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Category Archives: Sharia Law
More from Robert Spencer on CBN News (video)
An explanation of how the true Mohamed, a warrior and extortionist was morphed into a kind of Jesus equivalent for easy consumption for westerners. Not at all a bad video from the man who gives us www.jihadwatch.com
Counter-Jihad Summit, Brussels 2007 (video)
This is long but there are some good points here as well as a giggle or two. The speaker, Robert Spencer is the owner of the excellent site, ‘Jihad Watch’ who explains how the term Islamaphobic is absurd and counter productive. The one point I think he understated was the question of the Islamic view of ‘innocence’. He mentions the oft quoted Koranic verse, “When one innocent is killed it is as if the whole world is murdered” but failed to mention that to be innocent in Islam is a very specific thing meaning essentially a devoted follower of Islam. No others can be innocent. I recommend the excellent movie, Farewell Israel (written about here on this blog) for a detailed explanation of the Islamic view of specific common and important words commonly misunderstood by the west.
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A point form history of the Crusades. The Muslim ones as well
Thanks Grace for finding this excellent article:
The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism
Historical facts say that Islam has been imperialistic—and would still like to be, if only for religious reasons. Many Muslim clerics, scholars, and activists, for example, would like to impose Islamic law around the world. Historical facts say that Islam, including Muhammad, launched their own Crusades against Christianity long before the European Crusades.
Today, Muslim polemicists and missionaries, who believe that Islam is the best religion in the world, claim that the West has stolen Islamic lands and that the West (alone) is imperialistic.One hardline Muslim emailer to me said about the developed West and the undeveloped Islamic countries: ‘You stole our lands’ and then he held his finger on the exclamation key to produce a long string of them.
Thus imperialism, a word that has reached metaphysical levels and that is supposed to stop all debates and answer all questions, explains why Islamic countries have not kept up with the West. The emailer did not look inwardly, as if his own culture and religion may play a role. Instead, it is always the West’s fault.
Westerners—even academics—accept the notion that the West alone was aggressive. It seems that Islam is always innocent and passive. It is difficult to uncover the source of this Western self—loathing. It is, however, a pathology that seems to strike Westerners more than other people around the globe. This anti—West pathology shows up in Westerners’ hatred for the European Crusades in the Medieval Age.
It must be admitted that there is much to dislike about the European Crusades. If they are contrasted with the mission and ministry of Jesus and the first generations of Christians, then the Crusades do not look so good. But did the Europeans launch the first Crusade in a mindless, bloodthirsty and irrational way, or were there more pressing reasons? Were they the only ones to be militant?
The purpose of this article is not to justify or defend European Crusades, but to explain them, in part—though scholarship can go a long way to defend and justify them
In this article, the word ‘crusade’ (derived from the Latin word for ‘cross’) in an Islamic context means a holy war or jihad. It is used as a counterweight to the Muslim accusation that only the Europeans launched crusades. Muslims seem to forget that they had their own, for several centuries before the Europeans launched theirs as a defense against the Islamic expansion.
We will employ a partial timeline spanning up to the first European response to Islamic imperialism, when Pope Urban II launched his own Crusade in 1095. The timeline mostly stays within the parameters of the Greater Middle East. The data in bold print are of special interest for revealing early Islamic atrocities, their belief in heroism in warfare, or politics today.
The Islamic Crusades were very successful. The Byzantines and Persian Empires had worn themselves out with fighting, so a power vacuum existed. Into this vacuum stormed Islam.
After the timeline, two questions are posed, which are answered at length
The Timeline
630 Two years before Muhammad’s death of a fever, he launches the Tabuk Crusades, in which he led 30,000 jihadists against the Byzantine Christians. He had heard a report that a huge army had amassed to attack Arabia, but the report turned out to be a false rumor. The Byzantine army never materialized. He turned around and went home, but not before extracting ‘agreements’ from northern tribes. They could enjoy the ‘privilege’ of living under Islamic ‘protection’ (read: not be attacked by Islam), if they paid a tax (jizya).
This tax sets the stage for Muhammad’s and the later Caliphs’ policies. If the attacked city or region did not want to convert to Islam, then they paid a jizya tax. If they converted, then they paid a zakat tax. Either way, money flowed back to the Islamic treasury in Arabia or to the local Muslim governor.
632—634 Under the Caliphate of Abu Bakr the Muslim Crusaders reconquer and sometimes conquer for the first time the polytheists of Arabia. These Arab polytheists had to convert to Islam or die. They did not have the choice of remaining in their faith and paying a tax. Islam does not allow for religious freedom.
Good video on Multi Culturalim in the UK
Specifically Islam of course. Worth seeing. nothing you wont know but good to see something this mainstream attacking political correctness and the bullshit submission to Islam by the UK
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The Libel Tourist. Video on Islamic silencing of free speech with oil wealth
Fox video on Honor killings in the US
At last main stream media has noticed how Islam treats women. This is a long overdue but not unappreciated documentary about Islamic men killing women for ‘being bad Muslims’. It’s worth noting that even this documentary fails to make an important distinction between arranged marriages and forced marriages. In Islam, women often get married without their consent or even having met the man involved. If a woman refuses this family arrangement they may expect imprisonment or often death. This is not the same as a Hindu or Jewish arranged marriage where both parties meet and decide freely.
If you do not wish to watch all 6 parts, watch part 5 for the interview with Phyllis Chesler, one of the few people who both understand the issue of women and Islam, and have both the courage and the skill to explain it simply and very well.
Phyllis Chesler gets it right on the money
Thanks Grace as always for finding this gem:
Islamic Gender Apartheid
By Phyllis Chesler
Front Page Magazine | December 16, 2005
A speech for the 12/14/05 Senate hearing organized by the American Committee for Democracy in the Middle East.
According to one Iranian dissident, “being born female is both a capital crime and a death sentence.” Today, the plight of both women and men in the Islamic world, and in an increasingly Islamized Europe, demands a sober analysis and a heroic response. In a democratic, modern, and feminist era, women in the Islamic world are not treated as human beings. Women in Iran and elsewhere in the Islamic world are viewed as the source of all evil. Their every move is brutally monitored and curtailed. The smallest infraction – a wanton wisp of hair escaping a headscarf – merits maximum punishment: Flogging in public, or worse. This is happening in Iran even as we speak. In 2005, a hospital in Tehran was accused of refusing entry to women who did not wear head-to-toe covering. In 2002, in Saudi Arabia, religious policemen prevented 14 year old schoolgirls from leaving a burning school building because they were not wearing their headscarves and abayahs. Fifteen girls died.
Today, George Orwell’s Thought Police are, rather ominously, everywhere in the Arab and Islamic world. Orwell’s Thought Police pre-date the Afghan Taliban or Iran’s or Saudi Arabia’s Virtue-and-Vice squads, who arrest men and women for the smallest sign of “individuality”, difference, or female-ness.
Women in Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and increasingly in Egypt, are veiled from head to toe. They live in purdah and lead segregated lives. Women are also forced into arranged and polygamous marriages, often when they are children, and often to much older men or to first cousins.
Shariah law in Ngeria. Part of a BBC documentary
This is part of a documentary about Nigeria where both British Common law and Shariah law are practiced. Worth watching and thinking about as any nation with over a few percent of Muslims are being asked to allow Sharia courts initially with the local law, and eventurally of course as the sole method of solving disputes.