Andrew Bostom, Center For Security Policy Briefing, 10/24/19
“Sharia is a way of life that suits our culture. Egyptian customs and traditions go in line with Sharia. The Egyptian society does not accept Western liberalism”…“People are thirsty for Sharia.”
—Vox populi expressions of Egyptians a from December, 2012 representing the 74% who want “strict application” b of the Sharia c, Islamic law
a Heba Afify. Egypt Independent December 2, 2012 https://bit.ly/2ZPc6Ql
b Pew Research Center. The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society. April 30, 2013 https://pewrsr.ch/33nxoGS
c Andrew Bostom. Sharia Versus Freedom, 2012. https://amzn.to/2MbI32e
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFkZh0VzemE]
Striking Concordance Between Christian Persecution, Extreme Antisemitism, and Desire For Strict Application of the Sharia
Open Doors Christian Persecution Index; ADL Global Antisemitism Survey;
Pew Sharia Data (Global; Iran only)
Link to full briefing slide set.
Introductory remarks: Relevance of the 9/11 jihad carnage to my study of Islam
The 9/11 attacks were the triggering event which inspired my 18-years of study of Islam with a focus on Islam’s doctrine regarding, and resultant Muslim behavior toward, non-Muslims. A friend of mine, like me also born and raised in Queens, New York City, was a fireman and a physical therapist, and we were classmates at the physical therapy program at SUNY-Downstate during 1979-1980. I got his firsthand account of the destroyed World Trade Center charnel house.
Equally important motivation for my study of Islam was Muhammad al-Gameia.
For a millennium, Al Azhar University has represented the apogee of Islamic religious education, which evolved into the de facto Vatican of Sunni Islam. Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Al-Gameia, the Al-Azhar University representative in the U.S., and Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, provided a very concrete and disturbing example of the authoritative Al-Azhar Islamic mindset exported to America. Within three days of the 9/11 jihad carnage al-Gameia, “known for his moderate views,” sermonized “in English calling for peace, healing, and love among people of all religions.” The good Sheikh struck an entirely different chord when he was interviewed for an Al-Azhar University website, on October 4, 2001. Sheikh Gameia returned to Egypt after September 11, 2001 alleging, without any substantiation, that he was being “harassed.” Gameia’s Al-Azhar interview was rife with virulent calumnies against Americans, and threats to the U.S., along with conspiratorial Islamic antisemitism, which riveted upon his invocation of the central Koranic motifs of Jew-hatred, melded to lunatic allegations against Jews. He intoned, for example: “As President Bush said, this is a crusade against Islam and against Muslims…For this reason, I advise every Arab and every Muslim leader not to offer any aid whatsoever to the oppressing superpower [to help it] attack Muslims, because this is a betrayal of Allah and his Prophet… An American attack on Afghanistan will constitute terrorism, as the U.S. did in Iraq and in Palestine… I think that this war will be the end of America the oppressor.”… “[I]t was said that 4000 Jews did not come to work at the World Trade Center on the day of the incident.”… Muslims do not feel safe even going to the hospitals, because some Jewish doctors in one of the hospitals poisoned sick Muslim children, who then died…The Jewish element is as Allah described it when he said: “They disseminate corruption in the land.” [Koran 5:32–33; 5:64] We know that they have always broken agreements [4:155; 5:13], unjustly murdered the prophets [Koran 2:61; 2:87; 2:91; 3:112; 4:155] and betrayed the faith [2:42; 2:75; 2:89].”
Framing the presentation—Islam’s totalitarianism, & hatred of Christians & Jews
Abolitionist James Freeman Clarke, the first, and still arguably most outstanding American scholar of Comparative Religion, wrote in his seminal 1871, Ten Great Religions:
“Islam saw the claims of Deity [Allah], but not the rights of humanity; Saw authority, failed to see freedom; Therefore hardened into despotism.”
G.H. Bousquet, renowned 20th century French scholar of Islamic Law, referred to Islam in a 1950 essay, as a “doubly totalitarian system, “because its institution of jihad war sought “to impose itself on the whole world”—the 1st totalitarian aspect—and bring society under “Muhammadan Law”, Sharia—the 2nd totalitarian aspect.
Sharia-inspired hatred of non-Muslims, has been espoused continuously for over a millennium by Islam’s most important religious teaching institutions, and clerical authorities. This “sacralized” hatred underpins the inter-related contemporary phenomena of Christian persecution, and Muslim Antisemitism. There was a decided emphasis on the latter because it remains so thoroughly misconstrued.
Steve says
Proof positive that the biggest liberal lie ever perpetrated on the human race is that, “all cultures are equal”.
gravenimage says
Briefing: Sharia “Thirst,” Christian Persecution, and Islamic Antisemitism (Video)
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This is rather like thirsting for poison–but so much of Islam is like this. Fine piece from Anti-Jihadist ANdres Bostom.
More:
“[I]t was said that 4000 Jews did not come to work at the World Trade Center on the day of the incident.”… Muslims do not feel safe even going to the hospitals, because some Jewish doctors in one of the hospitals poisoned sick Muslim children, who then died…
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What utter calumny–these things never happened. Muslims murder Jews on 9/11, then claim that it is actually Jews murdering Muslims. This is classic projection.
Keys says
Wow ! Thank you Andrew Bostom for this outstanding post full of informative links further exposing the truth about Islam, Islamic countries, and more !
Phyllis says
what I see as a woman is that the muslim men are the ones who vote, for sure they want to keep sharia, they get 4 wives to beat and rape, the ladies have no say in the fact that the men want little girls and boys for sex.
for sure the MEN ARE VOTING TO KEEP SHARIA
Westman says
Are they really men or just devolved 7th century apes with a Quran in one hand, a jaw bone in the other, a cell phone in a pocket, jumping about in front of a black obelisk?
Ole Pederson says
It is the women who educate their sons to being the princes who cannot do any wrong. Maybe it is their only way to have a male person under their control, to be on their mothers’ side when they grow up. But it is the women who make the Muslim males what they are.
gravenimage says
Actually, far from being on their mother’s sides, many Muslim sons are involved with “Honor Killing” their mothers.
Jack Holan says
Ironically Ken Roth Human Rights Watch was happier when Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge. When General Sisi deposed tmr, then he had an interest to visit Egypt with a list of Human Rights Violations, not before!
Ole Pederson says
Ken Roth and his so called “Human Rights Watch” are NATO puppets. NATO press department, so to say. Human rights abuses only matter if they can be used to justify military action by NATO – to promote Western strategical or even commercial interests. That is why Roth is regular guest at the “Munich Security Conference”, to name but one.
In other cases of human rights abuses, never mind. Such as in Yeman. Or Saudi Arabia.
Ole Pederson says
BTW Remember George Soros gave over 100 million $ to that organization.