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Sharia Law for Non-Muslims (A Taste of Islam) by Bill Warner (2010) Perfect Paperback
Islám je politický systém s vlastní sbírkou zákonů, která se nazývá šaría. Právo šaría stojí na úplně jiných principech než náš právní systém. Mnoho jejích nařízení se týká nemuslimů. Co znamená právo šaría pro naše občany? Jakým způsobem se nás dotýká? Jaké budou důsledky, dovolíme-li muslimům řídit se šaríou a ne našimi zákony? Každý požadavek muslimů je založen na myšlence nastolení práva šaría v naší zemi. Měli bychom vůbec právo šaría povolit? Proč? Proč ne? Jak mohou politici nebo úředníci rozhodovat o právu šaría, když mu nerozumí? Je to správné? V této knize naleznete odpovědi na všechny tyto otázky.Kniha pro nemuslimy, jejíž obsah otevře obzor nejednomu čtenáři.
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Bill Warner
60 books67 followersBill Warner is the pen name of Bill French (born 1941, United States), a writer, critic of Islam, and the founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. He is a former Tennessee State University physics professor. He is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of a core group of 10 Anti-Muslim hard-liners.
Warner has said that his focus is on the political aspects of Islamic doctrine related to kafirs (non-Muslims) rather than on the beliefs of contemporary Muslims. He differentiates Islam as a religion and what he refers to as Political Islam. Warner defines "political Islam," which he also calls Islamism, "as a belief that Islam should control society and politics, not simply personal religious life."
Warner has said that his focus is on the political aspects of Islamic doctrine related to kafirs (non-Muslims) rather than on the beliefs of contemporary Muslims. He differentiates Islam as a religion and what he refers to as Political Islam. Warner defines "political Islam," which he also calls Islamism, "as a belief that Islam should control society and politics, not simply personal religious life."
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May 5, 2013
Eye opening to the clarify of the Islamic position on so many things, including women and unbelievers like me. The real help was seeing Islam not as a religious movement but as a political one. And if that be so, then their continual cry for equality of religions and freedom to practice it as such is overreaching. Very helpful to understand the machinery which Islam is.
August 4, 2017
This was one of the worst books, the very worst, of anything that I've read in my adult life. The writing was incredibly simplistic and seemed to use extremely selective quotes and highly dubious "statistics." At the heart of it is the "revolutionary" claim that followers of Islam believe that their way is best and that others should be like them, a truly shocking and unprecedented position for a global religion to take. To be safe, Bill Warner assures us that we shouldn't listen to actual Muslims about their religion, since they don't understand their faith nearly as well as Mr Warner purports to. Blegh. Nonsense. The book's core premise is as tenuous and intellectually stunted as if one had gone back in time to the 14th century in order to study Christianity and then concluded "Ahah! That is how this religious must work in 2017!" with little acknowledgement of anything resembling modern reality. Utter rubbish.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 21, 2018
This small book is full of information and easy to understand. It delivers on its claim that to know Islam, one must know Sharia Law.
Islam is a totalitarian ideology meaning that every aspect of a Muslim's life is regulated. Sharia is the politics of that ideology. Islam's code of law and its administration is, therefore, Sharia Law. That law is, according to the Quran, perfect because it is from Allah.
Sharia Law is as it was hundreds of years ago. The friction apparent with Islam is due to its ultimate mission of converting everyone to it. The only options, other than conversion, are dhimmitude (slavery), or death. The concentrated effort to realize this mission is undertaken by a minority of Muslims who society brand as radicals, extremists, fundamentalists, or, more specifically, Islamists.
The West must learn about its enemy to prevent being overtaken without a shot being fired. Islam knows its enemy because the Quran tells them it is all Non-Muslims. Islamists use the host country's laws and culture against them to overpopulate and become the majority culture in that country. They may feign assimilation, when necessary, but most simply demand the host country change to accommodate Muslims and Sharia Law. Eventually, Sharia Law becomes the law of the land and the country is, then, a Muslim nation.
Sharia Law for Non-Muslims by Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, is all one needs to understand what all the commotion is about. Without this knowledge, Islam is unstoppable with its jihad tactics of swarming immigration, lying, deceiving, and, like a fox, befriending its prey to gain the confidence of target host nations.
Islam is a totalitarian ideology meaning that every aspect of a Muslim's life is regulated. Sharia is the politics of that ideology. Islam's code of law and its administration is, therefore, Sharia Law. That law is, according to the Quran, perfect because it is from Allah.
Sharia Law is as it was hundreds of years ago. The friction apparent with Islam is due to its ultimate mission of converting everyone to it. The only options, other than conversion, are dhimmitude (slavery), or death. The concentrated effort to realize this mission is undertaken by a minority of Muslims who society brand as radicals, extremists, fundamentalists, or, more specifically, Islamists.
The West must learn about its enemy to prevent being overtaken without a shot being fired. Islam knows its enemy because the Quran tells them it is all Non-Muslims. Islamists use the host country's laws and culture against them to overpopulate and become the majority culture in that country. They may feign assimilation, when necessary, but most simply demand the host country change to accommodate Muslims and Sharia Law. Eventually, Sharia Law becomes the law of the land and the country is, then, a Muslim nation.
Sharia Law for Non-Muslims by Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, is all one needs to understand what all the commotion is about. Without this knowledge, Islam is unstoppable with its jihad tactics of swarming immigration, lying, deceiving, and, like a fox, befriending its prey to gain the confidence of target host nations.
September 8, 2011
Eye-opening...makes me want to fight for the law called "American Laws for American Courts." God help us if Sharia law is adopted in our country.
February 20, 2016
Not a serious academic study. Poorly written and biased.
May 3, 2020
When an islamophobe publishes...
August 23, 2016
I am giving this book - a pamphlet or primer, really - five stars mostly for its timeliness and clarity. That is because, sadly, this small book written by a mathematician (of all people) is far more perspicuous on the topic of Islam and Sharia than most of what you will find penned by the 'club' members of postcolonial or Middle Eastern studies who now occupy the university system, that echo chamber in which everyone bandies about the same self-reinforcing, banal Saidian lines about "the Other" and "Orientalism", for whom - when it concerns the clear stipulations of Islamic sources - nothing is ever as it seems.
Islamic sources have a sort of designed obscurantism that make them illegible to most non-Muslims (authoritative texts that can "only be understood" in their original language, decontextualized Qur'anic chapters arranged in seemingly irrational order, abrogation hermeneutics, taqiyya and so on). All of this makes Islamic sources imposing to the uninitiated and gives Muslims the ability to manipulate their audience' understanding of them depending on the needs of the moment. Bill Warner does an excellent job of distilling these sources down to their basic meaning, draining the swamp of prevaricating bafflegab that surround them in the media and Muslim PR campaigns, and underscoring their implications for society.
In the last analysis, Sharia law - based on the Qur'an and the Sunna (based in turn on the Sira of Muhammad and the Hadiths) - has both religious and political elements. The former is not of much concern to the non-Muslim world except in the context of theological debate (whether belief in Jesus as the Son of God is a one-way ticket to hell, for example). What matters to Bill Warner and what should matter to all of non-Muslim society are the disturbing political implications of Sharia law. The author demonstrates - reference by reference - what Sharia laws means for sundry demographic groupings in both the Islamic world and the non-Islamic world. Given the Western world's current preoccupation with "privilege" (which it invariably ascribes to straight, white, Christian males - without evidence), it is ironic that Sharia law provides for the creation of a political and social order in which the Muslim male is endowed with truly "structural" privileges vis-a-vis Muslim women, Christians, Jews - virtually anyone that does not fit in that demographic!
If your thought processes are governed by emotion, not reason, and you don't put much stock in source material (vis. postmodernism) this book will not make much of an impression on you. This book is for thinkers who think that ideas matter. The long and the short of the evidence is irrefragable proof that Sharia is totally inconsistent with Western ideas of religious freedom and equality before the law. No amount of mental gymnastic "re-interpretation" can wrest away the clear implications of its mandate. Although it may be possible for Muslims in the Western world to be accorded their religious freedom - confined to its theological elements - their demands for the imposition of Sharia must be resisted tooth and nail.
Islamic sources have a sort of designed obscurantism that make them illegible to most non-Muslims (authoritative texts that can "only be understood" in their original language, decontextualized Qur'anic chapters arranged in seemingly irrational order, abrogation hermeneutics, taqiyya and so on). All of this makes Islamic sources imposing to the uninitiated and gives Muslims the ability to manipulate their audience' understanding of them depending on the needs of the moment. Bill Warner does an excellent job of distilling these sources down to their basic meaning, draining the swamp of prevaricating bafflegab that surround them in the media and Muslim PR campaigns, and underscoring their implications for society.
In the last analysis, Sharia law - based on the Qur'an and the Sunna (based in turn on the Sira of Muhammad and the Hadiths) - has both religious and political elements. The former is not of much concern to the non-Muslim world except in the context of theological debate (whether belief in Jesus as the Son of God is a one-way ticket to hell, for example). What matters to Bill Warner and what should matter to all of non-Muslim society are the disturbing political implications of Sharia law. The author demonstrates - reference by reference - what Sharia laws means for sundry demographic groupings in both the Islamic world and the non-Islamic world. Given the Western world's current preoccupation with "privilege" (which it invariably ascribes to straight, white, Christian males - without evidence), it is ironic that Sharia law provides for the creation of a political and social order in which the Muslim male is endowed with truly "structural" privileges vis-a-vis Muslim women, Christians, Jews - virtually anyone that does not fit in that demographic!
If your thought processes are governed by emotion, not reason, and you don't put much stock in source material (vis. postmodernism) this book will not make much of an impression on you. This book is for thinkers who think that ideas matter. The long and the short of the evidence is irrefragable proof that Sharia is totally inconsistent with Western ideas of religious freedom and equality before the law. No amount of mental gymnastic "re-interpretation" can wrest away the clear implications of its mandate. Although it may be possible for Muslims in the Western world to be accorded their religious freedom - confined to its theological elements - their demands for the imposition of Sharia must be resisted tooth and nail.
February 16, 2013
Three stars for being careful in citations and informative, but this isn't very well written. I definitely feel like I need to do more research after reading this.
September 20, 2014
With references to Sharia Law appearing more and more often in the news I needed to know what it was about. This little book is concise. Islam is a political system as well as a religion and Sharia Law governs how Muslims must live. Sharia Law is incompatible with the US Constitution. They cannot co-exist because according to Sharia Law it is the only perfect law since it comes directly from Allah. Islam is not a religion of tolerance or respect for others. If a Muslim chooses to leave Islam, the punishment is death. Kafirs, those who are not Muslim, are seen as inferior and historically are afforded few, if any, rights once a country has embraced Sharia. Without regard to what Obama claims, America is a Christian country, but Christianity will not survive if we allow Islam to get a foothold here. We must be educated and vigilant.
April 24, 2013
Short and to the point. But makes the point well. Islam is inherently intolerant and this is expressed in it's law code. Sharia is completely incompatible with US law and it should not be accommodated.
July 24, 2014
It explaines Islam and it's connection to Sharia law as a political system that is Islam.
April 16, 2020
I found this to be insightful and helpful in understanding Shariah Law.
May 26, 2018
Bill Warner has a keen and objective eye for explaining Sharia to those of us not intimately familiar with the foundational texts. The true implications of this type of religious law is a horrible, sexist, murderous world of 7th century barbarisms. Many millions wish it to be imposed on us today.
To be objective myself, he seems unable to turn his incisiveness to his own Western Christian beliefs. While his religious views do not directly inform this work, a little bit of internet searching, both for video and print, allows us to see that Bill Warner himself is an apologist for his own monotheism. I am an antitheist, so such inconsistency in his thinking is glaring. I am not an acolyte of Warner, but he has a directness that we can all appreciate. The texts speak for themselves.
To be objective myself, he seems unable to turn his incisiveness to his own Western Christian beliefs. While his religious views do not directly inform this work, a little bit of internet searching, both for video and print, allows us to see that Bill Warner himself is an apologist for his own monotheism. I am an antitheist, so such inconsistency in his thinking is glaring. I am not an acolyte of Warner, but he has a directness that we can all appreciate. The texts speak for themselves.
November 28, 2015
Very short and concise and to the point (read in 1 day while working). All verses and sources given with reference numbers (verse and chapter numbers) so you can verify in the source text for yourself. Apologists like to argue "context" when one cities the Quran, Sira, or Hadith. But, when there is a 1000 year old Law that is stated plainly and is the acknowledged "law of the land" today for Islam, it's hard to argue "context." Law = enforced fact. This book also clearly defines the dualistic ethical system of Islam that is foreign to western thinking.
February 4, 2017
If people had known Hitler's plans for world domination, many millions wouldn't have died. Today, the political ideology of Islam threatens world domination while most of our citizens choose to remain ignorant of the danger of political Islam. Read anything about political Islam by Bill Warner. You owe it to your children and their children, if we've got that long.
October 10, 2016
Very concise book about Sharia law, its history and future in the USA. Like most of the author's books on Islam, this one is condensed into bite-sized portions.
The book explains the history of Sharia law, Mohammed and how to extrapolate from that history into modern times.
Great read.
The book explains the history of Sharia law, Mohammed and how to extrapolate from that history into modern times.
Great read.
February 11, 2017
The Liberals have no idea about Muslims
After learning some intricacies of Sharia every of these so-called protesters today would be praising President Tramp's efforts to keep us safe. Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
After learning some intricacies of Sharia every of these so-called protesters today would be praising President Tramp's efforts to keep us safe. Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
June 21, 2017
Short, concise and very informative. I'm hesitant to give 5 stars on the grounds that Dr Warner was a physicist before he became an author on Islam but just about everything he said in this book was cited from the Koran, Hadith and Sunna or I've heard in other books. Would recommend.
January 23, 2016
A very insightful presentation of Sharia law.
October 1, 2017
Make Sense Out Of Chaos
The book goes in to details we don't normally hear. It gives a concise explanation for the things we see on a daily basis.
The book goes in to details we don't normally hear. It gives a concise explanation for the things we see on a daily basis.
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September 29, 2019super short "primer" rather than an intro - completely opposite of the social justice narrative we'd hear about muslims today. author definitely has his own opinion he's trying to prove. If you believe everything he says and cites at face value, it appears reasonable. But I'm not sure what I think about it precisely because I'm ignorant of the topic - would want to hear a Muslim's opinion on the book. I think you'd need to do more research to make sure the author's opinion is fair rather than biased and prejudiced.
December 12, 2024
Derogatory and Inflammatory.
Bill Warren created a poorly researched and poorly written argument that in the United States Islam should be denied the religious freedom granted to it by the First Amendment. The majority of the book was baseless claims, both his own and Islamic scholars he conveniently does not cite or name. At best the book is senseless drivel and at worst hateful Islamophobic propaganda. The only good thing I have derived from this experience is the bone crushing relief that I will never have to lay eyes on this atrocity again.
Bill Warren created a poorly researched and poorly written argument that in the United States Islam should be denied the religious freedom granted to it by the First Amendment. The majority of the book was baseless claims, both his own and Islamic scholars he conveniently does not cite or name. At best the book is senseless drivel and at worst hateful Islamophobic propaganda. The only good thing I have derived from this experience is the bone crushing relief that I will never have to lay eyes on this atrocity again.
June 3, 2024
Full of pseudo-scientific claims that could not withstand basic logical or empirical scrutiny. Certainly not a balanced presentation of the topic. However it may be the best presentation of the anti-Muslim perspective available in the USA as not many US citizens bother with learning about Islam. This is worth reading or listening to if you balance it with other authors, but should not be you sole source as you may never sleep again.
March 21, 2022
A lot of content is taken out of context in regards to many verses quoted. In addition, actions of the prophet are not correctly given background information on what happened with the Jews.
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Amazing site that describes the relations between Muslims and Jews throughout the 19th century.
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Amazing site that describes the relations between Muslims and Jews throughout the 19th century.
September 4, 2018
Bardzo krótkie i treściwe. Warto
November 24, 2018
Solid. Cut and dry, it was almost like a math book. All information no opinion.
March 15, 2019
Interesting Read
This was an interesting book but a bit scrub spots. But I recommend it to anyone that wants a better understanding of Islam.
This was an interesting book but a bit scrub spots. But I recommend it to anyone that wants a better understanding of Islam.
November 5, 2021
Fantastic Book
Must read for Kafirs (Non Muslims)!
Must read for Kafirs (Non Muslims)!
December 7, 2021
Excellent primer on Sharia law.
June 5, 2022
Absolutely terrible. It was nothing but propaganda. The author used out-of-context verses from the Quran and Hadith that are widely considered unreliable to make bogus claims about Sharia and Islam.
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