World media
exploded on
14 Sept 2008with the
news of “UK’s
first official sharia courts”. It revealed that UK-government “quietly
sanctioned” rulings of sharia courts binding on clients with no right of
appeal in UK-courts. Later the government announced that it was a law of
1850 – (kind of) amended in 1996. The
UK
is not alone; “Islamization” of the West is one of the most important
socio-political dynamics of present world. The issue is complicated,
deep and multi-dimensional.
These Sharia-Gurusare
self-appointed brokers of God who have no place in Islam. They
legitimize violence by divinity and mortgage world-Muslims to
psychological imperialism of oil-Sheikhs. They destroy human lives
through on-line Sharia-courts, they sit in West’s state-machines and
they are not idle. They control thousands of Islamic organizations and
mosques; they breed home-grown piranhas out of innocent youths. Then
there are non-Muslims Sharia-Gurus such as John Esposito, Dalia Mogahed
and Noah Feldman. Their flawed and misleading products on Sharia Law are
highly frustrating. State-Gurus such as OIC including KSA,
Pakistan
and
Egypt
are champions of violators of human rights but sit in the HR Commission
of the UN.
Establishing Sharia-based
global Islamic State is their God’s command. For early Muslims, Plan A
was military victory that ended with their defeat in
France
in 732 AD. Plan A failed permanently and now that conquering Muslim
majority countries is almost complete, Plan B emerged to incorporate
Sharia law in Western countries to turn those into Islamic states, at
least partially. It worked well.
But the West has not
lost; it is only passing through a phase. True that it is experiencing a
deadly Trojan horse, but the West is more than laws. Given that nothing
is perfect, the West has tremendous strength in terms of science,
technology, knowledge, morality and human rights, all protected by the
enormous umbrella of freedom – freedom of thought and expression,
freedom to research everything including divinity, freedom to disagree
and dispute, freedom to change or leave religion and freedom to offend.
This is diametrically opposite to the spirit offshore Law.
Conspiracy and violence are its driving forces. The Sharia-Gurus
acquired stunning expertise of taking advantage of the Western system to
destroy the Western system. Their expertise of using the Western system
to silence their opponents including Human Right activists and non-Sharia
Muslims like us, is telling. They succeeded in obtaining support of some
religious, political and social organizations and leaders who trust the
word “God’s Law” -- but have no clue of its content, spirit and
devastating impact. They created a massive network of “Islamic”
organizations, pressure-groups, lobby-groups, charity, civil-rights,
human-rights, women-rights, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV-shows,
conferences, seminars, gatherings, sermons and partial social culture of
observing Sharia law. The West is yet to match this Tsunami. It needs to
find a legal way to stop this invasion. Their support of Petro-Dollars
cannot be stopped by enacting laws. They avoid discussion anddebate with
progressive Muslims who can expose their conspiracy. On the otherhand,
“Dialogue with Jews-Christians” is their successful tactic to buy time.
They succeeded in exploiting the West’s Multiculturalism as protection.
Their birth rate is higher than Westerners and may have some potential
impact. West is yet to develop a system to control local Sharia-supporting
Muslims and their immigration. Most importantly, they succeeded in
terrorizing their opponents. People, media, organizations -- even
governments -- were either punished or had to back off because of
Islamists' pressure. A Google-search of “Sharia in West” gives 1.8
million items of their story.
It can be stopped.
Scholars have already identified its strengths and weakness and
socio-political forces are working on it. But Political Islam has an
unprecedented expertise of metamorphosis and patience. Someone correctly
termed it as Dracula. Wherever it went it not only swallowed the nations
but also engaged the nation’s resources to multiply itself. European
secular force recently began to strike back – the result is still
uncertain. It all will depend on
(1) politicians who run the
State-machine and organizations and are historically known to be
corrupt. UK Tory party already declared that they will abolish Sharia
courts if they are elected – it must be supported with full force.
(2) Organizations such as the
UN wherehate-preachers and violators of Human Rights (Egypt,
Pakistan et el) got a stronghold.
(3) Strategy of secular
forces.
(4) Strategy of non-Political
Muslims and
(5)resources of the forces
against sharia law. The Muslim Democrats seem not to have the vision of
the struggle – they already invited Salman Rushdi in their upcoming
conference. They must realize that support of common Muslims is the key
of defeating Sharia law. Their good effort must not be diluted by
addition of Salman Rushdi or IHEU.
Let other forces exert
pressure from their respective platform separately and collectively,
leaving secular Muslim aside. A secular Muslim does not believe that
Sharia Law is divine.
The most crucial
element of this war is exposing the fraud of the institution of Sharia
Law to Islam. We need to detach the common good Muslim-mass from Sharia
Law. We have enormous resource to do this. This is what Islamists are
afraid of and cannot survive.
Europe
must keep the movement of non-political Muslims separate from other
parallel movements; otherwise they will mark the water by screaming that
it is a conspiracy of non-Muslims against Islam and the gullible Muslim
mass will swallow it.
Europe
must show the world that a peaceful interpretation of Islam always
existed and that majority Muslims still follow it. There is no eternal
state-law, no women-oppression, no Islamic State, no intimidation, no
hate-preaching and no conspiracy in it. Best of all, it is much more
compliant to Islam.
We
need to put it to work. It is a proven strategy. My book, Sharia-movie
and Sharia-drama is doing well back home. To watch my Sharia Docu-Drama
clickhere.
Canadian Sharia
court was their pinnacle of success in West. Functioning since 1991, its
leaders were trying in other countries for similar success. What nobody
could imagine was that
the explosive resistance to the
Canadian Sharia Court
(1991-2006) would come from none other than Canadian Muslims. Muslim
Canadian Congress (MCC), the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
along with the International Campaign Against Canadian Sharia Court, a
group of highly charged Iranian women, conducted and won this extremely
important but unsung socio-cultural battle of recent history. European
secular Muslim organizations are now in close touch with MCC for advice
and strategy.
Lest we forget
for thousands of years theocracy got the chance of proving its worth in
running state-machine but failed due to its inherent weakness. Secular
democracy came up as an alternative but its stalwarts back-stabbed by
creating religion-based States Israel and
Pakistan.
Recently secular democracy suffered another serious setback when its
leaders perpetrated genocides in other countries. These are the factors
that sowed the seed of forceful return of religion in politics.
Continuous failure of secular governments in Muslim-majority countries
opened the door of Sharia-governance as alternative, backed by flow of
Petrodollars. Decades-long struggle of “Islamic”
Pakistan
gave birth of the concept and effort of creating Hindu-Raj. Effort of
incorporating Sharia Law is in West has similar effect.
Future is
still uncertain. It will depend on many complex variables – but we must
keep fighting in all are as and ask them the magic question – “Show your
laws”.
Hasan
Mahmud, Director - Sharia Law Muslim Canadian Congress and author of Several
books on Sharia. He can be reached at
fatemolla@hotmail.com
