Top ten reasons why sharia is bad for all societies

The American Thinker
Aug 13, 2005

Traditional Muslims who understand the Quran and the hadith believe that sharia (Islamic law) expresses the highest and best goals for all societies. It is the will of [their] Allah.

But is Islam just in its laws that Muhammad himself practiced and invented?

This article says no for ten verifiable reasons.

Here are four points you must read, before reading this article:

First, sometimes these ten points quote the Quran or omit it; sometimes they quote the hadith (reports of Muhammad?s words and actions outside of the Quran) or omit it. This is done only to keep down the length of the article. No one should be fooled into believing that these harsh and excessive laws were invented in the fevered imagination of extremists who came long after Muhammad. These harsh and excessive laws come directly from the founder of Islam in his Quran and in his example in the hadith.

Second, each of these ten reasons has a back-up article (or more) that is long and well documented with quotations and references to the Quran, the hadith, and classical legal opinions. The supporting articles also examine the historical and literary context of each Quranic verse. If the readers, especially critics, wish to challenge one or all of these ten reasons, or if they simply doubt them, they should click on the supporting articles. They will see that Muhammad himself actually laid down these excessive punishments and policies.

Third, it must be pointed out that these harsh laws are not (or should not be) imposed outside of an Islamic court of law. Careful legal hurdles must be passed before the punishments are carried out. However, even in that case, it will become clear to anyone who thinks clearly that these punishments and policies are excessive by their very nature, and excess is never just, as Aristotle taught us in his Nicomachean Ethics.

Fourth, in each of the lengthy supporting article (or articles), a Biblical view on these infractions of moral law (or sometimes civil law or personal injuries) is presented. One of the reasons we all sense that these Islamic punishments are harsh and excessive is that Christianity has also filled the globe. Even if one is not a Christian or is only a nominal Christian, he or she has breathed deeply of Christianity by virtue of laws and customs or even driving by churches. New Testament Christianity, when properly understood and followed, offers humanity dignity.

?Islam? in this article stands for Muhammad, the earliest Muslims, and classical legal scholars.

Here are the top ten reasons why sharia or Islamic law is bad for all societies.

10. Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.

In 2001, Iranian officials sentenced three men to flogging not only for illicit sex (see reason no. nine), but also for drinking alcohol.

In 2005, in Nigeria a sharia court ordered that a drinker should be caned eighty strokes.

In 2005, in the Indonesian province of Aceh, fifteen men were caned in front of a mosque for gambling. This was done publicly so all could see and fear. Eleven others are scheduled to undergo the same penalty for gambling.

After going through two previous confusing stages before coming down hard on drinkers and gamblers, the Quran finally prohibits alcohol and gambling in Sura 5:90-91; they do not prescribe the punishment of flogging, but the hadith does. A poor ?criminal? was brought to Muhammad who became angry:

The Prophet felt it hard (was angry) and ordered all those who were present in the house, to beat him [the drinker dragged into Muhammad?s presence]. (Bukhari, Punishments, nos. 6774-6775)

Thus, we see no offer of help for the alcoholic when he is dragged before Muhammad and his followers. Why does Muhammad not offer rehabilitation? Why does he immediately go to corporal punishment?

Isa 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The later classical legal rulings follow the Quran and the hadith, so we do not need to examine them here.

Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him [out of his mouth], those are they that defile the man.

Mat 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Mar 3:28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

Mar 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

Rom 3:23  ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God {upon what righteousness do Islamic leaders beat others for their weaknesses?

It is sometimes argued that Islamic countries are pure, whereas the West is decadent. No one can argue with this latter claim, but are Islamic countries pure? The Supplemental Material, below, demonstrates that Islamic countries still have drinking and gambling in them.

Here is the article  that supports this tenth point and that analyzes the confusing Quranic verses on drinking and gambling. It analyzes the hadith and later legal rulings.

9. Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.

In 2004, Rania al-Baz, who had been beaten by her husband, made her ordeal public to raise awareness about violence suffered by women in the home in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi television aired a talk show that discussed this issue. Scrolling three-fourths of the way down the link, the readers can see an Islamic scholar holding up sample rods that husbands may use to hit their wives.

The Quran says:

4:34 . . . If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them [of the teaching of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them. God is most high and great. (MAS Abdel Haleem, the Qur?an, Oxford UP, 2004)

The hadith says that Muslim women in the time of Muhammad were suffering from domestic violence in the context of confusing marriage laws:

Rifa'a divorced his wife whereupon 'AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. 'Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah's Apostle came, 'Aisha said, "I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!" (Bukhari)

This hadith shows Muhammad hitting his girl-bride, Aisha, daughter of Abu Bakr: Muslim no. 2127:

?He [Muhammad] struck me [Aisha] on the chest which caused me pain.?

It is claimed that Islamic societies have fewer incidents of fornication and adultery because of strict laws or customs, for example, women wearing veils over their faces or keeping separate from men in social settings. But these results of fewer incidents of sexual ?crimes? may have unanticipated negative effects in other areas, such as the oppression of women. Generally, sharia restricts women?s social mobility and rights, the more closely sharia is followed. For example, in conservative Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive cars.  In Iran, the law oppresses women. For example, women?s testimony counts half that of men, and far more women than men are stoned to death for adultery.

Here is the supporting article for the ninth point. It has a long list of different translations of Sura 4:34, in order to resolve confusion over this verse, circulating around the web. This longer article has many links that demonstrate the oppression of women under Islamic law (scroll down to ?Further discussion?).

8. Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge?physical eye for physical eye.

In 2003, in Saudi Arabia a man had two teeth extracted under the law of retaliation.

In 2003, a court in Pakistan sentenced a man to be blinded by acid after he carried out a similar attack on his fianc?

In 2005, an Iranian court orders a man?s eye to be removed for throwing acid on another man and blinding him in both eyes.

The Quran says:

5:45 And We ordained therein for them: Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth and wounds equal for equal. But if anyone remits the retaliation by way of charity, it shall be for him an expiation. And whosoever does not judge by that which Allah has revealed, such are the Zalimun (polytheists and  wrongdoers . . .). (Hilali and Khan, The Noble Qur?an, Riyadh: Darussalam, 1996)

This passage allows for an indemnity or compensation instead of imposing the literal punishment of eye for an eye. No one should have a quarrel with this option. According to the hadith, the plaintiff also has the option to forgive, and this is legitimate, provided a judge oversees the process. The problem is the literal law of retaliation.

The hadith and later legal rulings demonstrate that this excessive option was actually carried out, as do the three modern examples linked above.

Please go here for the supporting article that cites the hadith and later legal rulings.

Islamic law calls all of humanity to march backwards 1,400 years BC and to ritre-impose the old law of retaliation?literally, and the evidence suggest that the Torah never intended the law to be carried out literally, as the supporting article demonstrates. [SEE} Stoning {The True Lord NEVER aloud 'physical' stoning {Scriptures are given - on a level that a child can understand]

Isa 55:9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Who can measure the Body of God?

Mat 5:30 If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body [made up of many members] should be cast into hell.

1Cr 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.  {the son of perdition also - is made up of many members Hbr 11:12

Psa 26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Psa 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light [teachings] that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. {It is a choice

Jhn 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Isa 55:9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. {The same goes for nations

 

7. Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off.

Warning! This short article has photos of severed hands. The reader should never lose sight of the fact that this punishment is prescribed in the Quran, the eternal word of (the muslims'} Allah. It does not exist only in the fevered imagination of a violent and sick radical regime like the Taliban, which once ruled in Afghanistan.

A Saudi cleric justifies chopping off hands here. 

The Quran says:

5:38 Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done?a deterrent from God: God is almighty and wise. 39 But if anyone repents after his wrongdoing and makes amends, God will accept his repentance: God is most forgiving and merciful. (Haleem)

If the picture [which was added to this article] is offensive? then so is the Koran:

005.033 THE PUNISHMENT of those who '''wage war''' against Allah and His Messenger IS: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet.

The Koran does '''wage war''' on the non-Muslims:

002.216 Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing [war] which is good for you and that ye love a thing [peace] which is bad for you?

009.039 Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.

Muslim groups who call themselves 'councils' - have sprung up worldwide and are relentlessly attacking free speech. {a great blessing]

It is the most brazen irony that Islam demands the west impose 'hate speech' laws - after examining the teachings of their own Koran. SEE} UK Religious Hate Law Will Harm Free Speech, Critics Say

Pro 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

At first glance, verse 39 seems to accept repentance before the thief?s hand is cut off. But the hadith states emphatically that repentance is acceptable only after mutilation. Muhammad himself says that even if his own daughter, Fatima, were to steal and then intercede that her hand should not be cut off, he would still have to cut it off (Bukhari, Punishments, no. 6788)

If the reader would like to see more hadith passages, modern defenses of this indefensible punishment (and a refutation of them), and the Biblical solution to theft, they should click on this long supporting article or this shorter one. 

The Old Testament taught:

Exd 22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double. {And if he couldn't pay - he was to work for 6 years and in the 7th year he was set free]

Exd 22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

Deu 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die  {he shall sleep the perpetual sleep - and not wake, saith the Lord. Jer 51:39 {eternal death]

Zec 5:3 This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth - shall be cut off

Bottom line:

1Th 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good.

Mar 12:30Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Mal 3:6 I am the LORD, I change not

Zec 8:17 Let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Mat 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels [NOT humans] shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

The Koran violates all of the Wisdom set forth here in those Scriptures. Raising children to understand the righteousness - but also the seriousness of the Lord - is healthy for ALL societies. The Lord teaches men to fear in the matters of taking another person's life, stealing, lying and violating holy marriage covenants.

Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Isa 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

Psa 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom

 

6. Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated.

In September 2003, Scotsman Sandy Mitchell faced crucifixion in Saudi Arabia. He was beaten and tortured until he confessed to a crime he did not commit: a bomb plot masterminded by the British embassy. The article says of this punishment that it is the worst kind of execution and that two have been carried out in the last twenty years.

In 2002 Amnesty International reports that even though Saudi Arabia ratified the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention against Torture) in October 1997, amputation is prescribed under both Hudud (punishments) and Qisas (law of retaliation). AI has recorded thirty-three amputations and nine cross-amputations where the alternate hand or foot is mutilated.

The Quran says:

5:33 Those who wage war against God and His Messenger and strive to spread corruption in the land should be punished by death, crucifixion, the amputation of an alternate hand and foot or banishment from the land: a disgrace for them in this world, and then a terrible punishment in the Hereafter, 34 unless they repent before you overpower them: in that case bear in mind that God is forgiving and merciful. (Haleem)

Islam creates cripples who are set for permanent 'physical' disgrace - in Islam {No mercy shown here

It may be difficult to accept, but the hadith says that Muhammad tortured these next people before he executed them. This scenario provides the historical context of Sura 5:33-34. The explanations in parentheses have been added by the translator:

Narrated Anas: Some people . . . came to the Prophet and embraced Islam . . . [T]hey turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the camels and took the camels away . . . The Prophet ordered that their hands and legs should be cut off and their eyes should be branded with heated pieces of iron, and that their cut hands and legs should not be cauterized, till they died. (Bukhari, Punishments, no. 6802)

Rev 19:20 The beast {kingdom Dan 7:23 was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles {writings that have the power to gather a vast army] before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image {book} 2Cr 4:4. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimston.  {which is the second death} Rev 20:14 There was a death that reigned already} Rom 5:14

They were cast out of heaven to the earth} Rev 12:9 - for accusing the holy brethren of God day and night} Rev 12:10 Now they are here on earth - accusing the apostles of Christ and the prophets before - of being liars - day and night - here on earth} Rev 12:12

037.151 Is it not that they say, from their own invention,

 

037.152 Allah has begotten children? but they are liars! {thereby, calling ALL of the apostles and prophets of God - liars - by one lone accuser

 

075.002 I swear by the accusing soul that this Scripture is true.

1Jo 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

006.101 To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: How can He have a son when He hath no consort? He created all things, and He hath full knowledge of all things.

 

003.047 She [Mary] said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!

 

Then why does 'allah' preach that God needs ''a consort'' -  to have a Son? 

 

Mat 17:5 Behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.  Mar 9:7 - Mat 3:17 - Luk 9:35 - Jhn 1:32 - 2Pe 1:17

Testimony from five eye witnesses

According to the Koran, by one lone accuser, Jesus - a Great Prophet of God - has no father:

 

Deu 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

 

Isa 55:9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

 

1Jo 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the Witness [Holy Spirit] in himself: he that believeth not God hath made Him [The Father] a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son. {Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost of which there is no forgiveness for - not in this world - nor in the one to come} Mat 12:32

 

He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!  {Isn't that right?

 

It's one person's word [who wasn't even there with Jesus] against all of the eye witnesses of Christ. What decent court wouldn't throw out such testimony from one lone accuser? especially with SO much at stake?

 

1Cr 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?  Where are the '10% collectors'? Where are the judges? Where are the lawyers?

The next hadith reports that the renegades died from bleeding to death because Muhammad refused to cauterize their amputated limbs. Then the hadith after that one reports that the renegades were not given water, so they died of thirst. They probably died of both causes: thirst and loss of blood.

See this short article for details on another example of Muhammad?s use of torture.

Islamic law says that these punishments are imposed for highway robbery, and in some cases crucifixion does not need a murder before it is imposed.

For more information on Muhammad?s brutality and the barbaric laws that flow out of it, go to the back-up article. 

5. Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed.

In February 1998, the Taliban, who once ruled in Afghanistan, ordered a stone wall to be pushed over three men convicted of sodomy. Their lives were to be spared if they survived for 30 minutes and were still alive when the stones were removed.

In its 1991 Constitution, in Articles 108-113, Iran adopted the punishment of execution for sodomy.

In April 2005, a Kuwaiti cleric says homosexuals should be thrown off a mountain or stoned to death.

On April 7, 2005, it was reported that Saudi Arabia sentenced more than 100 men to prison or flogging for ?gay conduct.?

These homosexuals were lucky. Early Islam would have executed them, as these hadith demonstrate.

Jhn 8:7 He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. {The same rule applies here

1Jo 3:15 no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Num 35:31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. - they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. Jer 51:57  So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels [not humans] shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just Mat 13:49

Mar 3:28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

Mar 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
 

Ibn Abbas, Muhammad?s cousin and highly reliable transmitter of hadith, reports the following about early Islam and Muhammad?s punishment of homosexuals: . . .

?If you find anyone doing as Lot?s people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done? (Abu Dawud no. 4447).

This hadith passage says that homosexuals should be burned alive or have wall pushed on them:

Ibn Abbas and Abu Huraira reported God?s messenger as saying, ?Accursed is he who does what Lot?s people did.? In a version . . . on the authority of Ibn Abbas it says that Ali [Muhammad?s cousin and son-in-law] had two people burned and that Abu Bakr [Muhammad?s chief companion] had a wall thrown down on them. (Mishkat, vol. 1, p. 765, Prescribed Punishments)

Though this punishment of a wall being toppled on them is extreme, the Taliban were merely following the origins of their religion.

If the reader would like to see the confusion in the Quran on the matter of homosexuality, the severity in the hadith, and excessive rulings of classical fiqh, they should see the supporting article. This longer one has links to many discussions on Islamic punishments of homosexuals (scroll down to ?Supplemental material?).

4. Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.

SEE} Stoning {The Lord NEVER aloud humans to physically stone each other. Scriptures on a level that a child can understand are given to prove that Truth.

Fornication:

In 2001, Iranian officials sentenced three men to flogging for illicit sex.

The Quran says:

24:2 The fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the believers witness their punishment. [This punishment is for unmarried persons guilty of the above crime (illegal sex), but if married persons commit it (illegal sex), the punishment is to stone them to death, according to Allah?s law]. (Hilali and Khan).

The additions in the brackets, though not original to the Arabic, have the support of the hadith. These command flogging only of unmarried fornicators: Bukhari, Punishments, nos. 6831 and 6833.

The classical legal rulings follow the Quran and the hadith closely, so we do not need to analyze them here.

According to this report, in Iran a teenage boy broke his Ramadan fast, so a judge sentenced him to be lashed with eighty-five stripes. He died from the punishment. Though his sad case does not deal with fornication, it is cited here because it shows that lashing can be fatal.

Adultery:

In December 2004, Amnesty International reports:

An Iranian woman charged with adultery faces death by stoning in the next five days after her death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court last month. Her unnamed co-defendant is at risk of imminent execution by hanging. Amnesty International members are now writing urgent appeals to the Iranian authorities, calling for the execution to be stopped.
 
She is to be buried up to her chest and stoned to death.

This gruesome hadith passage reports that a woman was buried up to her chest and stoned to death:

And when he had given command over her and she was put in a hole up to her breast, he ordered the people to stone her. Khalid b. al-Walid came forward with a stone which he threw at her head, and when the blood spurted on his face he cursed her . . . (Muslim no. 4206)

Jesus - The Only Mediator between God and men - NEVER took a life. He gave life - and condemned those who commit murder.

There is not one single New Testament Scripture where humans are aloud to be violent with each other - and yet - this world is offended with it.

Mic 6:3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against Me.  {Let the ACLU present one single New Testament Scripture that violates any 'humanitarian' law.  {They can't - but that doesn't stop them from attacking it relentlessly.

Where is that same attitude from the ACLU for the VICIOUS teachings of the Koran? {It doesn't exist

Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. The things that come out of the mouth - come from the heart

The Prophet prayed over her dead body and then buried her. Truthfully, though, how effective was the prayer when Muhammad and his community murdered her in cold blood? The rest of the hadith says that Muhammad told Khalid not to be too harsh, but the Prophet?s words drip with irony. Perhaps Muhammad meant that Khalid should not have cursed her. However, if they really did not want to be harsh, they should have forgiven her and let her go to raise her child.

Pro 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Jam 2:13 He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

 

Later Islamic legal rulings follow the Quran and the hadith closely, so we do not need to analyze them here.

Here is the back-up article that supports this fourth reason.

3. Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non-Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself.

In 1989, Iran?s Supreme Leader issued a fatwa (legal decree) to assassinate Salman Rushdie, a novelist, who wrote Satanic Verses, which includes questions about the angel Gabriel?s role in inspiring the Quran. Now the extremists in the highest levels in Iran have recently renewed  the fatwa.

In 2005, The Muslim Council of Victoria, Australia, brought a lawsuit against two pastors for holding a conference and posting articles critiquing Islam. Three Muslims attended the conference and felt offended. The two pastors have been convicted based on Australia?s vilification law. While on trial, one of them wanted to read from the Quran on domestic violence (see 9, above), but the lawyer representing the Council would not allow it. The pastors are appealing their conviction.

If Australia is imposing 'hate speech' laws - then why are these aloud???

005.051 O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors {authorities]: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them for friendship is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

009.030 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; in this they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!

033.061 They shall have a curse on them: whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy.   {Mass Murder!

These are commanded in Islam against "the unbelievers"

The Muslim groups are the ones who are SCREAMING the loudest - and yet

Z LOOK AT THOSE!!!!

 

 

What should be the punishment of the judges?  for condemning those who are warning everyone else with the truth?

 

In 2005, British Muslims have been campaigning to pass a religious hate speech law in England?s parliament. They have succeeded. Their ability to propagandize has not been curtailed. Opponents of the law say that it stifles free speech that may criticize Muhammad, the Quran, and Islam. {If the words of their god are that shameful - then the problem lies with them.

Hypocrisy does not belong to God

Isa 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Present just one New Testament Scripture where God allows humans to be violent with each other. There aren't any - and that's the difference between the God of the Bible and the god of the Koran.

The leaders of Australia are defending a BRUTAL religion - while allowing continued  attacks on the Peaceful one - not considering the sure consequences to come.

Mic 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Isa 65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword {remove His protection], and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.  [Then shall they cry unto the LORD]

Here are the classical legal rulings.

First, the Muslim deserves death for doing any of the following (Reliance of the Traveler pp. 597-98, o8.7):

(1) Reviling Allah or his Messenger; (2) being sarcastic about ?Allah?s name, His command, His interdiction, His promise, or His threat?; (3) denying any verse of the Quran or ?anything which by scholarly consensus belongs to it, or to add a verse that does not belong to it?; (4) holding that ?any of Allah?s messengers or prophets are liars, or to deny their being sent?; (5) reviling the religion of Islam; (6) being sarcastic about any ruling of the Sacred Law; (7) denying that Allah intended ?the Prophet?s message . . . to be the religion followed by the entire world.?

Rev 13:16 And he [Satan] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Amo 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Rev 12:10 the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. {that is what Muhammad does - accuses the eye witnesses of Christ of being liars - day and night - here on earth - along with 'justifying' mass murder in his own name

PROOF:

037.151 Is it not that they say, from their own invention,

 

037.152 Allah has begotten children? but they are liars!

019.089 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous! {Thereby calling all of the apostles of Christ - liars.

009.123 O ye who believe! fight '''the unbelievers''' who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you.

047.004 Therefore, when ye meet '''the Unbelievers''' in fight, smite at their necks. [Behead them!  {And this is ok with this world's leaders???]

It is no wonder that critical investigation of the truth claims of Islam can never prevail in Islamic lands when the sword of Muhammad hangs over the scholars? head.

The non-Muslims living under Islamic rule are not allowed to do the following (p. 609, o11.10(1)-(5)):

(1) Commit adultery with a Muslim woman or marry her; {and yet they are aloud to trade back and forth female captives as though they are merchandise} 033.052  (2) conceal spies of hostile forces; {the very thing that Islam does}

004.094 O ye who believe! When ye  ''''go abroad''''  in the cause of Allah, investigate carefully, and say not to any one who offers you a salutation: "Thou art none of a believer!" Therefore carefully investigate. 

008.074 Those who believe, and adopt exile, and fight for the Faith, in the cause of Allah as well as those who give them asylum and aid, - these are all in very truth the Believers. {Treason!  in all non-muslim lands]

 (3) lead a Muslim away from Islam; (4) mention something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet . . . or Islam.

According to the discretion of the caliph or his representative, the punishments for violating these rules are as follows: (1) death, (2) enslavement, (3) release without paying anything, and (4) ransoming in exchange for money. These punishments also execute free speech?even repulsive speech?and freedom of religion or conscience.

Ultimately, censorship testifies to a lack of confidence in one?s position and message. If the message of Islam were truly superior, one could trust in the power of truth. As it stands, sharia with its prescribed punishments for questioning Muhammad, the Quran, and sharia itself testifies to their weakness since sharia threatens those who dare to differ.

How confident was Muhammad (and today?s Muslims) in his message that he had to rely on violence and force to protect his message, besides reason and persuasive argumentation?

For the supporting article that analyzes the Quran and the hadith, both of which orders death to critics, click here.

2. Islam orders apostates to be killed.

In Iran an academic was condemned to death for criticizing clerical rule in Iran. The rulers assert that he was insulting Muhammad and Shi?ite laws. He was charged with apostasy.

This analysis tracks the application of apostasy laws around the world, citing many examples.

Apostates are those who leave Islam, like Salman Rushdie (see the linked article in no. three, above), whether they become atheists or convert to another religion. They are supposed to be killed according to the Quran, the hadith, and later legal rulings.

See the previous point no. three for acts that entail leaving Islam according to Islamic law.

Here are the articles that support reason no. two.

This is a short, but full article on apostasy, citing Quranic verses and hadith passages.

Sayyid Maududi, a respected Islamic scholar, in this booklet argues that Sura 9:11-12 refers to apostates and that they should be put to death (scroll down to ?The Proof in the Quran for the Commandment to Execute Apostates?).

This Muslim website has an overview of Islam on apostates. They should be given time to repent, but if they refuse, they must be killed.

Mat 10:28 Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

1Jo 3:15 no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

And the number one reason why sharia is bad for all societies . . .

1. Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad.

Muhammad is foundational to Islam, and he set the genetic code for Islam, waging war. In the ten years that he lived in Medina from his Hijrah (Emigration) from Mecca in AD 622 to his death of a fever in AD 632, he either sent out or went out on seventy-four raids, expeditions, or full-scale wars. They range from small assassination hit squads to kill anyone who insulted him, to the Tabuk Crusades in late AD 630 against the Byzantine Christians. He had heard a rumor that an army was mobilizing to invade Arabia, but the rumor was false, so his 30,000 jihadists returned home, but not before imposing a jizya tax on northern Christians and Jews.

Money flowed into the Islamic treasury. So why would Muhammad get a revelation to dry up this money flow?

What are some of the legalized rules of jihad found in the Quran, hadith, and classical legal opinions?

(1) Women and children are enslaved. They can either be sold, or the Muslims may ?marry? the women {or exchange them back and forth} 033.052, since their marriages are automatically annulled upon their capture. {serious adultery - in the eyes of God} Gen 20:3] (2) Jihadists may have sex with slave women 033.052.  Ali, Muhammad?s cousin and son-in-law, did this. (3) Women and children must not be killed during war, unless this happens in a nighttime raid when visibility was low. (4) Old men and monks could be killed. (5) A captured enemy of war could be killed, enslaved, ransomed for money or an exchange, freely released, or beaten. One time Muhammad even tortured a citizen of the city of Khaybar in order to extract information about where the wealth of the city was hidden.

1Ti 6:10 The love of money is the root of all evil

Mar 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Zec 5:3 Every one that stealeth - shall be cut off

(6) Enemy men who converted could keep their property and small children.

This law is so excessive that it amounts to forced conversion. Only the strongest of the strong could resist this coercion and remain a non-Muslim. (7) Civilian property may be confiscated. (8) Civilian homes may be destroyed. (9) Civilian fruit trees may be destroyed. (10) Pagan Arabs had to convert or die. This does not allow for the freedom of religion or conscience. (11) People of the Book (Jews and Christians) had three options (Sura 9:29): fight and die; convert and pay a forced ?charity? or zakat tax; or keep their Biblical faith and pay a jizya or poll tax. {Not the Christians! Without the Son of God - there are no Christians] The last two options mean that money flows into the Islamic treasury, so why would Muhammad receive a revelation to dry up this money flow?

Thus, jihad is aggressive, coercive, and excessive, and Allah never revealed to Muhammad to stop these practices. {No where in the Koran does it claim that those laws were ONLY for Muhammad's times. Muslims who make such claims - are committing a grave sin according to their own allah} 002.079 002.078

For an analysis of the Christian Crusades and the Islamic Crusades, click here. 

For the supporting article of reason no. one, please go here.  It also has a segment on the differences between jihad in Islam and the wars in the Old Testament. Another article on that topic can be read here.   There are vast differences between Islam and Judaism on this topic.

Much of the Old Testament is about wars between the angels - which are also called 'men' and 'people'} Rev 12:12

2Ki 4-18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.  the reapers are the angels. Mat 13:39

Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels

Isa 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Jhn 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Mat 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels [Not humans] shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

Therefore, Islam is violent?unjustly and aggressively.

Conclusion

The nightmare must end. Sharia oppresses the citizens of Islamic countries. Islam must reform, but the legal hierarchy in Islamic nations will not do this because the judges and legal scholars understand the cost: many passages in the Quran and the hadith must be rejected, and this they cannot do. After all, the Quran came down directly from Allah through Gabriel, so says traditional theology. So how can Islam reform? But reform it must. It can start by rewriting classical fiqh (interpretations of law). Again, though, that would mean leaving behind the Quran and Muhammad?s example. How can the legal hierarchy in Islamic nations do this?

They can't. The Koran does not let them:

002.078 And there are among them illiterates, who know not the Book, but see therein their own desires, and they do nothing but conjecture.

002.079 Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: "This is from Allah," to traffic with it for miserable price!- Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.

Without the Koran - that leaves all of Islam without a prophet - a prophet that has denied the letters of the eye witness of Christ - and the prophecies about Christ - given by the Prophets of God. {So many witnesses - all accused by one lone and BRUTAL author - of being liars]

But those who do believe in God - know that the Word of God can not be touched.

The True God is not the author of confusion. {But men do reject the Words of God - because they twist them unto their own destruction. The wolves dressed in sheep's clothing have carried out their deed - of turning people away from Truths that they themselves deny - because the Truths destroy the very 'houses' that they have built for themselves.

If they change the words - then it is not from God/god and the 'faith' is vain.

Though the difference between the Bible and the Koran is vast:

The Bible has MANY witnesses - while the Koran only has one.

Deu 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of My mouth.

 

Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet [Jesus] from among their brethren, like unto thee, [Moses] and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 

 

Deu 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

Deu 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

Deu 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

 

The Koran forgot to mention Palestine.

The Lord of the Bible did not} Joe 3:4 Exd 15:14 Isa 14:31 Exd 15:14

Deu 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

If SO GREAT a Prophecy is not enough to prove the Word of God with men - then nothing will - with them.

Nevertheless...

Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Psa 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Zep 2:3 Seek ye the LORD [out of the Book of the Lord} Isa 34:16, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

In contrast, the West has undergone the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason (c. 1600-1800+), {The New Testament was translated directly from the letters of the apostles. Neither does the Old Testament justify violence between humans] so western law has been injected with a heavy dose of reason. Also, the New Testament tempers excessive punishments. At least when Christianity reformed (c. 1400-1600), the reformers went back to the New Testament, which preaches peace and love. So religion and reason in the West permit justice to be found more readily?the Medieval Church is not foundational to Christianity; only Jesus and the New Testament are. The Vatican calls it's leaders - 'Fathers' Pope is the Italian word for 'Papa'

Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. {What part of that do they not understand?

1Cr 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Hbr 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hbr 1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

Hbr 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? {The angels are the ministers. God speaks to the heavens AND the earth:

1Th 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord

Isa 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.

2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.

Luk 17:23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

Had they known Him - they would have known this:

Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. {ALL who are in the body of Christ]

1Jo 2:27 But the anointing [The Word of God] which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you.

Jhn 14:26 But the Comforter {'another' One} Jhn 14:16 ], which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

1Th 5:12 We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.

Isa 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail

And the Truth shall set you free

 

Introduction