A United Nations plan that would make Christians criminals under international law will be getting a review by the White House, according to spokeswoman Dana Perino.
WND reported just days ago on a proposed "Combating Defamation of Religions" program supported by the 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The proposal has been around since about 1999, first launched as a ban to the "defamation" of Islam. Its sponsors also have adopted the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, "which states that all rights are subject to sharia law, and makes sharia law the only source of reference for human rights."
There is no strictly static set of laws of sharia. Sharia is more of a system of how law ought to serve humanity, a consensus of the unified spirit, based on the Qur'an (the religious text of Islam), hadith (sayings and doings of Muhammad and his companions), Ijma (consensus), Qiyas (reasoning by analogy) and centuries of debate, interpretation and precedent.
In practice the new Sharia courts in Nigeria have most often meant the re-introduction of harsh punishments without respecting the much tougher rules of evidence and testimony. The punishments include amputation of one/both hands for theft and stoning for adultery and apostasy.
Many, including the European Court of Human Rights, consider the punishments prescribed by Sharia as being barbaric and cruel. Islamic scholars argue that, if implemented properly, the punishments serve as a deterrent to crime.
There's no separation of Church and State under Islamic Law:
Shari'ah may be divided into five main branches:
'ibadah (ritual worship)
mu'amalat (transactions and contracts)
adaab (morals and manners)
i'tiqadat (beliefs)
'uqubat (punishments) [3]
The acts of worship, or al-ibadat includes:
Ritual Purification (wudu)
Prayers (salah)
Fasts (sawm and Ramadan)
Charities (zakat)
Pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj)
Human interaction, or al-mu'amalat includes:
Financial transactions
Endowments
Laws of inheritance
Marriage, divorce, and child care
Foods and drinks (including ritual slaughtering and hunting)
Penal punishments
Warfare and peace
Judicial matters (including witnesses and forms of evidence)
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