
Imam Feisal Abdel Rauf claims that the U.S. constitution is Sharia compliant. Now let us examine below a few laws of Sharia to see how truthful Imam Rauf is:
1- Jihad, defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion,” is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of state (Caliph). Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia and unfit to rule.
2- A Caliph can hold office through seizure of power meaning through force.
3- A Caliph is exempt from being charged with serious crimes such as murder, adultery, robbery, theft, drinking and in some cases of rape.
4- A percentage of Zakat (charity money) must go towards jihad.
5- It is obligatory to obey the commands of the Caliph, even if he is unjust.
6- A caliph must be a Muslim, a non-slave and a male.
7- The Muslim public must remove the Caliph if he rejects Islam.
8- A Muslim who leaves Islam must be killed immediately.
9- A Muslim will be forgiven for murder of: 1) an apostate 2) an adulterer 3) a highway robber. Vigilante street justice and honor killing is acceptable.
10- A Muslim will not get the death penalty if he kills a non-Muslim, but will get it for killing a Muslim.
11- Sharia never abolished slavery, sexual slavery and highly regulates it. A master will not be punished for killing his slave.
12- Sharia dictates death by stoning, beheading, amputation of limbs, flogging even for crimes of sin such as adultery.
13- Non-Muslims are not equal to Muslims under the law. They must comply to Islamic law if they are to remain safe. They are forbidden to marry Muslim women, publicly display wine or pork, recite their scriptures or openly celebrate their religious holidays or funerals. They are forbidden from building new churches or building them higher than mosques. They may not enter a mosque without permission. A non-Muslim is no longer protected if he leads a Muslim away from Islam.
14- It is a crime for a non-Muslim to sell weapons to someone who will use them against Muslims. Non-Muslims cannot curse a Muslim, say anything derogatory about Allah, the Prophet, or Islam, or expose the weak points of Muslims. But Muslims can curse non-Muslims.
15- A non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim.
16- Banks must be Sharia compliant and interest is not allowed.
17- No testimony in court is acceptable from people of low-level jobs, such as street sweepers or bathhouse attendants. Women in low level jobs such as professional funeral mourners cannot keep custody of their children in case of divorce.
18- A non-Muslim cannot rule — even over a non-Muslim minority.
19- Homosexuality is punishable by death.
20- There is no age limit for marriage of girls. The marriage contract can take place anytime after birth and can be consummated at age 8 or 9.
21- Rebelliousness on the part of the wife nullifies the husband’s obligation to support her, gives him permission to beat her and keep her from leaving the home.
22- Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as saying: “I divorce you” and becomes effective even if the husband did not intend it.
23- There is no community property between husband and wife and the husband’s property does not automatically go to the wife after his death.
24- A woman inherits half what a man inherits.
25- A man has the right to have up to 4 wives and none of them have a right to divorce him — even if he is polygamous.
26- The dowry is given in exchange for the woman’s sexual organs.
27- A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married her marriage is annulled.
28- The testimony of a woman in court is half the value of a man.
29- A woman loses custody if she remarries.
30- To prove rape, a woman must have 4 male witnesses.
31- A rapist may only be required to pay the bride-money (dowry) without marrying the rape victim.
32- A Muslim woman must cover every inch of her body, which is considered “Awrah,” a sexual organ. Not all Sharia schools allow the face of a woman exposed.
33- A Muslim man is forgiven if he kills his wife at the time he caught her in the act of adultery. However, the opposite is not true for women, since the man “could be married to the woman he was caught with.”
34-It is obligatory for a Muslim to lie if the purpose is obligatory. That means that for the sake of abiding with Islam’s commandments, such as jihad, a Muslim is obliged to lie and should not have any feelings of guilt or shame associated with this kind of lying.
The above are clear-cut laws in Islam decided by great Imams after years of examination and interpretation of the Quran, Hadith and Mohammed’s life. Now let the learned Imam Rauf tell us: What part of the above is compliant with the U.S. Constitution?
One can only speculate, but I suspect it has far more to do with the particular religion under discussion than it does religion per se. For example, if progressives held the expression of Islam to the same standard as they do Christianity, one would be at a total loss to explain how the public school system in California mandates the teaching of Islam in the seventh grade, including the study of Koranic scripture. One would be at a loss to explain why a public school in Nyssa, Oregon required seventh-grade students to dress-up as Muslims as part of a four-week course on Islam.
When the former case went to litigation, it got as far as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that such manifestations of Islam in the California curriculum--including the wearing of Islamic religious symbols, or shouting "Praise be to Allah" when prompted by teachers-- didn't violate the First Amendment's establishment clause.
Can anyone imagine the same court permitting students to say, "Praise be to Jesus?"
So why the double-standard? The most plausible explanation centers around an old Arabic expression: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Nothing threatens the status of progressive elitists, largely secular and leftist, more than American Christians, largely religious and right-leaning. It irks the progressives to no end that the "Religious Right" feels accountable to a "higher power"--one that isn't government controlled by progressives.
What other group of people have an even greater contempt for Christians? Islamic radicals--and more than a few so-called "moderate Muslims." It is also no secret that vast numbers of Muslims around the world consider Christian "infidels" second-class citizens (dhimmis) at best, and utterly beneath contempt at worst.
Both groups see Christianity as the foremost obstacle to their remarkably similar ambitions: for Muslims, the permanent entrenchment of a world-wide religious caliphate. For American progressives, the permanent entrenchment of big-government run by the Democrat party.
Thus, the ruling element within both groups has embraced marriage of convenience, with each group using the other--until such time when the inevitable showdown between occurs
In the meantime, this temporary alliance explains many things. It explains the deafening silence of American feminists with regard to the often brutal treatment of women in Muslim countries. It explains the Obama administration's determination to expunge any reference to a "war on terror" or Islamic participation in same from our national vocabulary. It explains why idiot celebrities like Rosie O'Donnell, who said radical Christianity is "every bit as dangerous" as radical Islam, and Bill Maher, who said that the 9/11 murderers were "warriors," still get gigs on TV. It explains why Christian-bashing is a regular Hollywood staple, even as Islam remains studiously off limits. It explains why the Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, was seemingly more concerned about the death of "diversity" than 13 American soldiers murdered at Fort Hood. It explains why so many progressives push the idea that America's foreign policy "justified" the 9/11 atrocity. And it most assuredly explains the all-out effort by progressive elitists to tar anyone opposed to a mosque near Ground Zero as a bigot. Both progressive and Islamist elitists--and it is important to make the distinction between the political operators in both groups and ordinary liberal Americans and genuinely moderate Muslims--know that an America guided by even the most temperate expressions of Christianity, such as the reference to a "Creator" in the Declaration of Independence, is one which will not succumb to their grandiose ambitions. At least not all at once. This is precisely why the strategy of incrementalism--the bit-by-bit undermining of American customs, language and culture--has been adopted by both groups. Incrementalism explains why American religious traditions, such as Christmas creches in a town squares, considered an expression of religious freedom for the better part of two centuries, are now deemed violations of the church-state separation doctrine--which is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. It is why the "live and let live" nature of such traditions has been usurped by the "One Whiner Rule," which deems any expression of religion in the public arena, even one supported by the vast majority, will be forbidden, or litigated against by the ACLU, if it "offends" even a single individual. Incrementalism explains why Americans are expected to unquestioningly accept the idea that the Ground Zero project's leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is a "moderate" Muslim, despite the fact that he refuses to condemn Hamas as a terrorist group and referred to America as "an accessory" to the 9/11 atrocity. It is this incrementalism that allows progressive elitists to insist the "majority of Muslims are on America's side," absent any convincing evidence--and much evidence to the contrary. And it is the more advanced version of incrementalism found in Europe that has resulted in the creation of wholly-segregated Muslim enclaves that police in England and France refer to as "no go zones"--and the Archbishop of Canterbury to comment on the "unavoidability" of Sharia Law in the UK. Both progressives and the so-called moderate Muslims attached to the Ground Zero mosque know this project is deeply offensive to almost seventy percent of Americans. They also know it has nothing to do with freedom of religion, which most of the people opposed to this project have made crystal clear. Ever since this incident reached national proportions, both points have been made over and over again. Only one question remains unanswered to this point: what is the reason that it is necessary to build a mosque in that precise location? Not why can you, but why must you? Radical Islam and progressive elitism are all about establishing beach heads. Establishing those beach heads requires unstinting assaults on traditional values, be they assaults on Christianity, internationally-accepted rules of war, the concept of assimilation, or the difference between freedom of religion and freedom from it. Neither group will be satisfied until their power becomes absolute, or at the very least, until they're the only two dogs left in the fight for the civilized world. Until then their alliance will resemble America's alliance with Josef Stalin's Russia during WWll: a marriage of convenience designed to defeat the greater evil of Nazism. Right now, the "greater evil" is conservatism and Christianity. Both must be brow-beaten into submission. And while much of this endeavor has been ongoing, much of it has occurred "beneath the radar" of average Americans. It took 9/11 to make us realize that radical Islamists had indeed declared war on America. It took the election of the most radical president and Congress in history to make Americans realize that progressive elitists are every bit as intent on "re-ordering" America as the Islamic radicals are. The Ground Zero mosque is nothing more the latest flashpoint in this sorry saga. It is an attempt to push the envelope of "tolerance" for two entities both determined to impose their worldview--by any means necessary. It won't be the last one.
On this day in . . .
* 1692, in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five
people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after
being convicted of witchcraft
* 1782, during the American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks ---
the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender
of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown
* 1839, details of Louis Daguerre's pioneering photographic process were
first released in Paris, France
* 1848, the California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to
the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California
(although the rush started in January)
* 1856, Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY patented his process for condensed
milk
* 1895, frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an
off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas
* 1909, first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
* 1919, in a break with conventional practice, U.S. President Woodrow
Wilson appears personally before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to
argue in favor of its ratification of the Versailles Treaty, the peace
settlement that ended the First World War
* 1934, the first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
ALSO: The creation of the position Fuhrer approved by the German electorate
with 89.9% of the popular vote, making Hitler, ym"sh, president of Germany
* 1940, the new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license
#1 to Orville Wright
* 1944 , Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied
troops
* 1945, Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam
* 1949, the Federal Communications Commission prohibited so-called
"giveaway" radio and TV shows, saying they violated lottery laws. (The U.S.
Supreme Court overturned the ban in 1954, ruling that giveaway shows fell
short of being lotteries because participants did not pay in order to try
to win prizes.)
* 1953, the CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in
Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
* 1990, Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig
van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7
* 1991, Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting student from Australia, is stabbed to
death by an angry black mob in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New
York. A Newsday photographer later testified he didn't want to intervene
because he would be injecting himself into his story
* 1994, President Bill Clinton ended the United States' longstanding
open-door policy toward Cuban refugees
* 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev placed under house arrest while
on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea
* 2003, practitioners of that "religion of peace", blow up a Jerusalem
bus, killing 23 Israelis, 7 of them children
* 2005, the first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China,
called Peace Mission 2005, begins. ALSO: Texas jury found pharmaceutical
giant Merck and Co. liable for the death of a man who'd taken the
once-popular painkiller Vioxx, awarding his widow $253.4 million in
damages. (Texas caps on punitive damages reduced that figure to about $26
million; a Texas court overturned the verdict in May 2008.)

It was a lie.
The Obama Administration just approved the first taxpayer-funded abotions under Obamacare.
Life News reported:
The Obama administration has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded abortions under the new national government-run health care program. This is the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned about when Congress considered the bill.
The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March.
It has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of pro-abortion Governor Edward Rendell under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.
The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.
Of course, Barack Obama promised Americans several times that abortion would not be covered under the bill.
Your typical well written piece by VDH.
'In sum, in the year 2 AB, your fossilized world thankfully no longer quite exists. Global warming is “climate change” and its data is “interpreted” rather than blindly “followed.” Natural calamities like the old Katrina hurricane were really man-caused disasters; and man-caused disasters like the new BP spill and the federal reaction to it were really unpreventable natural disasters. Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and Al Gore are men-of-the-people feminists who need comfort, not tawdry womanizing mansion-aficionados.
Iraq is no longer “lost,” but the greatest achievement of the Obama administration. Somehow its messy politics are proof of real democracy. Indeed, at last our influential intellectuals can talk of real “politics” going on in Baghdad.
Surging is now good. So is the architect of that policy, Gen. Petraeus. If any Republicans were now to suggest in a confirmation hearing that the Afghan ground commander “punted” on the truth, or that his testimony “required a suspension of disbelief,” or that Afghanistan should be trisected, well, he would be rightly castigated as a subversive, rather than praised as “patriotic.” Partisanship now stops at the shoreline.
The only bad thing about the new age of “After Bush” is that he never quite left. $1.7 trillion annual deficits? Bush did it. Another $3 trillion plus to the deficit? All Bush. GM bailout? Bush’s fingerprints. Afghanistan heats up? Bush again. A ruined Gulf? Bush and his oil cronies. Falling polls for President Obama? The legacy of the Bush racism. Guantanamo open? Bush’s people. Higher taxes? The Bush deficits.
In the age of “After Bush,” everything that is now good comes despite him, everything that is still bad is because of him. Remember that — and that is all ye need to know'.
And then this beauty..... instead our “overseas contingency operations” are aimed at reminding Muslims that their own past contributions to science have led to breakthroughs like Hellfire missiles.


On this day in . . .
* 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George
Washington’s troops in New York
* 1846, the territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac
River is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress. ALSO: An
American naval captain occupies the small settlement of Yerba Buena, a
site that will later be renamed San Francisco
* 1850, President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the
13th President of the United States
* 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous "cross of gold"
speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago
* 1922, Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6
seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'
* 1941, crackerjack British cryptologists break the secret code --
Enigma key -- used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations
on the Eastern front
* 1951, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to formally end the
state of war between the United States and Germany
* 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev trade verbal threats over the future of Cuba. In the
following years, Cuba became a dangerous focus in the Cold War
competition between the United States and Russia
* 1979, a car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters"
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly
from the German group ODESSA , ("Organization of Former SS Members")
claims responsibility
* 2008, prosecutors cleared Jon Benet Ramsey's parents and brother in
the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen in Boulder, Colo.
Health Overhaul: Sunday's vote exposed the ugly truth that ObamaCare is not really about health care at all. It's all about who pays for it and who controls it — in effect a massive wealth-redistribution scheme.
Those who believe this will lead to some medical nirvana will likely be disappointed. Fact is, this poorly designed monstrosity will lead to lower-quality care, higher costs, fewer practicing physicians, higher taxes and fewer jobs.
Read the rest from IBD....