Let Sharia-Freedom Reign
MAR18
Written by: Diana West
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:06 AM 
Note from Condoleeza Rice to George W. Bush and back again on June 28, 2004.
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When Westerners and Muslims talk about “freedom,” they are talking about two entirely different ideas. Tragically, irresponsibly, the political and academic elite still don’t admit or know it. They seem to have learned nothing in more than a decade since 9/11 and the subsequent US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the several years since “Arab Spring.”
It’s so easy to find the facts it becomes clear they don’t want to know them.
The entry on freedom, or hurriyya, in the “Encyclopedia of Islam” describes a state of divine enthrallment that bears no resemblance to any Western understanding of freedom as predicated on the workings of the individual conscience. According to the encyclopedia, Islamic freedom is “the recognition of the essential relationship between God the master and His human slaves who are completely dependent on Him.” Ibn Arabi, a Sufi scholar of note, is cited for having defined freedom as “being perfect slavery” to Allah. To put it another way, Islamic-style “freedom” is freedom from unbelief.
Bringing Western-style “freedom” to the Islamic world at gunpoint & government contract probably resembled a global extension of the civil rights crusade to President Bush and Co., but after the armed utopians have gone, the Islamic dust settles.
With little notice, Reuters reports this month:
About two dozen Iraqi women have demonstrated in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.
Thousands of war dead and wounded, and billions of dollars for this.
