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September 7, 2011

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Alyssa A. Lappen

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Sharia advocates desperately want to convince legislators and the public that Islamic law is plain vanilla --- and totally nonthreatening to existing U.S. legal codes. Notwithstanding a nationwide Muslim Brotherhood-backed pro-sharia push, nothing could be further from the truth.

“There are many unpleasant doctrines within Islam,” including its “repugnant” criminal code, honor killings, female genital cutting, and a Quranic verse Muslim clerics often cite, proclaiming “wives as a tilth unto you” (2:223), to deny the existence of marital rape. [1]

So allowed sharia professor Sadiq Reza at an Aug. 25-26 New York Law School (NYLS) conference. Any attempt to enforce its criminal code, he added, “would violate Constitutional law.” He insisted, though, that western Muslims don't “favor” these aspects of Islam and none seek to impose them. Evidence that they do abounds (here, here, here, here, here) but Reza said his broad web search found none.

Northwestern University Islamic law professor Kristen Stilt, too, disdained sharia criticism as “lunacy.” And University of Toronto Islamic law professor Mohammed Fadel referred the audience to a glossy, Soros-funded condemnation of skeptics, breathlessly entitled “Fear, Inc.” to persuade the gullible.

Soon afterward, journalist Joseph Klein recalled some points of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood “scholar” Yusuf Qaradawi, revered by the Islamic world --- and “Fear, Inc.” co-author Wajahat Ali. Qaradawi identifies fully with sharia as described by former CIA director R. James Woolsey and fellow so-called hate mongers headed by Center for Security Policy CEO Frank Gaffney, not Ali and his co-detractors. Qaradawi considers charity “jihad with money, because God has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and our money,” as I noted in fall 2007. Like the MB-backed Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Qaradawi also seeks to internationally criminalize insults to Islam or Mohammed.

CSP's sharia description is quite correct --- not the “hate” or “lunacy” that Reza, Ali, Stilt and Fadel call it. Sharia is indeed a

“complete way of life” (social, cultural, military, religious, and political), governed from cradle to grave by Islamic law… Shariah is, moreover, a doctrine that mandates the rule of Allah over all aspects of society.”

Despite all sharia's sobering negatives, orchestrated campaigns to hype it and smear its critics --- with Reza in a vocal role --- have worked their expected magic. Days after NYLS's pro-sharia confab, in a Sept. 2 New York Times op-ed, Yale assistant professor Eliyahu Stern dutifully parroted the line of former Harvard Custodian of Two Holy Mosques prof. Frank Vogel, who thinks sharia “quite brilliant.” (On Sept. 3, its shine likewise compelled an unasked Dutch cleric, to “invite” Queen Beatrix to Islam.)

One might think a Yale assistant professor or the Times would check their facts prior to publication. One would be wrong. True enough, over 12 U.S. states are currently considering legislation that would outlaw using laws alien to U.S. foundational precepts in American courts. But Stern misspoke. A “bill recently passed by the Tennessee General Assembly equates Shariah with a set of rules that promote 'the destruction of the national existence of the United States',” he incorrectly groused.

Stern cited the summary of a proposed Tennessee bill version not actually passed into law. The real banana, Material Support to Designated Entities Act of 2011 (House Bill No. 1353), signed into Tennessee law Jun. 16, 2011 to amend its criminal code on terrorism, never once mentions the words “sharia,” “Muslim,” “Islam,” or “Islamic law.” Nor does American and Tennessee Laws for Tennessee Courts, House Bill No. 3768, signed into Tennessee Public Chapter 983 in May 2010, to address foreign laws containing discriminatory or unequal precepts or clauses otherwise alien to U.S. and state civil, criminal and Constitutional laws and public policies.Yet --- evidently, without any independent study of sharia --- Stern admonished its U.S. critics to forgo their Constitutional rights to free speech, and worse, allow and accept U.S. court recognition of Islamic law.

But also on Sept. 2, the American Islamic Leadership Coalition (ALIC)endorsed Michigan's proposed HB4769version of American Laws for American Courts.

Though apparently oblivious, in assuming a pro-sharia position, Stern effectively accepted a 7th century sharia dictate intended to suppress second class, non-Muslim subjects (dhimmis): Islamic rule prohibits non-Muslims especially, at dire risk, from criticizing Mohammed, Islam or sharia, what most Muslims project as divine, perfect, immutable --- and indivisible --- laws. (Several conference speakers unwittingly echoed Qaradawi and, while lauding sharia, also noted Islam's total ban on its criticism.)

Put another way, the professors want American non-Muslim critics to comply with sharia and shut up.

Many women suffer real “oppression” in Muslim majority lands, for example, especially rape victims living under zina (extra-marital sex) or other sharia statutes, U. of Wisconsin law professor Asifa Quraishi admitted. Yet at every opportunity, including the NYLS conference, Quraishi has pushed hard to integrate sharia for Muslims into U.S. courts. Meanwhile, she's advised international women's rights advocates in Muslim majority countries that they would serve best “not to mention Islamic law at all.”

Quraishi blamed overseas human rights opposition to “sharia legislation (and sharia in general)” for exacerbating the plight of Muslim women. They “created an unwinnable and unnecessary war, of 'sharia vs. women’s rights'.” That again said Muslims will not adapt, and infidels must follow sharia.

Here is the 7th century dictate to second class, non-Muslim subjects (dhimmis), write large: non-Muslims' criticism of Mohammed, Islam or sharia equals blasphemy. Such efforts to silence legitimate discussion render exceedingly troubling any consideration of separate and unequal sharia practices for use in U.S. courts. Already, too many U.S. Muslims ask and expect fellow citizens to censor themselves on sharia-related questions --- or suffer bullying, and name calling best limited to pre-schoolers.

In 19th century Europe, Stern wrote, both political elites and philosophers embraced “fear that Jewish law bred disloyalty.” Immanuel Kant “argued that the particularistic nature of 'Jewish legislation' made Jews 'hostile to all other peoples',” Friedrich Hegel opposed Jewish dietary and other Mosaic laws as limits on an ability to identify with “fellow Prussians” or provide dutiful civil service and Bruno Bauer demanded that Jews renounce private religious rules in exchange for “full legal rights” and citizenship.

However, European Jewish history offers no logical reason for U.S. sharia critics to forgo their “full legal” and Constitutional rights to free speech or to allow Islamic law in secular courts. All citizens, including Muslims, already hold full rights, which no one seeks to revoke. Freedom requires no fixing.

To Muslims, sharia means justice, we're told. Ironically, accepting such law in U.S. courts would create injustice, by making American Muslims more equal than others. They'd get exclusive rights, namely civil court access to religious cannon, not allowed to anyone else. This would substantially differ from the right to privately adhere (within the law) to religious cannon, which America has always allowed. Reinforcing this truth, the courageous U.S. men and women of AILC have clearly enumerated,

“the law should treat people of all faiths equally, while protecting Muslims and non-Muslims alike from extremist attempts to use the legal instrument of shari‘ah (also known as Islamic jurisprudence, or fiqh) to incubate, within the West, a highly politicized and dangerous understanding of Islam that is generally known as “Islamism,” or “radical Islam.”

“We see no evidence that statutes like HB 4769 will adversely impact the free exercise of our personal pietistic observance of Islam, which is not in conflict with the U.S. or Michigan constitutions. We recognize that not only Muslims, but also Jews, Christians and all people of faith need the government to protect their right to peaceful assembly, mediation and arbitration free of coercion, ... within the bounds of American constitutional principles. Therefore, we stand together as a diverse coalition in support of any legislation that serves to protect and integrate our communities into the fabric of this great nation, by strengthening our accountability to the laws of the land, and the constitutions of the various states in which we live.”

If sharia were advanced, progressive, wonderful and “brilliant,” its truth and beauty could withstand all criticism and questions. But sharia raises a major reg flag, in banning free speech and inquiry. How it would play out in the U.S. is perhaps best examined by looks at Britain and Germany, where all sharia's ills stand fully exposed. One needs no PhD or LD to realize that officially accepting any part of a legal system so often demonstrably at odds with our own would, yes, prescribe genuine national disaster.

If anything, intense pressure from closet Muslim radicals for U.S. sanction of sharia should push every state that can to pass its own bill as quickly as possible.

NOTES

[1] Andrew G. Bostom, “Sharia-sanctioned marital rape in Britain---and North America,” American Thinker,Oct. 15, 2010,, citing “Is there such a thing as marital rape?,” AMJAonline Jurisprudence Section, Association of Muslim Jurists in America, May 30, 2007, (first viewed 10/15/2010). Based on sharia, the influential Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America insists that marital rape is not a crime. The imams actually approve of felony attacks on wives. In 2007, a husband asked AMJA,“Is there such a thing as marital rape in the shariah?...is a man permitted to FORCE his wife to have sexual intercourse with him? ... she is naashiz and unwilling to have coitus.” Fatwa # 2982 replied,

“For a wife to abandon the bed of her husband without excuse is haram [forbidden]. It is one of the major sins and the angels curse her until the morning as we have been informed by the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). She is considered nashiz [rebellious] under these circumstances. As for the issue of forcing a wife to have sex, if she refuses, this would not be called rape, even though it goes against natural instincts and destroys love and mercy, and there is a great sin upon the wife who refuses; and Allah Almighty is more exalted and more knowledgeable.”

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Alyssa A. Lappen is a U.S.-based investigative journalist focusing on the Middle East and Islam. She is a former Senior Fellow for the American Center for Democracy (2005-2008); former Senior Editor of Institutional Investor (1993-1999), Working Woman (1991-1993) and Corporate Finance (1991). She was previously an Associate Editor at Forbes, where she worked upwards of 12 years (1978-1990), and an editor and staff writer at several other publications. She is also a poet. Her website is http://www.alyssaalappen.org.

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The dhimmification of the U.S. has begun with the Liar-In-Chief. Check out http://downeastdooryard.blogspot.com/

posted by: C. Methodius
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 08:48 AM

Difficult to stop the Islamicization of America when the Liar-In-Chief is re-writing U.S. history. Check out http://downeastdooryard.blogspot.com/

posted by: C. Methodius
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 08:58 AM

"The law should treat people of all faiths equally.."

Stop right there. Islam is about getting its adherents treated by the law as more equal than others. That's why there is a so-called Muslim world - they attacked and absorbed all other religions and cultures to power-mow it with their monoculture. If Muslims in America truly want to be treated equally under the law, they should just march to the nearest federal pen and ask to be let in as agents of an enemy foreign power and enemies of the U.S. Constitution - or at least request exile to the Muslim world :) Instead they exploit our tolerance for their intolerance and supremacy and work ceaselessly to throw open the gates to the 1.x billion from the Muslim world to complete the takeover, which will abolish the Constitution and Bill of Rights and turn non-Muslims into serfs. Imagine the laughs they will have recounting the lies and deception their grandparents used to get it done :)

On the other hand, every Muslim senses that Islam is in its last days, that Allah is a dead god and the Quran and dead book, which is why their smear word of Islamophobia is moose hockey: they're far more afraid of us than vice-versa. That's why they always go for criminalizing speech first - they can't stand free speech and debate.

In short, we should win, but the question is why give them 3+ quarters and hope to win in the last 2 minutes?

America has long been a Muslim-free continent, and although the world is shrinking and we love to show our tolerance, there's got to be a stand taken against the 1.x billion Muslims who are lusting to absorb it and cancel our whole way of life. This takes leadership, which we still don't have. Instead, we have a president who is a hop skip and jump from being a traitor, and never frees himself from suspicions of being a Muslim plant. Not that Bush and Clinton weren't Saudi puppets.

Don't take the law in your own hands, but work to change the law, starting with getting Congress to stop Muslim immigration unless/until the Muslim world dissolves and chucks Islam, and proves it by opening up to Christian proselytizers by the boatload. Speaking of that, while trying to proselytize a Muslim in the Muslim world usually means death, here in the U.S. any Muslim brave enough to come here should be shown what the U.S. is all about by being proselytized to as much as is legal - yes, some police outfits will try to stop it, which only makes it more thrilling, right? If they don't like it, Muslims always know where the door is to go back to the horrible Muslim world :)

In a country still controlled by the leftist PC media establishment that has a misguided love affair with Islam, we need grassroots support. Grassroots politics starts by doing your own homework. There's no better place than the Historyscoper, all backed by hyperlinks to check all facts, and totally free:

http://go.to/islamhistory

http://tinyurl.com/muslimscope

http://tinyurl.com/islamwatch

posted by: TL Winslow @ Historyscoper
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 12:50 AM

A major problem with sharia is that it is not standardized.
By accepting sharia you are allowing thousands of versions and interpretations by different sects.
Sharia judges and jurists are educated in religious laws only.
They claim to only want to use minor and family laws in their court but a common trial redirection occurs in sharia.Prosecutions for slander are often converted to blasphemy trials which is a felony punishable by death.

posted by: Delores
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 02:49 PM

I can think of one very positive action which is quite do-able and would go a long way toward curtailing the threat of sharia....IMPEACHMENT! I can't believe that it hasn't happened yet! This totally UNqualified, lying, treasonist so-called "President" and that pit of vipers which make up his administration have been working overtime to undermine our soveriegnty and to dismantle our economic infrastructure...and noone can tell me that he isn't a devout muslim!! Even his propagandists in the lame stream media are finally beginning to wise up! Jimmy Hoffa and the other Marxist union thugs are doing a bang up job (along with that moron in Congress Maxine Waters) of revealing his true colors for all to see (NOT referring to the color of his skin)! WHAT ON EARTH IS IT GOING TO TAKE???

posted by: Bonnie J Wren
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 06:31 AM

It's amazing. It's almost like our judges and politicians simply do not understand the brilliance of our founding documents. The very idea that shariah laws could work within our borders is both abhorrent and fantastic.

posted by: Bonnie N.
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 05:25 PM

If a Muslim woman gets raped, she needs four men to testify on her behalf. If she doesn't have them her family honor is at stake and she gets killed. In Libya a father had his three young daughters get raped by the army. He slit their throats to preserve his honor . We don't need to allow Sharia law in this country.

posted by: Auustleo
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 05:05 PM

America has A consitution which has been here since we fought for freedom from oppression and fredom of our christian faith, This American Consitution has protected us and I see no need to change it for any other law. If muslins are not happy with our Consitution and have become citizens of America, I though they took an oath to up hold our American Consitution and to protect it.Why now do they feel the necessaity to chang our laws now? Go back if you don't like America and our laws

posted by: wayne allen
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 06:45 PM

I do not quite understand why those in power are even considering allowing any consideration of Sharia Law. Violating the principles of law our country was established on. Sharia law is the imposition of religious law on people who do not belong to that religion. It seems that these people do not understand or do not want to understand the difference between religion and civil government. Imposition of any law but what this country was built on is oppression and dictatorship, whether a singular dictator, or a corporate one.

posted by: William Hurst
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 06:59 PM

I heard one imam mention that "A Muslim out of shariah law is like a fish out of water".

Let them bake in the sand in that case.
The women will be much better for it because in the west, for once, women can breath without being stifled by their domineering husbands. Plus they make it hard for them to get a divorce and get what they deserve in financial settlements.

posted by: Kim Bruce
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 07:46 PM

Poll all the women of Islam living in the U S & ask them if they want this sharia law. Of course they don't! So i can tell you right now these "new" immigrants, should assimilate into the laws of our constitution or face deportation when we elect our next, NEW president. This is our country; love it or leave it!

posted by: Carol Goodwin
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 07:54 PM

We must refute the idea that we "fear" islam or sharia or allahu zarba.

Instead, I propose that we acknowledge that we dislike the hatred, the bigotry, the cruelty, the lovelessness, the viciousness, the brutality, the perverseness, the intolerance, the covetousness, and the hatefulness of islam and sharia. To promote this honesty of feelings toward the demonology that is islam, I offer the following:

ISLAMOMISIA: (n): an intense dislike of islam and its teachings; a natural dislike expressed toward retarded religious practices and ideologies, such as those fostered by islam and its imams (I Murder And Maim).

Even with all the ad hominem attacks on those who advocate against sharia-demon laws, the malicious maniacs who comment for sharia cannot hide the acts of their fellow muslims around the world and in the USA. From honor murders to the burning down of Christian churches and the persecution of ALL non-muslims, islam and its muslim demon-adherents are nothing more than Orcs and goblins brainwashed from the land of Mordor (saudi arabia) by Sauron (allah) and his witch king (mohamMAD).

I detest islam and the muslims who advocate its evils. islam does not result in God-Consciousness. Quite the contrary, it is a hateful demonology; and it shall be thrown into the Lake Of Fire, along with its demonic prophet mohamMAD, just as IT HAS BEEN REVEALED.

Revelation 20:10:
"And the devil (allah the moon djinn) that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast (islam) and the false prophet (mohamMAD) are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."

You muslims cannot escape your fate. You sow hatred and viciousness and bigotry and intolerance, and when you receive it in return, are mystified and cry foul. You muslims have minds filled with the garbage of the perverted, murderous, thieving, and raping mohamMAD. Any muslim advocating the demonology of islam advocates for demons. Only by following the teaching of Jesus can anyone achieve God-Consciousness. mohamMAD was MAD and was a fraud.

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, â€œI am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Not through islam, or moHAMmad, allahu zarba. Only through Jesus Christ. I advise muslims to repent and reject your islamic demonology and learn about the nature of cosmic reality, for your time is at an end.

Compare John 14:6 with Revelation 14:6. You shall be pleasantly surprised.

http://www.urantia.org/en/urantia-book-standardized/paper-1-universal-father

posted by: T.E. Molen
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 07:25 PM

The consideration of Islamic law by left liberal Democratic Party member American Justices is the work of the left liberal Democratic Party trying to imprison the Muslims terrorists in their own anti-Christian anti-Semitic agenda in the USA, Israel and in the world. This is part of the fulfillment of Rev 18:2 which foretold that Babylon the Great, which Jesus revealed to me is the USA, would become a prison for every hateful bird and this includes the left liberal Democratic Party and the Muslims. The Muslims have been resisting the left liberal Democrats because they can't conceive in their minds that any American would join in their anti-Semitic anti-Christian agenda. Rev 18:2 and he cried out with a mighty voice, saying "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.

posted by: James D Albright
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 04:54 PM

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