What Sharia Prescribes: Same as the Ten Commandments?

I once did a serious comparative study on the God of the Jews and Christians with the god of the Muslims and the evidence is overwhelming - from their own mouths - they are not one and the same. Muslims labour under a sophisticated and complex deception whereby they themselves are duped into believing that the one they call Allah is another name for HaShem, YHVH, or Adonai or any other of the names of God. Deception, of course, as well as being part and parcel of the Islamic survival mechanism, is the hallmark of the father of lies.

Very good--there are a few points that should be stressed as well. I recall a Lebanese Christian friend several years saying that we need to realize that when Islam gains political power, the supposed "rights" of minorities cease to exist. What is meant by "peace" is unanimity of their culture (however, they attack other Islamic traditions without mercy). Traditional Islamic education consists of memorizing the Koran in Arabic, even you are not an Arabic speaker, and are dependent on your teachers as to the meaning. Even modern Arabic speakers find it difficult; it's all interpretation by the hierarchy of "scholars." Also, the practice of FGM is really an statement that Allah made an error when he created women. How dare they mutilate a child of God??

Dare I say, "amen"? We in the UK are suffering this nonsense and patriots are called Islamophobes for objecting. Tommy Robinson was abused on tv recently by Piers Morgan for this supposed offense. Morgan is a hypocrite who blows with the prevailing wind. After the Charlie Hebdo massacre he said religions must be able to take "scrutiny" and "insult" yet he now says Robinson must show "some damn respect" to the Koran! Resist I say if you care about your country.

I have rarely read such a perfect blend of mendacity and audacity in the quotes from Imam Rauf. I followed the link to his article that claims US fear of sharia law is silly. More mendacity and sleight of hand. Cute that he kicks off with:

"...Israel imposes sharia law"

Imposes? "Israel has permitted the continuation of sharia law in certain limited spheres of civil law for its Muslim citizens" would be a far more accurate description. With stress on the words "permitted", "continuation" "limited" and, especially, "civil" (as opposed to "criminal". I suppose it would be too much to expect Rauf to give Israel any brownie points for so indulging its Muslim citizens as part of her broader commitment to human rights, pluralism, tolerance, etc. And that Israel is also honouring the terms of the Balfour Declaration regarding the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish inhabitants when it was no longer obliged to after the Mandate ended in 1948.

In retrospect, Israel would have arguably done itself a great service if, in its Basic Law, it had provided that only Christians, Baha'is and Druze would continue to enjoy such magnanimity as more Muslims would have left 1949 armistice-line Israel for Jordanian and Egyptian captured territory. Or, better still, Israel should have leveraged the continuation of complete religious freedoms for Muslim Israeli citizens, quid pro quo, for Jewish access to the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, the Western Wall, synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish holy sites. And the protection of those buildings and sites from destruction by the Jordanians. Israel got no credit from anyone for behaving decently even after Jordan immediately reneged on its agreement to permit continued Jewish access to the Western Wall and allowed every synagogue in the Old City to be destroyed. Imagine the international outrage if Israel had behaved after 1967 as Jordan had after 1949?

To his meagre credit, Rauf does further on acknowledge (and de facto contradict his catchy opener) by stating "Israelis inherit [sic] it from the Ottoman Empire".

The silver lining in Rauf personally authoring that linked article is the elimination of any doubt that one might have entertained that Rauf's "Cordoba Project" of building an "Islamic community centre" (aka a mosque) on the 9/11 site was not simply the usual means of expression of the time-honoured Islamic practice of triumphalism. By time-honoured I refer to what happened to the grandest Christian cathedral in the world, the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (and the more modest Basilica of Cordoba - a coincidence of naming?) after Islamic conquest, they were turned into mosques. The pointed symbolism of Rauf's "Cordoba Project" would not have been lost on any Muslim in the world, unlike the majority of Westerners.

If anything sharia reminds me of Idi Amin's dictatorial madness in recent living memory. A great "religion" that excuses you to break any rule at any time should one wish to, if in the correct hierarchical position (never a woman). Oh, and incidentally, wasn't this despot Idi-OT Amin given shelter in a Muslim country after his mad trail of destruction in Uganda? Hmm, might be that most non-Islamic countries were suffering from the now (UN)popular i-slam-a-phobia trend.

Not long ago, a Western man described as "a discriminating man" took that description as a compliment. By a process of political correctness, the so called progressives changed the meaning of the word discriminate to a term used to denote a bigot or a racist. The logic of the progressive useful idiot is; he discriminates, therefore he must be a bad man. Well no, to discriminate against a hateful, primitive, disruptive, exploitive and violent belief system is evidence of sound and civilised judgement.

Another example of political correctness changing the meaning of words is the term "gay". Originally used to describe a happy and carefree man, today it is used by progressives, the useful idiots, to describe a homosexual man; I assume the logic for such a change being: who could argue against being happy and carefree.

The same politically correct process of changing the meaning of words is now at play with the word "Islamophobia". As the West comes to better understand the Koran and Sharia Law, anyone who is not Islamophobic must be either suicidal, mentally unwell or a Muslim. Perhaps they are all three and therein lies the difficulty Islam has with integrating into the Western civilisation. Unfortunately, the Western progressives who use the word Islamophobia are nothing more than useful infidels to the Islamic cause. It is the useful infidels, the useful idiots of the Western progressives who are the enemy of the Western civilisation.

It is such a bitter irony that it is these useful idiots of the progressive left who have most to lose under Sharia law.

ms. darwish, i pray for your safety, it is incomprehensible to me that people cast aspersions on U for telling them what is true, and give encouragement to those who hate U (and all non-muslims) and wish to kill U. the only explanation at which i have been able to arrive is that they are using mayhem caused by devout muslims as a pretext to seize permanent control of governments that they are incapable of winning in free and fair elections. they will be in for a shocking surprise when pious muslims don't roll over like the average westerner will when they attempt to seize control; i fear that the muslims, schooled longer in hatred and killing than foolish intellectual leftists, will end up killing most leftists as well. small comfort, that; many millions of innocents besides dedicated leftists will likely die as well. the blood is on the hands of the leftists this time.

Nonie, this is an excellent and brutally honest piece. I'm trying to get published in certain organs on the contradiction of being a socially liberal Western female who is seemingly disallowed from criticizing Islam along with all the other misogynistic belief systems. I would like to get a comment from you if I get the greenlight to write the article. Cheers.

SHARIAH IS EVIL!

Sharia is the essence of Islam that must be resisted at all costs by Western Countries. Any evidence of it being practiced must be prosecuted. It gives the power to the Imans and allows the bigotry, cruelty and totalitarian control of freedom that is Islam.

It is the jihad of the 'moderate' and passive Muslims who support their Mosque and the Political arm of Islam to have Sharia implemented as a parallel system of law within a democracy. Why? Because it is the basic tenet of their faith and they know no better if brought up as a Muslim.

The trouble is that as soon as Sharia is established, it grows quickly as a cancer within the democratic host until it becomes the host. The moderate Muslims who desired it are then pushed aside by those prepared to use violence to implement Allah's will as they see it.

This information needs to be more widely distributed to all American people--especially our liberal Democrat friends and ALL of our children in schools and colleges. Let the TRUTH be told. This has NOTHING to do with bigotry. Our very way of life and freedom in America is at stake.

The reason Islam has such a foothold in North America and Europe is that most people and political elite have rejected God and the truth of the Bible and therefore can't tell the difference between the real truth and the Islamic lies and deception. There will be consequences.

As for an ethical code, in Quran and Hadith there seems nothing similar to the explicitly stated Golden Rule of Judaism (Leviticus 19:18. Talmud, Shabbat 31a) and in Christianity the commandment of the Law of Yeshua to love your neighbour. Later Islam may have something about reciprocity of treatment but seems to apply internally for the Ummah, beyond which all are kafirs - and Allah hates them (and so must a true or orthodox Muslim). Am sure many present-day Muslims would accept that without some kind of reciprocity society / nations would no longer be able to exist.

The West must come to understand that Islam is not in our lands to coexist. I am perplexed by the value system of the Left which not only protects Islamists in our lands, but it encourages more Muslim immigration too. Mohammad claimed that he is the last Prophet of God. Furthermore, he claimed lineage rights going all the way back to father Abraham. Any reasonable person with an understanding of the interactions between Abraham and God would understand that God would never command his Prophet to call for the murder of Abraham's descendants. Only the Great Deceiver himself would command the murder of the people of the book! Therefore, Mohammad and his ideology are not doing the works of God.

I am a believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ so my knowledge of the Quran is limited. I have tried to understand as best I can over many years something of the Muslim faith so although I acknowledge the limited nature of my understanding I do believe that I have at least a rudimentary grasp of the teachings.

I do agree with the writer that the punishments prescribed for offences such as stealing do not conform to the teachings of either the Old or New Covenants of the Bible. To cut off a thief's hand is contrary to the meaning of the Law given by Moses which emphasizes restitution and, in the New Covenant, to this we may add reconciliation and restoration which were the underlying meaning of the Law, even under the Old Covenant. This seems to me to be a very clear difference between the Bible and the Quran. The Bible speaks to the underlying faith of both Covenants which is the goodness and love of God and the promise of the Resurrection to endless life in the Kingdom of God, in due time, for everyone ever born. The direction taken by Islam from the Quran however is towards greater violence in the outer world rather than spiritual change and renewal in the inner world of each of us.

The same error was evident in the Christian Church at the time of Mohammed and it is my belief that God raised up Islam in order to confront and judge institutional Christianity which had become, and continued to be, widely apostate. In other words, all of the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, were for the most part practised in a predominantly materialistic, physical manner even though, in the case of Christians, the Holy Spirit had been given in order to lead us into a deeper spiritual relationship with the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to become living testimonies to His love and goodness. In the case of Judaism and Islam this gift was not available so their religious practices were inevitably directed outwards into the physical realm and with Islam this led to war with the apostate Christian Church.

The Christian faith, founded upon the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, is a fulfilment of the promises of God given to the patriarchs, to Moses and the prophets, and communicated to the people of the ancient nation of Israel. In this we can see the gradual advancement of revelation and, after the Resurrection, a change in the form of the Law as a consequence of the change in the priesthood from Levi to Melchizedek, the King of Righteousness, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is my belief that Islam represents a retrograde movement in the progress of revelation of the nature of God and is in fact a step backwards into the mindset of the Old Covenant but without the promise of the coming Messianic Kingdom of God on Earth. This was the essential promise given to the ancient people of Israel by the patriarchs, by Moses and the prophets...not a promise of Paradise or Heaven after death but the actual advent of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, ruled by Messiah in His sons. This is the message, the Good News, brought to us by the Lord Jesus Christ and the Christian apostles, and confirmed and validated by His Resurrection from the dead.

This is an excellent article made by someone who was born and raised in Egypt. Indeed, both the Quran and Sharia Law violate each of the Ten Commandments. Hence both are incompatible, to say the least, with the US laws that are properly based on the Ten Commandments. No wonder there is a Fatwa on the author's head!

The ideology of Submission (Islam in Arabic) is a xenophobic, imperialistic, expansionist, supremacist, triumphalist, misogynistic, oppressive, repressive, intolerant, retrograde, colonizing, civilization-destroying, predatory metastasising cancer in the body of mankind. And that's the more positive aspects of a crippling movement masquerading as a religion.

As a Christian from the Middle East I always knew Islam was designed to be on a collision course with Christianity. Nonie gives a clear, concise and eloquent explanation as to why there will never be harmony and peaceful coexistence with people of the book and muslims. Certainly not in Muslim majority countries. Nonie's truth is waking people up. PC garbage will only perpetuate the horrors of Islam.

never saw it that way, even if i have learned quite a bit about islam. thank you, miss darwish, for the eye opener.

This article is very informative. I just watched the former US Ambassador on FOX this morning. He is involved with Gatestone and was also very interesting and informative. It is an educational positive to connect Sharia Law with what it would do in the US if it was applied like it is being done, with Sharia Courts, in the UK. I also like the articles by Professor Allan Dershowitz he is well respected.

The historical facts stated in the article make clear the utter falsehood of the Muslim claims that were enacted by the UN, and accepted by the Obama Administration. The Old and New Testaments tell of times when Rome ruled the land that is now called Israel, and the Left Bank. It was initially populated by Jews, and subsequently, by Jews and Christians. There were no Muslims, at the time, since Mohammed lived centuries later.
Muslims entered the area through a number of battles, over a number of centuries. As a result of those battles, Jews were largely, but not totally, driven from the area.

Nevertheless, the UN adopted a resolution which declared that Jews had no historical presence in the land, only Muslims. And the UN accepted that Muslims had won the land through battle. And Obama could have vetoed the resolution, which invalidates the Old and New Testaments, but he did not.

Jews, of course, have retaken the land, through battle, since the Muslim conquests. But, rather than accept that, as it did in the case of the Muslim conquests, the UN has deemed the Jewish taking of the land through battle to be illegal.

Not surprisingly, the invalidation of the Old and New Testaments has occasioned support from Liberal Americans, who have sought to eliminate all references to those Scriptures from American public life. But they have taken an entirely different approach, with respect to Islamic doctrine. They have glorified Islam, but have simply pretended that its doctrine does not exist. The top Muslim clerics preach sermons, shouting "death to the infidels", but it is considered Islamophobic by Liberals, and their Mainstream Media, to even discuss the doctrine.

In many religions and thought systems there is what is called the Golden Rule. It is often quoted in its 'negative' form i.e Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you. This form of the Golden Rule was endorsed by Hillel (Jewish), Philo of Alexandria, Isocrates the Greek Orator, the Stoics and Confucious. On the other hand Jesus gave the 'positive' ethic in this regard " Do unto others as you would have them do to you". You could avoid the negative form by cutting oneself off from everybody else - the positive form of this rule needs action towards others.

Polygamy is an action which goes against the Golden Rule in both forms. Since males and females are born in roughly the same proportions. if a man takes four wives he is depriving three other men of a wife. This is certainly not doing to others as you would have them to do you - since you want a wife. Neither is it not doing others what you would not want them to do to you. Since you would not wish someone else to deprive you of a wife.

Islam therefore fails the Golden Rule in both its forms.

And the United States is still sleeping spiritually since 1963?

The best test of an individual, nation or an ideology is the historical record. For the past 1400 years since Islamic conquerors emerged from the desert, occupied and conquered vast territories of countless peoples, invariably, the Muslim warriors imposed their ideology with zero tolerance or respect for the values, traditions and religions of the conquered. Only fools ignore past history.

Thank you for the insight. There is a lot of whitewashing of what Islam actually teaches in much of the media today.

How did we even get to the point of discussing alternatives to American law for people living in America? Jehovah Witness don't have their own law. The Mormons have a state so to speak and they don't have law contrary to the US constitution. How can any judge born and raised in America contemplate using foreign law to resolve wholly American disputes?

Why aren't writers who address the underlying issues associated with the attempts of CAIR and the Democrats' organizations, including the bevy of Soros funded non-profits engaged in trying to overthrow the US Constitution through community organizing, also known as inciting riots and all kinds of violence against law enforcement and the institutions which have developed in a Constitutional government, aware the foundational understanding of the enemy's attempted usurpation of our way of life in a Constitutional Republic lies in this discussion of the Ten Commandments?

Are they truly unaware that the Ten Commandments was given as the schoolmaster to teach the goodness of God and that, because human beings cannot perfectly keep the Law that God sent His Son to keep it for us, pay our price for breaking the Ten Commandments (His death), and provide His perfect righteousness as a transfer to any believer which became the new covenant. Good grief, all of this is the foundation of our society and all the good works seen in every corner. Not that they were done for righteousness but out of gratitude for the merciful, loving-kindness God showed us in sending His Son.

This article by Nonie Darwish should be an 'eye-opener' for anyone who cares about preserving our Western democratic freedoms, and should be sent to anyone complacent with their replacement and overthrow by evil Sharia Law.

Thank you for telling us the truth!

An excellent article, which should be linked to online everywhere a Muslim, or apologist, makes the claim that Sharia has the same morality as the Ten Commandments.

How stupid does Imam Rauf believe Americans are? I'm insulted. For Imam Rauf to claim stoning and other brutal expressions of punishment which might have origins in biblical verse, it is not the Jew and Christian carrying out those punishments in the 21st century, but locate a Muslim nation and it encoded in their law under Sharia and deemed an expression of acts performed by good Muslims. Is this the same Imam Rauf who thinks Americans do not remain offended by the location of the Ground Zero Mosque. What I would like to write about that is best not but of all the gall.

Islam is and has always been a cult of violence, destruction and totalitarian submission. This is why leftists the world over look the other way or make excuses for Islamic jihad. They too believe in totalitarianism and submission to whatever whim suits them. If the American Left's reaction to the Trump victory and their continued outrage over it, including violent protests and calls for death to the president, cannot convince US of that fact, nothing will.

You have to ask the question of our politicians in the West. "Just what is it about Islam that makes you want to embrace it"? It's something I have yet to fully understand. Because if the so, called, "religion of peace" is all it is cracked up to be, then why isn't it the same for all sects of Islam, why so much infighting and squabbling over who worships true Islam. Then we need to ask the question of why it has suddenly become trendy to accuse terrorists of not being true Muslims, not acting in their name?

As far as I am concerned, it is all propaganda. There is only one Islam, every Muslim believes and follows their "prophets" words. Even the Koran allows lies to the "unbelievers"!

Now I have heard everything. Sharia law is compatible with Western legal system? Are you kidding? So why do so many people --- especially in Europe --- get their heads cut off? As for stealing from Jews or Christians, it is a mitzva (commandment) in Islam. As far as I know, no one gets his head cut off for not observing the Ten Commandments, though they should at least try to observe them. Thank you Nonie Darwish and Gatestone.

Thank you for a very interesting and important article.