One of the most persistent themes of this site, is trying to assist people in understanding that sharia law, is not like a Western formalized form of law with any kind of equality, and more importantly, MUCH more importantly, not even any kind of due process. Ultimately life and death decisions are made by the guy with the biggest hat.
And all it takes is an accusation. But it is critical to understand why a given accusation will be acted on, or not.
Any accusation that increases the authority and degree of Islam will be acted on, if at all possible. While the exact same accusation or ‘crime’ would not be acted on, if it does not increase the authority of Islam or worse, diminishes its stature, which is itself a crime in Islam.
It doesn’t take a court or anything so formal or grandiose. It just takes a muslim to make the accusation. Say, Blasphemy or adultery or any kind of behaviour where a non-muslim acts like an equal to a muslim like drinking out of a muslim-only well for instance (Asia Bibi) and then a cleric to legitimize the accusation, and then a rabid mob to carry out the murder of the accused. Although sometimes there is a stay in prison and sometimes a sort of trial. But there is no due process. The best an accused can hope for, is massive foreign attention and anger which could result in sanctions.
The example below shows how sharia law works. It was this way in the Islamic State, for years even before it was declared to be such, (although our video proofs of that were taken down. but some where even done by French journalists.) It is this way in much or most of Afghanistan as we saw with a woman who was thrown off a roof, beaten, burned to death and thrown into a ravine of sorts because she was accused of something by an imam who really wanted her killed for some other reason.
Sharia isn’t just something we have to resist. Its the reason people go to war to stop, or perhaps more fairly, to protect a legal system like the one we inherited from the British.
It is also noteworthy that communism has pretty much the same system of justice. And for pretty much the same reasons. You have an opinion, say something or do something that diminishes the authority of communists or communism in the area, you will face court or gulags etc. depending on the stage of communist implementation.
For communism’s equivalent of blasphemy, insulting the leader in any way whatsoever in North Korea, you go to a slave labour camp for three generations. Your grandchildren will be in a camp because you used a part of a page of a magazine in which there is a photo of any of the leaders of North Korea to make a cigarette.
There is little daylight between leftism/communism and Islam.
