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Ten Key Points on Islamic Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims
andrewbostom.org ^ | 13MAR12 | Andrew Bostom

Posted on 03/15/2013 9:28:58 AM PDT by bayouranger

There is an intensifying global campaign to impose Islamic blasphemy law on non-Muslims, including those living outside Islamdom, in non-Muslim societies.

What follows are ten key points on the doctrinal origins and practical implications of this global campaign:

1) According to the Sunna (the traditions of Muhammad and the early Muslim community), by using foul language against the Muslim prophet Muhammad, Allah, or Islam, the non-Muslim transgressors put themselves on a war footing against Muslims, and their lives became licit (such as the poet Kaab b. al-Ashraf, who composed poems denigrating Muhammad, and was assassinated). [see 1.1, 1.2, 1.3]

2) This “offense” was then constructed and legitimated by Muslim jurists when Islam was politically, militarily and economically dominant, so that it was expected that the non-Muslims under Islamic rule would not denigrate the religion of Islam, nor cast aspersions on its major figures or institutions. [see 2.1, 2.2, 2.3]

3) The jurists saw any such denigration as an unacceptable hostile act, punishable by death, automatically, as per three of the main Sunni schools of Islamic Law (Maliki, Shafii, Hanbali), and the major Shiite schools. According to the fourth major school of Sunni Islamic law, the Hanafi, the punishment of a non-Muslim guilty of blasphemy is left to the discretion of a Muslim judge. The death penalty was in fact most often applied by the Hanafis. (see 3.1, 3.2)

4) On February 19, 1989, Iranian theocrat Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa condemning author Salman Rushdie to death (along with those involved in the publication of Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses), while promising eternal salvation to any Muslim “martyred” in this cause. As noted by Muhammad Hashim Kamali, who, since 1985, has taught Sharia and jurisprudence, as a professor of law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia, in his authoritative Freedom of Expression in Islam: “…no serious Muslim commentator has challenged the basic validity of the Ayatollah’s fatwa. Adjudication was generally viewed to be necessary if only to find out if Rushdie was willing to repent.” The fatwa wrought targeted murders in Europe and Japan, and a mass killing in Turkey.

5) This orthodox Islamic doctrine—incorporated, for example, into the “modern” Pakistani legal code (295C: “Use of derogatory remarks, etc; in respect of the Holy Prophet. Whoever by words, either spoken or written or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.”) has wreaked havoc, in our era, particularly among Pakistan’s small Christian minority community.

6) “Rising Restrictions on Religion,” a report by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life issued August 9, 2011 found that application of the Sharia at present resulted in a disproportionate number of Muslim countries, twenty-one—registering the highest (i.e., worst) persecution scores on their scale. Furthermore, the Pew investigators observed, “Eight-in-ten countries in the Middle East-North Africa region have laws against blasphemy, apostasy or defamation of religion, the highest share of any region. These penalties are enforced in 60% of the countries in the region.”

7) An Egyptian state security court, on November 28, 2012, issued a verdict, which sentenced to death seven expatriate Coptic Egyptians, as well as American pastor Terry Jones, for “blaspheming” Islam. Egyptian Judge Saif al Nasr Soliman stated plainly when the ruling was issued, “The accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet.”

8) Egypt’s extra-territorial application of the Sharia reflects a larger global campaign by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (subsequently renamed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC]). As the largest voting bloc in the UN, which represents mainstream, institutional Islam, and all the major Muslim countries, in addition to the Palestinian Authority — the OIC has lobbied continuously over the past two decades for a UN resolution insisting countries criminalize what it calls “defamation of religion.” Now the OIC, consistent with its Sharia-based “human rights” paradigm, the 1990 Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, which rejects freedom of conscience and speech as defined (and upheld) in the US Bill of Rights, and the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is calling for a specific ban on speech allegedly impugning the character of Islam’s prophet, which the OIC terms “hate speech.”

9) The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), is well-accepted by the mainstream American Muslim community. The Islamic scholars affiliated with this group have attained influential positions in universities, Islamic centers, and mosques throughout the United States, and train American imams. Should the mainstream AMJA accomplish its goal of implementing Sharia in North America, the organization has already issued a ruling which sanctions the killing of non-Muslim “blasphemers”, courtesy of AMJA Secretary General Salah al-Sawy: (Dr. Salah Al-Sawy, 1/21/2009)—[F]or those scholars who say that repentance of a person who insults Allaah or His Messenger shall not accepted, [they] mean that repentance does not lift up the set punishment for cursing and insulting the Prophet, i.e., execution. Because the Prophet is the one who was actually wronged and insulted and he is no longer alive, therefore, he is not alive to practice his right to forgive him [the blasphemer] for what he did. Also, no Muslim is ever is entitled or authorized to forgive on the Prophet’s behalf.

10) Blasphemy committed by a Muslim is considered apostasy (see here, here, and here) from the Muslim creed, and therefore has been a so-called hadd offense (requiring severe, mandatory punishment), with a requisite death sentence since the advent of Islam. AMJA senior Fatwa Committee member Hatem al-Haj re-affirmed this classical, mainstream Islamic viewpoint for American Muslims in 2006: (Dr. Hatem al-Haj, 4/17/2006)—As for the Sharia ruling, it is the punish­ment of killing for the man with the grand Four Fiqh Sharia scholars, and the same with the woman with the major Shari’ah scholars, and she is jailed with Al-Hanafiyyah scholars, as the prophet, prayers and peace of Allah be upon him, said: “Whoever a Muslim changes his/her religion, kill him/her,” and his saying: “A Muslim’s blood, who testifies that there is no god except Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah, is not made permissible except by three reasons: the life for the life; the married adulterer and the that who abandons his/her religion.” Mirroring a shared communal understanding of their clerical leadership with regard to “blasphemy/apostasy,” the results of polling data collected by Wenzel Strategies during October 22 to 26, 2012, from 600 US Muslims, indicate widespread support among American votaries of Islam for this fundamental rejection of the basic freedoms of expression and conscience, as guaranteed under the first amendment to the US Constitution. When asked, “Do you believe that criticism of Islam or Muhammad should be permitted under the Constitution’s First Amendment?, 58% replied “no,” 45% of respondents agreed “…that those who criticize or parody Islam in the U.S. should face criminal charges,” and fully 12% of this Muslim sample even admitted they believed in application of the draconian, Sharia-based punishment for the non-existent crime of “blasphemy” in the US code, answering affirmatively, “…that Americans who criticize or parody Islam should be put to death.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blasphemy; filthykoranimals; freespeech; islamblasphemy; islamicjihad
Qadi Iyad (d. 1149), the great Almoravid jurist, from his seminal Ash-Shifa, which includes one of the most authoritative analyses of Islamic blasphemy law’s treatment of non-Muslims: “Once Islam was firmly established and Allah had given it victory over all other religions, any such detractor that the Muslims had power over and whose affair is well-known, was put to death.” "The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), is well-accepted by the mainstream American Muslim community....the organization has already issued a ruling which sanctions the killing of non-Muslim “blasphemers”, courtesy of AMJA Secretary General Salah al-Sawy: (Dr. Salah Al-Sawy, 1/21/2009)"

Anytime, you filthy koranimals.

1 posted on 03/15/2013 9:28:58 AM PDT by bayouranger
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To: bayouranger
This "man" was a pedophile:


2 posted on 03/15/2013 9:30:48 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Due Process 2013: "Burn the M*****-F***er Down!")
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To: bayouranger

10 points simplified:

1) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
2) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
3) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
4) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
5) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
6) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
7) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
8) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
9) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!
10) You offend me with your presence, infidel. I kill you!

No need to thank me, I do it as a public service.


3 posted on 03/15/2013 9:34:18 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: bayouranger

Nuke Makkah NOW!!


4 posted on 03/15/2013 9:50:01 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Cyber Liberty
Back at ya! Free E-book here: http://www.islam-watch.org/books/islamic-jihad-legacy-of-forced-conversion-imperialism-slavery.pdf Thanx to Creeping.
5 posted on 03/15/2013 9:51:51 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: bayouranger

I think I will be paying allegiance to this set of instructions as much as I do the imprecations of Pope St. Pius V, who seems to have recommended attacks by Catholics on Elizabeth I and on the Huguenots in France.

[Standing by for flames]


6 posted on 03/15/2013 9:59:10 AM PDT by Pecos (If more sane people carried guns, fewer crazies would get off a second shot.)
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To: bayouranger

The real problem, as I see it is, there are no words in any known language to adequately describe the low life, maggot, filthy, woman abusing, pedophile, camel humper, 6th century sand monkey, Mo-Ham-Mud.

He has brought forth nothing but death and destruction via his satanic verses.

Therefore, nothing which could be possibly said, could be considered blasphemy, as any word would elevate that sub-human.


7 posted on 03/15/2013 10:00:35 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: bayouranger

Allah is Satan, and Mohammed is his demon.


8 posted on 03/15/2013 10:05:08 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: bayouranger
Another public service

Download Islamic Jihad Legacy of Forced Conversion Imperialism and Slavery

9 posted on 03/15/2013 10:11:22 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: bayouranger

An interesting list. There are more utterances against denigrating the “prophet” than that which they call “god.” Islam is muhammad worship.

In the Christian faith you are called to deal with the prophets, kings, priests and others honestly, including their sins. You may not denigrate almighty God or Jesus the Christ of God. But you must condemn: Noah’s drunkenness, Moses anger, Aaron’s making a golden calf, David’s adultery, Peter’s denial, Paul’s persecution of the church.

Since Muhammad is not a sinless savior, you must lie about who and what he was or it destroys his prophethood.


10 posted on 03/15/2013 10:39:03 AM PDT by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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To: bayouranger

Obama: “Muslim Call to Prayer One of the Prettiest Sounds on Earth”

Obama can recite the Islamic Call To Prayer in perfect Arabic.


11 posted on 03/15/2013 10:40:08 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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To: Prospero

Saving BUMP.


12 posted on 03/15/2013 12:29:12 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: bayouranger

We could play this game, if an execution is carried out then the members of this group should be tried as well for the crime.


13 posted on 03/16/2013 9:56:11 AM PDT by thatjoeguy (Every law passed is one person forcing their morals on someone else.)
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To: bayouranger

Sorry for posting twice I forgot another point. According to the last sentence of point 9 the reverse should also be true meaning, if they are not entitled or authorized to forgive for the offense (because he’s dead), what gives them the entitlement or authority to kill for him?


14 posted on 03/16/2013 10:02:09 AM PDT by thatjoeguy (Every law passed is one person forcing their morals on someone else.)
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To: Gator113

I bet he can recite the Koran as well from memory.


15 posted on 03/16/2013 10:04:09 AM PDT by thatjoeguy (Every law passed is one person forcing their morals on someone else.)
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