April 19th 2009

Sharia Just A Way To Arbitrate Domestic Squabbles?

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ven though I’ve taken a leave of absence from the Watcher’s Council so I can have more time to work on my geopolitical thriller, I still make it over to Watch of Weasels for the Weekend Weasel post.  Bookmark it if you haven’t already, because the Watcher always does an outstanding job with it.

This week’s post, Weekend Weasel: Sharia Apologists, is a great read, setting up a conversation with Mrs. Weasels and a relative with the quaint name of Muttonhead as a tutorial on the differences between Sharia and Jewish law and the Christian and Catholic provisions that followed.

Having been through many of these conversations with Muttonhead I already knew where the argument was going before she got there. The myth that there is some sort of equivalence between Jewish law or even Catholic ecclesiastical doctrine is a common myth perpetuated by the left; a seed planted by pro-Sharia advocates as a part of the psychological war on all things not Islamic.

The term “useful idiot” was commonly used to refer to soviet sympathizers during the cold war (even though it originated much earlier). Today’s Sharia apologists are an extension of that sentiment although more dangerous in my estimation because the spread of Sharia is a worldwide phenomenon as is liberalism through ignorance.

The post has some terrific quotes on the subject, and when you see the differences laid out, it gives you a chill.  The conflict between Sharia and Judeo-Christian based law is stark, cold and frightening, and the Sharia apologists are a subtext in what reads like a cosmological thriller of good vs. evil on a grand scale. Particularly salient are the quotes by David Yerushalmi, General Counsel to Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, who concludes:

Because Jihad necessarily advocates violence and the destruction of our representative, constitution-based government, the advocacy of Jihad by a Shariah authority presents a real and present danger. This is sedition when advocated from within our borders; an act of war when directed at us from foreign soil.

Extremist? Not necessarily – and definitely the safer, more rational position for Americans to take.

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April 13th 2009

Sharia – Coming To A Town Near You

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ore news from the “Religion of Peace” front:

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban militants publicly executed a man and girl on Monday for eloping when she was already engaged to marry someone else, an official said, in a sign of the grip the Islamists have over parts of Afghanistan.

Hashim Noorzai, head of Khash Rud district in southwestern Nimruz province, said the two were executed by gun shots in front of a crowd of villagers.

hat-tip: Infidels Are Cool

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February 26th 2009

Imams Want To Get ‘Em When They’re Young

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irls may just want to have fun, but Yemeni imams just want to have fun with girls.

In an uncharacteristic flash of enlightened social policy, the parliament of Yemen recently passed a law that set the minimum age for marriage at 17, a decision that was met with yet another fatwah from irate imams:

Sana’a (AsiaNews) – Some Yemeni religious figures have launched a “fatwa” against the law recently approved by Parliament that sets the minimum age for marriage at 17. The statement, signed by the rector of Al-Eman University, Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, and by representatives of the party Islamic Islah, is aimed at eliminating the minimum age limit.

The question of the minimum age for marriage in Yemen was brought to the attention of world public opinion last April, following the case of Nojud Mohammed Ali, an 8-year-old girl who requested and obtained a divorce after being forced to marry a 30-year-old man.

Sheesh? What was her problem? Hasn’t she ever heard of Aisha, whom the Prophet himself married when she was but six, then … er … consummated when she was nine? Jihad Watch reminds us that the Qur’an (33:21) says that constituted a “beautiful pattern of conduct.”

Hence, the 17 signers of the fatwa claim that the law has no Islamic foundation and violates Sharia, which is the law of the land in Yemen.

“The marriage age,” says the assistant secretary general of the Islah party, Mohammad Assadi, “is an Islamic rule, and political parties cannot intervene in such affairs.”

Remember that when Muslims start clamoring for Sharia in your neck of the woods.

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July 20th 2008

Sunday Scan

Let’s Hear It For Sharia Law!

Here’s the beauty of Islam and its perverted justice system in a nutshell: Keep women uneducated, so they don’t know how to defend themselves, and discourage men from defending them, then you can stone a whole lot of women to death without having to stone too many men! What’s not to love!?


In theory the penalty of stoning to death applies to both men and women.

But the lawyers say that in practice, many more women than men receive the sentence because they are less well educated and often poorly represented in court. (BBC)

And it’s happening again in Iran – that showplace of Islamic rule – as eight women and one man face imminent stoning for sexual sinning. The women were found guilty of adultery or prostitution, the man was found guilty of having sex with one of his students.

One imam, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, supposedly suspended stoning in 2002, but it hasn’t stopped the practice, and lawyers for the eight say they fear the sentences will be carried out at any time.

And what goes on at Guantanamo is cruel and unusual? Continue Reading »

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