By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Brooke M. Goldstein, a practicing attorney, the director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum and the director of the Children's Rights Institute. She is also an award-winning film producer of The Making of a Martyr, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and the 2007 recipient of the E. Nathaniel Gates Award for Outstanding Public Advocacy.
FP: We're here today to discuss Islamist Lawfare. What do you think is the best way to start this discussion?
Goldstein: It is important to start by defining the Islamist movement as that which seeks to impose tenants of Islam and Sha'aria as a legal, political, religious and judicial authority both in Muslim states and in the West.
One tenant of Sha'aria law is to punish those who criticize Islam, and to silence speech considered blasphemous against Islam or its Prophet Mohammed.
The Islamist movement has two wings – that which operates violently, propagating suicide-homicide bombing and other terrorist activities, and that which operates lawfully, conducting a "soft jihad," within our court systems, through Sha'aria banking, within our school systems and through organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Canadian Islamic Congress. Both the violent and the lawful arms of the Islamist movement can and do work apart, but often, their work re-enforces each other's. Read more ...
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Brooke M. Goldstein, a practicing attorney, the director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum and the director of the Children's Rights Institute. She is also an award-winning film producer of The Making of a Martyr, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and the 2007 recipient of the E. Nathaniel Gates Award for Outstanding Public Advocacy.
FP: We're here today to discuss Islamist Lawfare. What do you think is the best way to start this discussion?
Goldstein: It is important to start by defining the Islamist movement as that which seeks to impose tenants of Islam and Sha'aria as a legal, political, religious and judicial authority both in Muslim states and in the West.
One tenant of Sha'aria law is to punish those who criticize Islam, and to silence speech considered blasphemous against Islam or its Prophet Mohammed.
The Islamist movement has two wings – that which operates violently, propagating suicide-homicide bombing and other terrorist activities, and that which operates lawfully, conducting a "soft jihad," within our court systems, through Sha'aria banking, within our school systems and through organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Canadian Islamic Congress. Both the violent and the lawful arms of the Islamist movement can and do work apart, but often, their work re-enforces each other's. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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