologist to point out the exact blood-thirsty terror-filled point in history they think Islam became a problem.

  3. John Allan says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 8:56 am

    ‘I would like to emphasize that the country of Brunei is a… country that always devotes its worship to Allah.”’

    Obviously Allah is as uncivilised as the country.

    • Niemoller says

      Apr 5, 2019 at 10:30 am

      The little vermin king has led a life of buying debauchery. Late in life he’s found Allah and the only difference is he’s now cutting off heads.

      • William A Carr says

        Apr 6, 2019 at 1:54 pm

        Niemoller – as you say the sultan has lived the life of a debaucherer and roue. The clerics have been pressuring him to do more to cleanse his sins and ensure his admission to paradise , where ironically he will be able to continue his life of debauchery! A win win for him but bad news for the population of his minute country

  4. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 8:59 am

    You can see the unhealthy desire for control in that man’s eyes in the above picture.

    Islam is the perfect opportunity to be a tyrant and a perverse controller of other people’s lives. And our leftists who help islam grow have that same desire. They’ve been using islam to turn our nations into police states, Britain is the best-worst example of this. Their citizens have been beaten down and humiliated, not even allowed to complain or be pro-active about the mass rape of their own kids–you can’t sink any lower than that.

    Brunei is bare naked islam, it wants death for being gay or adultery, to cut hands and sexually mutilate little girls, it wants to kill free speech, honor kill with impunity, discriminate against other religions to the point of murder, and it wants to use sharia to dominate everyone for a “religion” that is so immoral that it shocks the mind of a child. It’s like something out of the ancient barbarian past when morality and human rights were still in their infancy. This is what you see after you strip away all the lies and false claims of “islamophobia” and race hate, you get a brutal ideology that destroys freedom and oppresses human beings. This is what the apologists and appeasers for islam are protecting, and it’s what the pope and our politicians claim is a “religion of peace.” It’s evil, and the actions of our leaders who protect muslims’ sinister ambitions are traitors to their country and humanity. We here in the West may not be quite where they are in Brunei, but we are surely headed in that direction like a roller coaster plunging down a hill. Oh what the heck is the use, what’s the point in even talking about it? These aren’t rational, caring people, the left wants only votes and money and power, how we feel and think does not matter to them. It’s a war, and I’m the dumb one for thinking that debate or good intentions will do any good with self-serving a$$es who prefer religious absolutism to democracy and freedom. I see dark clouds on the horizon for Europe first and America later regarding islam. Civil war is going to spring up everywhere, because good people are getting pushed to their moral limits while everything they love get’s destroyed for islam’s fascist-style ideology that pretends to be a religion. It’s a humanitarian crime what’s happening to us here in the West for islam, and it’s time “we the people” defend what is rightly ours, our freedoms, our lands, our dignity, our families, and our nations. We won’t give up everything for a politically ambitious religion invented by a murderous warlord and a demon god he invented in his own image, no f*cking way.

  5. antonia says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 10:28 am

    Soon Brunei will be an Islamic hellhole, foreign workers, who do most of the difficult jobs, will leave and no one will do what they did competently … Islamic fatalism will be the excuse for non-performance … inshallah! Companies will start losing money, but the sultan will insist. Eventually, he will die or get ill, something his enemies will devoutly hope for.

    Brunei will provide one more example of how strict Sharia is an extinguisher of the flame of science, reason and moral goodness.

    • kuriakose says

      Apr 6, 2019 at 1:03 am

      No, sad to say they will still be doing business with Brunei like they do with the Arab oli rich countries. The god of mammon rules for most people these days. I don’t see Anglo Dutch Shell or Mitsubishi etc pulling out of Brunei. Or expatriates earning a fortune there.
      Maybe we have to wait for the oil to run out.

  6. No Muzzies Here says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 11:39 am

    Islamists want to make Sharia the law of the land. This land. The USA. It’s what they do. It’s their life’s work. Liberals who extend special favors to Islam have to realize that they are helping Sharia become the law of the land.

  7. Jayell says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    This sounds like the worst kind of totalitarian dictatorship imaginable and would normally result in global sanctions, freezing of assets etc. by the UN and all right-thinking civilised countries. Butt we’re talking about islam here, so I bet nothing happens.

  8. abad says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    Maybe we can deport Tlaib, Omar, Hussein O., and any Moslems/Moslem converts directly to Brunei. They would be MUCH happier there than in the United States of America.

    • Jayell says

      Apr 6, 2019 at 1:14 am

      Brilliant idea! And whilst we’re at it, they can have a delightful ‘young lady’ called Shamima Begum who”s currently making a fuss about being banned from the UK after joining ISIS. She said that she wasn’t fazed by the sight of heads in buckets, so a few spare hands and feet lying around and the odd skull smashed in by rocks would make her day.

  9. jewdog says

    Apr 5, 2019 at 5:01 pm

    Invade Brunei now.

  10. ninetyninepct says

    Apr 6, 2019 at 11:29 am

    Brunei is simply following the Koran, hate literature that is obeyed by billions. Brunei, a shining example of Islam, the “religion” of violence.

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