“… the European Court of Human Rights ruled … that sharia law is “not compatible with democracy”.

The court made special mention of the sneaky methods used by political Islam to work with the existing legal order in order to replace it with sharia: It is called “takiyye, which consisted in hiding its beliefs until it had attained that goal”.

The court was ruling on a ban by the Turkish Constitutional Court of the Islamist party Refah on the grounds that “democracy is the antithesis of sharia”. Surely Turkey understood the threat of sharia better than most.

The AFIC claim that sharia is flexible flies in the face of evidence across the world that it is not compatible with the fundamental concept that underpins our democracy, that everyone is equal under the law.

As we have already seen in the murderous protests that erupted in the Islamic world over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, sharia does not allow the sort of freedom of speech we take for granted. Criticism of Mohammed, for instance, is punishable by death.

Women are treated as second-class citizens under sharia, eligible for a smaller share of inheritance, for instance, and unequal when it comes to matters involving marriage, divorce and custody of children.

It’s not “racist” or “bigoted” or “irrational” to say that.”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/quest-for-sharia-law-is-out-of-line/story-e6frfhqf-1226058532543

Aboard Air Force Aleph (Reuters) – Speaking to reporters accompanying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his long flight to the United States tonight, Netanyahu spoke of the injustice and hardship Mexicans have endured since American forces annexed Texas in 1845.

“Tens of thousands of ordinary Mexicans were driven out of their homes – the only homes they had known for centuries – and forced to live in poverty and squalor south of the border imposed by American aggression,” Netanyahu said.

“The Israeli and Mexican people agree on this: This festering wound will never heal until America takes bold steps to return to the internationally accepted lines of 1845. Clearly the settlement activity that’s taken place in occupied Mexico since then is illegal.

When I meet the President tomorrow I will tell him to halt all building activity in Texas immediately. Two lands for two peoples, yes, but not on land taken by force from Mexico,” the Prime Minister said.

http://bigpeace.com/

Last week, we celebrated Liberation Day in the Netherlands. We celebrated the liberation from the Nazi occupation in 1945. Many American soldiers, including many young Tennesseans, played a decisive role in the liberation of the Netherlands from nazi tyranny. We are immensely grateful for that. Young Americans gave their lives so that the Dutch might be free. I assure you: The Dutch people will never forget this.

Unfortunately, however, the Europe which your fathers and grandfathers fought and died for is not the Europe we are living in today.

I travel the world to tell people what Europe has become. I wish I could take you all on a visit to my country and show you what Europe has become. It has changed beyond recognition as a result of mass immigration. And not just any mass immigration, but mass immigration driven by the dangerous force of islam.

My friends, I am sorry. I am here today with an unpleasant message. I am here with a warning. I am here with a battle cry: “Wake up, Christians of Tennessee. Islam is at your gate.” Do not make the mistake which Europe made. Do not allow islam to gain a foothold here.

http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1750&Itemid=1

“Islam is dangerous. Islam wants to establish a state on earth, ruled by islamic sharia law. Islam aims for the submission, whether by persuasion, intimidation or violence, of all non-Muslims, including Christians.

The results can be seen in Europe.

Islam is an ideology of conquest. It uses two methods to achieve this goal: the first method is the sword. Do you know what figures on the flag of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a country where Christian churches are banned and Christians are not even allowed to wear a tiny crucifix? There is a huge sword on that flag, just below the Islamic creed. The message is clear. Without the sword islam would not have been able to spread its creed.

The second method is immigration. Islam’s founder Muhammad himself taught his followers how to conquer through immigration when they moved from Mecca to Medina. This phenomenon of conquest through immigration is called al-Hijra.”

“A warning to America” – speech by Geert Wilders

http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1750&Itemid=1

“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”

– Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan

Mona Mahmudnizhad, hanged with nine other women by the Iranian Islamist regime, for the "crime" of teaching the values of her Baha’i faith.

by Amil Imani

“She is called the Angel of Iran, because she lived her short life like an angel. The demonic Islamist Mullahs, true to their nature, couldn’t bear an angel in their midst. On June 18, 1983, they hanged the young woman, barely past childhood, for refusing to renounce her belief: the belief in love, justice, and equality for all children of God.

Her name was Mona, a 17-year old Baha’i Character School (Sunday school) teacher. Her pupils loved the indescribably gentle loving teacher who taught them to grow up as exemplary humans with hearts brimming with the love of God, all his people and his creation.

Ten Baha’i women of Shiraz, Iran were among the many Baha’is who were arrested by the Islamists for their faith. The young Mona was one of them. These women endured months of endless abuse in the prison of the Mullahs, yet every one of them refused under threat of death to recant their faith of love.

The Mullahs finally decided to make good on their threat and hanged these magnificent human beings, one by one. The Angel of Iran was the last to be hanged for she wished to pray for each woman as she was hanged.”

http://www.islam-watch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=727:justice-islam-style-hanged-for-teaching-love&catid=48:imani&Itemid=58

[You decide for yourself, this is what Mona and her friends believed, below; is this not a worthy way to look at the world? Do you think teaching these things made her worthy of death?]

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face.

Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in your speech.

Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men.

Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts.

Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, and a tower of strength for the fugitive.

Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring.

Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.”

[Muslim leaders killed Mona for voicing these beliefs and refusing to recant.]

Many have slandered Wilders, believed the accusations piled on him without actually listening to what the man has to say. Try to keep an open mind and actually listen to what he has to say:

“Dear friends from Tennessee. I am very happy to be in your midst today. I am happy and proud to be in this impressive church.

My friends, I am here to speak words of truth and freedom.

Do you know why America is in a better state than Europe? Because you enjoy more freedom than Europeans.

And do you know why Americans enjoy more freedom than Europeans? Because you are still allowed to tell the truth.

In Europe and Canada people are dragged to court for telling the truth about islam.

I, too, have been dragged to court. I am an elected member of the house of representatives in the Netherlands. I am currently standing in court like a common criminal for saying that islam is a dangerous totalitarian ideology rather than a religion.

The court case is still pending, but I risk a jail sentence of 16 months.

Last week, my friend Lars Hedegaard, a journalist from Denmark, was fined because in a private conversation, which was recorded without his knowing, he had criticised the way women are treated in islamic societies.

Recently, another friend, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a human rights activist from Austria, was fined because she had criticised islam’s founder Muhammad. She had said that Muhammad was a pedophile because he had married a 6-year old girl and raped her when she was 9.

Unfortunately, there are many similar cases.

I am especially happy to be in your midst because here I can say what I want to say without having to fear that I will be dragged to court upon leaving this church.

My dear American friends, you cannot imagine how we envy your First Amendment. The day when America follows the example of Europe and Canada and introduces so-called “hate speech crimes” which is only used to punish people who are critical of islam, that day America will have lost its freedom.

http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1750&Itemid=1

Michael Stravato for The New York Times Nahid Sabet of Houston and her daughter, Nica, almost 14.

“…The story, as revealed over several hours by Mrs. Sabet, began on the day 40 years earlier in Tehran when, as a 15-year-old, she converted from her family’s Muslim faith to the Bahai religion. Bahaism had emerged a century earlier, proclaimed by a Persian noble after a revelation from God of a monotheistic, pacifistic doctrine. Many of Iran’s Muslims, including Nahid’s parents and siblings, deemed it heresy.

Tending to their apostate, Nahid’s parents selected for her a Muslim husband. One of her brothers swore that no child of hers would be a Bahai. What the family had not evidently anticipated was that their chosen groom, Abdolreza Arash, would accept his wife as a Bahai.

For his tolerance, Mr. Arash had his electronics factory confiscated and was sent to prison several times. Mrs. Sabet was fired from her position as an accountant, arrested three times, jailed twice, pressured with electric shocks to recant and inform. She did neither.

Three times in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mrs. Sabet became pregnant. Three times, as she recounted to Nica on the beauty salon sofa, she was beaten and denounced by a brother and brother-in-law. Three times she miscarried. The pregnancies were just far enough along, between 3 and 5 months, for her to recognize what she had lost: one daughter and two sons.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/us/07religion.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

Once again we see the tolerance and peace expressed by followers of Islam.