Sharia, Part One: Muslim Women

Sharia, Part One: Muslim Women

Sharia law, or simply Sharia or, in Arabic, شريعة Šarīʿa, is a complex set of rules for Muslims transmitted by Allah. However, any comparisons to the Christian Bible would be tantamount to comparing our Bible to eternal truths within “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

According to Wikipedia, “Muslims believe all Sharia is derived from two primary sources, the divine revelations set forth in the Qur’an, and the sayings and example set by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. . . [and subject to] the consensus of the religious scholars” and Islamic jurists who interpret Sharia.

“The imam [the position held by the Ground Zero monster-mosque-builder Feisel Abdul Rauf] has varying responsibilities depending on the interpretation of Sharia . . . leader of communal prayers, . . . scholar, religious leader or political leader. Sharia deals with many topics addressed by secular law, including crime, politics and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexuality, hygiene, diet, prayer, and fasting.”

In a nutshell, Sharia represents the words Muslims live by, necessarily updated to reflect the passage of fourteen hundred years since the holy Prophet Muhammad passed to his reward no doubt stll in the loving arms of his child bride Aisha, whom he took to his holy marital bed when she was all of eight years old and who was just one of his 13 wives and concubines.

Despite all the updating and interpretation over fourteen centuries, things really haven’t changed an awful lot for Muslims, and even less so for Muslim women.

Nonie Darwash was one of those (Egyptian) Muslim women.

Now considered an Islamic apostate . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1860)

Sharia Law Part Two: Life Under Sharia

Sharia Law Part Two: Life under Sharia

There’s nothing wrong with Sharia law that a little updating wouldn’t cure. Okay, a LOT of updating.

I will leave the detailed nuances of Sharia to Muslim and Western scholars and theologians. Suffice to say Sharia is the sacred law of Islam passed down through divine revelation in the Qu’ran or Koran and the writings of the Prophet Muhammad collected in the Sunnah. Sharia is subject to interpretation by the two main sects of Islam, the Sunni and the Shi’a, and different Muslim countries also have differing interpretations.

Part One of this series explored the rapid spread of Muslims and Islam in Western Europe particularly where Muslims and the Muslim faith is inexorably gaining ascendancy and where it is already influencing life and public policy in that area of the world.

The power of Muslims and Sharia is also gaining strength in America although at a slower pace simply due to the breadth and population of our nation.

See an article on “Islam Will Rule the World” on Jihadwatch.com which includes this excerpt from a possibly authentic “constitution” for the future “Islamic Republic of the USA:” http://bit.ly/b4PhQH

“We will fight infidel to death.
Meanwhile, American laws will protect us.
Democrats and Leftist will support us.
UNO will legitimize us.
CAIR will incubate us.
ACLU will empower us.
Western Universities will shelter us.
Hollywood will love us.”

No matter whether that constitution is a hoax or not, it reflects the thinking of the resurgent Islamic movement dedicated to revenge for everything from the Crusades to hundreds of years of presumed and actual slights of their religion.

With a title that could be taken from a Letterman skit, Americanthinker.com lists “The Top 10 Reasons Why Sharia Is Bad for All Societies.”
(read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1717)