{"id":6703,"date":"2016-12-01T06:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2016-12-02T06:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:32:46","slug":"germany-submits-sharia-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/12\/01\/germany-submits-sharia-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Submits to Sharia Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/06\/18\/month-islam-germany-may-2016\/germany_sharia_police\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6577\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6577\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/germany_sharia_police.jpg\" alt=\"germany_sharia_police\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/germany_sharia_police.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/germany_sharia_police-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Germany Submits to Sharia Law<\/h3>\n<p><em>German courts are \u2014 wittingly or unwittingly \u2014 promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/9461\/germany-sharia-law\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | December 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p>A German court has ruled that seven Islamists who formed a vigilante patrol to enforce Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal did not break German law and were simply exercising their right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which effectively legitimizes Sharia law in Germany, is one of a growing number of instances in which German courts are \u2014 wittingly or unwittingly \u2014 promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The self-appointed \u201cSharia Police\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4681\/germany-sharia-police\" target=\"_blank\">sparked<\/a> public outrage in September 2014 when they distributed yellow leaflets which established a \u201cSharia-controlled zone\u201d in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal. The men urged both Muslim and non-Muslim passersby to attend mosques and to refrain from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling, music, pornography and prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>The vigilantes are followers of Salafism, a virulently anti-Western ideology that openly seeks to replace democracy in Germany (and elsewhere) with an Islamic government based on Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p>Salafist ideology posits that Sharia law is superior to secular, common law because it emanates from Allah, the only legitimate lawgiver, and thus is legally binding eternally for all of humanity. According to the Salafist worldview, democracy is an effort to elevate the will of humans above the will of Allah, and is therefore a form of idolatry that must be rejected. In other words, Sharia law and democracy are incompatible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/9461\/germany-sharia-law\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany Submits to Sharia Law German courts are \u2014 wittingly or unwittingly \u2014 promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[46,179,181,66],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-salafists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany Submits to Sharia Law - 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