At a time when America finds itself dealing with pro-terrorist rallies on college campuses, the U.S. government providing military arms and equipment to Islamic countries, and Americans deeply concerned about impending terrorist threats and Islamic law (sharia) being imposed and adjudicated in local communities, how does the average person come to understand these issues?  How can an effective solution be reached when few really seem to know what is going on?

It is helpful to begin with the understanding that the Islamic world sees everything through the same lens.  That lens is sharia.

In Islam, sharia — “Allah’s divine law” — is the blueprint for how to live.  It is what Islam seeks to impose on the Earth.

Knowing Sharia Matters

At the geopolitical level, every Muslim nation on earth is a party to the OIC — the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.  The OIC is made up of every Islamic nation on earth (56) plus the “State of Palestine.”  The OIC is the largest voting bloc in the United Nations.

In 1990, the OIC approved and in 1993 officially served to the United Nations “The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam.”  In it, every Muslim nation on Earth at the head of state and king level declared to the world that its only understanding of “human rights” is sharia.

In fact, the last article in the Cairo Declaration states, “The Islamic Shari’ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification of any of the articles of this Declaration.”

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