This simple description does not do the video justice. The scene shown, where three supposed spies are savagely butchered by the Taliban in Pakistan in early April of this year, show the utter, despicable horror which is Islamic Sharia law in practice. The brutality is nearly immeasurable and almost impossible to watch. Like the video of the vile murder of Danial Pearl, it will stay with you forever. It is the stuff of nightmares!
I view all religion as dangerous to rational, humane thought, but fundamentalist Islamic tradition rivals the Inquisition and witch hunts of the mediaeval Christian church in its poisonous attack against decency itself. The major difference is not in the brutality it conjures, for all middle eastern religions have their fair share of horrid behavior in the past. The difference is that fundamentalist Islamic Sharia law is alive and well in the otherwise enlightened 21st century and there are many who push the Islamic goal of world conquest under its barbaric rule!
Not as a Westerner, nor as a citizen of the United States, but as a human who believes in true justice, liberty and peaceful coexistence as the ultimate goal of the human species; this cannot be allowed to continue, or to grow. We have to stop avoiding the issue and see it for what it is.
There is a concerted effort on the part of the European Union and to a lesser extent in the United States, to side-step facing the issue. Islamic groups in Europe, especially Britain and Denmark, have been making great strides in receiving special status in the law. Britain, in a move of inexplicable insanity, has already embraced official Sharia courts, and there are some areas in Europe which are quite literally becoming Islamic sub-states, where the local authorities do not tread. The United Nations even had such gall as to allow Islamic nations to attempt to pressure for a world law against blasphemy!
It would seem there are those in western governments who are willing to concede parts of their law and custom, in order to appease the Islamic curate, as if such action will remove or lesson the chance of terrorist activity or other civic violence.
Such thinking is stupid. It allows fear to rule over us.
The West practiced the same kind of horrific violence and torture through its embrace of Christianity and there is no excuse for it. Similarly, there is no excuse not to recognize the dangers of a religion which has not transcended these blatantly evil practices. We have been there and we should know better.
We can no more allow the vile workings of Sharia law to pollute the cultural progress of the enlightenment, than we can allow the Catholic Church to reinstate the witch hunts and the Inquisition.
There is no place in a free world for Sharia law. It is the modern epitome of religious evil and cannot be allowed to gain any further footing in the world. In fact, if the goal of the human race is to achieve true peace and liberty, Sharia law must be completely eliminated from the face of the planet.
To handle Sharia law with kid gloves, only enables its foul grip on the world to grow.
