Qaeda says Islamic sharia must be only law in Iraq

Jihad Watch blogged I saw this coming over two years ago (and before that, too, in Islam Unveiled). From Reuters, with thanks to Eschwapp:

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's al Qaeda group said on Thursday that Islamic sharia law should be the only legislation to govern the country, according to an Internet statement.

"The Islamic sharia is the right religion and anything else is wrong and rejected, including the constitution. No human being is allowed to legislate laws which are the right of God alone," said the statement posted on a Web site frequently used by the al Qaeda organization in Iraq.

"Participating in drafting legislations and the constitution is equal to infidelism and blatant polytheism. Whoever believes in it or calls for it or rules by it is an apostate and an infidel."

Founding Forefather commented If I had the choice to choose between Jesus Christ or Mohammed, I would clearly have to choose Christ. Christ is the Prince of Peace. Mohammed ruled with the sword. Jesus Christ is the last prophet, while Mohammed is a false prophet. Christ performed miracles; Mohammed did not. Christ is utterly holy. Mohammed's actions are utterly ungodly. Sharia law is nothing but a fabrication by a bunch of power hungry, male chauvinist pigs that are still living in the Middle Ages.

I agree

ecil_man commented The problem is Bush has foolishly made radical islam the LAW in iraq. How could there be any other outcome. We should have sent missionaries. We should have treated moslems like they treated nonmoslems.

If you think those two approaches are consistent, I am not surprised you think Bush has made radical islam the law in Iraq.

Those two alternatives are very much at odds with each other. Are you saying we should have tried to convert them, or totally destroyed all of them.

In truth our treatmesnt of there religion as holy of holies allowed no other outcome.

We respect all religions. It is what the first amendment to the constitution requires us to do. And Surat aal-E-Imran, 3 (Qur'an 3:3) says It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book, confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (of judgment between right and wrong).

We should have allowed our guards to pee on the koran before letting the prisoners touch it. If Iraq becomes an islamic horror nation of evil. We have only Bush and Rice to blame since they keep reenforcing the fact that Islam is the holy of holies without any chance of them to see christian valuses what other outcome could there have been with such a failed policy.