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Do you really want to know?


By Andrew Gilligan and Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 8:00PM BST 08 Oct 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/
6274387/Obama-adviser-says-Sharia-Law-is-misunderstood.html

President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir's national women's officer, Nazreen Nawaz.

During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular "man-made law" and the West's "lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism".

They called for Sharia Law to be "the source of legislation" and said that women should not be "permitted to hold a position of leadership in government".

Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that "promiscuity" and the "breakdown of traditional values" were what Muslims admired least about the West.

She said: "I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media.

"The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.

"The portrayal of Sharia has been oversimplified in many cases."

Sharia in its broadest sense is a religious code for living, which decrees such matters as fasting and dressing modestly. However, it has also been interpreted as requiring the separation of men and women.

It also includes the controversial "Hadd offences", crimes with specific penalties set by the Koran and the sayings of the prophet Mohammed. These include death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality and the removal of a hand for theft.

Miss Mogahed admitted that even many Muslims associated Sharia with "maximum criminal punishments" and "laws that... to many people seem unequal to women," but added: "Part of the reason that there is this perception of Sharia is because Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood."

The video of the broadcast has now been prominently posted on the front page of Hizb ut Tahrir's website.

Miss Mogahed, who was born in Egypt and moved to America at the age of five, is the first veiled Muslim woman to serve in the White House. Her appointment was seen as a sign of the Obama administration's determination to reach out to the Muslim world.

She is also the executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a project which aims to scientifically sample public opinion in the Muslim world.

During this week's broadcast, she described her White House role as "to convey... to the President and other public officials what it is Muslims want."

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said Miss Mogahed was “downplaying” Sharia Law.

“There is a reason sharia has got a bad name and it is how it has been exercised. Regrettably in the US there have been acts of injustice perpetrated against women that are driven by the Sharia-type mindset that women are objects not human beings,” she said.

She cited the example of Muzzammil Hassan, a Buffalo man who ran a cable channel aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes and was charged earlier this year with beheading his wife after she filed for divorce.

“Americans understand by example, it’s not as if we are an ignorant mass of people. Just as we don’t broad brush all Muslims, so should Dalia not downplay the serious nature of sharia law.”

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Under Sharia Law Women especially have little to no recourse from males in their society!

 If you will not believe God; how about the Devil?

 Can you believe in God?

 Well because it takes time, or know of people who either did this or that, or it is too difficult, or I just do not have time or the knowledge ....    These and a thousand more have been used since time began!

We are going to take you on a trip of realization and truth, which you can accept or deny...  Either way you will have come the knowledge of who you are and the existence of both God and Satan {the father of lies}///

During your lifetime have you not seen the Evil in the world?  It exists both in the world in general {history & current events} and you have also experienced it personally and up close!  If not then you live a very sheltered life or else you must have been in a comma...  So stop and think!

There is generally two sides or views to most everything in existence...   Mainly because whenever you have anything of truth or value someone will make a counterfeit or duplicate!  This has been so since the power  of choice has been available!  Because when ever you are given a choice, you can either accept the direction of the request or attempt to come up with and follow another path!   Such as with everyone!

So what is all this God and Devil stuff anyway?

Since Adam & Eve were created  " ... And God created man in His image, in the Image of God He created him; male and female He created them."  Gen. 1:26 & 27.   Therefore Adam and Eve did not have to search for significance, and enjoyed they enjoyed safety and security All Their needs were met!

While Satan had to crawl on his belly in the presence of God.  Because he was not a god of this world at that time...   Later in the Garden he came and usurped the authority given to Adam and his descendents after Adam and Eve sinned and lost their relationship with The Lord God!  A very sad occurrence; because mankind lost the special relationship relationship with God!

Once Satan came and deceived both Eve and then Adam; through his wiles - suggesting that they did not have everything that they need { or the seed of greed}...   Satan is the " Father of :lies" and the master deceiver, exist to lie, cheat and to steal ...   Which is where you find most of the world's people living because of the inroads of the Devil in their lives...   Because without the Word of God in their lives they are ignorant as to the wiles of Satan and thus deceived into believing a lie!  

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So it is here that you may find yourself in an ignorant trace and being mislead by Evil desires of your heart...
Can you  change?   Yes, Repent and seek the Face of The Lord God in your life...    Are you ready and willing to seek Jesus as your Savior?

    The Choice is entirely yours!  

So you can not truthfully blame anyone else!   Amen!

** Final note: the Devil is a deceiver and tempter!

 Who are you going to follow?   The Lord God or the devil?