Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life?family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everything?was dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia.
But Sharia isn't staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia law to your country. If that happens, the fabric of Western law and liberty will be ripped in two. Under Sharia law:
- A woman can be beaten for talking to men who are not her relatives and flogged for not wearing a headdress
- Daughters, sisters, and wives can be legally killed by the men in their family
- Non-Muslims can be beheaded, and their Muslim killers will not receive the death penalty
- Certain kinds of child molestation are allowed
- The husband of a "rebellious" wife can deny her medical care or place her under house arrest
Think it can't happen? In 2008, England?once the seat of Western liberty and now the home of many Muslim immigrants?declared that Sharia courts in Britain have the force of law.
When Muslim populations reach as little as 1 or 2 percent, says Darwish, they begin making demands of the larger community, such as foot-level faucets for washing before praying in public schools, businesses, and airports. "Airports in Kansas City, Phoenix, and Indianapolis are among those who have already installed foot baths for Muslim cab drivers," writes Darwish. These demands test how far Westerners will go in accommodating the Muslim minority. How far will they push? The Organization of the Islamic Conference works to Islamize international human rights laws and apply Sharia "standards" for blasphemy to all nations. The penalty for blasphemy? Death.
Weaving personal experience together with extensive documentation and research, Darwish exposes the facts and reveals the global threat posed by Sharia law. Anyone concerned about Western rights and liberties ignores her warning and analysis at their peril.
Top Highlights
“At the end, I lay out a detailed strategy that each nation must adopt lest it suffer the same fate as formerly Christian Egypt.” (source)
“At another event, this time the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at George Washington University in Washington DC, in which I participated in October 2007, a young Muslim woman with a tiger-print head scarf, apparently a student, said: ‘I want the Sharia law imposed in my country.’ By ‘my country,’ I presume that she meant the United States, since her country of origin—I would guess Egypt, by the sound of her accent—already largely applies Sharia not only to the Muslim population but also on the minority Christian population. I was stunned at her choice of the word imposed, but she is right: Sharia can only be imposed, and she wants it imposed in America because, wherever she came from, no Muslim country is totally ruled by Sharia.” (source)
“Africa suffered 120 million deaths from jihad in the last fourteen hundred years.” (source)
“I have never seen foot-level faucets in any public school or business in Egypt! They only exist in mosques.” (source)
“Things that had never made sense in Muslim society started making sense to me. I learned that the misinterpretation and misrepresentation and even the conspiracies were created by my culture of origin in order to camouflage horrific laws with pretty explanations. And when things could not be explained away, we were told it was ‘Allah’s will.’” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law
- Author: Darwish, Nonie
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2009
- ISBN: 9781418572068