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Sharia Law in the West? What Would Life Be Like? | Part 4 · Hank Unplugged

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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Hank Hennigrath, president of the Christian Research
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  Speaker 1: Institute and host of the Hank Unplugged podcast. This podcast...
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  Speaker 1: is the last in a series, at least for the
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  Speaker 1: time being, on the horrors of Sharia law. In previous podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: I demonstrate that no group is more harmed by Sharia
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  Speaker 1: law than our women. And I went on to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: in another podcast, the centrality of violent jihad in Sharia.
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  Speaker 1: In today's podcast, I want to discuss what life would
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  Speaker 1: be like in Western civilization if we were, even now,
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  Speaker 1: under Sharia law. Now Christians and Jews don't have to
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  Speaker 1: wonder about that. They don't have to wonder what life
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  Speaker 1: in Western civilization might be like under Sharia law. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because they have already experienced it. They experienced it in Spain.
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  Speaker 1: From the Islamic conquest back in 711 to its final
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  Speaker 1: demise in the year 1492, religion was the law and
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  Speaker 1: therefore Islam was the law. Now during this period, what
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  Speaker 1: is surreptitiously described as the golden age of Islam, Sharia
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  Speaker 1: dictated virtually every aspect of public and private life. Suffice
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  Speaker 1: it to say, in the Andalusian paradise, there was no
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  Speaker 1: separation between Sharia and state. Muslim clerics meticulously micromanaged virtually
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  Speaker 1: every aspect of human behavior. And that includes whether something
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  Speaker 1: touched by Christians could be used for ritual purposes, or
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  Speaker 1: whether a child would even be allowed to enter a mosque.
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  Speaker 1: In this, the supposed golden age of Islam, even musical
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  Speaker 1: instruments were strictly forbidden, as well as singing. Where music
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  Speaker 1: and singing did exist in Andalusia, It did so not
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  Speaker 1: because of Sharia stipulations, but in spite of Sharia stipulations.
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  Speaker 1: Had Islam prevailed in Western Europe, well, there would be
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  Speaker 1: no Gregorian chant. There'd be no organs, no Bach, no Mozart,
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  Speaker 1: no Beethoven, no symphonies, no operas, and heaven forbid the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of jazz music. and also unlawful Islam were artistic
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  Speaker 1: representations of human bodies, much less their dissection. Therefore, it
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  Speaker 1: was not Muslims who paved the path towards modern medical achievements,
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  Speaker 1: but Western thinkers. The plain, unadulterated fact is that Western
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  Speaker 1: civilization thrived on the intellectual traditions that made medical and
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  Speaker 1: mathematical achievements feasible. It was not Islam. And as far
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  Speaker 1: as the freedom of religion is concerned, it simply didn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: Very much like in Saudi Arabia or Iran today, Christians
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  Speaker 1: under the control of Sharia were not permitted to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: faith in the public square. In fact, the display of
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  Speaker 1: crosses and the ringing of church bells were strictly forbidden.
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  Speaker 1: And woe to anyone who dared proclaim that Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: divine or Muhammad a false prophet. Far from a portrait
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  Speaker 1: of Muslims and Jews and Christians living in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of a peaceful and illusion paradise of tolerance, non-Muslims in
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  Speaker 1: actuality were subjected by the severity The choice back then
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  Speaker 1: was simple. Shahada, subjugation, or sword. Shahada, of course, being
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  Speaker 1: the mandatory belief and confession that there's no God but
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  Speaker 1: Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And were
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  Speaker 1: it not for Christian discontent with the trappings of Spanish Sharia,
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  Speaker 1: including their exhortation and their extortion as dimmies, their treatment
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  Speaker 1: of women, the rank intolerance of anything other than doctrinaire Islam,
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  Speaker 1: there would have been no reconquest. And if there was
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  Speaker 1: no reconquest, Spain today would more resemble North Africa or
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  Speaker 1: Iran than the Netherlands or Italy. In fact, if it
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  Speaker 1: were not for Christian resistance and reconquest, Spain simply would not,
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  Speaker 1: could not, have recaptured the richness of its heritage. Not
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  Speaker 1: everyone is in line with what I'm talking about right now.
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  Speaker 1: I think of former Republican presidential candidate, Carly Fiorina, who
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  Speaker 1: was effusive in her espousal of medieval Islam. In her
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  Speaker 1: considered judgment, Islamic civilization from the year 800 to 1600,
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  Speaker 1: she said was the greatest in the world. She elaborated
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  Speaker 1: by claiming that Islam was responsible for safekeeping the treasuries
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  Speaker 1: of past knowledge, and then calls Islamic leadership enlightened. And
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  Speaker 1: she's not alone. There are an endless number of modern politicians,
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  Speaker 1: of professors, particularly professors, of pundits who seem bent on
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  Speaker 1: perpetuating this narrative. I've talked in previous broadcasts about President
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. He, for one, waxes eloquent regarding the proud
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  Speaker 1: tradition of Islamic tolerance, and then he has gone so
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  Speaker 1: far as to ominously warn Westerners against impeding Muslim citizens
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  Speaker 1: from practicing religion as they see fit. Behind this rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: lurks the ever-present specter of censorship. Because to question the
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  Speaker 1: proud tradition of Sharia is now considered hostility. And to
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  Speaker 1: impede Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's characterized as Islamophobia. Obama could not have said it
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  Speaker 1: more clearly. He said, Islam has a proud religious tradition
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  Speaker 1: and that Muslims must be allowed to practice in the
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  Speaker 1: West as they see fit. The problem with the premise
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  Speaker 1: is that Islam is far more than a religion. I've
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  Speaker 1: said it before and it bears repeating. It is a
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  Speaker 1: comprehensive religion socio-economic, political juggernaut that rides on the very
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  Speaker 1: rails of Sharia law. Far from being a bridge transmitting
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  Speaker 1: ancient erudition and knowledge westward, Islam has and always will
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  Speaker 1: pose a significant barrier. Were it not for the translation
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  Speaker 1: work of Aramean and Christian the heritage of Athens and
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem would most certainly have died. It would have died
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  Speaker 1: on the altar of Sharia dogmatism and is documented by
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  Speaker 1: what I would call the venerable French historian Sylvain Guggenheim.
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  Speaker 1: He was a venerable historian who said that Sharia jurisprudence
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  Speaker 1: was largely antagonistic to the spirit of Greek civilization. And
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  Speaker 1: I think what's noteworthy about Guggenheim is that he, as
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  Speaker 1: few others in academia at the time, and even in
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  Speaker 1: the present, was willing not only to follow the facts
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  Speaker 1: toward whatever conclusion they might lead, but he was also
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  Speaker 1: willing to suffer the wrath of self-loathing cultural elites And
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  Speaker 1: so predictably, he was immediately branded. He was recast as Islamophobic.
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  Speaker 1: He was recast and branded as racist. And then a
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  Speaker 1: committee was convened to investigate his work. What did they find? Well,
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  Speaker 1: in their opinion, his research was so threatening to the
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  Speaker 1: educational establishment that an international collective of 56 researchers in
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  Speaker 1: history and philosophy found it absolutely necessary to sign an
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  Speaker 1: open letter and to publish it in a Marxist newspaper
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  Speaker 1: attacking his work. And that was just the beginning. Not
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  Speaker 1: one of the 56 academics, the ones who signed the
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  Speaker 1: open letter, deemed it necessary to comment on the need
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  Speaker 1: to demythologize the myth of an Andalusian paradise, or for
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  Speaker 1: that matter, to comment on the draconian effect Sharia's had
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  Speaker 1: on women in both medieval and modern history. And likewise,
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  Speaker 1: no one thought it necessary to comment on Sharia mandates
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  Speaker 1: that have produced 14 centuries of Islamic warfare. Where is
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  Speaker 1: the outrage? Where is the dissent over the Muslims who
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  Speaker 1: are being martyred for converting to Christianity? Or for the
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  Speaker 1: Christians who are being martyred for criticizing Muhammad? In place
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  Speaker 1: of anger, There's accommodation, a disposition among Western elites to
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  Speaker 1: well appease. Some like Rowan Williams. Rowan Williams was the
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  Speaker 1: former Archbishop of Canterbury. He was the most powerful person
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  Speaker 1: in the Church of England. He went so far as
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  Speaker 1: to suggest that British law should accommodate Sharia. And that
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  Speaker 1: beginning with laws on finance and marriage. There was an
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  Speaker 1: insightful short monograph. It was titled Sharia Law for the Non-Muslim.
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  Speaker 1: And in that monograph, Bill Warner, the author, summed up
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  Speaker 1: the dilemma facing Western civilization beginning with Europe. Let me
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  Speaker 1: read that to you. This is what Bill Warner said.
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  Speaker 1: Europe is witnessing a rise in Islamic supremacism and demands
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  Speaker 1: for Sharia law and violent intimidation. Laws passed by European
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  Speaker 1: states and resolutions in European universities and other organizations have
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  Speaker 1: stifled free speech. And, he said, Sharia tribunals operate in
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  Speaker 1: the UK, run by Islamists, who openly defend a man's
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  Speaker 1: right to use violence against his wife. And in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: as well as in Denmark, Sharia-controlled zones have been declared.
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  Speaker 1: And in Germany, Sharia patrols Rome city streets, attempting to
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  Speaker 1: to impose Sharia norms. And all the while, the establishment's
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  Speaker 1: response shows more concern with preventing discussion of these facts
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  Speaker 1: than in confronting them. And of course, what has already
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  Speaker 1: happened in Europe is beginning to duplicate itself in the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. And while there is little likelihood
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  Speaker 1: that Muslims in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia are
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  Speaker 1: going to dispense with Sharia law, Western elites must come
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  Speaker 1: to their senses. They must insist that Muslims abdicate Sharia
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  Speaker 1: practices that militate against Western jurisprudence. Ayaan Hirsi Ali has
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  Speaker 1: emphatically emphasized, under no circumstances should Western countries allow Muslims
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  Speaker 1: to form self-governing enclaves in which women and other supposedly
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  Speaker 1: second-class citizens can be treated in ways that actually belong
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  Speaker 1: back in the 7th century. As a postscript to this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: let me say this. According to Abdul El-Sayed, who's now
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  Speaker 1: running for the Senate in the state of Michigan, those
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  Speaker 1: who are seeking a ban on Sharia are the exact
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  Speaker 1: same forces that drove native peoples from their lands. That's
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  Speaker 1: the narrative. Moreover, on Jesse Waters' prime time, he asserted
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  Speaker 1: that lawmakers going after Sharia law are quote, deliberately targeting
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim community. All of this despite the fact that
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  Speaker 1: as I demonstrated on a previous podcast, no group is
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  Speaker 1: more harmed by Sharia law than are women. Plainly put,
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  Speaker 1: Sharia law subjugates women in virtually every dimension of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: According to Sharia, the world is divided into two domains.
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  Speaker 1: It's the house of Islam or the house of war.
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  Speaker 1: Those who already live under Sharia and those who are
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  Speaker 1: predestined to Sharia subjugation. Islam is already the world's fastest
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  Speaker 1: growing religion. And the Muslim masses, 1,600,000,000 strong and growing,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps even larger than that right now. They're poised to
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  Speaker 1: fill A vacuum that is left by a Western culture
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  Speaker 1: slouching inexorably towards self-extinction. And that's precisely why I wrote
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  Speaker 1: the book Muslim. What you need to know about the
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  Speaker 1: world's fastest growing religion. This book is written in a
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  Speaker 1: memorable format, in a user-friendly format, and it explains everything
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  Speaker 1: about Islam. Even going to the extent of in an
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  Speaker 1: appendix explaining how we have the Shia and the Sunni.
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  Speaker 1: How did that come about? This book is available through
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  Speaker 1: the Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. You can check
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  Speaker 1: it out on the web at equip.org, or you can
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  Speaker 1: write me at Post Office Box 8500, Charlotte, North Carolina, 28271.
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  Speaker 1: It helps a lot. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: you next time with more.