The Way It Is-Afghanistan’s sharia problem — and ours.

National Review ^ | 3-23-06

[TomasUSMC]

You reap what you sow. What is happening in Afghanistan (and in Iraq) is precisely what we bought on to when we actively participated in the drafting of constitutions which — in a manner antithetical to the development of true democracy — ignored the imperative to insulate the civil authority from the religious authority, installed Islam as the state religion, made sharia a dominant force in law, and expressly required that judges be trained in Islamic jurisprudence.

But the inescapable truth is: the United States made a calculated decision that it wasn’t worth our while to fight over Islamic law (indeed, we encouraged it as part of the political solution). People who objected (like moi) were told that we just didn’t grasp the cultural dynamic at work. I beg to differ — we understood it only too well.

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Today we ask our brave troops to suffer and die for Islam and Iran...... No more billions and NO MORE BLOOD - FOR ISLAM.

They want OUR Billions and OUR BLOOD, then do it OUR AMERICAN WAY.
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[TomasUSMC]

When we wrote the Japanese Constituion, we deliberately left out that the Emperor is god, we should have done the same thing with Sharia law

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EX ACT LEEEE!

[SJackson]

You reap what you sow. What is happening in Afghanistan (and in Iraq) is precisely what we bought on to when we actively participated in the drafting of constitutions which — in a manner antithetical to the development of true democracy — ignored the imperative to insulate the civil authority from the religious authority, installed Islam as the state religion, made sharia a dominant force in law, and expressly required that judges be trained in Islamic jurisprudence.

Include the palestinian authority in that one, their "consitution" contains the same conflict between acknowledged "freedoms", and the acknowledgement of sharia.

[SJackson]

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[JCEccles]

The article writer seems to think that because the Afghani's have democratically chosen to continue Shariah, then that makes it all right.

I don't think that it what he is saying at all.

He is a saying that US officials were wholly disengaged from reality who thought that the angels of Islam's better nature would neutralize the worst excesses of the Qu'ran if only a "democratic" constitution were adopted by the Afghani people.

Islam has no angel of better nature. Individual Muslims may be peaceable and inoffensive, but the Qu'ran and the Sharia are textbooks for murder, mayhem, and subjugation of non-Muslims. There is just no way to excise that text without fundamentally altering Islam in the process, and no believing Muslim (radical or moderate) is likely ever to vote to alter Islam in that manner.

I believe it is becoming clear that although democracy may be possible in a Muslim-dominated country, it is a dangerous and subjugating form of democracy that is alien to the west.

[TomasUSMC]

although democracy may be possible in a Muslim-dominated country, it is a dangerous and subjugating form of democracy that is alien to the west.

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Not just alien but deadly for the West.

No more billions and BLOOD for ISLAM.

[TomasUSMC]

Something else....

There are more Christians being martyred today than at any other time in history," said Glenn Penner, communications director of the Voice of the Martyrs.


Penner says the International Journal of Missionary Research estimates that from June 2005 until June 2006, about 171,000 Christians are expected to be murdered simply because of what they believe. That's up from 168,000 murders of Christians in the previous year.