MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Joseph Klein – “The far Left George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP) has been busy of late trying to ‘expose’ those evil hatemongering ‘Islamophobes’ and their enablers who have the audacity to tell the truth about Sharia law and Islamic ideology. CAP’s most recent publication in this regard is entitled ‘Fear, Inc.,’ which claims that a ‘small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts’ has been ‘spreading myths and lies about Islam.’

The uncredentialed authors of ‘Fear, Inc.’ – all part of the Center for American Progress rather than outside experts on Islam – are truthophobes. They seek, in their words, to ‘marginalize’ such people as Nonie Darwish, a woman raised as a Muslim who lived in Egypt under the yoke of Sharia law for thirty years and has provided first-hand accounts of its brutality.

Other articles on this site have already demonstrated the shoddiness, illogic and outright untruths permeating ‘Fear, Inc.’ I am not going to repeat the obvious. Instead, I want to focus on what one of the world’s leading Islamic scholars says about Sharia law, which is far closer to how the so-called Islamophobes who are the targets of CAP’s invective describe Sharia than to the CAP authors’ idealized version.

In ‘Fear, Inc.,’ the authors describe Sharia as nothing more than the ‘Muslim religious code,’ focusing on ‘charitable giving, prayer, and honoring one’s parents—precepts virtually identical to those of Christianity and Judaism.’

In a previous CAP publication entitled ‘Understanding Sharia Law Conservatives’ Skewed Interpretation Needs Debunking,’ written by two of the same Center for American Progress authors who participated in writing ‘Fear, Inc.,’ Sharia is described as ‘personal religious law and moral guidance for the vast majority of Muslims.’ The ‘core values’ of Sharia, say the authors, are ‘theological and ethical and not political’ and are ‘in harmony with the core values at the heart of America.’

To see if this benign characterization of Sharia can possibly be true, I consulted the writings of one of the most prominent Muslim scholars in the world today, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He is listed as fourteenth out of 500 of the world’s influential Muslim figures, according to the most recent study released by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center and the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.” Read more.