Part one 

The successor to dhimma is the Sharia.

When Ottoman Empire collapsed and western powers like France and Great Britain came in to administer the former territories of the empire, western values and ideas reemerged.

The idea of equality of citizenship was enforced. So was religious freedom that allowed Christianity to tickle back. It did not take time before ideas like Socialism, Capitalism and others based on secular concepts began to flourish again.

An example of such emergence was the Ba’th party in most of Middle-East. The party was conceived as a center-left secular pan-Arab nationalist party.  Founded by Michel Aflag, the word Ba’th means resurrection. It went contrary to the ideas of other Arab governments that were more Islamic and theocratic.

The presence of Westerners in Arab land, governing and the fear of the emerging western norms on Arab streets were soon interpreted as a mortal threat to Islam. Those in the Muslim world who felt so strongly about that soon constituted themselves into what is today referred to as radical Islam. It was the environment that produced a group like Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt .

Aside from representing the frustration of many Muslims who lost an empire and did not seem to find a significant role in the new world order that emerged after the Second World War, the radical Islamists also desired to return to a purified form of Islam. One of their ways for achieving that was an aggressive enforcement of the Sharia.

The Sharia originates from the Koran. In the Koran, Sharia provides the general principles of behavior without a whole lot of specifics. Over the years, the divine teachings as are obtained in the Koran have been interpreted and expanded to cover the changing times and lives of Muslims. This process is called ijtihad. These laws promulgated through human effort are known as fiqh. They are not part of the permanent divine laws and as such could be reexamined and reformulated if need be.

Prof. Khalaf, a professor of Sharia at Cairo School of Law stated, “All Sharia rules are based on their reason and the existence and non-existence of a rule depends on the existence or non-existence of its reason.” He also wrote, “Sharia rule is applicable if its reason is present, even if the wisdom of the rule is not understood but that a rule is inapplicable if its reason does not exist, even if the wisdom of the rule is clear.”

The openness to varying interpretations is what makes the Sharia a wonderful tool in the hands of Islamists. The Sharia of Saudi Arabia is different from the Sharia implemented by the Taliban in Afghanistan . In many states that consider themselves Islamic, the Sharia is being implemented across the land. Like dhimma before it, the implication of Sharia on non-Muslims is just the same. When fully enforced, it imposes restrictions on Christians, leaving many with just two options – emigrate or convert to Islam. Figures show that in the last ten years close to ten million Christians have left Egypt , Iraq , Jordan , Syria and Palestine for Europe and America .

In Nigeria , the Christian –Muslim conflicts often get a political disguise. Until recently, the Muslims of Northern Nigeria seemed more satisfied exerting their blow on Christians on the cloak of political reasons, be it in Jos in 1945, Kano in 1957, all of northern Nigeria in 1966, Kano in 1980, Maiduguri in 1982, Jimeta in 1984, Gombe in 1985, Kaduna & Kafanchan in 1991, Bauchi, Kastina, & Kano in 1991, Zango-Kataf in 1992, Funtua in 1993, Kano in 1994.

A careful look at the nature of the massacres, the choice of targets and the motivations behind them show the Islamist elements that desire to establish a pure form of an Islamic North that will not be adulterated by infidels. Within this period, the Muslims sporadically made it clear as when in December 1994 they captured and murdered Christian trader, Gideon Akaluka, who was under police protection. He was accused of tearing pages of the Koran in the northern city of Kano . Muslim group beheaded him and hoisted his head on a pike and paraded through the streets of Kano .  On December 12, 2001, a Nigerian Christian truck driver, Saint Moritz , reversing his truck in Kano accidentally ran into an area occupied by Koranic study group. As students fled, one dropped his Koran. The truck trampled on a copy of the Koran. Muslim groups pursued the man into a police station, overpowered the few cops on post and killed him.

In 1999, the first predominately Northern Muslims state of Zamfara came out to declare its desire to have Sharia law fully observed. On January 10, 2001, while the rest of the world watched the Luna eclipse, hundreds of Muslim youths went on rampage in the northern city of Maiduguri . The youths blamed the eclipse on sinful activities committed in the city by Christians. They attacked hotels, bars, brothels, churches, burning and killing, screaming: “God is great!” “We want Sharia.” On October 15, 2001, as America began air strike against Afghanistan , riots broke out in northern Nigerian city of Kano against the air strike. Hundreds of non-Muslims were killed by mobs carrying the picture of Osama bin Laden. To date, thirteen states of the North have declared Sharia law. Since then, over 10,000 people have been killed in religious conflicts

While countries like Nigeria , Sudan , Philippines , Indonesia have lived with serious incidents of Muslims massacre of Christians for years, what is interesting is the angling of some Muslims now living in the West for the imposition of Sharia laws. Coming after September 11 attack on America, July 7 attack on London, March 11 attack on Madrid, and the October 12 attack on Bali by Islamic radicals, this new poser is attracting attention in Western countries as far away as Australia.

At least on rhetorical level, Australia is proving itself to be the ground zero of the ongoing conflict between Islam and the West. 

Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo will be signing copies of his book, Children of a Retired God  at Igwebuke Hall in Hapeville, near Atlanta International Airport , Georgia on Sat. June 28^th at 8.pm and at the People’s Club Hall in Boston on Saturday, August 23^rd, 2008 at 8.00pm. For more information, contact Ehimen Edokpa at Integrity Business Group,129 Union Street , Lynn, Phone: 978-335-4451. More dates and venues will be announced as soon as they become available. His latest books, How I Helped to Elect Obama President & Africa: The Shit that Happened will be out soon.

Robot  Villager

# 1 While countries like Nigeria, ...Read the full article. Posted by Robot| 18.06.2008 13:09

allaccess  Villager

# 2 The position of Islamic extremist is clear, total domination of all non-Muslims and forced conversion to Islam. The position of "moderate” Muslims is clear, they are either unable to control the extremists in their midst or they simply use the extremists to do their dirty work and it is evident that many support the actions of these extremists. Therefore, it is quite safe to say Islam is an blood-thirsty religion and must be met with full force to stop it impeding the progress we are making with literacy, democracy and civility in the global society. Posted by allaccess| 18.06.2008 16:08

draftman  Villager

# 3 @allaccess & author ditto to the xtians. It is clear to most pp that christianity is a religion of evil doers, it seeks to dominate the world with your immoral behaviour, like lieing, nudity, raping, pedophiles, stealing, adulterers,etc... there's no day that I don't read about another lying or steling pastors. Your western xtians has done the most damage to the world human race, with hate, crusaders, apatheid, western slavery, holocaust. That is why we need sharia law to stop all these rapist from our mist. Take your drinking, drunking, immorality, stealing and lieing to the eastern nigeria where is accepted. Majority of the citizen should have the proragative to choose their rule, if the majority are not complaining, what odacity do you outsiders have to complain, can I camplain about the xtian rule that gov't must close on Sunday for the pastors to do their money business, how about complete close on Friday. Obviously, the author is promoting his masters religion agenda by not mentioning all the atrocities done by the xtians. It is a christian that bomb the Oklahoma building killing over 125 adults and children, your fake european bible was found in hid rental truck, it was a xtian who bomb the clinic in NY due to the conviction of their misguided religion, it was a christian that did the Olympic bombing, I can go on and on. I did not hear xtians condeming these horrible act by their fellow mumus xtians. The fact is there are extremist in any religion, It inresponsible to condemned all for the action of view. It is fruitless to go back and forth about which religion is right or wrong, they are imported to africans, these are not our fore fathers religion, it just another hand down from our parents, so stop doing their fight for them, we have more important things to solve in our country. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the west, and you cannot stop that. Stop the nonsense, your ranting, does not contribute anything to the society. Posted by draftman| 18.06.2008 17:00

allaccess  Villager

# 4 Images of Extremes http://www.unicef.de/foto/2007/english/index.htm winner of the international photo competition “UNICEF Photo of the Year” - Child brides 1st Prize goes to a muslim--picture taken in Afghanistan winner of the international photo competition “UNICEF Photo of the Year”. shows a wedding couple in Afghanistan who could not be more opposite. The groom, Mohammed, looks much older than his 40 years. The bride, Ghulam, is still a child; she just turned 11. “The UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007 raises awareness about a worldwide problem. Millions of girls are married while they are still under age. Most of theses child brides are forever denied a self-determined life”, says UNICEF Patroness Eva Luise Köhler at the award ceremony in Berlin. Ps: sharia law actually condones paedophilia and by extension, rape Posted by allaccess| 18.06.2008 17:23

allaccess  Villager

# 5 MUHAMMAD, AISHA, ISLAM, AND CHILD BRIDES Muhammad was 52 and Aisha was 9 when they married and sexually consummated their marriage. Muhammad followed an Arab custom in marrying a child who had her first menstrual cycle. This action must be questioned, regardless of it being a cultural norm, because Muhammad's action and teachings on marriage established an Islamic precedent: a girl is judged an adult following her first menses, and is eligible for marriage and sexual relations. Thus Muslim men are allowed to marry and have intercourse with young girls who have happened to have an early first menstrual cycle, this leads to physical and psychological damage to the child. PS: being the founder of islam, he was thus exempt from sharia..what am I saying? he did not need to be exempted, sharia actually supports such rapist actions. you can marry a 9 year old as long as you dont steal a goat, in whcih case you you will be amputated - unless of course you are a sheikh Posted by allaccess| 18.06.2008 17:33

superego  Villager

# 6 Read this allaccess and be enlightened. http://www.againstscience.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19 1. There is no medical reasoning or agreement on age of marriage. 2. The right age to marry depends on an expert assessment by doctors or nurses and the like and can fall anywhere from the first menstrual cycle to the last. It all depends on physical and mental maturity and not a magic age number, like 18, 16 or 15 as it is in USA. 3. God gave Mary Jesus at about 11-15, she as betrothed between 9-11. 4. Delayed marriage leads to Breast cancer, HIV explosions, single parenthood epidemics as the US now has etc, very unfair and wickedness to these Bast**rd babies who society failed to protect by ensuring young girls who f*&ked and got pregnant married. http://www.nationmaster.com/red/pie/hea_tee_pre-health-teenage-pregnancy 5. Once nature lets the human body start making eggs, that body is fit to be a family, when did we supersede nature? All that need be considered is an assessment of the physical and mental maturity. Once this is OK, that lady or man making eggs or sperm can naturally be a family! 6. As you recognize, his wife Aisha was mature ( www.AishaWasMature.com ) and wrote of their marriage herself in very mature words that are preserved till today to allow us see her frame of mind. She was one of the greatest contributors to Islam. 7. The west only recently fixed an age to stop those who exploit little children, not due to any moral or scientific finding. The old marriage age is pinged on this education system 8. Age of maturity varies with society, nutrition etc. In the time of Jesus and Muhammed (PBU Them) ladies life expectancy was about 40, so they started quick and ended soon after. Puberty is still oscillating as we speak. And age of puberty and menarche need be considered to decide what age it's best and safest ladies marry. 13 of today is approximately equal to 8 of their day. 9. Please do not get it twisted, Prophet Muhammad was not above the Shariah (best and fairest law yet on Earth) law. He abided by it. 10. A woman is born capable to be a mother. Notice as an infant she plays 'house', has dolls and pretends to be a mother, she pretends to cook, and fastens a doll on her back as a pretend baby. This is the miraculous way God made women. Ready from day one! . Of course each woman varies and we must not exploit. In the western society, the woman doesn't ever receive further training and rightly needn't marry till late, but if she were like a nomadic Fulani, where at 8 she has learned the trade and is a responsible adult, able to sell her milk etc. There is absolutely no reason why if her physique and mental state are mature, she should remain following her dad till she is 16, f*^ing the boys around the way. In these societies, unlike the west where a woman wastes her youth discussing Britney, Beyonce and hair styles, from birth they discuss about how great a wife they can be and compete in their plans of how happy a home they can keep. they are ready and revised for this from birth. Same goes to a man who matures slightly later than a woman. By 13 if he has learned his trade and can handle his cows, he can marry a nomadic Fulani girl, he needn't wait till he is 18 and at high risk of HIV, STD's, bast**rd kids out of wedlock, till he marries. Marriage is not a trap, and Islam unlike any notable other religion and society before or after it till the 19th century gave women the explicit right to pronounce divorce on their husband as and at whenever they felt like. So these women or men can end that marriage any time they want, it ain't no trap. A woman who marries early as I wish my daughters do, can have given birth to her family by 16, 5 kids, and by 29 she will be full, body intact cuz the younger body handles pregnancy better, beautiful, her kids all grown, and she can have a wonderful career and life from 30- death. So wonderful! Unlike the western system where smack in the middle of their lives they are tied with kids and become depressed, mad and frigid...and at risk of Breast cancer! I am a Medical Doctor and I challenge any other qualified such individual to come and contest the facts I have posted above. Posted by superego| 18.06.2008 18:05

ROSMAY  Villager

# 7 =draftman;4295057183>@allaccess & author ditto to the xtians. It is clear to most pp that christianity is a religion of evil doers, it seeks to dominate the world with your immoral behaviour, like lieing, nudity, raping, pedophiles, stealing, adulterers,etc... there's no day that I don't read about another lying or steling pastors. Your western xtians has done the most damage to the world human race, with hate, crusaders, apatheid, western slavery, holocaust. That is why we need sharia law to stop all these rapist from our mist. Take your drinking, drunking, immorality, stealing and lieing to the eastern nigeria where is accepted. Majority of the citizen should have the proragative to choose their rule, if the majority are not complaining, what odacity do you outsiders have to complain, can I camplain about the xtian rule that gov't must close on Sunday for the pastors to do their money business, how about complete close on Friday. Obviously, the author is promoting his masters religion agenda by not mentioning all the atrocities done by the xtians. It is a christian that bomb the Oklahoma building killing over 125 adults and children, your fake european bible was found in hid rental truck, it was a xtian who bomb the clinic in NY due to the conviction of their misguided religion, it was a christian that did the Olympic bombing, I can go on and on. I did not hear xtians condeming these horrible act by their fellow mumus xtians. The fact is there are extremist in any religion, It inresponsible to condemned all for the action of view. It is fruitless to go back and forth about which religion is right or wrong, they are imported to africans, these are not our fore fathers religion, it just another hand down from our parents, so stop doing their fight for them, we have more important things to solve in our country. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the west, and you cannot stop that. Stop the nonsense, your ranting, does not contribute anything to the society. I would have expected you to counter the author's points by postulating your own instead of employing adjectives that are devoid of correct spellings. Every religion has its good and bad sides.Those to blame for religious intolerance are the extremists and teachers that brain-wash them. Posted by ROSMAY| 18.06.2008 18:17

lateesha  Villager

# 8 =superego;4295057215>Read this allaccess and be ... http://www.againstscience.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19 1. There is no medical reasoning or agreement on age of marriage. 2. The right age to marry depends on an expert assessment by doctors or nurses and the like and can fall anywhere from the first menstrual cycle to the last. It all depends on physical and mental maturity and not a magic age number, like 18, 16 or 15 as it is in USA. 3. God gave Mary Jesus at about 11-15, she as betrothed between 9-11. 4. Delayed marriage leads to Breast cancer, HIV explosions, single parenthood epidemics as the US now has etc, very unfair and wickedness to these Bast**rd babies who society failed to protect by ensuring young s who f*&ked and got pregnant married. http://www.nationmaster.com/red/pie/hea_tee_pre-health-teenage-pregnancy 5. Once nature lets the human body start making eggs, that body is fit to be a family, when did we supersede nature? All that need be considered is an assessment of the physical and mental maturity. Once this is OK, that lady or man making eggs or sperm can naturally be a family! 6. As you recognize, his wife Aisha was mature ( www.AishaWasMature.com ) and wrote of their marriage herself in very mature words that are preserved till today to allow us see her frame of mind. She was one of the greatest contributors to Islam. 7. The west only recently fixed an age to stop those who exploit little children, not due to any moral or scientific finding. The old marriage age is pinged on this education system 8. Age of maturity varies with society, nutrition etc. In the time of Jesus and Muhammed (PBU Them) ladies life expectancy was about 40, so they started quick and ended soon after. Puberty is still oscillating as we speak. And age of puberty and menarche need be considered to decide what age it's best and safest ladies marry. 13 of today is approximately equal to 8 of their day. 9. Please do not get it twisted, Prophet Muhammad was not above the Shariah (best and fairest law yet on Earth) law. He abided by it. I am a Medical Doctor and I challenge any other qualified such individual to come and contest the facts I have posted above. You call yourself a medical doctor,big deal. There are fools and imbeciles in the medical profession you know. Are you now telling us a 9 year old is mature enough to be a wife and mother as is the order of the day amongst your brethren. Go to various parts of the Muslim world including our own backward of nothern Nigeria,grown men with mindsets such as yours have rendered little "babies" practically useless by way of VVF because allah tells them a 6 year old is ripe for marriage afterall Mohammed was tighing his aisha when she was only 6 and at 9 he moved her into his vono bed. Did your medical science also not tell you that a 9 year old does not have pelvis mature enough to push out a baby. Keep talking nonsense rather than stand up for what is right. Right there in northern Nigeria, Christian volunteer missionary doctors have dedicated their lives in repairing the fistulae on these poor souls that have been rejected and cast away by society but rather than condemn this beastly act you flash your MBBS Kafanchan before our faces.Nonsense. Do you think anyone is impressed ? Medical doctor my hammer toes. Posted by lateesha| 18.06.2008 18:25

superego  Villager

# 9 @ Lateesha. 1. VVF is only more predominant in younger women. Older women have this too. Go check statistics. 2. It's a trade in, which do you prefer? VVF or Breast Cancer. The west trades in the risk of VVF in return for epidemics of Breast Cancer, HIV and other problems, that occur with delayed marriage. http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1635225920070417 3. If you took time to read my posts, a careful assessment of each woman's physical and mental maturity must be made, NO MD CAN TELL ME THERE IS S STANDARD SET AGE FOR MARRIAGE. I REPEAT- NO M.D. CAN TELL ME AND PROVE TO ME THAT THERE IS A SET AGE FOR MARRIAGE FOR ALL SOCIETIES AND GENERATIONS. 4. You are wicked and only think of the women and not the unborn children if you focus on the few problems of Muslim societies, due to early marriage and not the reality that kids f&*k early and can die in the US army early, and u do not consider the B*&stard explosion and all the kids your type of system releases into the society that become serial killers etc, because they were deprived the right of a family by a wicked system. You are evil and wicked to these kids who had no say in soliciting for a family that is their pure natural right. Look at it, who has the most teen pregnancy in the world. VVF is due to poor medical facility, if u know one thing about medicine you will know this, it has little to do with age of conception. IT'S THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS THESE YOUNG WIVES FORCE AGAINST THE CONTRACTED PELVIS, WHY DOESN'T USA HAVE AS MUCH VVF WHEN THEY LEAD IN TEEN PREGNANCY in the world?- http://www.nationmaster.com/red/pie/hea_tee_pre-health-teenage-pregnancy Posted by superego| 18.06.2008 18:35

lateesha  Villager

# 10 =draftman;4295057183>@allaccess & author ditto to the xtians. It is clear to most pp that christianity is a religion of evil doers, it seeks to te the world with your immoral behaviour, like lieing, , raping, s, stealing, erers,etc... there's no day that I don't read about another lying or steling pastors. Your western xtians has done the most damage to the world human race, with , crusaders, apatheid, western slavery, holocaust. That is why we need sharia law to stop all these rapist from our mist. Take your drinking, drunking, immorality, stealing and lieing to the eastern nigeria where is accepted. Majority of the citizen should have the proragative to choose their rule, if the majority are not complaining, what odacity do you outsiders have to complain, can I camplain about the xtian rule that gov't must close on Sunday for the pastors to do their money business, how about complete close on Friday. Obviously, the author is promoting his masters religion agenda by not mentioning all the atrocities done by the xtians. It is a christian that the Oklahoma building over 125 s and children, your fake european bible was found in hid rental truck, it was a xtian who the clinic in NY due to the conviction of their misguided religion, it was a christian that did the Olympic ing, I can go on and on. I did not hear xtians condeming these horrible act by their fellow mumus xtians. The fact is there are extremist in any religion, It inresponsible to condemned all for the action of view. It is fruitless to go back and forth about which religion is right or wrong, they are imported to africans, these are not our fore fathers religion, it just another hand down from our parents, so stop doing their fight for them, we have more important things to solve in our country. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the west, and you cannot stop that. Stop the nonsense, your ranting, does not contribute anything to the society. Typical bunkumery. We are not talking of extremists.We are talking about the core tenets of Islam which spells doom on non Muslims anyhow you slice it. Tim McVeigh did not kill for his God,neither did the abortion Dr killers. There is no place Christ asks his followers to kill in his cause unlike Mo that went as far as telling you that the only way you are assured a place in jannat with 72 wide eyed houris with succulent bazookas is by being killed while fighting for Islam. Need I say more? Posted by lateesha| 18.06.2008 18:37

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