Church sign: 'Islam – America's No. 1 enemy'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, September 9, 2003

[Cronos]

Do all Libyans have electricity, plumbing and treated water now, even when they've got so much oil wealth???? NO. slammis can't see the damage their disease did to the Middle East.

[Cronos]

The cities CAN access them, but why isn't it there for all? The wealth generated from oil is used to formentjihad NOT for social improvement. The standard of living has dropped in every country where slam has come to dominate. The only exceptions are places where it's influence was curtailed like Turkei, Indonesie and Malaysie.

[wafflehouse]

good post

[wafflehouse]

well, you dont see christians blowing themselves up in pizza parlours or flying planes into buildings because of anything the bible says.. why is this only in islam?

[pdjplano]

I see Chrisitians killing doctors and blowing up clinics. Do you want me to make a determination on all of Christianity based on the actions of Paul Hill?

[Michael2001]

Baptists are the only ones not afraid to tell it how it is.

[af_vet_1981]

When did all four of these countries become 85% Muslim or more ?

[af_vet_1981]

I can name several. Can you name 20 Islamic countries?

fi allugha alingliziah aw allugha alarabiyah ?
itfadal, ya sayyid.

[af_vet_1981]

I don't know Pular.

Islam has played an important role in those countries since the 13th or 14th centuries, although the 85% figure is more recent -- 19th or 20th century. The point is that Islam is majority religion in all five countries (by a strong majority) and relgious freedom is valued in all five.

They may hold out for a while, depending on how the winds blow and the rain falls ...

Aside from northern Sudan and northern Nigeria, the harsh criminal codes of Sharia are not used in sub- Saharan Africa. But many Muslims in other parts of Africa have comfortably integrated Sharia's family code and secular law. In the Gambia, Muslims can appeal Islamic law decisions on family matters to the country's Supreme Court - which includes Muslims magistrates. In Senegal, there are women Muslim judges who preside over family law, inheritance and property cases. A Gambian scholar says in Senegal and the Gambia, the accommodation between Islamic and Western ideas of justice contrasts with that of Nigeria - where Islam has more of a tradition of jihad, or holy war. Professor Lamine Sanneh of Yale University says the Muslim sect that most influenced Senegal and the Gambia were called Jakhankes [pron. JAHN'kehs]. He says they renounced warfare as a means of spreading religion. They also pushed for the separation of religion and state long before the French colonizers.

The President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has flatly denied reports that he plans to introduce Islamic Sharia law into the West African state from next year. Fatou Jah, a spokeswoman for the president, told the BBC that he had been misrepresented in reports widely circulated both in Gambia and internationally. She said the president had intended merely to warn Islamic extremists behind disturbances earlier this year in the capital, Banjul, that Islamic courts - which exist in Gambia under customary law - might be used against them. She said President Jammeh had no intention of introducing Sharia into the criminal code of the state - which has happened in several northern Nigerian states. Extremists Mr Jammeh had been reported as telling Muslim leaders at a meeting to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan that he planned to introduce Islamic law next year. Youths thought to be religious extremists went on a rampage in the suburbs of the capital Banjul on 30 October, smashing up bars and inns. About 20 of them were arrested. Mr Jammeh was born into a Roman Catholic family - but converted to Islam in the mid-1980s. He seized power in Gambia with fellow junior officers in 1994. He won a presidential election in 1996 and faces another one in October 2001. Gambia, which has a population of just over one million, is predominantly Muslim. It has a secular constitution which was approved by referendum in 1995 and came into effect two years later.