Justice Minister Mohammed Al-Eissa gave the world a chilling lesson on the blind faith that underlies the medieval Sharia system imposed by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries. Al-Eissa warned that questioning the Sharia system was akin to questioning God and “Any attack on the judiciary will be considered an attack on the Kingdom’s sovereignty.” That certainly simplifies things. Most people harbor a notion that they can criticize their legal system and call for reforms but Al-Eissa pointed out that their legal system comes from God and is therefore not subject to change on its most controversial parts. “Justice” will continue to be meted out in “Chop Chop Square” (Deera Square, right) in the name of Islam.
Al-Eissa attacked “rights organizations” like they were akin to pornographers. They certainly seemed akin to blasphemers in his mind. He explained that they misunderstand Sharia law and these “rights organizations [are] making big mistakes in their reports.” The biggest mistake is that they do not recognize that Sharia law comes from the Koran (Qu’ran) and “[t]hese punishments are based on divine religious texts and we cannot change them.”
Al-Eissa has a bachelor of arts degree in sharia law at Imam Muhammad bin Saud University.
So, it is easy. Just accept that Sharia is divine law and all of these concerns melt away. Besides he adds, if you cannot trust my religion, what can you trust? — “Islam is a religion of wisdom that calls for dialogue with other religious faiths and peaceful coexistence with other communities. If it was not a good religion, it would not have lasted for more than 1,400 years and won millions of followers around the world.”
As for flogging and executions, those are just divine judgment as unchangeable as God’s word. Besides, he noted,“Islam sympathizes with the victim, not the criminal.”
It was an interesting pivot. If you do not want to view Sharia as God’s justice, than view Islam as the ultimate “law and order” faith.
So there you have it. If you hate it, you either do not understand Islam or you are a blasphemer. Of course, if you are a blasphemer in criticizing Sharia law, then Sharia law demands your death. Problem solved.
Source:Arab News
Saucy,
What the NIE white paper shows is that folks who try to say “the intelligence was flawed” are either full of crap, lying to themselves or just repeating talking points like parrots.
“when you get into WMDs, you have to go with what Saddam wanted the world to think”
Saucy,
When you get into the topic of defrauding the country into war, you have to get into things like the National Intelligence Estimate white paper; whereby the Bush administration made the threat from Iraq seem far greater and imminent than the CIA said it was.
Karen,
The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. During the approximate 100-day period from April 7, 1994 to mid-July, an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were killed,[1] constituting as much as 20% of the country’s total population and 70% of the Tutsi then living in Rwanda. The genocide was planned by members of the core political elite known as the akazu, many of whom occupied positions at top levels of the national government. Perpetrators came from the ranks of the Rwandan army, the National Police (gendarmerie), government-backed militias including the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi, and the Hutu civilian population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
Oy, communists again, where’s my Dylan video?
The religious right is just as repulsive as the communist left.
Bob, when we get the Theocracy that the religious right are praying for, the Marines will wear crosses on their uniforms, when they invade the ME.
Annie,
Why not ask me if I think we should sign over all our Marines to the Spanish and let them re-start the Crusades?
Bob, Esq – that is just poor history. The Spanish did not start the Crusades, they just ended them.
I’m sorry; did I forget to mention that the purpose of Viking Hammer was to eliminate Ansar al-Islam?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Viking_Hammer
Bob, Esq – the Constitution contains all sorts of rights. I paid attention all the way through graduate school.
on 1, June 27, 2014 at 3:12 pmBob, Esq.
I am so sick of the right using the military as their toy f’n soldiers with their military adventurism.
I find it as sickening as someone kicking a dog.
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Oh gosh I hate it when I have to agree with you Bob. Karen was all for sending in the Marines to rescue Miriam Ibrahim. Or is that something you could sign on to?
Paul,
Did the Bush administration sound the alarm to the American people about a few cans of Drano in the possession of a terrorist group in northern Iraq?
Were Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld talking about Ansar al-Islam or Saddam Hussein?
“In the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration claimed that Ansar al-Islam had links with Saddam Hussein, attempting to establish a link between Hussein and al-Qaeda.
The Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq concluded that Saddam “was aware of Ansar al-Islam and al-Qaeda presence in northeastern Iraq, but the groups’ presence was considered a threat to the regime and the Iraqi government attempted intelligence collection operations against them. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) stated that information from senior Ansar al-Islam detainees revealed that the group viewed Saddam’s regime as apostate, and denied any relationship with it.”[11] The leader of Ansar al-Islam, Mullah Krekar, has also called Saddam Hussein his sworn enemy.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansar_al-Islam#Alleged_links_to_Saddam_Hussein
Keep lying to yourself Paul.
Correction; it makes me just as angry as seeing someone kicking a dog.
I am so sick of the right using the military as their toy f’n soldiers with their military adventurism.
I find it as sickening as someone kicking a dog.
Annie,
If you get pulled over for speeding, does it matter that five other people ahead of you didn’t get pulled over?
Are you less guilty of speeding?
A five year old should be able to grasp the concept.
Do catch up.
Gee Karen,
I had no idea the folks who sign up for the U.S. military were responsible for fighting the bad guys wherever you see them. I didn’t know they had a clause in their contracts obligating them to fight evil wherever it may exist in the world.
Silly me, I thought they signed up to defend the country.
So why didn’t you send our men and women to Rwanda?
Bob, Esq – ‘defending your country’ has a broadened definition. Same way they found a right to abortion in the Constitution.
Karen, it’s not irrelevant to bring up the actions of past Presidents, despite what Bob has to say, he’s wrong.
Karen, your buddy has been calling liberals “cultists” on these threads for weeks now, is that OK with you?
“Using that faulty intel is not “lying.”
That’s a lie; see the Senate report.
“Bill and Hillary depended on that intel, too, in their support of the war. And yet they have Teflon. They are not being punished for supporting it, too. ”
Bill and Hillary??
You sound like Annie and her irrelevant whining about Bush when discussing the IRS scandal.
“What do you honestly think we would have done right after 9/11?”
Bury the dead and punish those responsible.
Not use the incident as false pretenses for war.
Saucy:
“But immigration from south of the border (SOTB) is complicated. Many people complain about SOTB people, but when it comes time to paint their house, they only want to spend $100 and the only way to do that is with SOTB people. Some people don’t want to pay the $4000 or so it will cost to re-roof their house, so they find SOTB people to do it cheaper. Many people want cheap landscaping work and there’s only one way to do it. Not to mention the people who employ them as domestics and treat them as disposable. We as a country have taken advantage of them.” It’s the same problem with outsourcing manufacturing. People talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.
If we made illegal immigration impossible, and improved the efficiency and quality of our legal immigration policy, then this would not be an issue.
Deposing Saddam Hussein set up the dominoes that would fall one after another and destabalize the regionan. The current situation is what we end up with ME. It’s a powder keg that could kill far more people than Saddam Hussein did. It’s the rule of unintended consequences at work, poorly thought out by greedy people.
Are you saying that you wish we did not remove a serial killer who murdered 1 out of 22 people in his entire country, with a body count of around a MILLION people? Just trying to find out where people stand on human rights and those who support international terrorists who try to murder us. . .