Muslim Reformist to Sally Kohn: Stop Working Against Us

Kohn's words "are an affront to me."

9.1.2016 

 

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 Tiffany Gabbay 

 

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Muslim reformist Raheel Raza has a few choice words for CNN commentator Sally Kohn: do us a favor and stop defending sharia law. 

Raza's response came after Kohn recently pretended to be an Islamic theologian and lectured the public on how "progressive" sharia law allegedly is: 

"There is a difference between personal, spiritual Sharia and the political incorporation of Sharia into law," Kohn stated. "And within both, there are progressive interpretations as well as more fundamentalist conservative interpretations. So the word Sharia doesn’t mean one thing."

Kohn then blasted Donald Trump for "not knowing" what sharia law really stands for. This is likely when Raza's radar went up, considering that the Muslim activist has first-hand knowledge about sharia law and the threat it poses. 

Raza, who at great personal risk travels the world to educate people on the dangers of sharia law and who has worked for decades to wrestle her faith from the hands of extremists, thinks it odd that a progressive would defend the very Islamic tenets that promote homophobia, anti-Semitism, and the subjugation of women.

In an open letter to Kohn published on the Huffington Post, Raza writes: 

Political commentator Sally Kohn has made several statements regarding sharia law, which were not only offensive but dangerous. In using her voice to propagate this liberal apologist position, she is doing a great disservice to progressive reform-minded Muslims like myself. Her words are an affront to me, a female Muslim activist, as I have made it my life’s mission to educate others on this topic and to wrestle back my religion from the clutches of extremists who wish to make sharia the law of the land. And I would be happy to debate her on this topic.

As an openly gay woman, Ms. Kohn would be killed, jailed or persecuted under sharia law. As a devout Muslim woman, I - along with many true progressive Muslims - rightly view sharia, as it is practiced today, as an archaic distortion of Islamic law.

In a very diplomatic way, Raza suggests that perhaps Kohn doesn't know as much about Islamic law as she thinks she does, and then offered up the following "brief lesson in sharia": 

What many sharia laws and statutes have in common are the following. They are:

· Homophobic
· Anti-semitic
· Anti-women
· Advocate amputations and stoning
· Preach killing of apostates
· Uphold the Blasphemy Law (which could get me killed)

"This homophobic, anti-woman, repressive sharia is no longer confined to the mosque or to majority Muslim nations," Raza writes before providing the example of England's 100 sharia councils that have been allowed to harm women in the West. 

"As a woman, and as someone who enjoys the freedoms and liberties that are systematically assaulted by sharia law, Sally Kohn needs to think twice before defending this oppressive, perverse practice."

"Words are powerful — so Sally, I beg you and others to stop defending the indefensible and to stand with us, not them," the Muslim activists concluded. 

It is typical of progressives, so willfully blind, that they hurt the very people they claim to champion. Sadly, progressives like Kohn would rather propagate left-wing lies about Islam without regard to how many people get hurt in the process, than actually learn from the people who know best.