In a conference held by the Salafi-led Asala Party in Matariya neighborhood in Cairo, Salafi leaders lambasted those opposing the application of Islamic Sharia as “adulterers, thieves and immoral people.”
It is a foregone conclusion that post-revolutionary Egypt will continue to have Sharia law as the basis of legislation in its next constitution, as is enshrined in Article 2 of the current constitution. Therein lies a perpetual source of instability: Sharia has something to say about every aspect of Muslim life, and there can always be more to enforce. Even Imam Rauf knows that Allah’s own law, for those who regard it as such, does not lend itself to compartmentalization. Someone will always want more Sharia and be willing to kill and topple governments for it, as the fundamental aim of jihad in all its forms is the imposition of Sharia.
In particular, any state taking on Sharia (as is currently the case with Malaysia), eventually has to confront demands for the dhimma laws to subjugate unbelievers, and the hudud laws: punishments prescribed in Islamic texts such as amputation for theft (Qur’an 5:38) and lashes (Qur’an 24:2: “let no compassion move you”) or stoning (Sahih Bukhari 8.82.816) for “adultery” (or rape without four “witnesses”).
We are assured they are not really an issue… until they are. And they inevitably are, because a system of laws attributed to divine fiat is ultimately not served up a la carte.
Obama hails Tunisia as ‘inspiration’ of Arab Spring
Another one of Hussein Obama’s success stories with no end in sight. In Europe, the detention centers are either full or burning….
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