Two years ago today, Jay Tea of Wizbang asked the question, Do we have the right to not obey Islamic law? And the answer is yes, but if we don’t exercise that right, we will surely lose it. Nothing has improved in the last two years. In fact, things may be worse. Jay Tea’s post today describes body snatching in the name of Islam. The Persecution Blog has stories of abuses like this on a regular basis.
This is a banner week for exercising the right. Five jihadists were arrested for plotting the murder of the Danish cartoonists and Michelle Malkin reminds us of Sammenhold and enjoins us to show our solidarity. I’m in. The failure to speak out against these coercive demands amounts to going to a secondary crime scene. (If you are attacked, and your attacker demands that you go with him somewhere, that somewhere is the secondary crime scene. It is the place he can torture, rape and/or murder you in privacy and at his leisure. Going with him to that secondary crime scene puts yourself further in his power, and it is always a bad idea. Once you are there, you have very little chance of escape.) When we passively go along with the demands of radical Islamists to obey their religious laws or customs, we’re accepting their power over us. We’re going to the secondary crime scene. Now, while we still have freedom, is the best time to fight back.
Britain has drifted along for years, and is just now waking up to the problem. They’re going to have a very hard time reclaiming the freedoms they used to enjoy because the momentum now is going in the other direction. And the rather naive desire to take people at their currently spoken word, ignoring centuries of history, written words, and traditions which say that deliberate deception (taqiyya) is a tactic Islamists will use to overcome us, is something we’re going to have to get over.
Because Ezra Levant refused to go to the secondary crime scene, his attacker has retreated. The probability is that Mark Steyn’s attackers will as well, because he also is digging his heels in and refusing to cooperate. Although it might seem difficult to stand up for ourselves now, it will not be easier later under the yoke of dhimmitude. We have the right to not obey Islamic law.
And if we want to keep that right, we have the obligation to not obey Islamic law.
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