April 22, 2005

Want to Know the Official Name of Al Qaeda?

Last night I went to a dinner for Paul Marshall, author and senior fellow at Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom. The dinner was organized and hosted by Janet Levy. Paul is the editor of books including Radical Islam’s Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari’a Law, and author of books including Islam at the Crossroads: Understanding Its Beliefs, History, and Conflicts.

Georgette Gelbard, Event Organizer Janet Levy (standing), and author Paul Marshall.
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We heard a lot of fascinating info:

• The official name of Al Qaeda is World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Crusaders and Jews. This is a not-so-subtle indication of the goals of the organization, to promote violence against Christians and Jews. Paul commented that it’s surprising that mainstream media refuses to publicize the full name of the organization.
• On Shari’a Law: in countries that permit the stoning of women, terrorism is practiced. Shari’a is a legal code based on an Islamofascist interpretation of the Koran. Under Shari’a, the judge is considered to express god’s will.
• Under Shari’a, criticism of the court or of the government is therefore punishable by death.
• Rulings of any government body are immaterial when they conflict with the rulings of the judge
• Shari’a Law therefore produces chaos and is inimical with democracy and freedom.
• Under Shari’a, a woman’s testimony is worth one-quarter of a Muslim man’s testimony in court. So if a woman is raped, it takes four Muslim female eye-witnesses to convict the rapist in a Shari’a court.
• A Jewish or Christian man’s testimony is worth one-half of a Muslim man’s testimony in court. You can imagine how hard it can be for a Jewish or Christian to win a case against a Muslim.
• In Iran under Shari’a Law, there is no penalty whatsoever for killing someone of the Baha’i faith. Baha’i citizens have no legal status.
• The genocide in Sudan and Darfur is often considered not to be a religious war, since it is a war of Muslim against Muslim. However, the goal of those carrying out the genocide is the imposition of Shari’a law. An official Jihad was declared by the attacking forces for that purpose. Therefore those wars are explicitly religious in nature.

  Paul noted that it appears that the Saudis may be providing funding to universities including Harvard, Princeton and Berkeley, in order to sway them to support its views.

  Paul discussed the strategic importance of India. It has as many people as China—over a billion. It can become a superpower in that part of the world, counterbalancing Communist China. It is the key to the Indian Ocean. It’s got something that France and other EU countries, other than England, do not have—an army. (All this Liberal talk about not having military support from EU nations is a joke, because their military forces are relatively small). And, Paul hears, the Indian army is quite good. India’s economy is growing at 6% a year. It is the official policy of the United States to help India become a great power.

  Finally, the Chinese have a lot of internal pressures to deal with. There is a strong Christian movement in China. There is also a strong capitalist movement, on the part of Chinese entrepreneurs who have seen from Hong Kong what capitalism can do, and want to be turned loose.

  In every part of the world except the Arabic nations, freedom has been increasing over the past several decades. However, in the Arabic nations, freedom has been decreasing, and Shari’a law has been expanding to more and more countries.

  That’s a lot of great info, isn’t it?

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