Sharia and you

Newt Gingrich has been in the news lately, being his usual politically incorrect self and angering all those apologists for the worlds largest "religion of peace".  He speaks correctly about sharia, although his grasp is still a bit fuzzy.  Here you will find one of many examples of creeping sharia and stealth jihad through our children.

Sharia: Coming to a town near you.

   Newt Gingrich makes no bones about his views.  His stance on ObamaCare, the economy, foreign relations and the American spirit could not be any clearer, and for his views on sharia and Islam he again takes some heat. 

   Is Newt correct in his opinion of sharia?  He states that “Stealth jihadists use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools; violent jihadists use violence…but in fact they’re both seeking to impose the same end state, which is to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of sharia.”  Where would he come up with such a fantasy, an albatross of accusations hung on the necks of all good Muslims and how could he be such an Islamophobe?

    The pundit condemnations have been coming in like salvos from the guns of the USS Missouri.  Nickolas Kristof, Eugene Robinson, John Stewart and all the rest are having a field day ripping new ones for Newt, gleefully pointing out how mean and nasty and hateful and anti-Muslim he is.  They dismiss his remarks out of hand, offering no proof Newt lies other than their own importance within the media.  It might behoove John, Nick, Eugene and the rest of the nabobs to do just a bit of looking, and they will find Newt is not the loon they want him to be .

         Sharia is the all-encompassing legal codec governing all aspects of Muslim life: social, business, legal, family, political.  There is no separating the white from the yolk; church and state within Islam and sharia are inseperable.  Despite what Islamic apologists say, sharia demands stoning to death, amputation of hands and feet, hanging or beheading for homosexuals and public flogging among other punishments.  All aspects of sharia are totally incompatible with the constitution and western values and law.  So how would it be possible for something as foreign as sharia to become the dominant legal system in the US as Newt warns us?  Let’s look at sharia courts and the rights of women in a divorce for the example.

    In US divorce court everything is divided up equally.  Contentious debate and sleazy lawyers’ aside the courts usually are pretty fair in the distribution of assets.  Women are equally and legally entitled to half.  In sharia law a woman is only worth half that of a man, both in what they are entitled to in a divorce but also in their testimony.  Their voice is worth half that of a man’s testimony in any court proceeding.  Therefore anything a woman says on behalf of her divorce, in a sharia court will be given only half the weight than that of her soon to be ex-husband.  This is a blatant violation of the constitution and all state law.  How does this fit in with the principals which guides our laws?

   Sharia courts are but one method of getting Islamic norms into mainstream American society.  Some compare sharia courts with the Jewish rabbinical beit din courts now operating in the US, claiming that like these Jewish tribunals sharia courts will merely lessen the burden on regular civil courts and act as a arbitrator of minor business, divorce and family disputes.  On first glance this seems a good idea but looking at how sharia courts have behaved in Canada and England that glance becomes less than rose-colored.

    Sharia is just a part of the Islamic narrative, a chunk of the overall doctrine driving Islam and Muslims.  The installation of sharia courts comes as a harbinger of  further Islamic inroads into politics and social structuring.  To put a perspective on the idea of sharia law in the West let’s read what one Muslim advocacy group says about Islam in America.  In 1998 Omar M. Ahmad, leader of the Council on American Islamic Relations said,  “Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran (sharia). . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."  Since the Qur’an is the basis for sharia law it is obvious what CAIR is advocating. 

    With the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US saying they want Islam to dominate America it would appear Newt is correct when he spoke at the American Enterprise Institute last July and said the sharia menace is part of a wider campaign to impose Islam across the US.

   When Newt Gingrich says Islam is trying to dominate the US he is called an Islamophobe and hatemonger yet when the leader of CAIR says the exact same thing he is dismissed.  Let’s not ignore the reality of sharia law in the US.  Stop it before it starts.