Hat tip to Creeping Shariah and Act for America
I have been accused by a couple of my readers of being homophobic because I oppose gay marriage. I don't give that charge a lot of attention because it doesn't really deserve a response.
Yet I have in the past pointed out the hypocrisy of the organized gay lobby in ignoring the hate-and worse-directed to gays within Islam-including gays in the Western countries. The above video by ACT for America gives an insight into Sharia's position on homosexuality. It is disturbing, especially in light of the advances and increasing acceptance that gays have achieved in western countries.
The problem is that we in the West are afraid to point this out lest we be condemned as religious bigots. The problem is that Islam is more than a religion. It is a political ideology that exerts full control over its members-and seeks to exert control over non-Muslims as well. Sharia, as the gentleman points out, is Islam's law.
At some point, we need to stand up and tell our Muslim immigrants that we are not going to reverse the advances made by gays in our countries. The gay-rights groups need to be taking the lead in that. Yet, they have not probably for the same reasons that women's rights advocates fall silent on the status of Muslim women in western societies.
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The advances of gay rights in this country is in direct opposition of how shariah law works against and punishes gays. In Africa, a country has recently introduced legislation to make homosexuality a grave, serious and harshly punishable, if this becomes law. I think you are correct that the Gay rights community will not speak out against this because they are afraid of being politically incorrect, offending Muslims and Islam. Shariah is Islam. There is no middle ground.
I think that I should point out that in Africa (Uganda, to be specific) it is Christians who are pushing the anti-gay legislation.
This doesn't somehow change the severity of what's going on in the Islamic world though, but it's a distinction worth noting.
And I would condemn the Ugandan measures.
Next example?
Oh, and I'd also like to point out that we need to be grateful for our country's separation of church and state - if we stick to it, then shariah law can't ever take hold.
I hope you are right. If you look at Europe though, there is cause for alarm. Don't they have separation fo church and state too?
Don't they have separation fo church and state too?
I'm not sure about every country, but don't the churches collect tax money in Germany, for instance? (I could be totally wrong.)
Either way, our country has had this as one of its founding principles. If we allow one religion to enforce its rules on the populace, then that opens the doors for others to do the same.
I agree. No one here wants a theocracy-of any religion, but especially Islam. (They are a little too strict for my tastes.)
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