Below is the final installment of a four-part interview with Gandalf, the French writer who launched the Alliance to STOP Sharia.
Part 1 is available here, Part 2 is here, and Part 3 is here.
Q: Your program makes complete sense. However, our countries already have in place constitutions and laws that are antithetical to sharia. What strategy do you propose to persuade our leaders to reject Sharia explicitly? How will you compel them to enforce existing prohibitions against such undemocratic laws?
A: To answer this question some things need to be explained first.
It’s exact: our countries already have constitutions and laws that are antithetical to sharia. This simple fact should shelter us from any attempt to introduce sharia in our societies. In theory yes, but the reality is very different, as we all can see.
Why?
Information. The western democracies are suffering from a grievous lack of information.
— We are at war and we don’t even know it (remember that jihad against non-Muslims is a holy duty for everyone obeying sharia).
— We face a political ideology and we don’t even know it (most people are still mentally stuck in a “clash of civilizations”, a “religious conflict” or a “racism-related” problem).
— We can see symptoms of the growing influence of sharia and we can’t identify them as such (scarves, halal food, a withering of freedom of speech due to a latent climate of threatening and violence around sharia-related subjects, etc…).
We just don’t know what we are facing. Most people don’t know what sharia is, nor anything about its relations with the fundamental texts of Islam.
Ask around — how many people do you know who have read the Koran and the hadith or know what sharia is and what it is not?
People don’t know what sharia is. Most Muslims in our countries don’t know either, by the way. And our leaders? Why should they know better? Because you voted for them? Think twice…
This is the root of the problem: our societal inability to detect the presence of sharia and to analyze the threat it represents to our democratic societies.
Once educated about the sharia and its dangers, our leaders will be able to defend the nation against it.
At this point comes the answer to you question.
How to persuade our leaders to put the name “sharia” on our problem?
How will we compel them to enforce prohibitions against sharia?
Information is the answer. Once you know what sharia is and how to recognize it when you see it, you know what to do.
We’ll show people and leaders what sharia is and how it has already crept stealthily into our streets, where it is rapidly growing if not strongly challenged.
And when you know what sharia is, trust me, you know that you don’t want it in your country, never.
And at this point if enough of us raise our voices to say “Stop sharia now!” our leaders will hear their electors.
And if they don’t, they won’t remain our leaders much longer. Democracy is not that bad a system, you know — once people understand that their leaders are truly blind and deaf to the needs of their nation, they kick them out.
Truth about sharia: that’s our strategy. Truth is our weapon; we don’t need anything else.
The Alliance to STOP Sharia is just getting started. Representatives from a number of European countries, plus the United States and Canada, are active in its formation. Keep an eye on the Alliance website or Gates of Vienna for further developments.
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