They’re complaining in this article that Islam isn’t even pro-life, so the comparison is unfair, but also they dislike the fact that Sharia is being discussed as if it were a bad thing. It reveals that all their carefully crafted public relations campaigns over the years have been ineffective even among those whom they consider allies and who would never dream of maligning Sharia in any context other than as a stick they can use to beat pro-lifers.
“Are abortion bans like Sharia? Not even close, say Muslims,” by Hannan Adely, NorthJersey.com, June 1, 2022:
When news broke that the Supreme Court was poised to strike down Roe v. Wade, critics on social media, at rallies and on talk shows called Republicans the “American Taliban” and griped that they wanted to bring Sharia, or Islamic law, to the U.S.
“It is a bit amazing. After all these years of the right screaming about the threat of Sharia law, it turns out they were just jealous,” “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah said in one such barb on May 4.
The comparisons are not only offensive but also inaccurate, say Muslims.
Under most interpretations of Islamic law, abortion is permitted within the first 120 days. Today, some American states have tougher abortion laws than Afghanistan, which allows the procedure if the mother’s life is at risk or if the child will be born with severe disabilities.
Muslim activist Daisy Khan, who was in Afghanistan in March as part of a women’s delegation, worried about the effects of U.S. policy abroad. The delegation advocated for unfreezing Afghan funds in U.S. banks and for improving Afghan girls’ access to education under Taliban rule.
“We cannot preach women’s rights to other countries when we are stepping back the rights [American] women have to control their own reproduction,” said Khan, an Edgewater resident and founder of Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, a New York-based nonprofit.
Sharia comparisons have followed a spate of new anti-abortion laws and the Supreme Court leak. The jabs about Sharia are a form of Islamophobia by the political left, say Muslim activists and academics.
“Liberals are seeking to protect women’s right to privacy and autonomy over her body,” said Sahar Aziz, Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. “They are perversely doing so by maligning Islam as misogynistic by comparing the opposition to Sharia.”
‘Misinformation’
Abed Awad, a Hasbrouck Heights attorney and a national expert in Islamic law, said he has grown frustrated with the spread of misinformation about Sharia over two decades, most recently with the abortion debate.
“Sharia, when it comes to the right to terminate a pregnancy, is far more egalitarian and progressive,” he said in an interview….
PMK says
Funny. I was not aware that Muslim women had rights to privacy and to autonomy over their own bodies.
JOHN L SCHARF says
I do not use Muhammadanism as a standard of morality.
It is untruthful, unjust, and without honor,
#AbortionCheapenedLife
Unborn persons deserve due process.
Unborn humans have right to a day in court.
Unborn Homo sapiens are due the sine qua non of habeas corpus.?
I was once banned on Facebook for stating my beliefs.
NOTE: It goes against FB Community Standards on hate speech to state:
Muhammadanism will kill Jews because even bushes won’t hide them?
Muhammadanism murders pagans daily?
Muhammadanism dehumanizes women?
Muhammadanism made pedophilia its cornerstone?
mortimer says
Scharf your critiques about Islam have ‘some’ truth to them, but overgeneralizations are unhelpful to our case.
Islam does indeed have ‘honor’, but only if you are a Muslim. They do not ‘honor’ the rights of people of other religions reciprocally. Sharia law doesn’t allow that.
Islamic ethics are dualistic … they are duplicitous and shape-changing. Islam is opportunistic, but Muslims see that as normal. The rules of Sharia are set up to benefit Muslims to the disadvantage of kafirs. Muslims consider that ‘honorable’.
somehistory says
In this one instance….being pro-life…the mozlums who say it’s nothing like…wanting to stop the massive baby-killing machine the government has allowed…is nothing…nothing whatsoever…like the lawless behavior encoded in the filthy book mozlums read, memorize and worship. is correct.
Of course, mozlums don’t add the part about their worship of the book of filth, And of course, they don’t acknowledge that its supposed *writer* and fake “prophet,” and the commands of same are all demonic filth.
As one who is firmly against the killing of unborn babies, from any moment the baby is even suspected of being present, I am greatly offended by the comparison.
‘jealous”….of mozlums…what feculent balderdash.
mozlums seek to “control” everything about the female person. Not just the “body” but the mind and spirit as well. mozlums relish the idea of controlling every person on earth and subjecting **all** women and young girls…as young as newborn girls…to their life of filthy demands that equal torment and torture.
Yes, its insulting and offensive….but the outrage of mozlums is just so much lying because they only object because they don’t want the Truth of their treatment of women, children and babies to be public knowledge.
tim gallagher says
“Maligning Islam as misogynistic”? So telling the basic truth is called maligning by this Muslim. Women being considered to be worth half what a man is, child brides, honour killings for girls and women who dare to step out of line. How these Muslims can keep a straight face when they try to portray islam as anything bu misogynistic is beyond me. What slimy, practised liars they. The real problem is that some people actually buy their lying garbage.
somehistory says
they have no conscience; they are psychopaths and those kinds of people can lie about anything and not think about it, no regrets, but will lie about having lied if they are proven to have lied.
tim gallagher says
No doubt about that, somehistory. Any bullshit that will advance the Muslim cause. As I mentioned up above, the problem is all these gullible fools who actually seem to swallow the Muslims’ lies. The correct attitude is for non-Muslims to believe nothing that these Muslim liars tell us. If only all non-Muslims would wake up to that fact.
somehistory says
It has always amazed me that some people can’t see what is right in front of them until it’s too late. Having been born in a State that sees a lot of hurricanes, I can attest to the fact that so very many people don’t pay any attention to the weather news, even when photos and video are shown with the storm looming with winds too strong to survive. At the very last possible minute, some began filling up their cars with gasoline to get of the way and clogging the roads…with the danger hot on their heels.
It’s the same with the mozlum thing. People are in a state of denial…just when the storm is looming and the warnings are going out….they see what mozlums do when they are in control, as in afghanistan, pakistan, turkey, saudi arabia….and still, when they come here or to your country or the Uk…it’s ignore the danger.
Glenn Beck announced that the parliament there has enacted some kind of “climate emergency” that will mean more government control. Have you any information on that?
tim gallagher says
Spot on, somehistory. It’s a monumental state of denial that so many people in western countries are living in when it comes to seeing islam clearly. I do keep hoping that a lot more of our slow learners will wake up soon, before it is all too late.
gravenimage says
Good exchange, Somehistory and Tim.
Westman says
According to Muhammad, Arabs were performing post-birth abortions on female babies by burying them in the sand, prior to his religion. Does it still happen?