Hat tip to Creeping Shariah
Seems like only yesterday, I was writing about THE Ohio State University and some dopey professor there named John B. Quigley. Now Creeping Shariah has picked up on this article by THE Ohio State University newspaper, The Lantern on how students were "set straight" about shariah by some guy named Mufti Abdullah Nana.
http://www.thelantern.com/campus/muslim-student-group-shares-meaning-behind-sharia-way-of-life-1.2169645
"Michael Calvert, a third-year in international studies, came to hear Nana discuss Sharia because he thinks it is an interesting topic in the world today."
"I had no idea that the Western law system is based so much on Sharia," Calvert said. "There are a lot more similarities than people realize."
What campus newspaper article would be complete without that kind of dopey quote? Note to Mr Calvert; you still have no idea.
Yes, Michael, just as Nana says. Western law, the Napoleonic Code and all of Western jurisprudence is based on shariah law. Why did you know, Michael, that they were cutting off heads before the Europeans had discovered the blade?
Keep listening to lectures like that, Kid and you'll have a bright future indeed.
This is creeping fluff all around.
ReplyDeleteShariah is a way of life for a Muslim, not a code of laws for a state, more akin to kosher than to English common law. A useful implication of that, is that calls for Sharia to become the law of the land are misplaced. The advocates of a world wide caliphate don't know their own faith, any more than Hitler understood Christianity.
No doubt there are some parallels between Sharia and English Common Law, as there are parallels between traditional Ibo religious faith and Anglican Christianity. None of the above are identical, nor directly descended from each other.
The visiting speaker would have done better to stick to what is true, and not reached for warm fuzzy analogies.
Really? Imam Siddiqi is a world-renowned Islamic scholar with degrees from all ovger trhe Middle East. He advocates that one day Islam and shariah will rule in "all lands". I think Siddiqi knows the Koran better than you or I.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading a book now on the ratification of the Constitution and all the debates about various aspects of it going on at the time and there is not a word in it so far about Islamic law.
ReplyDeleteThe Islamists may like to point to some similarities here and there but the differences are too much to ignore. We don't stone adulterers to death or cut off the hands of thieves. We don't hang homosexuals. We don't impose a tax on all those who are not Muslim.
Sharia law seems more like some set of laws that evolved out of desert tribal customs and then claimed to be God's laws. If you don't follow Sharia then you are a blasphemer and should be executed.
The Muslims should stop pretending to believe that we got so much from them. All they ever developed on their own is the suicide bomb vest.
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Roman Catholic parochial schools in the 1950s also taught that the United States Constitution was based on Catholic Church teachings. They had a slightly better claim, since one or two delegates to the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, were Roman Catholics, but it was basically puffery of the same kind critiqued here. (Source: American Democracy and Catholic Power by Paul Blanchard).
ReplyDeleteSince there is no established hierarchy in Islam, and since Islam has at least as many divisions as Christianity, Siddiqi is expressing HIS OPINION of the meaning of the Qu'ran, just as, when I debate Roman Catholics at "And Sometimes Tea" or "Acts of the Apostasy," I offer MY OPINION of the meaning of the Bible, and insist that the Bishop of Rome has only his own opinion to offer.
I must ask Gary, as a Methodist, do you believe that His Holiness Benedict XVI knows the Bible better than you or I?
Unbelievable! Siarlys believes he knows the Bible as well as the Pope.
ReplyDeleteHe knows the circumstances in places he has never been. He challenges the views of people who have actually been there as being insufficient so he still knows better.
He believes he could get into Mensa if he tried but he is disgusted by it. He never tried it and has no idea what is on the tests yet he discounts it.
He knows as much about taxes as CPAs and more about economics than an economic professor from Stanford who has written a number of books on economics.
All this is based on his experience as a bus driver and his presumed reading although without a college education... perhaps without a high school education.
He speaks for the Muslims as "... they don't know their own faith..."
He claims to know the Tenach better than Jews.
No doubt he is a psychiatrist as well and can self diagnose his own Napoleonic complex.
"Napoleon complex is an informal term describing an alleged type of inferiority complex which is said to affect some people, especially men, who are short in stature, despite a specious origin and a lack of any empirical evidence. The term is also used more generally to describe people who are driven by a perceived handicap to overcompensate in other aspects of their lives."