Thursday November 11, 2010
NewsBytes – Islam
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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac
Note: The video debate at the end of this section, between Robert Spencer and Dr. Peter Kreeft is recommended. It is long, almost 2 hours, but considering the current rapid advance of militant Islamism in the world today, it would be well worth taking the time to consider the arguments presented in the video. Whether we like it or not, the growing influence and power of Islam is a certainty that must be faced.
Judge blocks Okla. amendment barring use of Islamic law
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking a state constitutional amendment that would prohibit Oklahoma courts from considering international or Islamic law when deciding cases.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=1227818
Ex-CIA Director Defends Okla. Ban on Judges Making Decisions Based on Shariah Law
Woolsey, a member of a group of policy experts dedicated to exposing the dangers of Shariah and a champion of the Oklahoma measure, told CNSNews.com the Islamic system of laws represents a danger to the United States. Woolsey told CNSNews.com that there have already been troubling court decisions in Europe, as well as one in New Jersey, in which courts have upheld violence against women as legal because the defendants adhered to Islamic law.https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ex-cia-director-defends-okla-voter-appro
Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel in class and pray to Allah
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RealClearReligion+%28Real+Clear+Religion%29
De Facto Shariah Law in America
When it comes to religious expression, Muslims now enjoy more freedom of religion and speech under our Bill of Rights than non-Muslims. Equal protection under the laws of our country holds for Muslims far better than for non-Muslims.
We are witnessing a transformation of American society in which Islam enjoys a privileged place among the country’s religions. The sensitivities of the country’s 3 to 5 million Muslims are considered above those of non-Muslims.
claims of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bias are rampant.
https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/de_facto_shariah_law_in_americ.html
Obama to Visit Mosque Where Crowd Cheered Ahmadinejad
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/obama-visit-mosque-where-crowd-cheered-a
Beware the Camel’s Nose
Islamic Jihad (which President Obama refused to define let alone condemn when asked about it in Mumbai recently) dictates that if an infidel refuses to convert to what jihadists perceive as the “one and only true religion,” then killing them is a virtue. This is part of the strict Islamic interpretation of the Shariah. And it is this Shariah law that many Muslim jihadists in Europe and the United States want to see as part and parcel of court proceedings in the West.
Simply put, it is the camel’s nose under the tent (which is also a mode of Shariah interpretation). First, it is allowing the Shariah to be applied by judges when they are ruling in Muslim cases. This ultimately will lead to full-blown acceptance, or should I say imposition, of Shariah law upon ALL Western citizens.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1229720
Death sentence for Pakistani Christian Mother who refused to convert to Islam
A Pakistani Christian mother has been sentenced to death for blaspheming the prophet Mohammed after she refused to convert to Islam. . . .
https://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=2390
In message to Ahmadinejad, Pope pushes for religious freedom
In a message to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Pope Benedict XVI says that man’s relationship with God “is the ultimate foundation for the inalienable dignity and sacred character of every human life.”
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8247
Muslim-Catholic dialogue: priest rues anti-Muslim discrimination in US
https://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2010/10-202.shtml
Kreeft and Spencer debate: “Is the Only Good Muslim a Bad Muslim?”
Mr. Spencer came to argue that Islam as codified in the Q’uran and explicated by all authoritative sources aspires to subjugate and oppress “unbelievers” and impose sharia law throughout the world; because sharia law is inimical to religious freedom and to human dignity, we as Catholics should hope that Muslims are not devout enough to advocate it, (as their own faith says they must) by either warlike or peaceful means.
Dr. Kreeft came to offer his own perspective on the religion of Islam. In his latest book, Between Allah and Jesus, Prof. Kreeft uses the figure of ‘Isa, a devout Muslim studying at Boston College, to highlight the commonalities Kreeft sees between Islamic and Catholic piety, and point up all that we can learn from truly devout adherents of Islam-set in stark contrast to the post-modern, dissenting Catholicism widely accepted at secularized Catholic colleges.
https://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2010/11/kreeft-and-spencer-debate-is-the-only-good-muslim-a-bad-muslim.html
See also past LSN postings on this issue:
When Islam Abandoned Reason: A Conversation with Robert R. Reilly
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/aug/10081608.html
Militant Islam Versus the West
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/aug/10082401.html
Have More Children and Go Back to Church or Europe Will Become Islamicized: Senior Vatican Official
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10092206.html
Christian Missionaries Arrested at Michigan Arab Festival
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jul/10071407.html
NewsBytes – Religion – Islam
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/nov/10110804.html
LifeSiteNews News Briefs – Islamisn
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10092002.html
NewsBytes – Religion – Islam
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/nov/10110804.htm
Opinion: What’s the difference? Media, The Koran Burning, and the Pope’s U.K. Visit
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10092101.html