2008
The Obligation To Not Obey Islamic Law
Unless we want to give up our right to not obey Islamic law (or customs) then we have to exercise our freedom to oppose it. This would not be necessary if a determined group weren’t actively working to force us to obey it. I don’t have to thumb my nose at Mormons - it’s enough to say, “No, thanks.” We can disagree with absolutely no repercussions or loss of freedom on anyone’s part. But with Islam, that’s simply not possible, as the movie Fitna aptly illustrates both in its content and in the pre-emptive actions of the many people who tried to silence it before it was released. (Including Network Solutions.) In spite of it all, Fitna has finally arrived.
As part of my exercise of that right, I’m embedding Fitna and reposting why I believe we have not just the right but the obligation to flout Islamic law.
Added: If this doesn’t load, check Hot Air for the torrent link.And while the list is going to grow exponentially, here’s some other bloggers on this story: Michelle Malkin, Tel-Chai Nation, Wake Up America, Webloggin, Riehl World View, The Sundries Shack, A Blog for All, Fullosseous Flap.
Refusing To Go To The Secondary Crime Scene (3/3/08)
JT at Wizbang framed the argument perfectly back in 2006 - do we have the right to not obey Islamic law? He expounds on that concept here, detailing the worldwide movement to criminalize criticism of Islam and asks another key question.
I am not a Muslim.
I do not live in a Muslim country.
So why should I be bound by Muslim law?
Why should my non-Muslim government enforce Muslim laws on non-Muslims?
The future of western civilization hinges on our response to this movement. Not only do we have the right to not obey Islamic law, we have the obligation to not obey it - because going along to get along will only result in further oppression. I’ve used the “secondary crime scene” analogy before. You’re in a parking lot, and a criminal sticks a gun in your ribs and tells you to get in the car and drive him somewhere. The parking lot is the primary crime scene, where your kidnapping takes place. The ’somewhere’ is the secondary crime scene, where he can torture, rape, and murder you at his leisure. It’s obviously better to fight back at the primary crime scene - even if you are shot, at least it’s in public where help is more likely to be available. But fighting back at the primary crime scene often scares off an attacker - if you’re not an easy mark, he’ll probably move on to another victim. It also may get the attention of others who will help fight him off. Compliance only empowers your kidnapper.
Right now, Islamists are trying to kidnap us. If we allow ourselves to be subject to Islamic law, that is the secondary crime scene where we’ll pay the jizya and to live the life of a dhimmi. It’s where we’ll begin to cover ourselves to avoid being raped. It’s where we will not be equal under the law. Consider life in Saudi Arabia, or life in Afghanistan under the Taliban. No matter where you board it, that’s where the sharia train stops. The change is happening gradually, with increasing calls for sharia in the west. Outlawing criticism of Islam will hasten our enslavement.
By the very nature of his post, JT is confronting those who seek to kidnap our free speech and by extension, western civilization. Ezra Levant fought back at the primary crime scene and scared off his attacker. Part of the reason he was able to do so is that a lot of bystanders stepped forward and confronted Levant’s attacker until the size of the crowd intimidated the criminal. Mark Steyn is fighting now, and will probably win. The more bystanders who step up and confront the criminals in the act, the more likely it is that the criminals will leave their victims alone - and where attacks on free speech are concerned, we’re ultimately all the victims. Here, at the primary crime scene, is where we need to fight.
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March 27th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
your sentiments are fine, but your grasp of english is shaky. the correct title is: the right not to obey islamic law.
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March 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Thanks, but actually I wrote it that way deliberately. My English is pretty good (for an American
) as I spent quite a while making my living as a technical writer. I’m much more casual and careless in my blog writing, obviously.
I wrote it that way because we’re accustomed to saying “I have the right to…” free speech, bear arms, etc. I wanted to keep the same syntax to emphasize that this right is just as important as the others even though it’s expressed as a negative. It’s much more correct to say “I have the right to disregard religious mandates,” but it lacks punch, don’t you think?
March 28th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Good post.
Would anyone care to comment on my hypothesis - I have not so far placed it before anyone - that Islam (the whole of it, not just “militant” or “fundamentalist” Islam) is actually not a religion, and fourteen centuries of humans have been sold a total pig-in-a-poke by clever positioning backed up with exemplary and barbarous violence?
Oh, and this lot too was liberally laced with the promise of limitless lovely ***, both in life (with catured women and female slaves) and in death (with the prescribed 72 raisins or sultanas…..why only 72?) for the males who “bought in”?
(*** has, evolutionarily, absolutely got to be lovely for the male, or else. It’s the reward his living body gets from his genes, in return for trying to send them on their immortal way - otherwise how do you get more people?)
I think it’s a cleverly-positioned pre-capitalist survival guide for tribal groups, in a region where there was and is nothing.
Discuss……
March 28th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
You are right on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LANG LEVENDE GEERT WILDERS !!!!!!!
March 29th, 2008 at 1:20 am
I wrote the following at the Miami Hurricane site this morning in response to the call to prayer being allowed as part of Islam Awareness Week.
Geert Wilders is right about Islam. The Qur’an teaches hate and bigotry. It should not be used to instruct children or be used in prisons as a conversion tool.
Islamophobia? Who are the true Islamophobes? Network Solutions and YouTube? Those who try to silence the truth-tellers out of fear? A phobia is an irrational fear. Understanding the true motives of Islam and wanting to stop Islamization is not irrational.
Islam is the antithesis of our Bill of Rights and our Constitution. Muslims will tell you Islam means peace. What is meant by this is that all will be peaceful under Islam - if one accepts Islam. If not, those of other faiths can exist by paying the jizyah. This is what Islam teaches. Paying jizyah (tax) to Allah in order to be allowed to practice a religion other than Islam is not freedom of religion. If Islam spreads and becomes the dominant religion, how long before the right to freedom of religion is abolished to be in line with Qur’anic scripture?
Study the Qur’an and the ahadiths. A rational human being can only come to the conclusion that Islam was developed by a man who, because he thirsted for power, developed an ideology based on his deliberate perversions of Judaism and Christianity in order to create hatred for the followers of those religions. Create the hatred, then create an army to ravage and take control of the lands of the People of the Book (Jews & Christians). Islam is not just a religion. It is an ideology with political, military and religious aspects. It is a total belief system.
The Crusades were, of course, the quest to retake the lands stolen by the first Jihadists - Muhammad and his followers.
Do you realize that the Siege of Vienna took place on September 11, 1683? Why do you think September 11 was the date chosen by 19 Islamists to fly planes into our buildings? It was a message to us that Islam was again on the rise.
Interfaith groups seem a noble cause, but they only promote Islamization, because the attempt on the part of naive non-Muslims is not reciprocated with the same noble intentions on the part of Muslims. This is not to say all Muslims are gifted in the “art” of taqiyya (lying) and use it. In fact, there are many Muslims who do not even know the finer points of their faith and who have become secularized or they are indoctrinated and do not question their faith.
Muslims will tell you that you cannot understand Islam properly if you do not know Arabic. (There is some indication that Arabic was not the original language used) And, of course, if you do not understand Arabic, then you must only study with a Muslim who does. Don’t listen to them who say this. Certainly, one can listen to, read, study both sides, if one is interested in “being fair-minded.” But quite frankly, within the first several days of studying Islam, I was able to to easily see how and why Islam came to be. I was appalled by the so-called prophet of Islam and by the Qur’an, which is, as Wilders called it, fascistic in nature. Muhammad not only lived in the Spin Zone, I am quite sure that he created it. He said Allah said something, but then when that thing conflicted with something Muhammad wanted or did, he simply explained it away with a new saying from Allah to justify his behavior.
Contrast Muhammad with Jesus Christ and there is no comparison. Muhammad was a brutal warrior and Jesus was only peaceful. God bless Pope Benedict for playing the very dangerous game of chess with Muslim leaders. He is a brilliant man and I fear that priests and others who are doing interfaith work do not have the knowledge to engage in it properly. Islam in America is here to win, not to merely live side-by-side with other faiths.
CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing case regarding contributions to Hamas, claims to be nothing more than an advocacy group for Muslims, but instead, they are engaged in fake lawsuits to promote the Islamization of America. They are here to make sure our children’s text books say nothing bad about Islam. They are here to make sure footbaths are installed in public institutions and to accustom us to call to prayer. They use the excuse that we have church bells, but church bells are used for many reasons. Call to prayer only has one purpose. In various places around the globe, call to prayer goes on forever at 2 a.m. When I hear call to prayer, it reminds me of 9/11. It is a sound that does not belong in this country. It causes distress for too many.
Many former Muslims are warning us about Islam. Listen to them. Listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali; to Walid Shoebat, a former Palestinian terrorist who converted to Christianity, to Bat Ye’or, to Nonie Darwish, to Wafa Sultan, to Robert Spencer.
If not for those of us who speak of the dangers of Islam, Turkey would not be attempting revision of the ahadiths. That should tell you something - that Islam in its present form is unacceptable.
There are those Muslims in America who are attempting reform or pushing a New Age version of Sufism, but can Islam be reformed? Muslims believe the Qu’ran is the word of God handed to Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel. How does one reform what is supposedly the word of God? Muslims have begun a campaign to disassociate themselves from the Taliban, from violence, from what they call a perversion of Islam, but the Qur’an itself calls for violence. The jihadists follow the true Islam.
As the saying goes, there are moderate Muslims, but there is no moderate Islam.
If you are truly open-minded, you will seek out all opinion and treat it fairly. You will not accept the false idea that only Muslims understand Islam.
Watch Islam: What the West Needs to Know
*Ironically, the link I gave in the article for the above is no longer good.
Banned by Google. I found it on YouTube (where it was also banned), but
they haven’t found the Finnish version yet. It’s in English, but has a Finnish
title and Finnish subtitles.
I am hyperlinking only Part 1 because as long as YouTube hasn’t pulled them,
the rest (2-13) can be found in the sidebar scroll at YouTube. These have Finnish
subtitles, but are in English. The originals were pulled by YouTube.
Part 1
Parts 1-13
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