When Sharia Comes - by Robert Spencer & How "European Islam" Will Complete the Global Muslim Caliphate - by Andrew Bostom

When Sharia Comes

Human Events  06 May 2009
By Robert Spencer

It is a case of happy timing. Barack Obama’s nominee as Legal Adviser of the State Department, Harold Koh, has said that he has no objection to Islamic Sharia law being applied “in an appropriate case” in the United States. And at the same time, the world is witness to a veritable laboratory experiment of what it means to apply Sharia in a place where it previously had not been in effect.

While Koh, of course, probably has in mind something like the voluntary Sharia arbitration courts that are currently operating in Britain, Sharia is a comprehensive system covering every aspect of life. It will not prove so easy to separate out its elements that do not conflict with Western laws from those that do.

And that’s why the Pakistani experience is instructive. After the Pakistani government agreed to a deal implementing Sharia in Pakistan’s Swat Valley -- formerly a popular tourist destination -- Islamic supremacists have moved swiftly to implement Sharia rules.

The results are illuminating not just of the situation in Pakistan, but of the ultimate outcome of stealth jihad attempts to insinuate elements of Sharia into Western societies:

• In Taiser, a town near Karachi, Taliban jihadists spray-painted pro-Taliban graffiti on a church. When the church members began to clean it off, a Taliban gang appeared and began firing into the crowd, killing three Christians. One attacker declared: “You infidels have to convert to Islam or die.” The jihadists also burned down three area churches.

• In the village of Sultanwas, the Taliban began broadcasting radio talks about Islam, and issuing warnings that barbers must no longer shave men’s beards.

• In the Buner district, Taliban members punished four men who were caught listening to music by shaving their heads and mustaches.

• Also in Buner, the Taliban posted notices warning women to stay in their homes and not to appear in the markets.

• In the village of Luqman Banda in northwest Pakistan, a bomb left outside a girls’ school killed four children.

• In Orakzai, the Taliban has demanded that Sikhs pay the jizya, the tax on non-Muslims mandated by the Qur’an (9:29), and have expelled from the area Sikhs who could not pay the exorbitant amounts they demanded.

• The Taliban executed a couple they had accused of adultery, and filmed the execution -- the film is now circulating all over the country, viewed with horror by urban secular Pakistanis.

All of these incidents and others like them have taken place in recent weeks, as the Taliban has consolidated its power in Swat and attempted to seize control of a much larger expanse of Pakistani territory. All of them are in accord with traditional provisions of Islamic law, which forbids women to leave their homes without the permission of their father or husband; forbids men to shave; forbids education to women except on an extremely limited basis; mandates a death sentence for the crime of adultery; and offers non-Muslims conversion, subjugation as inferiors under the rule of Islamic law, or death.

Sharia supremacists want to bring this program to all of Pakistan. Qazi Hussain Ahmad, a supporter of Osama bin Laden and former leader of a pro-Sharia political party in Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami, recently wrote that “those who believe that Pakistan can be secularized by separating the Islamic system from its state are suffering from a serious fallacy.” He declared that the complete Islamization of Pakistan “has been the genuine and long-standing demand of the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis.”

That appears to be true: according to a February 2008 U.S. Institute of Peace poll, 84% of Pakistanis believe that America is more of a threat to them than Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Apparently, when Sharia comes to them, they will be very happy. But not entirely, at least not yet.

Mulla Nazeer Ahmad, a leader of the Taliban jihadists, has declared: “Our Jihad is a global Jihad and we aim to...establish Sharia all over the world.”

And Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan told CNN recently that the Taliban hoped ultimately to spread its strict Sharia adherence “even in America.” Obtaining that goal will make their happiness complete.

Mr. Spencer is director of Jihad Watch and author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)", "The Truth About Muhammad," and "Stealth Jihad" (all from Regnery -- a HUMAN EVENTS sister company).

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http://europenews.dk/en/node/22741

How “European Islam” Will Complete the Global Muslim Caliphate

AndrewBostom.org 4 May 2009

By Dr. Andrew Bostom

Commenting to Paul Giniewski during an interview published in the journal Midstream from February/March 1994, Bat Ye’or had already observed that European Islam was adhering to its traditional supremacist orthodoxy making no effort to eliminate doctrines incompatible with true ecumenism and core Western Enlightenment values:

A “You Complete Me Alert” –Bat Ye’or’s New Book Soon Available in Italian (See this Apropos Video Clip: The Dark Knight-The Joker “You Complete Me” )

I do not see serious signs of a Europeanization of Islam anywhere, a move that would be expressed in a relativization of religion, a self-critical view of the history of Islamic imperialism…we are light years away from such a development…On the contrary, I think that we are participating in the Islamization of Europe, reflected both in daily occurrences and in our way of thinking…All the racist fanaticism that permeates the Arab countries and Iran has been manifested in Europe in recent years…

Bat Ye’or’s seminal 2005 Eurabia—The Euro-Arab Axis elucidated the ideological underpinnings and resultant sociopolitical developments which had transformed Western Europe into a hemi-continent of dhimmitude. The fruition of this hideous utopian contruct—Eurabia—is a Western Europe rife with Judenhass Anti-Zionism, Anti-Americanism, and a perverse, self-loathing denigration of its own Western heritage, firmly rooted in both Christianity, and the Enlightenment.

Her latest work, “Verso Il Califfato Universale—Come l’Europa e diventata complice dell’ espansionismo musulmano,” suggests what Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq (d. 1982), the great historian of Medieval European Islam, expressed concerned about more than 30-years ago, i.e., that historical and cultural revisionism might precipitate a recurrence of “…the upheaval carried out on our continent (i.e., Europe) by Islamic penetration more than a thousand years ago…with other methods…,” is coming to pass, abetted by an effete, self-loathing Eurabian elite, who as far back as 1975 published their own journal, entitled—what else—“Eurabia!” (This publication was produced by the European Committee for the Coordination of Friendship Associations with the Arab World. Eurabia’s editor was Lucien Bitterlin, President of the Association of Franco-Arab Solidarity; the journal was published jointly by Euro-Arab associations in London, Paris, and Geneva.).

And even 50-years earlier, June 26, 1925, Aldous Huxley, who spent considerable time in North Africa, wrote in a letter to Norman Douglas

One winter I shall certainly go and spend some [more] months there [in Tunisia], about the time of the date harvest—tho’ I have no doubt that the site of the Arabs picking and packing the dates would be enough to make one’s gorge turn every time one set eyes on that fruit for the rest of one’s life…And to think that we are busily teaching them all the mechanical arts of peace and war which gave us, in the past, our superiority over their numbers! In fifty years time, it seems to me, Europe can’t fail to be wiped out by these monsters. Intanto

Alarmingly, a cadre of influential American policymakers have bought into the same corrosive ideology, put forth under the guise of “The US Muslim Engagement Project,” which pays homage to its Eurabian forbears, and their self-destructive United Nations (read Organization of the Islamic Conference) project, “The Alliance of Civilizations,” in this odious document, entitled, “Changing Course.”

 http://europenews.dk/en/node/22820