"There is no doubt that the word 'sharia' carries huge challenges in relation to public relations," declares the UK's most senior Muslim minister, Baroness Warsi. "If you talk about anything [related to] 'sharia', the first vision people get is chopping off of people’s hands, having four wives and all sorts of unusual practices which, in today’s world, are not compatible with the values which we live by."
[A COMMENT] None of the 56 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation observes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although some of them originally signed up, they effectively repealed it in 1990 when they all subscribed to the sharia-compliant Cairo Declaration of Human Rights.
This bowdlerised abortion of a document removes so many of the rights conferred in the original Universal Declaration is it beyond ridiculous even to call it a charter for human rights.
Since Islam is demonstrably in the business of removing human rights from billions of people, I am proud to be both a militant secularist and an Islamophobe. Islam is a pestilence on the face of the planet. [The Huffington Post UK] Read more
