WHAT IS SHARIAH LAW?

 

Understanding Shariah law is integral to understanding the dangers of Shariah-compliant finance. Shariah law is Islamic law dating back to the 9th century and is today the law of the land in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan and the law under which the Taliban operates. Recent polls reveal that only 10-15% of Muslims worldwide want to live under this all-encompassing system of Islamic jurisprudence that covers all aspects of a Muslim's life including religious, social, political, and military obligations. However, with a current population of 1.5 billion Muslims, this translates to a huge pool of Jihadist recruits and supporters - a base of approximately 150 - 225 million Muslims.

 

Shariah law authorities, some of whom are now being paid handsomely by Barclays, Dow Jones, Standard & Poors, HSBC, Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Deutschebank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse and others have the power to dictate Shariah compliance as deemed by "scholarly consensus" on matters of finance, family, penal law, apostasy, and war. Examples of authoritarian Shariah law include: requirement of women to obtain permission from husbands for daily freedoms; beating of disobedient woman and girls; execution of homosexuals; engagement of polygamy and forced child marriages; the testimony of four male witnesses to prove rape; honor killings of those, principally women, who have dishonored the family; death to apostate Muslims who chose to leave Islam; inferior status of non-Muslims, and capital punishment for those "slander Islam."

 

 

Somes examples of realities in Muslim countries:

 

Sweden: Asylum seeker attacked for not being a good Muslim

A man in an asylum center was attacked by his 23 year old neighbor for having alcohol in his fridge.  The two men shared a kitchen in one of the immigration service's houses in Halmstad.  One day when the victim came home from work, his neighbor broke into his room and attacked him with a knife.  "You are not a proper Muslim.  I will kill you," he threatened. The reason was that the man - also a Muslim - had some beer in the fridge.  The man fled from the apartment, and when he came back he found his room vandalized and destroyed with detergent. To the court the 23 year old declared that he wanted to clean away the evil from the room.

 

 

Saudi women appeal for legal freedoms

In Riyadh, the college day begins for female students behind a locked door that will remain that way until male guardians come to collect them. In Jeddah, a 40-year-old divorced woman cannot board a plane without the written permission of her 23-year-old son. Elsewhere, a female doctor cannot leave the house at all as her male driver fails to turn up for work. These scenes make up the daily reality for half of the Saudi Kingdom, the only country where women legally belong to men. The House of Saud, in alliance with an extremist religious establishment which enforces the most restrictive

interpretation of sharia, Islamic law, has created a legal system that treats women as minors unable to exercise authority over even trivial daily matters.

 

 

Prison For Students Who "Desecrated Islam"

An Iranian court has handed down prison sentences ranging from 22 to 30 months to students from Amir Kabir University students, who have been detained for about a year, for desecrating the sanctity of Islam. The students said that the real reason for their sentence is their participation in the students' demonstration during a visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the university, and their burning of his picture. The families of the students stated that their confessions were extracted from them under pressure and torture. Source: Rooz, Iran, April 16, 2008; Amir Kabir University students' paper, Iran.

 

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