“The only reward for those who make war upon Allah and his messenger and struggle to sow corruption on earth will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be expelled from the land. Such will be their degradation in this world, and in the hereafter, theirs will be an awful doom.” (Qur’an 5:33)
“As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is mighty, wise.” (Qur’an 5:38)
“Men are in charge of women, because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend of their property. So good women are obedient, guarding in secret what Allah has guarded. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, give them a warning and banish them to separate beds, and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34)
“Allah gives you a responsibility concerning your children, to the male the equivalent of the portion of two females, and if there are more than two women, then their share is two-thirds of the inheritance, and if there be one, then half.” (Qur’an 4:11)
Original video:
MEMRI excerpt:
“American Imam Tom Facchine: Shari’a Law Is The Most Merciful Legal System The World Has Ever Seen; It Is Concerned With Redeeming People; Western Law Is Much More Barbaric,” MEMRI, January 11, 2023:
American Imam Tom Facchine said in a video that was posted to the YouTube channel of the New York State Utica Masjid, on January 11, 2023 that people are mistaken in believing that shari’a law is barbaric, harsh, punitive, and inflexible, and that the current system of law is much worse. He said that shari’a law is the best system of law the world has ever seen because it is merciful and is concerned with “redeeming” people, and he elaborated that receiving a one-time punishment of 70 lashes is much better than going to prison and being marked as a felon. Tom Facchine is the research director of the Yaqeen Institute, the resident scholar at Utica Masjid, in Utica, New York, and he is an imam and chaplain at Hamilton College.
Imam Tom Facchine: “People think of shari’a law or shari’a and they think that it’s something that’s harsh, and barbaric, and inflexible, and backwards in these sorts of things. In reality, it is much more barbaric, and harsh, and punitive — the system of law we have right now.
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“The shari’a is concerned with people’s redemption, right? It wants people to be redeemed. It wants people to change their lives around. It doesn’t want to punish them for eternity. And people forget this when they get fixated on sort of the corporal punishments that existed Hey, if I get seventy lashes for something, I walk home to my children and to my wife and I’m done. What happens here if I’m a felon? I’m locked away for years. My children are punished for it. My wife is punished for it, my family is punished for it.
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“Which system is barbaric again? Which system is harsh again? Which system treats people like they can redeem themselves and get better?
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“Shari’a is much more merciful, it is much more flexible, and it is a much more humane system of law than anything the world has ever seen.”
Siddi Nasrani says
With the Iman coming out with that statement he must be smoking Ganja! Well something has effected his brains.
Jayell1 says
Maybe he never learned the English language properly and doesn’t know what the words ‘merciful’, ‘flexible’ and ‘humane’ are actually supposed to mean (and doesn’t understand the concepts anyway). Or maybe he thinks that, as a muslim, he can re-define them any way he wants? Or perhaps he’s just a typical islamic idiot who just throws these common western buzzwords around because they sound like a good way to sell his twisted excuse for an ‘ideology’ (like all that islamophobia’ junk) and doesn’t realise that the reality is supposed to reflect the hype? In which case, if he were over here in the UK he’d dragged to court under the Trades Descriptions Act on a charge of gross misrepresentation (but he’d probably get away with it with a devious lawyer trying out all the above excuses with one of our islamophiliacally-bent judges who’d let him off on grounds ‘mental illness’ – or addiction to Ganja).
tim gallagher says
What a lying piece of shit this Muslim propagandist is. Either that or he is insane or simply has shit for brains. sharia is barbaric, harsh and completely inhuman. It is exactly what you expect from islam which is also barbaric, backward, primitive, unenlightened and totally inhumane in every way. islam is like some hideous leftover from mankind’s primitive past. It would like to send people back to living the life that people had to live in 7th century Arabia, a nightmare life fit only knuckle dragging barbarians.
James Lincoln says
tim,
An excellent and accurate post.
My compliments.
Fitna says
Agreed Tim/James. +100
tim gallagher says
Thanks, James, and thanks Fitna.. It is, in a nutshell, what I think about islam. islam contains so much cruel and primitive garbage. I ask myself, is there anything in islam that is good or kind or pleasant, and I always can find nothing good in it. And it is all about dragging people back to living 7th century arabian life, living life the way Muhammad, the vicious criminal, their ideal person, lived his barbaric style of life. i don’t believe that Muhammad existed, but he is a very low kind of creature for any people to have as an ideal type of person. i do meet Muslims who seem, without knowing them well, to be OK people, but it has to be, almost by some miracle, that they are that way because islam teaches so much that is evil and inhumane.
alexreid says
These loons are so proud of their System. From the TOP Law Islamic Book, (Sharia), Section O, Verse 12.3, page 610, from ‘The Reliance of the Traveller’, the ONLY verse not translated into any foreign language is that one. This is the verse endorsing necrophilia & bestiality.
Thought they would be really proud they would want Everybody to know.
commonsense says
alexreid: Thank you – good catch! I checked my copy of Reliance and found that you are absolutely right. The passage in question is left untranslated, appearing only in Arabic. Not being able to speak or read Arabic, I never would have known.
commonsense says
Sorry – I apparently forgot how to use html for italics.
BTeboe says
So cutting off a hand or a foot is more humane than sending someone to prison. Really? Beating your wife/wives or killing accidentally is more humane than sending someone to prison. Really? Honor killing a child/wife for a perceived crime or the ‘crime’ of being raped is worse than sending someone to prison. Really? This imam needs to put the crack pipe down. Really.
FYI says
Sharia law , like the talmud or the disgraceful NOAHIDE laws do NOT come from God.
[Noahide laws don’t come from noah either-they come from the modern version of the Pharisees}
I’ll tell you a LAW that does come from God:The TORAH
The Law of Moses is written down in the Torah,.
Guess who claims,affirms the Torah?you are right-alla!
allah’s challenge to muslims:the koran 10:94 challenge
Are you up for it scholars of islam?
Will you not obey allah?
Are you not following mo’s sunnah?
I mean you must be a little curious?
Well OK-allah says you can check this.
“And if thou muhammed are in doubt concerning that which WE reveal to you,then question those who read the scripture that was before thee{=the BIBLE}}”
koran 10;94
Check the REAL TORAH{or pentateuch in the Bible} and wonder how allah MISSED the 2 chief commandments{‘the whole of the law’}and the Golden Rule {the meaning of the law}which are the Laws basic to the Torah.Check with the BIBLE people.
How could allah claim he gave the Torah,confirm it and…yet completely forgot the Torah in his teachings?
Great intellectual minds in islam{list}
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5 ali dawah/mo hijab{just kidding}
Say,is it possible allah ripped off the Bible and is PRETENDING to be the author of the Torah which remember he CONFIRMS}koran 3:3}and isn’t that why the Bible is BANNED in islamic countries to stop muslims finding this out?YES
Say ,you muslim scholars-you wouldn’t be lying would you?Perfect preservation{with 37 different korans that contradict each other}etc?YES
Michael Copeland says
Sharia “wants people to change their lives around”.
Of course.
Death for apostasy, and stoning to death for adultery.
Silly of us not to spot it.
Michael Copeland says
Koran 5:33, prescribing the crucifying of anyone who sows “corruption on earth”, is alive and current in the muslim world. It is written out in Arabic on a sign over the crucified body of one such recipient of “the most merciful system” https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/03/as-though-he-killed-all-mankind/.
jim says
He has to say that to stay in the good graces of the leaders in high places. It does not matter. He knows he is lying but does not care.
Big deal, the heck with him. We need to keep Islam out of our country, no matter how nice 99.99% of all people from Muslim countries are
OLD GUY says
Mental illness seems to reside in islam and the muslim population. Tom boy would fit the description.
E T says
I really don’t care how many wives they have or how much camel urine they drink, I just wish they would stay in the Middle East and not keep raving and demanding the rest of the world follow Allah.
This migrate, infiltrate and dominate rationale is not rational.
EYESOPEN says
For THEM it is very rational. Why stay in schiffhole nations when you can come to – and eventually overrun beautiful nations that contain so much of Almighty God’s bounty?
GreekEmpress says
I have a few Greek/Armenian ancestors that could challenge the Imams statement that Sharia law is the “most merciful” legal system.
Unfortunately they were shown the “most merciful” system during the genocide in Anatolia.
bill says
It is hard to belive they think non Muslims are stupid enough to swallow this tripe. Cutting off limbs is rather permanent and makes the person a beggar. Stoning to death is the most barbaric way of killing a person and does not redeem them. also cutting off a person’s head because they leave Islam is also non redeeming, and only meant to terrorise others from the same thing.