My Sharia More
Could this be the title of the tune bouncing around inside the head of Miss Dalia Mogahed, an Obama appointee to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships? According to The Telegraph, Miss Mogahed appeared on a London television program hosted by one Ibtihal Bsis, who is a member of the Hizb ut Tahrir party, a group dedicated to non-violent destruction of Western democracy, substituted of course by a monolithic Islamic state and the institution of worldwide Sharia law. The other panelist on the program, Nazreen Nawaz, is also a member of Hizb ut Tahrir, and joined with the host in calling for recognition of Sharia Law as, “the source of legislation,” as opposed to the, "lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism" found in the West.
As you might expect by now, the Obama Administration’s ability to face down barbarism is about as strong as Michael Moore’s ability to face down the all-you-can-eat buffet at Circus Circus. Summoning all the decisiveness of Hamlet, Miss Mogahed announced that “The portrayal of Sharia has been oversimplified in many cases.” So much for standing firm. Then again, if you thought the Obama Administration had lost its voice when it comes to the unequivocal condemnation of barbaric cultures, Miss Mogahed found her voice, explaining that it is the West’s “promiscuity” and, “the breakdown of traditional values” that so exercises the Muslim world. An aside question: What exactly has the adminstration done to address promiscuity or the breakdown of values?
Speaking as a woman, for other women, Mogahed added that, "The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.” How’s that for a news flash? And for those who have misgivings about Sharia law’s tendency to treat women as less than equal, Mogahed explains that, "Part of the reason that there is this perception of Sharia is because Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood.” So there you have it. It’s all a big misunderstanding, and if we in the West could somehow muster the sophistication necessary to rise above our benighted abhorrence at all these stonings and beheadings, and behold the enlightened justice of Sharia, we could all move to a happy place, see? Perhaps in her next career move, Miss Mogahed will lead NASA’s Muslim outreach effort.
While neither a lady nor a Muslim, I do have a bit of experience during three tours to the Mideast. I’ve seen women struck by the religious police if, Allah forbid, a sleeve were to creep up revealing an inch or so of tender wrist, which would surely excite lusty and uncontrollable instincts in a holy man. So holy in fact that he would then hold the fairer sex responsible for his conduct and perhaps have her stoned afterward. I’ve seen women forced to cover their faces save for a perhaps a small slit in the material that would allow them to walk about without bumping into things. I’ve seen men drive pickup trucks with their goats in the cab of the truck while their wives hung on for dear life in the back of the thing. Such equality! Such justice! Such an unadulterated misogynistic, bigoted, sexist, barbaric, inhuman, intolerable, cruel, malicious, merciless, brutish and pathetic excuse for a system of law unsuitable for anyone or anything on this planet. But what of the noodle-spined weaklings in an administration that just can't seem to stand up to thuggery, whether at home or abroad?
There was a place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, known amongst the GI’s as “Chop Chop Square.” This was the place where specific penalties, as prescribed in the Koran, were carried out. The term, “chop chop” is not a euphemism, mind you. By the time I arrived in theatre, GI’s were forbidden to witness the punishments meted out by the religion of peace. It was deemed too traumatizing a sight for infidel eyes. More’s the pity. I should like to have seen for myself a civilization whose compassionate system of justice has remained in the same muddy rut for well over a thousand years. But what Sharia lacks in benevolence it evidently makes up for in evangelism. If the extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, or the Muslim Brotherhood for that matter, has their way, the just and serene practices of Sharia could be coming to a neighborhood near you. And what will the Obama Administration do? If the words of Dalia Mogahed are any indication, not much at all.
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Jun '10
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Given the follow up comments, I'm sorry I mentioned it.
Edited on Feb 1, 2011 at 4:06pmJul '10
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To be fair, Dave, George W. Bush invited quite a few advocates of Islamism and Sharia into the White House and other organs of government.
Bush did it out of naivite; Obama does it out of design. Either way, it's poison.
May '10
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...not that there's anything wrong with that.
Jun '10
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"I’ve seen men drive pickup trucks with their goats in the cab of the truck while their wives hung on for dear life in the back of the thing. Such equality! Such justice! Such an unadulterated misogynistic, bigoted, sexist, barbaric, inhuman, intolerable, cruel, malicious, merciless, brutish and pathetic excuse for a system of law unsuitable for anyone or anything on this planet."
Dave, I wish your message were being spread far and wide. Sadly, we'll be hearing more of the "it's all a misunderstanding" crap from the Mogaheds of the world.
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Kenneth: To be fair, Dave, George W. Bush invited quite a few advocates of Islamism and Sharia into the White House and other organs of government.
Bush did it out of naivite; Obama does it out of design. Either way, it's poison. · Feb 1 at 3:49pm
No argument there at all, Kenneth. Good point. Intentions aside, the results are the same in this instance.
Jul '10
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Ba..aa..aa..aa..ah
Jul '10
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Kenneth
Ba..aa..aa..aa..ah · Feb 1 at 3:54pm
Dave already referred to their preference of goats over Wives.
Dec '10
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It's not just the separation of the young men from the young women. It's the possibility of four wives. When the more successful men, or higher born men scarf up all the women the less successful are left with nothing.
Jun '10
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I'm so confused...Gloria Steinem donates to Muslim groups who promote Sharia. On a quite unrelated note, it's said that most human beings only use a small percentage of their brain.
Dec '10
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Dave, perhaps you'd like to comment on Barack Obama's observation that the muzzein's evening call to prayer as one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset?
Aug '10
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If it's poison in either case, then we can learn from Borgia AND Jim Jones ? So how do we assign the roles ? Who is Borgia ,if not Obama ? There's no messianic themes here , are there ? You know what's happened here ,and within a week ? The left has staked out a distinctly anti-American stance by aligning with the Brotherhood and ( and praising AlJazeera because Hosni killed facebook ?) with a shout out of support from POTUS. This is much bigger than the sandalista fellow South American traveler stuff. As Louis said, it's global. So Bush did cause this !
Jan '11
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Dig the play on words! If this populist uprising spreads any further westward on the African continent you might consider revising the title to My Sharia Moor.
Dec '10
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"Such an unadulterated misogynistic, bigoted, sexist, barbaric, inhuman, intolerable, cruel, malicious, merciless, brutish and pathetic excuse for a system of law unsuitable for anyone or anything on this planet."
Well said, Dave.
Honestly, I'm agape that anyone could look at what Islam does to the lands it controls and see anything at all there to emulate.
May '10
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For some reason, I keep imaging the title of this thread sung to "My Sharona."
May '10
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I'm telling you, I think Islamic sexual ethics and mores is much more central to the troubles in "the Muslim world" than we have begun to realize and take seriously.
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That was Plan B for a title....
May '10
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Dave Carter: By the time I arrived in theatre, GI’s were forbidden to witness the punishments meted out by the religion of peace. It was deemed too traumatizing a sight for infidel eyes.
I suspect that the real reason was that they didn't want GI's to develop an entirely justified loathing and contempt for this barbaric culture.
Aug '10
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Hey! Some of us listen to Stevie a bit.
Jan '11
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Nope. Can't be reconciled.
Dec '10
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Having lived and fought on the edge of the empire, you understand to move on is no longer your choice but rather with each next pace the heart hardens as a means of survival. Hesitation is not an option. “Unadulterated …” at every turn.
In the belly of the beast, mortal and inanimate blur indistinguishably, where permanence appears ephemeral, the ephemeral permanent, and anything platonic as distant as ancient Greece itself. “Unadulterated …” remains everywhere.
After having left it all behind, are they now pursuing us, are the barbarians at the gate?
In our realm, too much of the Old World is already besieged; the onslaught, is it approaching or is it within our own shores?
Shari’ah is the unenumerated Plague. Cordoba House at Ground Zero, minarets soon casting their shadow on our courthouses like towers of Babel; enough signs are there, but how many pass by unaware?
Indeed, we have begun to defend ourselves: six states—Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Wyoming—have introduced anti-Shari’ah legislation.