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To: Brumar89 who wrote (458890)	2/23/2009 5:40:16 PM
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SHARIAH LAW An author and lecturer who grew up a Muslim in Egypt but who has lived in the United States since 1978 is warning the West that Islamic Shariah law is "not compatible with democracy" and that "it is not a coincidence" that Islamist regimes are dictatorships. Nonie Darwish, who has made it her personal mission to expose efforts to force Shariah law on unsuspecting nations around the globe, told the monthly gathering of the Conservative Women's Network on Friday that Shariah "is a dictator-friendly set of laws." "If Islam is a policeman, Shariah is the gun," she said, detailing for the audience of about 85 women at the Heritage Foundation how Shariah law subjugates women - in its most extreme form, so-called "honor killings" - in oppressive Islamic regimes from Saudi Arabia to Sudan. Shariah is "penetrating the West," she warned, as radical Islamists emigrate to Europe, North America and elsewhere, but refuse to assimilate and adopt Western values. Asked why the political left refuses to denounce militant Islam, especially considering that its treatment of women and gays is antithetical to liberals' own views, she could only speculate, Peter Parisi of The Washington Times reports. Mrs. Darwish, author of the new book "Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law," said the far left's attitude appears to be "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" to the extent that both "hate Judeo-Christian culture." The left perhaps thinks it can ally itself with Islam until Judeo-Christian culture is eliminated, she said, and " 'we can defeat [Islamic radicals] later.' " "No, they can't," she said.