Sharia law In Europe Where is Outrage Over Sharia Law and Women by Adriana Cohen

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• published: 09 Sep 2014
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http://biffburroghs.blogspot.com/ http://poxyrants.blogspot.com/ https://twitter.com/PoxySquirrel https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001782467676 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184850#.VA8kIMJdWSp Police in the German city of Wuppertal are investigating several young men who announced themselves to be “Sharia police”, Russia Today (RT) reports. According to the report, the group was patrolling the streets, urging people to refrain from various sorts of activities and entertainment. The young men wearing orange safety vests with the words "Sharia police" written on the back caught both residents' and police attention in Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany earlier this week. A picture of the so-called “Sharia cops” was posted by a Twitter user: According to RT, the young men are followers of Salafism, a puritanical form of Islam, one of the world's fastest-growing Islamic movements. The fundamentalists have been seen in the city's nightlife area, trying to urge people to refrain from alcohol, drugs, gambling, and other activities. They also reportedly distributed leaflets with the same guidelines. Police reportedly stopped 11 men aged between 19 and 33. An investigation with possible charges of illegal assembly has been launched, the report noted. The government is considering the Sharia initiative an act of provocation and says it won't tolerate any "parallel law". "No Sharia laws will be tolerated on German soil. No one has the right to tarnish the good image of the German police," the country's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere reportedly said in an interview to the German magazine Bild. Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that "no illegal 'parallel law' will be tolerated," as only the state is responsible for law compliance. "Intimidation or provocation won't be tolerated," Wuppertal Police Chief Birgitta Rademacher said, as cited by Deutsche Welle, adding that only police appointed and employed by the state have the legitimate right to act as police in Germany. Although the Sharia guidance to refrain from drinking alcohol or taking drugs might not be of any harm in itself, German authorities fear that the Salafists have also been recruiting young men to join the Islamic State and other such groups, encouraging them to travel to Syria or Iraq in order to do so. This is not the first case of Muslims trying to impose their laws in Europe. In recent years, Muslims have become dominant in several neighborhoods in London, to the chagrin of the native locals, and there have been reports that fundamentalists have been trying to enforce Sharia law in the neighborhoods. http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/adriana_cohen/2014/09/adriana_cohen_where_is_outrage_vs_sharia_law Where is Michelle Obama’s hashtag campaign #BanShariaLaw? I guess she’d rather ban cupcakes from kindergartners. Yet ISIS, the Taliban and other Muslim extremist groups are committing horrific acts of violence against women and children every day. Under Sharia Law, women have virtually zero rights and are routinely raped, beaten and sold off as sex slaves or child brides. Many are forced to wear a burqa and can’t even show their faces in public. Women and girls are abused, tortured, stoned, gang-raped or outright killed if they do anything their male rulers deem wrong. In August, ISIS kidnapped 3,000 women and girls at Mount Sinjar and are using them right now as “war booty.” These women — and girls as young as 12 — are being beaten, humiliated and raped daily. Yet American feminists and liberal women’s groups have remained shockingly silent on this barbarism. Instead of focusing on this very real war on women, Democratic women reserve their vicious attacks for Republicans and the Tea Party. DNC spokeswoman Debra Wasserman Schultz and other liberal congresswomen and senators come out in droves and attack any conservative they find handy, including their most recent target, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. And if Sandra Fluke doesn’t get free birth control — watch out! Does anyone else find this absurd?