Review of Sharia in Book, "Islam And Democracy" lll

    Sharia Islam has a visceral rejection of the equality of human beings in direct violation of the United Nations Charter so instead of being honest, the Arab states, of course, lied by signing the charter and then erected national "reservations," and "amendments" to deny the provisions of the United Nations Charter. If they hadn't done that, these states would have appeared at the diplomatic level to have been primitive and savage, as they really were. So the representatives deceitfully and so manly signed on to the charter while their states negated everything they signed onto. Of course, the diplomats of the other countries were lazy or simply playing along in that they did not see what these states had done and confronted them at the United Nations about their dishonesty. This is only one example of how the Islamic states present a false face of modernity in New York but remain a slaughterhouse at home. Mernissi observes that the Arab nations use the United Nations for manipulation and hypocrisy. p 67
    Recently, women have been using academics as a way to escape the harem condition and have taken to the streets to demonstrate. Mernissi applauds their lack of pretension and stilted language, which she finds are bothersome characteristics of the leftists. The educated women are demonstrating against the suffocating Sharia and are contrasting it to the United Nations Charter. The charter, though, has a Trojan Horse that Mernissi doesn't see apparently. It is that after all the rights of the individual are given in the document, there is an escape clause that these rights can be abrogated by the United Nations. They are not inalienable rights as the American Constitution recognizes rights to be. That is an enormous difference: the difference between everything and nothing. So the United Nations Charter has its own despicable, unmanly "reservation" or "amendment" that flushes civil rights down the toilet like a silly, little turd. Bye! Bye, rights! Weren't we clever despots! Amazing how stupid and unassertive people can be not to see our escape clause and kick our lying asses for it! p163
    This does not mean Fatema Mernissi misses all the tricks and yes, buts. She catches on that the Islamic countries can declare that the hijab or face mask is mandatory and that will make more jobs available for men as many places will not employ those wearing the mask. Calling for the wearing of the face mask is also a signal that women working outside the home is not legitimate, and in the tyranny of Islam it is vital to recognize what the authorities are signaling before they institute their draconian punishments. Women will quit their jobs to go back to the harem, giving men more jobs. Finally, Mernissi recognizes that oil money has made possible the rigid authoritarianism that is deaf to compassion, a quality that is supposedly so important to Islam. She writes, "A better term for fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia would be petro-Wahhabism, whose pillar is the veiled woman." p166
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others.
  To do in his presence."
    - Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."
 -Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major