My latest in PJ Media:
“Everybody must get stoned,” Bob Dylan said, but despite the fact that she has been accused of committing an offense for which Islamic law prescribes stoning, the one person to whom Dylan’s words do not apply is Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Even the most hardline Muslim clerics worldwide are almost certain to remain silent about Omar’s alleged adultery, even in her home country of Somalia. The reason why is clear: she is simply too useful to their larger cause.
Roger L. Simon noted Tuesday that “going back to Somalia would definitely spell big trouble for Omar….To wit: ‘Somalia’s Islamist group al-Shabaab has publicly stoned a woman to death in a town in the south for cheating on her husband, an official told Reuters.’”
Simon is right: Omar is on extremely thin ice, Shariawise. The caliph Umar, one of Muhammad’s closest companions, even maintained that the penalty of stoning for adultery was not only part of Islamic law, but was originally in the highest authority for Muslims, the Qur’an..
Nevertheless, Ilhan Omar has nothing to worry about. Find out why by reading the rest here.