The dangers of Sharia must be understood.
What is Sharia Law? Why it threatens America.
For Women and non-Muslims, Shariah Law effectively means slavery.
Top ten reasons why sharia is bad for all societies
First, sometimes these ten points quote the Quran or omit it; sometimes they quote the hadith (reports of Muhammad's words and actions outside of the Quran) or omit it. This is done only to keep down the length of the article. No one should be fooled into believing that these harsh and excessive laws were invented in the fevered imagination of extremists who came long after Muhammad. These harsh and excessive laws come directly from the founder of Islam in his Quran and in his example in the hadith.
10. Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.
9. Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.
8. Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye.
7. Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off.
6. Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated.
5. Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed.
4. Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.
3. Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non—Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself.
2. Islam orders apostates to be killed.
1. Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad.
Americans Die for Sharia in Iraq
Why have nearly 1,500 American soldiers died in Iraq? To what purpose have 20,000 been wounded and otherwise put out of commission? Why are we spending billions to put police on the streets of Iraq’s cities, and cutting back by 95 percent on funds that put 100,000 cops on the streets of our own cities?
To bring “freedom” to Iraq, as George W. Bush insists?
Heck no. It’s so Abdul the Iraqi can have six wives. It’s so women can be forced to wear the abaya, alcohol can be banned, and sharia law – Muslim religious beliefs as interpreted by a council of mullahs and “grand ayatollahs” – can become the law of the land. As one of the Shi’ite clerics’ representatives put it the other day:
“We don’t want to see equality between men and women because according to Islamic law, men should have double of women. This is written in the Quran and according to God.”
The Shi’ite slate of candidates for the National Assembly, fresh from their apparently overwhelming victory at the polls, are demanding that the strictures of Islamic law be encoded in the new Iraqi constitution. According to a recent statement issued by the Ayatollah Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayad, a powerful Shi’ite cleric:
“All of the ulema [clergy] and marja, and the majority of the Iraqi people, want the national assembly to make Islam the source of legislation in the permanent constitution and to reject any law that is contrary to Islam.”
A source reportedly “close to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,” spiritual leader of Iraq’s 60 percent Muslim majority, appeared to endorse his fellow ayatollah’s sentiments, stating:“The marja has priorities concerning the formation of the government and the constitution. It wants the source of legislation to be Islam.”
Remember when Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh were “agrarian reformers”? We’re at that stage with the ayatollahs. Only this time the incipient tyrants have been installed in power by American force of arms, at a cost of American lives and treasure, and the whole procedure is being hailed by our leaders as a big victory for “democracy.” Which it is – except that democracy, in Iraq, isn’t leading to freedom.
Recall Algeria’s 1992 elections – nullified by the military, with American approval. The reason was because the Islamic fundamentalists scored a landslide victory, similar to the one enjoyed by the United Islamic Alliance slate in Iraq. While the Algerians belong to the Sunni sect of Islam, and the Iraqis are 60 percent Shi’ite, Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front and Iraq’s United Islamic Alliance bear a striking political resemblance to each other: like the Alliance, the Front was initially a heterogeneous grouping, consisting of moderates in the leadership – with a disturbing undercurrent of radicalism.
As Americans continue dying and our tax dollars are eaten up in the endless maw of Iraqi “reconstruction,” on the home front people are bound to wonder why, in the name of all that’s holy, are we sacrificing so much to recreate Iraq in the image of Iran?
In the name of the Bush Doctrine, which lately proclaims “the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world,” an Islamic theocracy is being installed in Iraq and built up with U.S. tax dollars. The right of women to own property and enjoy full legal personhood, long recognized in the West – and in Saddam’s Iraq – will not exist in “liberated” Iraq. America’s daughters are fighting and dying in Iraq so that Iraqi women can be enslaved by a medieval religious and legal dogma that reduces them to subhuman status.
Islamic Law Rules In Iraq
[T]here are two reasons to see the interim constitution as a signal victory for militant Islam.
First, the compromise suggests that while all of the Sharia may not be put into place, every law must conform with it. As one pro-Sharia source put it, "We got what we wanted, which is that there should be no laws that are against Islam." The new Iraq may not be Saudi Arabia or Iran, but it will include substantial portions of Islamic law.
Second, the interim constitution appears to be only a way station. Islamists will surely try to gut its liberal provisions, thereby making Sharia effectively "the source" of Iraqi law. Those who want this change — including Mr. al-Sistani and the Governing Council's current president — will presumably continue to press for their vision. Iraq's leading militant Islamic figure, Muqtada al-Sadr, has threatened that his constituency will "attack its enemies" if Sharia is not "the source" and the pro-Tehran political party in Iraq has echoed Sadr's ultimatum.
When the interim constitution does take force, militant Islam will have blossomed in Iraq.
For their part, the occupying powers now face a monumental challenge: Making sure this totalitarian ideology does not dominate Iraq and become the springboard for a new round of repression and aggression from Baghdad. How they fare has major implications for Iraqis, their neighbors, and far beyond.
War for Islamic Sharia Law
Sharia law is horrific and anti-human, and it should be opposed by decent people everywhere. Our "allies" across the Islamic world implement Sharia law to varying degrees, but every Islamic state must acknowledge its Islamic obligation to implement it.
The goal of Islamic expansion everywhere is the implementation of Sharia law in countries and cultures where it is not now enforced. This expansion is fueled by jihad. Jihad is required of all adherents of Islam.
What can be the purpose of the United States (the "great satan") in creating new Islamic states? The answers are not forthcoming because these questions are rarely (if ever) asked.We now fight a war around the world and at home against Islamic brutality against us (our so-called "war on terror") motivated entirely by the doctrine of Islam, yet we fight two wars to create and prop up two new Islamic countries bound to the same doctrine -- folly.
What can our war aims be when the result will be the creation of two countries that are ideologically opposed to our existence? It would appear that we have been fooled, or worse. Our mistakes carry a staggeringly high cost; to bring any value or meaning to our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, we must admit that our course has been tragically in error and quickly make the necessary corrections.
Patronizing the Enemy
Both the Baathists and the Islamists have sure-footed their foothold on the stage of Iraqi politics. Now they can bide their time as they watch an exhausted America scramble to announce the completion of the Iraq project according to a timetable being set by a distraught Cindy Sheehan. And as the American soldiers who have braved this difficult task are withdrawn, the counter-revolution against democracy will begin.
Making the World Safe for Shari'a?
Making The World Safe For Sharia - In Iraq
U.S. pushed incoherent, sharia-based constitution on Iraq
What is the point of fighting and dying for, supporting, enriching and enabling an Islamic State? How can this be anything but a win for radical Islam?
Nation-building an Islamic theocracy in Iraq is going to come back to bite us hard.
