Know Your Sharia Law — Coming Soon to a Town Near You
Child marriages, legalised rape, medieval punishments, amputations and stoning — these are the results of sharia law in action right now in Islamic countries, and are the sort of thing to which this country can look forward unless the Islamification process is halted.
In Saudi Arabia, sharia law holds sway. There, a judge delighting in the name Sheikh Habib Habib has just declared that an eight-year-old girl’s marriage to a 47-year-old man is legal.
The judge has ruled that the girl’s marriage to a friend of her father’s is legal and binding because it was made under sharia law. The girl’s father arranged the marriage with his “close friend” to pay off a monetary debt.
In Afghanistan, which is the recipient of billions of pounds of British taxpayer funded foreign aid, that country’s elected government recently approved a version of a law which compels a woman to submit sexually to her husband even if she does not want to. Critics have labelled the law as “legalised rape.”
The bill was pushed through the Afghani parliament in hopes of appeasing Islamic fundamentalists ahead of August elections.
Sharia Law is also very specific with regard to homosexuality. That activity is today punishable by a death sentence in the following countries: Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Yemen.
Sharia law also disallows freedom of speech if that speech in any way contradicts the Koran. Such speech is considered blasphemy against Mohammad.
Leading Islamic cleric Qadi ‘Iyad ibn Musa al-Yahsubi has written that “The Qur’an says that Allah curses the one who harms the Prophet in this world and He connects harm of Himself to harm of the Prophet. There is no dispute that anyone who curses Allah is killed and that his curse demands that he be categorized as an unbeliever. The Judgment of the unbeliever is that he is killed. There is a difference between harming Allah and His Messenger and harming the believers. Injuring the believers, short of murder, incurs beating and exemplary punishment. The judgment against those who harm Allah and His Prophet is more severe — the death penalty.” (”The proof of the necessity of killing anyone who curses the Prophet or finds fault with him,” UK-based Islamic website.)
In instances of rape, sharia law requires an allegation to be validated by four Muslim male witnesses to the crime — or else the victim risks being charged with fornication or adultery. (”Afghan children raped with ‘impunity,’ U.N. official says,” CNN report.)
In Yemen, sharia law required compensation to be paid to the husband in the case of a ten-year-old child bride who requested a divorce after rape and abuse.
Sunni Islamic law allows husbands to divorce their wives by just saying talaq (”I divorce you”) three times. In 2003 a Malaysian court ruled that, under sharia law, a man may divorce his wife via text messaging as long as the message was clear and unequivocal.
In accordance with the Qur’an and several hadith, theft is punished by imprisonment or amputation of hands or feet, depending on the number of times it was committed and depending on the item of theft.
Witnesses must be either two men, or, if only one man can be found, one man and two women.
In accordance with hadith, stoning to death is the penalty for married men and women who commit adultery. In addition, there are several conditions related to the person who commits it that must be met.
One of the difficult ones is that the punishment cannot be enforced unless there is a confession of the person, or four male eyewitnesses who each saw the act being committed.
For unmarried men and women, the punishment prescribed in the Qur’an and hadith is 100 lashes.
The “four witness” standard comes from the Qur’an itself, a revelation Muhammad announced in response to accusations of adultery levelled at his wife, Aisha: “Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah.” [Qur'an 24:13]
In most interpretations of sharia, conversion by Muslims to other religions is strictly forbidden and is termed apostasy. Muslim theology equates apostasy to treason, and in most interpretations of sharia, the penalty for apostasy is death. During the time of the Prophet, treason and apostasy were considered one and the same.
There are many different opinions, however, as to whether the veil or headscarf is a real Quranic obligation. Reputable scholars such as Yusuf Al-Qaradawi claim that it is.
One of the garments women wear is the hijab (of which the headscarf is one component). The word hijab is derived from the Arabic word hajaba which means “to hide from sight or view,” or to “conceal.”
This has been brought to you as a public service by the British National Party to prepare you for the Islamification of Britain under the Tory, Labour and Lib-Dem parties.
If, of course, you do not like the idea of living in an Islamified Britain, you could always vote BNP.
