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Technorati“Bringing such laws to the West will be the beginning of the end of true Western democracy,” she adds.
In her book, Darwish recalls an exchange she had with Muslim American students at a U.S. college campus.
In 2007, Dariwsh was invited to take part in a panel discussion called “Islam and Democracy: Companions or Competitors?” at Mount San Antonio College in Southern California.
One of the panelists, the head of the Muslim student organization, had “fiercely” defended Sharia.
Darwish recalls asking him, “If Sharia is the perfect system that every Muslim should follow, why are you living in America and not in a Muslim Sharia state such as Iran or Saudi Arabia?”
His answer, which was echoed by many other Muslim students at the debate, was that all Muslim countries have failed to be a true Sharia state. Other students at the event said they believe that perhaps the United States could be the first country to properly apply the law as Allah intended. Others even expressed a desire to demand the enforcement of Sharia in America.
“Muslims are often unhappy with their Muslim countries of origin, but instead of looking within to make them better, they want to force an ‘ideal’ Muslim state on other civilizations, especially those that are unsuspecting and peaceful,” Darwish claims. Darwish says the “most troublesome” problem with terrorism is not as much the terrorists attacking from the outside, but more so “the attack on democracy from within.”
“They have lived in Western democracies most of all their lives and have developed a disconnect from the reality of life under Islamic Sharia,” she says.
Peaceful Muslim Majority
It is true, however, that the majority of Muslims in the world are not violent and would not want to live under Sharia. Most Muslims are moderate and practice the ritualistic side of Islam and “barely know what is in their scriptures,” says Darwish.
“Muslims need to be informed about what is in their scriptures simply because, believe it or not, they do not know,” the former Muslim writes.
But even if 10 to 15 percent of Muslims read their scriptures and take it literally, that is a major problem for the West. Darwish says jihadists have been “unabashed” and “straightforward” when it comes to stating that their scriptures are the motivation behind their actions.
“The West has been warned of the Islamist intentions, but so far it is in denial, relying on the hope that Islam will eventually reform,” Darwish says.
“However, let me be clear: The West must understand that the problem is not individual Muslims as much as it is Muslim scriptures commanding them to kill.”
Darwish is calling on Western governments to oversee the selling and buying of books that order the murder of non-Muslim citizens, even if they are called holy scriptures.
“The West must unequivocally declare that Sharia is totally incompatible with democracy and human rights and that it is ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’” says the author.
Published by Thomas Nelson this past January, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law is the second book written by 60-year-old Darwish. Her first, Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror, was published by Sentinel Trade in November 2007.
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