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Sultan of Brunei requests “tolerance” from EU leaders for his implementation of Sharia stoning of gays

Apr 25, 2019 3:16 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“In a bizarre move, the Sultan of Brunei has written to the European Union to defend his recent decision to impose strict sharia law punishments in his country.” Hassanal Bolkiah’s letter urged “tolerance, respect and understanding.”

As bizarre as such a letter may sound, Bolkiah is merely echoing the principles of Western “tolerance.” Westerners have come to tolerate the intolerable for the sake of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.” After all, not to tolerate Islamic doctrine is considered to be “Islamophobic” in the West. Bolkiah is merely asking that EU globalists extend their “tolerance” to accept the Sharia stoning of gays in Brunei as he makes efforts for his country to be more Islamic.

As is, many Western leaders and citizenry have turned a blind eye (for the sake of tolerance) to barbaric practices, jihad murders/persecution, and the supremacist doctrines sanctioned in Islam, and have supported open borders, which have allowed in many adherents of these practices. Stoning gays, chopping off heads and limbs, torturing and raping infidel women, etc. — all of these and more have been committed by jihadists, some of whom are now running free in Western countries, thanks to the “tolerance” of globalists.

“Sultan of Brunei Sends Letter to European Union Urging ‘Tolerance’ of Death Penalty for Gays,” Breitbart, April 23, 2019:

In a bizarre move, the Sultan of Brunei has written to the European Union to defend his recent decision to impose strict sharia law punishments in his country.

The Sultan has recently imposed harsh new laws in the Kingdom of Brunei, including death by stoning for anyone convicted of homosexuality, as well as amputations, lashes, and execution for other crimes such as theft and adultery.

In his letter, the Sultan urges the EU to reconsider their view of his new laws, stressing that they will require extraordinary evidence in order to be imposed, and so convictions will be rare, according to The Guardian.

The Sultan attempted to justify his brutal new laws by saying, “The penal sentences of hadd – stoning to death and amputation – imposed for offences of theft, robbery, adultery and sodomy, have extremely high evidentiary threshold, requiring no less than two or four men of high moral standing and piety as witnesses, to the exclusion of every form of circumstantial evidence.”….

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  1. nicu says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 3:19 pm

    Typical Muslim : they always want tolerance for their crappy things – but they never are tolerant to anyone !

    • jayell says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 4:34 pm

      The term ‘tolerance’ seems to have a subtly different meaning for muslims, because, as a concept, it is not comprehensive in its application. It is, in their eyes, a requirement that they be ‘accommodated’ wherever they choose to go without any such requirement being applicable to them due to their inherent superiority.

      • elee says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 4:52 pm

        Everything has different meanings for Muslims. Islam puts a tiny asterisk behind things that only believers can read. Like, for example, the term “human rights”…….in Islam it means rights for humans, but kafirs aren’t human. Hey kafirs, read up and wake up, learn to see the tiny little asterisks.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 25, 2019 at 11:11 pm

          Grimly true, jayell and elee.

    • Roderick MacUalraig says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 5:33 pm

      So true. Incredible to me that in this day there are still people that want to brutalize gays. Breaks my heart as I have many fine friends that are gay.

      Wish more people spoke out and advocated for them in the face of worldwide Islamic persecution.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 11:12 pm

        +1

      • Carol the 1st says

        May 8, 2019 at 8:32 pm

        Scrounging around for dirt in the bedrooms of consenting adults while still condoning the slave trade, forced marriages, FGM, and pedophilia. Sounds uniquely Islamic. I guess Allah made them do it, so do try to be more tolerant!

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 3:40 pm

    Please notice that he also wants respect. Respect which he thinks is his due — the respect that is demanded from those outside Islam which is to be paid with humiliation on top (Quran 9:29 once again).

    • mortimer says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 4:20 pm

      Egg-zackly ! Humiliate those dirty kafirs … ‘for the sake of Allah’. The kufaar ‘deserve’ humiliation because they believe Mohammed is a false prophet … 80% of humans think Mohammed is a fake.

      The Sultan of Brunei is no longer a hipster and his poor feelings are hurt. The Sultan resembles nothing more than Admiral General Aladeen in Sacha Baron Cohen’s film ‘THE DICTATOR’, his brilliant spoof of amoral Islamic despots.

      The Sultan of Brunei could be stoned for all his adulteries under his own laws.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 4:40 pm

        When a man is allowed 4 wives and may have sex with as many female slaves as he can afford and when 4 male witnesses to the act of adultery are required to stone a person for committing it, how many Muslim men have been stoned to death for adultery? Have there been any at all? Any Muslim man who has been must have been a complete and total moron and should have been found innocent due to mental incompetence.

        • A_M_Swallow says

          Apr 25, 2019 at 7:44 pm

          Quite a few men have been killed for adultery. They were probably caught breaking into the Sultan’s harem. The sultan could easily have had 4 male guards.

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Apr 25, 2019 at 8:32 pm

          Women in a harem would be slaves of the Sultan and not his wives. A Muslim man who raped another man’s slave without the owner’s consent would not be committing adultery, would he? Seems more like theft to me or unauthorized use of another man’s property. I find that interesting. Would raping another man’s slave girl be considered adultery and deserve death by stoning?

          Now, I could understand a married man falling in love with another man’s wife. But if Muslim women living under Sharia are supposed to remain hidden and not allowed to be alone with men other than close relatives, it seems adultery would be quite rare.

    • abad says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 8:37 pm

      IOW the Sultan of Brunei operates on Entitlements.

      Now what other group is it that operates on Entitlements?

      Oh yeah the liberal elite in America.

      Yep.

  3. Holger Jahndel says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    Gatestone Institut – about Islam and Islamism and Islamists – also see the book “The misery of Islam” by Jaya Gopal and the websites and books of James DeMeo and his “Saharasia-Thesis” and the Epoch Times newspaper and Michael Snyder and his articles and weblogs – also see Klagemauer.TV from Switzerland!

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/

  4. James Lincoln says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:01 pm

    The paradox of intolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.

    Karl Popper first described it in 1945.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 4:33 pm

      A brilliant and seemingly correct proposition. Germans tolerated Hitler and the Russians tolerated Trotsky and Lenin … then they live to regret it.

      The West should not tolerate the neo-Marxists censors who are taking away our right to protest and dissent.

    • tim gallagher says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 6:13 pm

      James, that’s what I fear is happening in our western countries. To me, Islam is vile, completely barbaric and evil in its attitude to every aspect of human life (marrying off underaged girls, stoning gays, and on and on) and yet too many of the people in our societies do tolerate this evil garbage. Too many of us are just too nice, too tolerant. It’s a fault, not a good thing. Fortunately, not the people here at Jihad Watch though. I guess it is just what Popper was talking about. Islam demands tolerance when, anywhere that it gets power, there is zero tolerance shown to all non-Muslims. To my mind, being tolerant towards evil Islam is being complicit in barbaric evil. These too tolerant people are supporting barbaric evil, although they’d hate to hear that said of them. No doubt they get around thinking what wonderful, good, tolerant people they are. I agree with your comment, Mortimer, our societies will surely live to regret their ludicrous levels of tolerance( just like Germany and Russia did) if they don’t snap out of it.

      • James Lincoln says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 7:23 pm

        Excellent post, Tim.

        • tim gallagher says

          Apr 26, 2019 at 5:31 am

          Thank you, James. This excessive tolerance for barbaric Islam by many people in the western nations is definitely a worry.

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    This important article by Christine F-W highlights the HYPOCRISY of the Sultan of Brunei. He is intolerant of anyone who disagrees with him, but he DEMANDS we tolerate his BRUTAL SUPPRESSION OF WORLDWIDE-RECOGNIZED HUMAN RIGHTS.

    What a delusional fool.

    The ONLY way out of the DELUSION of Islam is KNOWLEDGE about the speciousness of Islam … Islam has no historical foundation or provenance, no ethics since it is opportunistic and no logic, since Islam is self-referentially incoherent.

    Abolitionist Frederick Douglass said, “Knowledge is the pathway to freedom.”

    We pray Muslims will acquire the knowledge required to reject the absurdities of Islam, the Sultan of Brunei especially.

    • Roderick MacUalraig says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 6:04 pm

      Well said. I appreciate also your weaving of quotes from historical figures into your analysis. I echo many that say your contributions are very much worth the time to read. Thanks for taking the time everyday. Aloha.

    • JM says

      Apr 26, 2019 at 4:13 am

      I agree, but our problem is that, in the West, we have the blind leading the blind (as in Matthew 15:14) and are heading towards the cliff edge of civilizational disaster.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    The Sultan is asking for a SPECIAL PLEADING to exempt him from UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS CODES …

    A ‘SPECIAL PLEADING’ is a form of spurious argumentation whereby a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves. Essentially, a SPECIAL PLEADING involves someone attempting to cite something (Sharia law) as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, or human right, etc. without justifying the exemption.

    The lack of criticism may be a simple oversight or an application of a double standard.

    If the EU doesn’t accept a double standard, it the beginning of the end for Islam.

  7. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:31 pm

    Yes, people need to learn more about Islam and that requires a free and open discussion of Islam. Wasn’t there a call for Congressional hearings on “white nationalism” just after the Christchurch killings in New Zealand? Where are the calls for hearings on Islam after the Easter Sunday killings in Sri Lanka? I hear nary a peep about that.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 11:10 pm

      The Sri Lanka attacks were RETRIBUTION for the New Zealand attack.

      https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/sri-lanka-suicide-bombers-family-link-to-auckland/?fbclid=IwAR1lD1s0stb6NSWBo7f7IyWa6ghzWiqu392YxnqxrKPuxlfPLrAkoSps3bc

      Sri Lanka suicide bomber’s family link to Auckland
      Author NZ Herald , SectionNational, Publish DateFriday, 26 April 2019, 8:41a.m.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 11:17 pm

        Pious Muslims are always up for slaughtering Infidels.

        Sri Lankan Christians were not, of course, responsible for the NZ shootings.

        • JM says

          Apr 26, 2019 at 4:16 am

          No, but they (the Christians) were an easy target. Christians in Sri Lanka are the only group which have never been involved in any violence and do not go in for revenge killings.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 26, 2019 at 10:50 pm

          Muslims always like to go after easy targets.

      • A_M_Swallow says

        Apr 26, 2019 at 3:00 pm

        The Muslim terrorists are lying about their motives.

  8. AntiIslamicman says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    So he wants you to be cool about killing people based on sexual preference. Islam is total madness it has zero reasoning. Islam is for the most stupid of people like the false prophet Muhammad

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 7:49 pm

      Islam is quite simple it is a pirate’s code. Do not rob or kill or enslave your shipmates or rape their women everyone else is unprotected. Just change shipmate to tribe or fellow Muslim.

  9. Michael Garant says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    He specifies: ”requiring no less than two or four men of high moral standing and piety as witnesses”

    Now that is reassuring……

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Apr 25, 2019 at 4:47 pm

      It does make me wonder how they are able to find anyone guilty of committing a homosexual act. What are four Muslim men of “high moral standing” doing watching two other men have sex with each other? Islamic countries must have hidden cameras everywhere.

      • Michael Garant says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 5:22 pm

        Exactly, is voyeurism halal?

      • FYI says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 6:16 pm

        But where oh where would you find 2-4 muslim men of “High Moral Standing”?
        What morals?
        islamic “morals”?

        Permitted by Al Ilah in his “holy” koran..

        polygamy k4:3
        murdering infidels k2:191
        stealing from infidels k48:20
        bearing false witness k3:28 taqqiya etc
        using women as sex-slaves k33:50,k4:24
        rape{permitted by allah}Abu Dawud vol 2 Hadith 2155:NOTE THAT ONE..

        islamic morality?What morality?

        the koran preaches Commandment-of-God violating IM-morality!

        It’s easy to find the ones with “piety”:false piety is an islamic art form so you’ll find the “holy” yusufs ,the “best community” k3:110 in any mosque “praying” to their pagan god Al iLah{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54}

      • Roderick MacUalraig says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 7:49 pm

        Lol, yeah… it’s madness. Hopefully there’s enough pressure from other nations around the world where gays can live in peace like everyone else that Brunei will turn back on this. Then again they’ll probably just do it as quietly as they have to in order to get away with it, anyways. Nasty people.

      • A_M_Swallow says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 7:52 pm

        The homosexuals are simply arrested by 4 policemen.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 25, 2019 at 11:20 pm

        CogitoErgoSum, in Iraq those who wore goatee beards, jeans, or listened to Emo music were deemed “homosexual” and were stoned to death. In other places, being “sensitive” or liking poetry is enough.

  10. revereridesagain says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:47 pm

    “Bizarre”? “Obscene” comes closer. Douglas-Williamss hits it right on the money:

    ” Westerners have come to tolerate the intolerable for the sake of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.” After all, not to tolerate Islamic doctrine is considered to be “Islamophobic” in the West.”

  11. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 4:52 pm

    Lay down your stones, oh Sultan. It has pleased Allah to cause a sister to discover a cure for homosexuality. There is no need to beg infidels for anything, masha-Allah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT-4SJyxhyM

  12. Holger Jahndel says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 7:30 pm

    Gatestone Institute

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/

  13. Duncan Thorburn says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    In Muhammad’s time, it was off mountains for Gays. ISIS used tall buildings, I know because I’ve watched YouTubes of Gays getting splated on the road, from muslims chucking them off. The moderate muslims were the ones on land shouting encouragement to ISIS Jihadi’s throwing them off. Just like the “moderate muslims” who call Muhammad perfect, when they know Muhammad had sex with his niece Aisha, her 6, Muhammad 50, a dirty paedophile uncle. Mass Murderer of thousands, murdering husbands by beheading them, then Raping the Widow in her husband’s blood. To make her a Sex Slave, to Own, Trade, and USE.

  14. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    Please pardon our appearance while we bash this man’s brains in until his eyes pop out of his skull and his brains drip out through his ears and nose. We will clean up as soon as the four witnesses are done recording our snuff film.

    PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND THEIR PRODUCTS. SUPPORT A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC WORLD.

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Apr 26, 2019 at 2:53 pm

      ‘Tolerance’ as in forgiving acts of pure evil. Jesus told people to turn the other cheek but Moses told rulers to punish commandment breakers. Governments are rulers not people.

  15. David M says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    He’s got a point, leftists are always teaching tolerance of other religions & how all cultures are the same. Time for them to put up or shut up, under their own policy they should accept these sharia laws.

    Me, I’m not a leftist & I will speak out against these laws & against Islam in general.

  16. gravenimage says

    Apr 25, 2019 at 11:11 pm

    Sultan of Brunei requests “tolerance” from EU leaders for his implementation of Sharia stoning of gays
    …………………….

    “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

    –Karl Popper

  17. Barb says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 12:20 am

    The Sultan of Brunei wants “Tolerance, Respect and Understanding”?
    What a joke!
    When have Islam / Muslim’s shown Tolerance, Respect and Understanding to non-Muslims, Jews and Christians? Calling us pigs and apes and their inferiors according to the Quran!
    Saudi Arabia funds the building of Mosques in Western Countries, yet does not Tolerate having any Synagogues or Churches built?
    Where’s the Tolerance, Respect and Understanding for Jews, Christians and non-Muslim’s massacred by Muslim’s in the name of their FALSE god Allah?
    When have Muslim’s shown Tolerance and Respect and Understanding of Western Laws – but instead deliberately seek to undermine and replace them with Sharia Law?

  18. Buraq says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 1:34 am

    Dear Insultin’ of Brunei,
    Read your letter. The answer’s ‘NO!’. You’re a clown!

    Best Regards, Europe

    • JM says

      Apr 26, 2019 at 4:26 am

      You forgot to put kisses and hearts at the end!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 26, 2019 at 10:54 pm

      +1

  19. Gail Griffin says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 1:56 pm

    So glad the Sultan came right out with it. No shade cloth here.

  20. Jack Cade says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 2:15 pm

    Christ commanded us to love our enemies but to hate evil. Tolerating the doctrine of Satan is not what Christians are supposed to be doing!

  21. OLD GUY says

    Apr 26, 2019 at 11:52 pm

    He can go to HELL!

  22. KRJ says

    May 7, 2019 at 4:04 pm

    The atrocities of islam / sharia law should be a no brainer, but here we are, ho hum, discussing this vile barbarism as if it deserves discussion at all, when all the while they’re laughing at how weak and stupid we are in our quest to be perceived as “nice”. The Sultan of Brunei is simply doing what Erdogan and all those ayatollahs wind up doing: implementing full-blown sharia law – it’s the end game folks and they know that what counts most to us (hello facebook) is being “liked”.

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