War on Terror

The intolerant law of the Sharia expands

March 2008

“Sharia Creep” Around the World

Kathy Shaidle of FrontPageMagazine.com writes that three new stories appeared within 24 hours, all documenting a worldwide phenomenon that has come to be known as “Sharia creep.”

• In Australia, Muslim students (mostly Saudi citizens) asked Melbourne universities to adjust class times to fit in with their daily prayers.
• They also requested female-only recreational areas on campus.
• One institution rejected their demands outright. "That would seriously inconvenience other people at the college and it is not institutionally viable," La Trobe University’s Martin Van Run told The Australian. "We are a secular institution ... and we need to have a structured timetable."
• In a surprise reaction, the Saudi Government unveiled a plan to curb radicalization among its students in Australia by ensuring they make up only one percent of the student body at any given campus.
• The idea is to prevent radical students from reaching critical mass, and thereby encourage all Saudi-born students to mingle with non-Muslims.
• “The move is a marked turnaround from past initiatives by the Saudi Government,” reported The Australian, “including allegedly bankrolling hard-line Muslim clerics, such as Canberra-based Mohammed Swaiti, who openly praised jihadists; and pumping an estimated $120 million into the local Islamic community since the 1970s to influence its ideological bent.”
• Meanwhile, on February 26, local officials in Zwolle, Holland decided to lift a ban on Muslim women wearing so-called “burkinis” in public swimming pools. The garment, also known as a hijood, leaves only the wearer’s face, hands and feet exposed.

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“Sharia Creep” Around the World
By Kathy Shaidle

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Our Take

Sorry those of the Muslim faith: we can’t change it all to suit your needs. There are other religions in the world and there’s something called Freedom of Religion in the U.S. Australia was right to toss Islamic student demands into the teacher’s waste basket.