On Banning Sharia Law - The West and sharia law are NOT compatible

Bill Muehlenberg : Many commentators who are awake in Australia know that the Federal Labor Government has been bending over backwards not only to ingratiate itself with Muslims, but to bring into this country as many of them as they can.

The reason for all this is simple: with more and more ordinary Australians getting tired of Labor, they need the growing Muslim vote to help them stay in power.

To see just how bad the Albanese government is, consider the fact that in the past several weeks not one but two radical overseas Islamic hate-preachers were granted visitors visas to come here and spew their poison. It was only because some media outlets did a quick web search and discovered how horrific they were with their virulent antisemitism that the Government was forced to cancel their visas.

But it is not just the hatred of Jews that is the problem with such clerics, but their call for a universal caliphate and the establishment of sharia law throughout the West. Those who know nothing about Islam and sharia law will think that is no biggee, but those who do know something about these things will see red flags everywhere.

Australian expert on Islam Rev Dr Mark Durie has been speaking out on this for decades now. Some 15 years ago I quoted him in a piece I wrote on this topic:

Mark Durie notes that Islamic sharia is “based upon Muhammad’s example and teaching. This system of rules defines a total way of life. There can be no Islam without Sharia. Westerners sometimes mistakenly think of Sharia as a medieval penal code, something from the dusty and irrelevant past.

“However, the Sharia is intended to be simply what it says: the pathway for a Muslim to walk upon, an authoritative application of Muhammad’s example in a comprehensive and consistent way, using rigorous principles of reasoning and Islamic case-law. This is much more inclusive in concept than any penal code.”

Thus those who are considered to be “extreme” or “radical” in Islam are in fact being quite faithful to their own religious tradition. A very good example of all this was found a few days ago in the press. An Australian Islamic preacher made some rather blunt remarks about the relationship between sharia and democracy.

According to a report in the Australian, Ibrahim Siddiq-Conlon is adamant that Australian democracy must go, to be replaced by Islamic law. He said this: “My attack is on the Prime Minister of Australia. I hate the parliament in Canberra. I want to go straight for the jugular vein and advise the parliament that they have no right to legislate. They should immediately step down and let the Muslims take over.”

The article says this in part: “An Australian-born convert to Islam, Siddiq-Conlon is the self-anointed leader of a group called Sharia4Australia, which is pushing for the introduction of sharia courts as a first step towards achieving Islamic law.

“‘One day Australia will live under sharia; it’s inevitable,’ he said. ‘If they (Australians) don’t accept it, that’s not our problem. We hope, and our objective is to have a peaceful transition, but when you look at history that has never been the case. There’s always been a fight. It is inevitable that one day there will be a struggle for Islam in Australia’.” Sharia and Democracy

I say all this because of a just-announced win over sharia in the American state of Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis has just signed into law a bill that would keep Florida sharia-free. Here is what he said about this:

Read it all here........