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Shariah in the West


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Center For Islamic Pluralism:

Stephen Schwartz
"New Threats to Freedom," Templeton Press, 2010
May 2010

On October 28, 2009, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, an African American Muslim, was killed in a shootout with agents of the FBI in Detroit. The dead man was one of twelve individuals sought for firearms violations and conspiracy to engage in theft and fraud. But they were also members of a little-known Islamist network dedicated to the establishment, through violence if necessary, of an enclave on U.S. territory to be governed by Islamic religious law, or Shariah. Their designated candidate to rule this separatist territory was the prominent black nationalist known in the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, and now as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who at the time of the Detroit incident was serving a life term without parole at the U.S. federal prison in Florence, Colorado, for murdering a police officer in Georgia (along with other charges).

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On October 20, 2009, an Iraqi immigrant girl, Noor Almaleki, age twenty, was run down and killed by a Jeep allegedly driven by her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, forty-eight, in an Arizona suburb. The father fled the United States but was captured in London. Reporters learned that Almaleki had taken his daughter to Iraq on "a family visit" in 2008 and had forced her into an arranged marriage with a man unknown to her. The father's explanation for the homicidal deed of which he stood accused was familiar: his daughter had dishonored his family by becoming "too Western," including working at a fast-food restaurant. At the time of writing, Faleh Almaleki was held in a jail in Phoenix, Arizona, on a suicide watch.

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The Shariah debate in Western Europe has been badly complicated by the incompetent intervention of non-Muslim politicians, who, in their desire to appear tolerant, have offered opinions in favor of the introduction of Shariah into their countries. Such individuals have included, most notoriously, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, head of the Anglican Communion, who in 2008 called for establishment of some (unspecified) aspects of Shariah alongside existing civil law in the United Kingdom. Williams commented that some form of official recognition for elements of Shariah was "unavoidable." His capitulatory gesture was soon echoed by a similar appeal from Britain's Lord Chief Justice, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers. A leading Dutch conservative politician, Piet Hein Donner, had already declared, in 2006, that the Netherlands could adopt Shariah as law if two-thirds of its parliament voted to do so.

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