Shari’a ueber alles:
Look at this story, posted at Jihad Watch on November 19: “Imam misunderstands Islam, asks, ‘What is wrong with Sharia law? If someone steals…why is it wrong to cut off his hand?’”
It says, “Imam Mohamed El Sadi, the Muslim leader in Malta, believes chopping off the hands of thieves is a ‘deserving punishment.’” El Sadi said: “What is wrong with Sharia law? If someone steals, he is taking from the country or the poor, so why is it wrong to cut off his hand?” And: “But whoever denies this is not a Muslim.”
Other News:
- Abdul Majid sez: “Muslim’s wouldn’t do a thing like that because “Ramadan is a time when Muslim men “don’t even touch their wives”.
- Italy: Would-be convert from Islam to Christianity hangs himself
- UK: Muslim teen gang members boast about becoming suicide bombers
Continued:
The story also says: “Fr Renè Camilleri, who was also a guest on the programme, said he was ‘shocked’ by the Imam’s comments. ‘I tried to insist violence is unacceptable. The concept is horrific to me. It is equivalent to the death penalty. I know it is what Sharia law dictates but, coming from him, such a moderate and tolerant person, I was shocked.’”
In his comment on the article, Robert Spencer notes that what Mohamed El Sadi said, on the television program Bondiplus, in his endorsement of the cutting off of the hands of thieves, was merely expressing what orthodox Islam, what the Shari’a, holds out as right and proper and to be emulated.
The story, however, has two protagonists. One is Mohamed El Sadi, and the other is the man who thought he knew Mohamed El Sadi, and knew what Mohamed El Sadi believed, as a perfectly orthodox Muslim. The two protagonists are the Muslim Mohamed El Sadi, and the Christian Father Rene Camilleri – and it is the latter who may be of greater significance. For Mohamed El Sadi, as Robert Spencer notes in his prefatory comment, did not say anything that is not orthodox Islam:
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History Lessons:
Malta under siege: here is an unforgettable account of a different victory, the holding of Malta in 1565 by the Knights of St John, under a Frenchman, Jean de Valette:
THE KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN OF MALTA
History’s bloodiest siege used human heads as cannonballs
By JAMES JACKSON.
Excerpt:
“A hot and fetid June night on the small Mediterranean island of Malta, and a Christian sentry patrolling at the foot of a fort on the Grand Harbour had spotted something drifting in the water.
“The alarm was raised. More of these strange objects drifted into view, and men waded into the shallows to drag them to the shore. What they found horrified even these battle-weary veterans: wooden crosses pushed out by the enemy to float in the harbour, and crucified on each was the headless body of a Christian knight.
“This was psychological warfare at its most brutal, a message sent by the Turkish Muslim commander whose invading army had just vanquished the small outpost of Fort St Elmo – a thousand yards distant across the water.
“Now the target was the one remaining fort on the harbour front where the beleaguered, outnumbered and overwhelmed Christians were still holding out: the Fort St Angelo. The Turkish commander wished its defenders to know that they would be next, that a horrible death was the only outcome of continued resistance.“But the commander had not counted on the mettle of his enemy – the Knights of St John.
“Nor on the determination of their leader Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette, who vowed that the fort would not be taken while one last Christian lived in Malta.
“On news of the grotesque discovery of the headless knights – many of them his personal friends – Grand Master Valette quickly ordered that captured Turks imprisoned deep in the vaulted dungeons of the fort be taken from their cells, and beheaded one by one.
Then he returned a communiquè of his own: the heads of his Turkish captives were fired from his most powerful cannon direct into the Muslim lines.“There would be no negotiation, no compromise, no surrender, no retreat.
“We Christians, the Grand Master was saying, will fight to the death and take you with us.
“The Siege of Malta in 1565 was a clash of unimaginable brutality, one of the bloodiest – yet most overlooked – battles ever fought. It was also an event that determined the course of history, for at stake was the very survival of Christianity.” END.
Had the Knights of St John failed, and Malta – gateway of the western Mediterranean – fallen to the Ottoman Muslim Empire, all of northwest Europe might have been annihilated, and sunk into the seven hells of dhimmitude. Thanks to Jean de Valette and his Knights, that particular Islamic assault, failed; and all the glory of the late Renaissance in northwest Europe was able to flower unhindered.
But now the Third Jihad is happening and this time the ‘army of audacious barbarians’ (which is what de Valette called the Muslim horde he faced) is within the very gates of France.
May the spirit and strategy and sheer courage of Charles Martel and Jean de Valette be revived in the free people of France today.
