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Reid Smith seeks to enlighten us on the question of Sharia law. But curiously he omits one of the central tenets of Sharia law - that the word of a woman is half that of a man.
Yet Smith is correct to say that we might be surprised by the number of countries which use Sharia law. Which brings me to the United Kingdom. As of 2010, there were just under 2.9 million Muslims in the U.K. comprising 4.6% of that country’s population. In less than a decade, Britain’s Muslim population has increased by nearly 75%.
Thus it should not come as a surprise that there are a network of Sharia courts in Britain and their rulings are legally binding. According to a study released in 2009 by Civitas, a British think tank, there are 85 Sharia courts in the UK. Some of these Sharia courts have issued rulings which are incompatible with British and European law including rulings forbidding marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims, ordering the removal of children from the custody of Muslim women who marry non-Muslim men, compelling women to have sex with their husbands and sanctioning polygamy. This past June, Baroness Cox introduced legislation in the House of Lords to rein in the Sharia courts requiring them to uphold the supremacy of British law. However, even if the bill is approved in the House of Lords it is not expected that the Cameron government will make it a priority in the House of Commons.
And lest anyone believe that women are afforded the same status as men in Sharia courts in the UK then consider the opinion of the London based Islamic Sharia council (H/T to legalpigeon):
The text (Surah Al-Baqara 2:282) which requires two female witnesses in place of one male witness, gives a clear reason for i.e. “if one of them forgets, the other reminds her.” Is this derogatory to the status of women or is it a revealed secret about the nature of the women? Though much has been said about the difference between a man’s brain and that of a woman but I would rather like to quote the latest research made about the issue. According to a survey, as published in Los Angeles Times (U.S.A.), made involving fifty men and women for quite a considerable time, the out come was as follows:
Man’s mind is uni-focal while the women’s mind is multi-focal. In other words, a man would be fully occupied with the task he is involved with; he may not be distracted by anything else while being engaged in his activity. On the other hand, a woman may be busy in kitchen work and she will be easily alert to a phone buzzer or her infants cry from the cradle. In a way she is found to be more sensitive and active in her dealings. Thus she has got a praise worthy character but that is not so good for a case of testimony which requires more attention and concentration. What is wrong then, if a second woman is needed, only to remind her is she fails to deliver her testimony completely. So it is a case of verification of the testimony, not that of degradation to the status of women at all.
I mean when Larry Summers spoke about the innate differences between men and women (an assessment with which he did not personally agree) he was forced to resign as President of Harvard University because of it. Yet it is part of the intellectual underpinnings of Sharia law and any lesson in Sharia 101 would incomplete without imparting that information.
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pp999| 10.27.11 @ 12:13PM
Sharia law overrates women, IMO.
Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 2:07PM
pp999: There has only been one human being in the history of the world to win two unshared Nobels, and she was a woman.
pp999| 10.27.11 @ 2:36PM
Hilary Clinton?
Bob K.| 10.28.11 @ 9:23AM
Tell that to the women at Harvard who got rid of Larry Summers!
pp999| 10.27.11 @ 1:03PM
If you're having girl problems I feel bad for you jew, I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't 1/4 of two.
GeronL | 10.27.11 @ 1:34PM
Can Conservatives have their own courts too? Can we have half the country following Conservative Law instead of the governments law?
BelmontShore| 10.27.11 @ 1:40PM
I agree with pp999. He sounds like good people.
Omar| 10.28.11 @ 10:01AM
lol!
Kingofthenet| 10.27.11 @ 1:48PM
Behead those who say Islam is Violent!
http://billyboy2005.webbywareh.....ead.jpg?53
Occam's Tool| 10.27.11 @ 2:05PM
Well, all the children have commented....
Currently Catholic University is being sued because its Muslim student group is offended by the giant basilica that towers over everything on campus.
I am uniquely privileged to speak on this subject as a Jewish graduate of Texas Christian.
To my Islamic "fiends": get over yourselves! You're going to Catholic University, not State University. I didn't pull a stunt like that at TCU, and I was the HEW poster boy---a Jew with their highest academic scholarship.
But the difference is, Jews don't proselytize (although we do accept converts except Clint and Jack), and we are decent to members of other faiths when we are in control.
Sharia is evil, and needs to be fought.
Dixie Pixie| 10.27.11 @ 5:14PM
O..T..You are Jewish?!?!
But you write like a Episcopalian.
LOL...With you O..T.. because it does not matter if the logic is sound and the facts are true.
Keep up the good fight because I like reading your work on TAS Online.
KennesawJack| 10.27.11 @ 7:52PM
Hope you weren't referring to me. You're correct, Sharia is evil. What confounds me is the ease with which the left dismisses concerns about its practice.
pp999| 10.27.11 @ 2:34PM
Wait, you think Israel has been "decent" to Palestinians? I guess Hitler was decent to the Jews then.
Skippy| 10.27.11 @ 5:29PM
I'd be happy to be "decent" to you.
dc| 10.27.11 @ 4:52PM
I read scat from folks like pp999 and I thank God (not Allah) for the 2d Amendment. Because when (not if) the pp999s and the Praetorian guard of this violently corrupt administration foment their long-desired fascist revolution in this country, there are a lot of armed Americans they'll have to kill first. And that won't be easy.
A few questions to leave for Faux-Sultan pp999:
--how many Jews are part of the PLO?
--how many Arabs are part of the Israeli parliament?
--which Arab nations have allowed "Palestinians" to immigrate freely into their country(ies)?
--how many concentration/extermination camps has the Israeli government set up for "Palestinians" within Israel?
By the way, I'm not Jewish and don't particularly like or dislike Jews. But what I really hate are totalitarian assmonkeys who spit on the Judeo-Christian traditions that built this country. As noted above, you're going to have to mobilize one hell of an army to do so.
pp999| 10.27.11 @ 5:30PM
they shouldn't have to go anywhere. They've been there for generations and their houses and business are regularly bulldozed and stolen. And Israel has cut off food/water supplies and control their lives. The entire wb is a death camp in most ways. Would you want to live like that?
Omar| 10.28.11 @ 9:56AM
"The entire wb is a death camp in most ways. "
. . . . A "special" kind of death camp with a really high fertility rate.
pp999| 10.27.11 @ 5:32PM
and on top of that I could disarm and kill you within seconds. No problem.