By Daniel Greenfield Thursday, February 7,
2008
Polls show that 40 percent of British Muslims want Sharia, Islamic Law implemented in the
Tony Blair’s government passed a law that would essentially
criminalize blaspheming Islam. The law was weakened in the House of Lords but
it will return again stronger than ever especially as the electoral and terror
power of Muslims grow along with the desire of Western governments to appease
them.
Despite the faith of Americans in their own
immunity thanks to the Constitution, the legal framework for it is already in
place. Hate Crime laws allow for actions that are not in and of themselves
criminal to be treated as criminal actions. Increasingly such laws also define
a hate crime not based on the motive or action of the accused perpetrator but
on the perception of the presumed victim. Beyond the legal statues, perceived
intolerance is penalized in numerous ways economically and socially.
Despite the fact that Americans have stronger
freedom of speech protection than Europeans, fewer American than European
newspapers printed the Mohamed cartoons. A handful by
comparison.
For all intents and purposes, from our
government to our media to our public entertainment and educational system; the
first law of Islam has been implemented. The First Law of Islam is Thou Shalt
Not Criticize Islam. The laws beyond that will follow. Since this special
status of Islam leaves all other religions
unprotected, Islam already has a superior status to other religions while other
religions have an inferior status to Islam. With the first law in place, we are
already living as Dhimmis.
Islam may be propagandized in schools while Judaism
or Christianity may not. Muslims may pray in schools, members of other
religions may not. Muslim holy books are treated as holy, while the holy books
of other religions are treated as myth. The violence of other religions is
condemned, while the violence of Islam is covered up. This leads us to Islam’s
second law, Islam Is Superior To All Other Beliefs. By
giving exclusive status to Islam, we have already implemented this as well.
By
giving in to Islamic rage, we have already set the pattern of functioning as Dhimmis, of responding to Muslim tantrums with appeasement.
The pattern continues from there with Muslims in public life enforcing their
religious laws on everyone else.
Muslim taxi drivers are already doing this by refusing to carry passengers who
carry alcohol, seeing eye dogs for the blind and
Muslim cashiers are refusing to handle pork.
There
are Islamic laws that place restrictions on women. These won’t require
government authority to legislate. Muslims simply implement them by making clear
what happens to women who don’t. In parts of the world that has meant throwing
acid into the faces of schoolgirls who don’t wear the Hijab
as in Indonesia, preventing women from entering public areas if they are not
dressed ‘modestly’ as is widespread in African countries where Islam is on the
rise, treating any woman not dressed in the Islamic manner as a legitimate rape
target as in Europe.
Sharia Law doesn’t need to function officially as long as
Muslims have the leverage to implement it by force on an individual level.
Through sensitivity training and religious protection laws, Muslims are forcing
schools to allow Hijabs and Sex Separation as their
requirements for women and through violence and harassment will force women to
follow those requirements. At Nigerian protests a female Muslim reporter was
stoned for not wearing the Hijab head covering, a
head covering that was itself developed during the Lebanese conflict and
modeled on the wimples of Catholic nuns to enable Arab Muslim fighters to
distinguish between Christian and Shiite women as legitimate targets for
assault. Harrassment by Muslims of Jewish
students is already prevalent on campuses while the administration looks the
other way. The same feminists who hold Take Back The Night Rallies along with
solidarity rallies for Palestine will discover themselves the targets soon
enough, as women increasingly face harassment from Muslim bosses, clients and
customers for not complying while the various offices of civil and human rights
naturally look the other way.
The only major step Muslims have yet to
achieve is to force disputes between Muslims and Non-Muslims to be mediated in
Muslim courts. This will begin as part of workplace sensitivity regulations for
Muslims requiring disputes with the company to be arbitrated in a Muslim forum
and some disputes between civil authorities and Muslim workers as well. The
media and government broadcasting and rebroadcasting
with the propaganda that Islam is a Religion of Peace will have nothing but
praise for them. CAIR and similar groups will run puff pieces on how these
arbitration mechanisms function much more peacefully than civil courts and save
everyone money.
Then there will be Muslim unions that will
strike not over job issues but over political ones. Support for
The hour is much later than we think.