Nonie Darwish: Sharia For Dummies
Democrats are fighting any criticism of Sharia and blocking any legislation against foreign laws, specifically Sharia, from being implemented in the US. I hope the democrats and media will finally stop wondering “Why Fear Sharia?” if they allow themselves to read some of the most barbaric laws practiced on Earth today and save us, and our children, from ever seeing a day of life under sharia:
Below is a list of some controversial Islamic laws (Sharia) that represent a major threat to our Bill of Rights and Constitution. I hope the New York Times will stop asking us “Why Fear Sharia?”:
A Muslim will not be subject to retaliation (prosecution) if he kills an apostate, since it is someone who deserves to die.
Parents and grandparents will not be prosecuted for killing their offspring or offspring’s offspring. This law is significant to getting those who honor kill off the hook.
A Muslim will not be executed for killing a kaffir (non-Muslim).
It is obligatory for a Muslim to lie if the purpose is obligatory, such as fulfilling Allah’s commandments of jihad.
Slander and exaggeration is allowed if the purpose is lawful. No guilt or shame should be associated with slander of the perceived enemy, and if it is for protecting Islam and for the benefit of Muslims.
Sharia has no respect for sovereignty of other nations and non-Muslims, because of the doctrine of jihad, defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion.”
It is a capital (enormity) crime for any Muslim who chooses to “Not perform jihad or flee from combat with (kaffir) unbelievers.”
It is the duty of every Muslim head of state (Caliph) to wage jihadist wars against non-Muslim nations, especially neighboring ones. Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia and unfit to rule.
A Caliph could hold office through seizure of power meaning through force.
A Caliph is immune (Maasum), exempt, from charges of murder, adultery, robbery, theft, drinking, and in some cases of rape.
A manmade government (legal system), such as democracy, is an abomination and must be eliminated.
A percentage of Zakat (alms) must go towards jihad.
It is obligatory to obey the commands of the Caliph even if he is unjust.
A caliph must be Muslim, not a slave, and male.
The Muslim public must remove the Caliph if he rejects Islam or refuses to rule by Sharia.
A non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim.
No testimony in court is acceptable from people of low-level jobs, such as street sweepers or bathhouse attendants. Women in low-level jobs are not awarded custody of children in case of divorce.
A non-Muslim cannot rule, even over a non-Muslim minority.
Homosexuality is punishable by death.
Women are forbidden from becoming president or judge.
There is no age limit for marriage of girls. The marriage contract at any age after birth and consummation of marriage at age 8 or 9.
A husband has the right to beat his wife and does not have to say why to her family or police.
Rebelliousness on the part of the wife nullifies the husband’s obligation to support her, gives him permission to beat her and keep her from leaving the home.
Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as saying: “I divorce you,” and is effective even if the husband says he did not intend it.
A wife has no right to divorce her husband, even if he is polygamous, with additional wives.
A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married, her marriage is annulled.
There is no community property between a husband and his wife/wives.
A woman inherits half what a man inherits.
Parents have the legal right to perform female genital mutilation on minor daughters.
A man must pay the woman dowry to be given in exchange for his right to her sexual organs.
A rapist may only be required to pay money (dowry) without marrying the rape victim.
A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married her marriage is annulled.
A woman’s testimony in court is half the value of a man.
A woman loses custody of her children if she remarries.
To prove rape a woman must have four male witnesses.
A woman must cover every inch of her body, which is considered awrah (a sexual organ). Exposing face is allowed by most, but not all Sharia schools.
A Muslim man will not be prosecuted if he kills his wife if caught in the act of adultery. However, the opposite is not true since husband “could be married to the woman he was caught with.” Thus loyalty is only expected from wife, and not the husband.
Free speech is unprotected and harshly punished if it involves any criticism of Muhammad, Islam or Sharia itself. Both Muslim and non-Muslim critics of Muhammad will be executed even if they repent.
The banking system must be Sharia-compliant.
A government must rule by Sharia and a Muslim head of state.
All of the above laws (except number 8, which is not Shafi’i) are mainstream Sharia. They are all found in the Shafi’i book Reliance of the Traveler, which has the stamp of approval by all Sunni religious authorities, including al Azhar University.
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Nonie Darwish, a Middle East scholar, is Director of Former Muslims United (an AFDI Initiative) and author of Cruel and Usual Punishment and
Wholly Different: Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values.
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WHY HORRORS LIKE VEGAS MASSACRE HAPPEN MORE OFTEN
While Democrats and the major media blame the NRA, Republicans and “bump stocks” (something almost no one ever heard of until last week) for Stephen Paddock’s horrific Las Vegas massacre, more thoughtful voices are looking deeper.
On Fox News, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham discussed the nature of Paddock’s “pure unadulterated evil,” while Tucker Carlson wondered aloud: “Shootings like this did not occur when we were kids. What has changed? What is this about? Why are we seeing this?”
So far, all we have is lurid clues about Paddock. ISIS claims he was a convert, but it provides no evidence. He had tons of high-end firearms. His father, a bank robber on the FBI’s most wanted list, was diagnosed as “psychopathic” and “suicidal.” A high-stakes gambler, Paddock took an anti-anxiety drug known (rarely) to cause aggression, and one Vegas prostitute says the 64-year-old “enjoyed violent rape fantasies.” And so on. Obviously Paddock had, whatever the reasons, given his life completely over to evil.
By “extreme chaos,” I don’t mean only the frequent terrorist attacks and mass shootings, horrendous as they are, but other equally disturbing signs of a troubled and, dare I say, disintegrating culture – including today’s completely unprecedented and ever-expanding epidemic of opioid addiction,widespread depression (one in four middle-aged American women takes antidepressants), a rising suicide rate and precipitous increase in violent crime in our major cities – not to mention the growing political madness ripping our nation apart.
We are wrenched along from one crisis to another: One week it’s a movement to violently tear down or deface our nation’s monuments (not just Confederate statues, but monuments commemorating everyone from Columbus to Jefferson to Lincoln!) and, by extension, disavowing and erasing our own history. Then it’s on to relentless attacks on the First Amendment – and since the Las Vegas massacre, on the Second Amendment. And all the while, one major political party pathologically refuses to accept the results of the last presidential election and is hell-bent on overturning it any way it can.
But back to Stephen Paddock. “He was just a guy,” Paddock’s brother Eric plaintively told the Daily Mail. “Something happened, he snapped or something.”
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock (Photo: Twitter/Eric Paddock)
Let’s take a few steps back and seriously consider why so many people in today’s America are “snapping or something.”
In my 2015 book, “The Snapping of the American Mind: Healing a Nation Broken by a Lawless Government and Godless Culture,” I focus considerable attention not just on what is happening in American life today, but why.
While chronicling the radical and bizarre transformation of the buoyant, hopeful America of my youth – a nation where mass shootings, terror attacks, rampant opioid addiction and similar evils were rare or non-existent – I pause in the middle of a chapter exploring our nation’s multiple addiction epidemics to ask a few fundamental questions. I think they’re relevant right now:
What is it about our contemporary society that is driving astronomical numbers of us, young and old, to suicide, drug abuse, addiction and other compulsive, self-destructive behaviors?
Let us reason together.
Do you think telling children, in a multitude of ways as today’s culture and education system consistently do, that God does not exist has no effect on their mental health and happiness?
Do you think the legalization of marijuana in state after state, creating a celebratory atmosphere around pot and other drugs, doesn’t contribute to drug dependency, not to mention growing psychosis – especially when today’s marijuana is known to be many times more potent than in decades past?
Do you think aborting almost 60 million American children in the four-plus decades since the Supreme Court legalized it in 1973 – and the not-subtle message this sanitized slaughter sends throughout society about the lack of sacredness of human life – has no effect on people’s mental health? …
Do you think, in the Internet age, that ubiquitous graphic images and videos of intimate body parts and hard-core sex – images that intrude and are indelibly burned into the minds and souls of tens of millions of young and old alike – does not awaken and feed a very dark nature, and exacerbate all manner of personal, relational, marital and mental health problems?
I continue on in this vein, citing other benchmark “achievements” of the left, which has managed to successfully de-Christianize American culture over the last couple of generations, thereby destroying the cohesion, shared identity and common values that once comprised the lifeblood of our civilization – all in the name of radical “freedom.”
In “Snapping,” I basically prosecute the case that “the left’s wild celebration of sexual anarchy, its intimidating culture of political correctness, and its incomprehension of the fundamental sacredness of human life, is, whether intentionally or not, promoting widespread dependency, debauchery, family breakdown, crime, corruption, addiction, despair and suicide.”
For decades, the left has been subverting America’s schools and colleges, the news media, the entertainment industry and so on – which is probably why public faith in many of these institutions is so low right now. Meanwhile, in the Age of Trump, every time those on the left reflexively accuse well-meaning Christians and conservatives of being “racists” and “fascists,” every time they publicly disrespect the American flag and national anthem, every time they militantly deny the most basic high-school biology – and absolutely insist that you do likewise or you’re a hateful bigot – they further rip apart the fabric of our civilization. But there is a big price to pay for all this.
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You see, the left today is literally promoting pathological thinking. For example, in the influential Atlantic cover story, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” the authors – one a liberal academic and the other a conservative – cite evidence that colleges today are actually fostering mental illness. Explaining that “vindictive protectiveness teaches students to think in a very different way,” the authors point out that “[a] campus culture devoted to policing speech and punishing speakers is likely to engender patterns of thought that are surprisingly similar to those long identified by cognitive behavioral therapists as causes of depression and anxiety. The new protectiveness may be teaching students to think pathologically.”
Concertgoers in Las Vegas during a shooting in which more than 50 people were killed
‘A spiritual border wall’
Stop and consider the values that held sway in America when such “chaos” as we are experiencing today was rare.
Yes, America was unified, strong and optimistic, but not just because our society had a set of common beliefs. Many awful societies of the past and present strictly enforce common beliefs – North Korea is a prime example. And when Mao Zedong tried imposing an atheistic utopian belief system on China, he succeeded in becoming the worst mass murderer in world history – 45 million people killed in four years. That’s an average of more than 30,000 people killed every single day for four years!
No, America is very different. The Judeo-Christian values that long comprised the moral consensus of Americans, and of Western Civilization – rooted in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount – served to encourage everything good, decent and noble within our very flawed human nature, and to discourage the darker side of our nature.
Those particular values, therefore, constituted a powerful wall around America – a fortress, a spiritual border wall if you will. In fact, the left’s suicidal obsession with open borders – resulting in recklessly inviting into our national home people with ideologies, loyalties and cultural pathologies utterly hostile to our own well-being – provides a striking metaphor: For the left has likewise torn down the moral-spiritual wall of Judeo-Christian values that once helped guard our nation and her people from great evil overtaking them.
It’s often observed that those on the left fail to consider the long-term, real-world implications of their agendas. They want to ban guns, legalize abortion, tax the rich, redefine marriage, ignore biology, raise the minimum wage to $15, leave our borders wide open and so on – apparently oblivious to where they are thus leading us. What, then, are the true implications of abandoning America’s core biblical values?
Let’s pause to consider the oft-quoted line from Dostoevsky’s classic novel, “The Brothers Karamazov”: “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
The radical left – that’s what we’re talking about here, not traditional “liberals” – is basically godless. But evidently the left didn’t learn much during the mega-violent 20th century, during which it was responsible for the deaths of 100 million people, sacrificed on the altar of the left’s atheistic utopian religion, which Churchill insightfully described as “the gospel of envy.”
Make no mistake: The radical left worldview that has been ascendant in modern America – not just the rebellion against fundamental biology, morality and economics, but its efforts to obliterate our constitutional rights, tear down our history, repudiate the basic “self-evident truths” of Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence and violate the Ten Commandments – is not only godless, it is arguably insane.
Stay with me here. To catch a glimpse of the insanity to which I’m referring, all one need do is peer all the way to the end of the long road down which the left has been leading us, and behold what lurks there.
If there truly is no God, no transcendent meaning to life, no objective right and wrong, no heaven and hell (as John Lennon imagined) and no ultimate consequence for living an evil life rather than a good one – then, my friends, we are living in an entirely materialistic universe devoid of actual meaning or purpose. That would mean you and I are just energy and matter – one of 7.6 billion similar entities on planet Earth, each a conglomeration of trillions of cells, each of those composed of molecules, in turn composed of atoms composed of particles orbiting other particles, some atoms with a greater number of particles orbiting greater numbers of other particles in nuclei, and some with fewer.
In other words, just energy, matter and numbers – that’s all we ultimately are in this materialistic world of total rebellion against God and meaning.
Within this nihilistic worldview, a person like Stephen Paddock, who for whatever reason decides to shoot hundreds of human beings, is arguably just changing the form and configuration of their energy and matter from one form into another. Not that Paddock consciously thought this way; demons controlled his mind. He was extremely angry at whatever had gone wrong in his life and wanted revenge – and, probably, also to be remembered as a notorious mass-murderer.
Friends, this is a dangerous realm into which the left is ushering us, this place where there is no objective meaning, no absolute right and wrong, no good and evil, no moral and immoral, no male and female – where everything is relative and means whatever you choose it to mean, all because you demand ultimate freedom. Because when nothing means anything, even murder is reduced to rearranging matter and energy in other people from one form to another.
Does this sound insane? It certainly should – because it is exactly the insanity that allowed atheistic communists like Cambodian dictator Pol Pot to slaughter between 1.7 million and 2 million of his own countrymen while trying to create his utopia.
This is the pitch-black, soulless mathematics behind “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
Remember this: When you kick God out of your life – or out of your society – what you have left is not “nothing” (let alone “freedom” or “progress”). Since we human beings exist in a moral-spiritual realm that absolutely will not permit a vacuum to exist, when we eject God, something unspeakably evil whooshes in and starts to become our god – that is, to inspire and think and act through us.
Clearly this was the case with Stephen Paddock.
Finally, let’s learn from what Nobel-prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, imprisoned in a Soviet gulag for daring to criticize that nation’s socialist paradise, said toward the end of his life:
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
EVANGELICALS CALL FOR NEW REFORMATION
With the 500th anniversary approaching of the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, setting off the Reformation, some evangelicals are strongly suggesting it’s time for another.
The calls come from a wide variety of authors, scholars and activists – many of them noting the shortcomings of what turned into a violent clash between Catholics and Protestants, the spread of anti-Semitism and much disunity within the church.
While many applaud the intent of the Reformation – with a return to the centrality of the Bible and greater emphasis on salvation by faith and personal repentance – a growing number of evangelicals, messianic Jews and those Christians returning to a more Israel-centric view of the Bible are now advocating less tradition and a greater emphasis on Scripture.
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The society “encourages further study and discussion on the Reformation doctrines and actions needed for Reformation today.” This initiative is part of the Coalition on Revival’s five-year Plan to Reform our Churches, culminating in a Reformation 500 event at Wittenberg Oct. 31, 2017, to mark the 500th anniversary.
Among them are the following:
- “Many mainline denominations have been infiltrated by secular humanists, who have gutted the churches of the biblical Gospel and produced generations of spineless evangellyfish. Many churches are filled with pseudo-saved, semi-saved, half-saved, un-saved, pew-warmers who have never been truly converted, nor have they come into any real relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.”
- “To distract and neutralise the Christian Church, false doctrines and heresies have been vigorously promoted. Passivism has been promoted and a ‘rapture fever’ obsession with end-times prophesies has greatly distracted many Christians.”
- “Antinomianism has gutted the Church of the Law of the Lord which is perfect, which converts the soul. Defeatism and escapism have neutralised many churches.”
Meanwhile, John Noe, an evangelical scholar who started the Prophecy Reformation Institute, has written a 50-page paperback booklet called “The Next Great Reformation: 96 New Theses for Reclaiming Jesus’ Everlasting Kingdom.”
“It’s been 500 years!” Noe exclaims. “Isn’t it about time we finish the job? But finishing was beyond Luther’s grasp.”
Noe says Luther only addressed one of the two great works of the Messiah – that of salvation. Noe suggests there needs to be more emphasis on a nearly forgotten aspect of the gospel.
“The Messiah’s other great work, the kingdom of God – Jesus Christ’s central teaching – wasn’t even touched,” he says. “And today Christ’s kingdom is embedded in a maze of conflict and confusion within his Church. Consequently, it’s rarely mentioned. It’s even been eliminated from the gospel. And we modern-day Christians are paying a huge price for this self-inflicted reductionism. For example, Christianity is now accused of being ‘tamed’ and non-Christians told that they have nothing to fear from we Christians.”
“The very last question Jesus’ apostles and disciples asked Him about before He ascended into heaven after spending 40 days with them in His resurrected state was: ‘Is this the time you will restore the Kingdom of Israel?’” Farah says. “That question preoccupied them. After all, it’s what all the prophets spoke about, as Peter said in Acts 3. Why don’t we speak about it today – or even think about it? We have replaced the Word of God with man’s own religious traditions, much as did the Pharisees and other religious leaders of Jesus’ time on earth.”
Farah agrees the Reformation did not go nearly far enough in getting back to solo scriptura.
Another new book by author Joe Kovacs, “Shocked by the Bible 2,” offers a Kingdom-centric look at the scriptures regarding mankind’s destiny on a redeemed earth.
Perhaps the most ambitious project to stimulate awareness of the shortcomings of the Reformation is“Let the Lion Roar,” a movie and book by Derek and Vanessa Frank.
The movie takes viewers back to 16th-century Europe after the writings of Luther and John Calvin ushered in the Reformation. It features actors Kevin Sorbo, Eric Roberts, Stephen Baldwin and John Schneider in re-enactments of the period that reveal a dark anti-Semitism that grew within the new Protestant tradition.
It also features messianic rabbi Jonathan Bernis and Hebraic roots pastor Mark Biltz with music by Grammy-nominated Jaci Velasquez and Grammy-nominated Tim Rushlow.
Farah says, despite all this activity, debate and discussion of the Reformation as it approaches its 500th anniversary, he’s surprised that this monumental historical and spiritual landmark has not yet captured the imagination of the church in America – the place where the Protestant Reformation made its biggest impact.
“With only a few weeks before the 500th anniversary, I’m a little shocked that there hasn’t been more written and talked about by now,” he says. “It’s sneaking up on us and I wonder if the opportunity to debate its achievements and shortcomings will be lost on this auspicious occasion.”
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