Below is a post I wrote on 10 March 2010, over fifteen years ago, about Sharia law expansion in Australia, i.e. the spread of Islam.
Since then, Sharia courts in the UK have proliferated, as they have in the US. Large parts of the UK -- I've seen them -- are indistinguishable from Islamabad or Herat. The daily Islamic call to prayer sounds from Tower Bridge, while the UK government is restricting where Christians can pray. Minneapolis allows the Islamic call to prayer, from dawn to dusk.
In Australia, there's manifestly more tension between our small Jewish community and the much larger and more aggressive and much more aggressively anti-semitic Muslim community. And we have our own Sharia courts:
Sharia regulates the legal relationships many Australian Muslims enter into and out of, including marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance, as well as contractual and commercial dealings. Ref
I could go on, but it's too dreary. And I'm a bigot and racist for even reminding folks of this.
We are walking -- not quite blindfolded, but refusing to see the real and present danger -- towards societies ruled by Islam. Nowhere in the world have countries ruled by Islam -- the 56 members of Organisation of the Islamic Conference, for example -- been good on measures of Human Development.
I've been to many Muslim countries, in Africa, in Asia, in the Middle East. Nowhere are they as vibrant as the best of non-Muslim countries.
Indonesia? you might ask. Well, the most popular, most vibrant and open part of Indonesia is Bali, which is Hindu and Buddhist. What about Malaysia? you counter. Last time I was there with a bunch of people, none of them afflicted by my "Islam Dementia Syndrome", when we got on our boat and sailed into Thai waters, the relief was palpable. Everyone felt better and more welcome in the Buddhist country of Thailand, than in the Muslim country of Malaysia, their next door neighbour. Ditto the catholic country of the Philippines. Where we've been all over. But the worst bits of it, the bits they warn out about, are the few counties run by Muslim local governments. There violence and lawlessness abounds. One of our friends was murdered there a decade ago, because he was not Muslim.
The restrictions in Islamic countries are on women, on gays, on minorities, on free speech, on the free practice of religion. Basically on anyone non-Muslim, non male and non-straight. And that's just the start. Because in the end there must be complete superiority of the "Religion of Peace" -- the latest revealed Abrahamic religion and now the only true one. They say. And they believe. After all, "Islam" does mean "Submission", not "peace" as many mistakenly believe.
Yet I'm the bigot and racist for pointing this out. And that I pointed it out fifteen years ago, and things have only got worse.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the great Somali-born anti-Islam activist-apostate, has pointed out the soft form of Islamisation -- Dawa -- is more dangerous than the hard form of Jihadism, of terrorism. Because everyone, at least all non-Muslims, can get behind trying to stem terrorism. But Dawa is all about "Free Speech", it's proselytising. It's activism. It's calling for Sharia Law courts, and praying on the streets. It's demanding we kuffars we non-believers, also adhere to the Ramadan month of fasting, and to broadcast the call to prayer at 05:00 am. We get used to these ill-intentioned people -- proselytizing Muslims -- using our Free Speech laws to bring down the very countries that champion free speech.
["Ill-intentioned" by my own judgement since they're all about restricting the rights of all those who don't follow their god, their "religion of peace", their view of piety].
Pshaw!
So, here's a repost from 2010.
'Australian Muslim leader calls for implementation of "elements of Sharia"'
Hi DDA ["Dumbledoresarmy"], I just wanted to say thanks and congratulations for the wonderful posts above, enlightening, as always.
I had some old, old Aussie mates visiting me here in Hong Kong recently for a week or so. Of course, over time, we got onto the issue of Islamic -- I think they were rather startled that my bookshelf is almost all matters Islam.... They reckoned that, in Oz, we didn't need to worry about "Stealth", or any other encroachment of Islam, because Aussies would just tell them to go stick it. Male mate reminded me that Paul Keating (as PM?) had said something pretty sound along lines of "if you want to live here, you have to buy into our system", or some such words. Female mate was interested in learning more about Islam, what to read off my bookshelf and which blogs to read and I set her straight on that. Some of the comments in the Aussie media in response to the Sharia suggestion above might indicate that indeed Aussies will stand up to creeping Sharia.
On the other hand, I wonder if there's not been somewhat of a divergence in recent months/years: that the bloggers and commentators have become more learned and sound on the danger of Islam -- so that we see, for example, comments critical of dhimmi articles, even in leftie papers such as the Guardian -- while the MSM and pollies have become ever more craven in their excusing of even the most egregious aspects of Islam. Or is that just my imagination?
Re my old mates: I'll have to make sure they're tuned into this report and the comments thereon, to make sure that the "go stick it" attitude to ridiculous suggestions like this one are strengthened.
BTW: haven't seen anyone refer to the "One Law For Al l" coalition in the UK. They're anti Sharia and have lot of respectable membership/support -- ie not right-wing loonies, or fringe elements. And their beef is that Sharia is bad for both women and children. Simple message: it's bad for women and children. That message ought to stop it dead. (I say "ought"....)A poster ("PJG") had the following comment:
Meeker, as for your Aussie friends "reckoning" stealth jihad will not happen in Australia, I believe that attitude is more an indication of the "she'll be right" mentality here than anything else.
It was Peter Costello, not Keating, who said "If you want Sharia law, go somewhere else" or some similar thing, but he is gone now, and our current PM is overseeing the introduction of "ethical" Sharia banking, and the virtually free entry of Muslim "asylum seekers". As you know, Islamic infiltration is multi-faceted and backed by great determination and, presently, confidence.
Furthermore, Australia is now made up of many migrant groups. I have only met one Chinese person, for instance, who knows or cares about Muslim infiltration. Are such people here to defend Australia in any way? This is one of the beauties of multiculturalism, for Muslim infiltraters: they can hide amongst all the MC chaos. I am not saying they will necessarily succeed in Islamizing Australia, but it won't be as easy as your friends think to counter their zeal.Earlier, regarding the Muslim leader Zacharia Matthews, PJG also had the following very useful comment:
I went to hear Mark Durie talk tonight, and bought a few more copies of his book to pass around. In his book ("The Third Choice") he mentions this Matthews man:
"On Friday 20/3/01, Zachariah Matthews, a prominent Australian Muslim youth leader, presented a lecture to the Muslim Society at the University of Western Sydney. His subject was the proper method of establishing Islam in the lands of immigration. He argued that it was necessary to adhere to principles derived from the example of Muhammed's Hijrah 'migration' to Medina, since 'The Prophetic Method of Dawah is the only method that will bring us success.' Matthews listed six 'Hijrah Management Principles', which were based upon episodes in Muhammed's life. Of these the third was 'secrets should be hidden' and the sixth 'deception is necessary'.
Matthews also proposed a principle "that it can be necessary to apply a 'need to know' basis for revealing the plans of Islam, even to Muslims".
Even Muslims don't know what he has in store for them. They might be in for a nasty surprise if they help him get this tiny little bit of Sharia up and running. They might end up with some Sharia they don't like very much...
