Jihad Watch reported about the brouhaha when Real Time host Bill Maher blasted George Clooney for calling for a boycott of Brunei-owned hotels over the stoning of gays. The practice is to be implemented sometime in April. Maher accused Clooney of “virtue signalling” and impracticality, given that countries such as Saudi Arabia execute people for the same thing under the Sharia. This discussion brought the brutal reality of Sharia into the popular sphere, and this was a welcome development; chances are, however, that such discussions about Sharia will quickly disappear. After all, Amal Clooney, George Clooney’s wife, has already been shunned and marginalized by Hollywood for her activism on behalf of Yazidi girls who have been brutalized by jihadists who were acting in full accord with Islamic doctrine pertaining to the capture and enslavement of infidel girls.
Now comes a dose of reality about Brunei’s implementation of Sharia: A Muslim scholar in the U.S. has praised Brunei for its law to stone gays. Daniel Haqiqatjou is fully “integrated” into Western culture. In fact, he was born in Houston, Texas, attended Harvard, is now an “Islamic scholar” — and as such, he openly proclaimed: “When will other Muslim countries follow suit?”
But there are already ten countries where the penalty for gays under Sharia is death, and Haqiqatjou almost certainly knows this — and wants even more Muslim countries to kill gays. His hatred knows no bounds. Some of his words:
Salute the Sultan! Brunei Reinstates Hudud [fixed punishments] for Sexual Deviance….. If you have had a rough week or are feeling down in the dumps, I have just the news to cheer you up. The Muslim country of Brunei is implementing hudud [fixed punishments] to crack down on sodomites and fornicators!…. When rectum-sex enthusiasts are allowed to promote their gender-bending degeneracy openly, that deeply harms all of us. That brings down the moral character of society.
It is unimaginable that scholars and religious figures of any other religion would openly say such things, let alone be tolerated for doing so. Islamic supremacists have been superb in their ability to brand Muslims as victims no matter what, and to create among non-Muslims such fear of being branded “Islamophobic” if they criticize Sharia doctrines and practices.
“American Muslim scholar salutes Brunei for reinstating law on stoning gays,” by Rachel Ehrenfeld, American Center for Democracy, April 1, 2019:
Born in Houston, Texas, Daniel Haqiqatjou is a scholar of Islam. He attended Harvard University where he majored in Physics and minored in Philosophy.
On March 30, 2019 Daniel Haqiqatjou posted on his Facebook page the following statement “When will other Muslim countries follow suit?” accompanied with a link to his article titled: “Salute the Sultan! Brunei Reinstates Hudud [fixed punishments] for Sexual Deviance.”
Haqiqatjou’s statement and article were written in relation to the decision of Brunei to implement the Sharia laws from April 3, 2019 punishing sodomy, adultery and rape with the death penalty, including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
Here are excerpts from Daniel Haqiqatjou’s article “Salute the Sultan! Brunei Reinstates Hudud [fixed punishments] for Sexual Deviance” (March 30, 2019):
If you have had a rough week or are feeling down in the dumps, I have just the news to cheer you up. The Muslim country of Brunei is implementing hudud [fixed punishments] to crack down on sodomites and fornicators!
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This is exactly right. The Sharia [Islamic Law] protects all of our rights, individually and communally. When rectum-sex enthusiasts are allowed to promote their gender-bending degeneracy openly, that deeply harms all of us. That brings down the moral character of society. That destroys the sanctity of marriage. That teaches the world that sexual desire — no matter how base, how deviant, how contrary to God’s will — is acceptable to pursue and, in fact, must be pursued.The LGBT indoctrination program, however, doesn’t want you to recognize these harms. They want you to think gay sex acts are “victimless” and that marriage between men and women is not a sanctified institution. Rather, marriage, according to them, can be remolded into anything that society chooses: two men, two women, two men and one woman, three women and a horse, etc. There is nothing special or unique about the relationship between men and women that forecloses the possibility of LGBT marital options.
But we do reject this social constructionist nonsense. Allah created human beings in a certain way. Our bodies and minds are created in a certain way and only certain types of relationships allow human beings to flourish in this world and the next, while other types of behaviors lead to destruction and widespread suffering. LGBT relationships and relationships outside the confines of Islamic law are inherently destructive…..