Frontpage Mag To hear leftists tell it, a Sharia state should be a paradise for religious minorities. Iran isn’t.
When I testified on Feb. 10 before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government about Sharia, the Democrats present were indignant at the idea that anyone would have any problem with Sharia at all. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) at one point airily acknowledged, without prompting, that Sharia was oppressive and that none of those present would want to live under it, but for the most part, he and his fellow leftists acted as if Sharia were entirely benign personal religious law that no one could possibly object to unless he were a racist bigot.
There is an easy way to settle this question. Sharia isn’t a mystery. There are Sharia states all over the world. One of the foremost is the Islamic Republic of Iran. If one wishes to understand fully the implications of the spread of Sharia in Europe and the U.S., it would be wise to study the Islamic Republic. On Tuesday, the dissident news outlet IranWire published a comprehensive report on the rights of various non-Muslim groups in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and it would behoove both those who are warning about Sharia in the U.S. and those who are waving away that warning as “hate” to study this report carefully.
The hate, in reality, is coming entirely from the rulers of the Islamic Republic. IranWire explains that “religious minorities in Iran face systematic barriers to equal human rights due to a state structure that is built and maintained to preserve a religious monopoly.” The ruling Twelve Shi’ite clerics, of course, are in control of that monopoly.
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