Who Are The Village Idiots In The U.S. Who Support ISIS?: The American Islamophobes and the American Jihadis!!

The American Islamophobe is probably the most dangerous!!  He or she is akin to a sleeper cell and a fifth column combined.  People like Sam Harris and Bill Maher!!  Sam, with his two stupid books calling Islam all kinds of nasty names.  Bill, with his antics, and his tongue on talk shows quoting from the Somali Ayaan her negative tribal experiences in Somalia.  What both of these "village idiots" say in the safety of their mock salons in the U.S. endangers the safety of this great country.

They hurt the homeland, advance the cause of religious apartheid, and assist ISIS in its idiotic claim that all of Islam is under attack by the U.S.  None of these idiots, including their propagates on the extreme right of US politics, such as Michelle Bachman and Sara Palin, know anything credible about Islam or the 1.6 billion Muslims.  They swallow as objective truth what the jihadists say about Islam and do to non-Muslims.  Then proceed to make the most atrocious and negative conclusions about that great faith.

It all seems to stem from the likes of Bernard Lewis of Princeton.  In his books, especially "What Went Wrong With Islam?," he imagines that the Muslim of today (a) wants to establish a Caliphate; (b) his (the Muslim's) faith suffered from no reformation movement; and (c) Islam and modernity are antagonistic.  That celebrated guru of Islam is no guru at all!!  The Caliphate is as dead as King Tut; Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia) is continuously evolving through ijtihad and legislation; the Christian Reformation and Counter-Reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries were rebellions against papalist regimes which glorified symbols over substance.

As to Islam being antagonistic to modernity, this is an Islamophobic trait that has no relationship to Islam itself.  It has to do with the demagoguery of terrorists like Boko Haram which regards Western education as un-islamic.  So Lewis, Harris, Maher, Ayaan, Bachman, Palin and Fox News are in the camp that judges Islam from their dark corner of ignorance.  They are playing on the post 9/11 fears, and on their desire to manifest loyalty to America.

They in fact drink from the well which has been contaminated by jihadi propaganda against the West, and by jihadi abhorrence of any rapprochement between the 1.6 billion Muslims and the rest of humanity.

Here is what they do not comprehend about Sharia (Islamic Law) of which I am professor at Fordham University School of Law, New York City:

• Islam is the submission to the will of the Creator. "In God (Allah in Arabic) We Trust,"
• Unless you are a jihadi butcher, "Allahu Akbar" means: We are all equal before God, regardless of whichever faith we hold.  Equality before the law;
• The principle of Tawheed (There is no God but God) is a principle that ties every faith to all faiths.  For the oneness of God is a commitment to non-discrimination -the acceptance of the other (diversity);
• In that principle there is no middle man between man/woman and their Creator.  There is a hotline between earth and the heavens, with no server or intercessor;
• "Infidel" is not what Somali Ayaan stupidly describes as non-Muslim.  "Infidel," in Islamic jurisprudence, means someone with no values;
• The Prophet Muhammad, a messenger of revelation, was born a natural birth.  And died a natural death.  Christ, in the Quran, is "the word of God." born of "immaculate conception," and "will come again,"
• A tyrant should be removed from power, if the means exist for avoiding a total breakdown of law and order (Fitna - Mayhem);
• Maslahah (public good) trumps the religious text.  In fact there is an entire jurisprudence entitled "The Non-Textual jurisprudence," on which I shall refocus my course for the Fall of 2015;
• Jihad is not the equivalent of combat.  The jihadis criminally mix between the two.  Jihad is both inner (self-improvement), and outer -self-defense (The UN Charter, Article 51);
• The law of war in Islam is fully compatible with the Geneva Conventions of 1949.  In all respects.  Including the protection of civilians in times of war.
• Under Sharia, there is no "Holy War" -as the Islamophobes claim.  Holy War is a western expression from the time of the Crusaders of the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries.  It has never been an Islamic jurisprudential term.
• Torture is fully repugnant to Islam.  For Islam, like every other faith, values the sovereignty of the individual.  US warlords like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condelesa Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith and John Yoo believe that torture is a state exigency.  That waterboarding is OK.  That Guantanamo is a Maginot Line of defense for America.  That holding Muslims for a dozen years without being either charged or released is OK -the new order (in effect, the new disorder),
• Ijtihad (the application of the mind to the text) is the means by which Islamic law evolves.  Both through unanimity (ijmah); analogy (Qiyas); or public policy for public good (Maslahah),
• Regardless of counter-practices within the variegated spectrum of 1.6 billion Muslims, Islamic Law guarantees gender equality.  Where the text connotes differences, legislation has remedied that disparity.  A woman has the unilateral right to divorce her husband, and her wealth cannot be commingled with that of her spouse by his own wish,
• The judge in Islamic Law is defendant oriented.  And the fatwa (religious pronouncement with no enforceability) is the preserve of licensed Muftis; thus the likes of Bin Laden or the crazed so-called ISIS Caliph, Al-Baghdadi, are rogue muftis.  You might as well take their fatwas to the toilet;
• As to the use of force, there is no self-help in Islamic Law.  The State under that law has the monopoly of the use of force, not the crazy jihadis, and 
• Blasphemy laws in Pakistan are nothing but a heap of crap!! 

This is only a fraction of Islamic Law.  Isn't it ridiculous:

• For several states in this United States to pass laws preventing citing Sharia in state courts as a source of law?
• For the U.S. policy-makers to slap sanctions on Egypt for removing an Islamic tyrannical rule of the Muslims Brotherhood by public recall of Brotherhood? Morsi had threatened the Copts, the Shiis, women, other broad sectors of Egyptian society and secularism!!;
• For the great majority of Americans to regard the Saudis -all Saudis -as potential terrorists, while the U.S. is assiduously seeking cooperation from Riyadh as a member of the anti-ISIS coalition?  Was David Koresh of Waco, Texas, a representative of all Texas, "The Lone Star Republic?"
• For the overwhelming  majority of the members of both houses of the US Congress to regard the Israeli/Palestinian unresolved conflict as having no impact on the growth of jihadism?

None of the above writing has the central intention of defending Islam as a faith.  No faith needs a defense, because faith is non-negotiable!!

It is an illustration of how attacking any faith can only backfire.  Pogroms and the holocaust have not succeeded in vanquishing judaism; Jihadism shall not vanquish Islam; Western colonialism did try to be a vehicle for Christianization.  It largely failed.  ISIS is only a passing disturbing phenomenon.

The clearest fact is what you can prove to be supported by demonstrable experience.  The fact is that both American Islamophobes and American jihadis cohabit the same tent.  Over that tent, the black flag of ISIS flutters.

To the village idiots, I say: You have no future.  Hate and cruelty paralyze the human brain.  That brain no longer does its work -thinking.  It is in a coma!!  And when that coma is over, the village idiots shall discover that: the suicide bombers commit anti-Islamic acts of destruction; that they have taken an express train, not to heaven but to hell; that there are no 70 virgins awaiting them, as it is only a parable, which may in reality exist only in Playboy, porn literature and in the so-called "jihad by fornication."  In summary, neither Islam nor Sharia has anything to do with the criminality that goes nowaday by the name of ISIS, Jihadism, or the Friends of Jerusalem.