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Positivist Legal Systems Crumble Before Islamic Enclaves

Western countries long ago gave up the principle that all true law, and due respect for law, relies upon them being grounded in a higher power than the government.  In this sense, all Western law is now positivist law--law which is derived from human "bright ideas", derived from human experience and observation.    Often, when Western nations are confronted with people who reject "bright ideas" law outright and appeal to a higher power they do not know what to do.  They resemble the proverbial deer in the headlights.

Such is the tenor of the unease when the West is confronted with Islamic enclaves in their own countries who could not care less about Western law and its legal tradition.  The authorities shuffle their feet and don't know what to do.  In most Western countries more and more Islamic enclaves are self-governing according to their own traditions and laws.  The state authorities don't know what to do.

Denmark provides an example (as published in Jihad Watch).

Denmark: Christians flee Muslims 

“They tell me I ought to be stoned to death”

Nicolai Sennels Christians with Middle Eastern backgrounds in Denmark experience harassment, verbal attacks and in some cases direct violence from Muslims. TV2 News has been in contact with a number of Christians here in Denmark who tell of violent experiences.

Jojo was born in Denmark of Lebanese parents. She lived in Gellerupparken (a major Muslim area) until she was eight.  One day she sat in her car in Nørrebro (a Muslim-dominated area in Copenhagen). Seven young people with Arab background surrounded the car. One of them put his foot up on the hood and stared at her.

“Do you think I’m looking at you, you f...ugly whore. Try to see what clothes you wear, bitch,” he said to Jojo, who dresses as Danish women do: shorts and a t-shirt in the summer.  Then he noticed the cross around her neck.  “Well, you have a cross on — then you are also a Christian f.. . whore. Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you? You get stoned,” he screamed. …

The Danish police say that they do not get many reports about such matters, but they fear that such crimes are largely under-reported, because people do not dare to report the cases. …

TV2 News has also interviewed another woman who is persecuted for her Christian faith.  She wants to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals and because she and her son are being harassed on the block where they live. Living in that area as a single Christian mother without a Islamic scarf makes her stick out in an area with primarily Muslim families.  “My son is being called everything. I get called all sorts of things. Infidel. Filthy Christians. They tell me I ought to be stoned to death,” she says.  “My son was beaten at the bus stop. He was called pig, dirty potato (Muslim slang for Danes), and that ‘you and your mother should die.”’

She complained to the local estate office, which responded by inviting the group of children and young people for a meeting. One day they knocked on the door of the Christian woman’s home. Through the peephole she could see some of the children and young people and she thought they had come to say they were sorry, so she opened the door. But instead, two grown men pressed into her apartment.

“He called me a dirty Christian whore and an infidel. Then he pushed me into the apartment. He shook me and slapped my face.”  Both the woman of Iranian background and Jojo are now trying to move away from the areas where they live.  “I can not be in Nørrebro anymore,” says Jojo, who has decided to move to a shelter for her own protection.

The authorities roll over in the face of such implacable certainty.  Islam has a higher law--much, much higher than the infidel laws of Denmark.  Laws allegedly based upon human empirical observation and experience are no match.  They crumble.  The authorities respond with a "hear no evil, see no evil" self-induced myopia.  After all, Islamic citizens have their own experience and observations.  Who can say that "theirs" is not  as valid as "ours".