Mohamed Kamal Mustafa Supplants American Flags
On a typical day, I will look for news items about American flags, find one that is related to a current event, then make a point about the event from the aspect of the American flag.
But today, there’s a story I want to write about and I’ll be darned but I can’t find where an American flag is involved at all. So forgive me if I stray a little off topic - we’ll get back to the American flags tomorrow!
The news channels today are all abuzz over the latest news about Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, a Muslim imam who in January was convicted of inciting violence against women in a Spanish court. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail and fined the equivalent of $2,600, but after serving only 22 days of his sentence, Mustafa was released in exchange for his promise to participate in a "re-education" course.
The Spanish government has come to the mistaken conclusion that the tension between the Muslim and traditional communities can be remedied by indoctrination of the growing Muslim population to the ways of civilised Spanish society. The events in Spain are just one manifestation of concern that is spreading throughout Europe over the direction their society is taking as a result of a huge Muslim population.
So what exactly did Mustafa do to warrant this politically correct punishment? Why, he wrote a book titled "Women in Islam" in which he recommends the following punishment for a disobedient wife, "The blows should be concentrated on the hands and feet using a rod that is thin and light so that it does not leave scars or bruises on the body."
That Europeans would be shocked by what is simply part of Islamic law and the Islamic way of life that they have lived with for decades, is hard to fathom. However, an article published in National Review Online last year paints a pretty clear picture of what is going on. Writers Lorenzo Vidino and Erick Stakelbeck had this to say:
The European Left’s strong support for Muslim immigrants has traditionally been twofold: first, Muslims are a religious and ethnic minority in Europe and therefore advance the Left’s multicultural agenda. Secondly, as evidenced by their joint participation in the antiwar protests of the past two years, Europe’s Left shares with many Muslim immigrants a resentment of the U.S., Israel and capitalism. But virtually all other aspects of the two groups’ belief systems are at odds: gay rights, women’s rights, abortion rights, multiculturalism, separation of church and state, interfaith dialogue and opposition to the death penalty, all perennial Leftist causes, are opposed by an overwhelming number of Europe’s Muslim immigrants, sometimes brutally so.
This problem has been festering for so long that much of Europe is now waking up to the fact that they are in a dire situation for which there is no immediate solution. The left in America is now dancing the same dance with various Islamic organizations because it is the politically expedient thing to do to advance the agenda. But as the saying goes, when the dance is over, they’ll have to pay the piper and that will be one unbearably heavy bill to pay.