"Amsterdam Gets a Harsh Lesson in Islam 101"

"Yes, I am trying to implement sharia in the west"....

This is an interesting article by the reliable Bruce Bawer.  Bawer is interesting himself -- a multilingual polymath, author, jewish and gay -- hence has particular concern for the Islamisation of Europe.
In this article he reports on a recent event in Amsterdam -- a talk by British sharia scholar Haitham al-Haddad, in which al-Haddad defended the death penalty for apostates and imposition of sharia law in the west (which of course would be very bad for non-Muslims -- and indeed for Muslim women and homosexuals too).
Bawer is shocked. Not by what Haddad had to say, but by the fact that his audience of good Dutch burghers was shocked: that they had never heard of these basic facts of Islamic jurisprudence...

I was shocked too.  I was shocked that in the year 2012, these Dutch infidels – intellectual infidels – professed to be shocked, and indeed gave every indication of being sincerely shocked, when they heard a recognized Islamic authority spell out basic facts of Islamic belief.  These are the same basic facts that Geert Wilders has been talking about for years.  It was for daring to speak these facts – for, in effect, reporting on the same barbaric beliefs and practices that al-Haddad was now not only describing but defending – that Wilders had been hauled into court on charges of having insulted al-Haddad’s faith.  Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wilders – all of them had been reviled around the world as Islamophobes for stating these same facts.  But on that evening at De Balie it was almost as if none of these critics of Islam had ever opened their mouths.

Read it all.