Wednesday, March 2, 2011

International Shari'ah Court of Justice (New York)

With the uprising against tyrrany and oppression gathering pace in the Middle East, each deposed dictator raises more questions about the puppeteers who kept them in power for the last 30-40 years. From Ben Ali to Hosni Mubarak to Muammar Gaddafi and now Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, the greatest force to defend and pay for their stay in power has been the United States of America and her western allies. With the mess left behind by American foreign policy around the world and the resounding call of Muslims and non-muslims around the world for justice after years of oppression under unislamic leaders, there is an urgent need for an International Shari'ah Court of Justice capable of dealing with dictators who have paraded for decades with impunity thanks to American backing. Indeed even ordinary non-muslim britons and americans have long called for their leaders to face trial over the illegal war on Iraq.
The main aims of the Shari'ah include to remove disputes between the people and protect the blood, wealth, honour, mind of the people and the religion of Islam. This includes to protect these rights and sactities of the people from abuse by their leaders and it includes the removal of disputes between the people and their leaders. This is a serious matter in Islam and not something to be left to elections every 4-5 years when people have to 'choose' the least flawed dictator oppress them for the next few years.
Thankfully there is a unique facility in the Shari'ah to deal with the corruption, oppression and tyranny of rebellious leaders who exploit their subjects. The Court of Madhaalim is a special court in Islam, established to account Rulers, governors and other deputies of the Islamic state and to hear the complaints made against them by  ordinary citizens in open and public court. This court has historically had and used the power to punish rulers and officials and demand compensation for their crimes, and even to remove them from office in extreme cases, an idea unheard of in the western world.
An ideal place for such a court in the Islamic State of America would be the obselete United Nations Headquarters based in New York. As the authority and soverignty of the United Nations is not recognised by the Shari'ah of Islam, its headquarters would no longer be welcome on the shores of the Islamic State of America. However the buildings, originally completed in 1952 and spanning an 18-acre site on the East side of Manhattan would be an ideal location to host the Islamic Court.
The site is currently managed by member states of the United Nations and has its own security force, flags of all member states are displayed outside the main buildings. These will promptly be removed and the authority of the Islamic state will be clearly laid down, The united nations, their members, security forces, fire department and postal service will all be evicted and the Islamic Court could likely hold its first International War Crimes Trial almost immediately.
As the former dictators of the Muslim world are already familiar with frequenting these buildings to visit their American masters, they - as well as the US, UK and Israeli leaders - can return to these buildings to stand trial for their acts of tyrrany, terrorism, war crimes, torture, kidnap and murder committed against Muslims around the world. Unlike in 'democratic' states of the world today, rulers and their aides are not above the law and cannot escape justice.

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