The Hanbali school most definitely does prescribe execution for female apostates, as the story of Miriam Ibrahim amply demonstrates.

It was a public school, but in Muslim-majority Indonesia students don’t get religious instruction. Obama “wrote” in one of his “autobiographies” (I forget which one; two autobiographies while a non-entity!) that he used to get in trouble for acting as the class clown in Quran class.

A student only attends Quran class in Indonesia if the student is registered as a Muslim. What that also means is that while at school as a registered Muslim he attended Friday prayer services as part of that religious instruction. Not that I am under the impression that he’s religious in any meaningful sense. In fact like a true Bolshevik (socialism is his actual religion) he is hostile to religion. Note that he constantly referred to “freedom of worship.” He meant that people had the right to go into a room and engage in their primitive liturgies but once those people left that room they had no right to practice their religion or live according to their religiously conscience. Which is why Obamacare was written the way it was; the Little Sisters of the Poor had to break their religious vows; an order of celibate (and mostly elderly nuns) had to provide their employees with contraceptives. The “compromise” the Obama offered was that they could be exempted from that requirement if they provided written instructions to their employees telling them how to get contraceptives.

Does anyone in this day and age need to be instructed by their employers about how to get contraceptives? There are clothing stores that have bowls of condoms on their shelves and display cases. Free for the taking; anyone can walk in and grab a handful. No one was going to be helped by this law, and that was the point. The important thing was force the nuns to break their vows and violate their consciences. Just like the Greeks of the successor kingdoms of Alexander’s empire tried to force the Jews to violate Mosaic law, and the pagan Romans demanded Christians worship their gods. In particular their deified emperors.

Pagan rulers are jealous gods, and thou shalt have no gods before them. Mother Theresa was free to open hospices in Calcutta, and the religious order she founded (the Missionaries of Charity) can do so in other countries. But they better not try that **** in Washington D.C. or they’ll enrage the gods who live on that Mount Olympus.

Obama did gloss over that part of his upraising to present the illusion he was raised in a far more secular environment than he actually was. But Obama’s takeaway, formative lesson was that he was exposed to and impressed by the Islamic social order. He does see it’s value as a means of subjugating a people and ordering society.

Another thing is that grossly misrepresented by the media is Sharia law. Because like all leftists, particularly Obama who was raised in Islamic culture, they have an affinity for Islam. And just as the western left has to lie about its core ideology, goals, and methods so does Islam, and leftists are willing to do likewise for their brothers in arms. According to all schools of Sharia (the Sunni Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanbali, and Hanafi and the “twelver” Shia Jafari schools govern 95-98% of all Muslims; although there are minor, barely extant lesser schools they don’t differ in any significant way) anyone who is born to a Muslim father is a Muslim. It doesn’t matter if the man is a practicing Muslim or not. Anyone who says the Shahada (the Muslim profession of faith; “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger”) in Arabic before a Muslim man is a Muslim. For life. It’s like joining a gang, and as with all real gangs it’s blood in, blood out. Apostasy is a crime. Male apostates must be executed. Some schools, such as the Maliki, rule that the apostate isn’t even given a chance to return to Islam if they apostatized in secret, on the theory that their word couldn’t be trusted. Others are given a varying period of time to recant their apostasy and return to the Ummah. The Sunni Hanbali and Shia Jafari schools decree that women apostates aren’t to be executed. Not out of charity; according to all schools of Sharia women are inferior to men (they’re half as intelligent, therefore their testimony in court is worth half that of a man) in all respects. So they’re weaker. Therefore they’re to be imprisoned either by family or in Iran in actual prisons, fed essentially a starvation diet to further weaken them, and beaten during the five times a day they should be praying to break their will and force them to take up Islam again.

Recall that in 2014 naturalized American citizen Miriam Ibrahim was denounced by her half-brother as an apostate, arrested, and sentenced to death in her native Sudan. The official school of Islamic jurisprudence at the time was Hanbali; the same school that is predominant on the Arabian peninsula. She, her full siblings, and her half brother shared the same Muslim father. Miriam’s father had abandoned her Ethiopian Orthodox mother while she was still pregnant with her. Miriam never knew her father and was raised by her mother as an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian.

Her relatives whom like her father she didn’t know knew damned well who she was. She had several successful businesses and tracts of productive agricultural land. That’s why she kept returning to the land of her birth. And they wanted to seize her property (Islamic blasphemy laws always operate in this fashion; see Pakistan and how Christians there are normally accused for further examples). The court ruled it didn’t matter that Miriam didn’t know her father, or that he was Muslim. It didn’t matter that she was raised her entire life as a Christian, and she was a deeply convicted Christian woman. She was born a Muslim according to ALL interpretations of Sharia law, not just Hanbali, and either she recant Christianity, embrace Islam even though she didn’t believe in it, or she would be executed. She was imprisoned with her two year old son. The son’s father could have no contact with him. In fact, since Miriam’s husband was a Christian and Islam doesn’t allow Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to 100 lashes, to be administered before she was executed.

When she was imprisoned she was pregnant. She gave birth to a daughter in prison. Both children had to be raised by the family that denounced Miriam since it would be heresy to allow a Christian to raise them. Miriam was by law a Muslim, her children were therefore by law a Muslim, and therefore the Muslims who had engineered their mother’s execution to take her properties would raise them as Muslims. And therefore to hate their mother and father (Surah 60 Aya 4 of the Quran, if you’re interested, in which Allah commands Muslims to follow Abraham’s example when he professes “enmity and hatred forever” against his own father and the rest of his family “until you worship Allah alone”).

She was released and allowed to leave Sudan under intense international pressure. Of course she forfeited her property, which would have went to her Muslim relatives, so, mission accomplished! But everything that applied to Miriam Ibrahim applies to Barack Hussein Obama. He didn’t know his sperm donor Muslim dad; nor does it matter that his father renounced Islam and became a communist and an atheist. Obama’s grandfather was a Muslim convert and remained so until his death. Obama’s father was born a Muslim and practiced Islam in youth, later becoming an apostate. So Obama was born a Muslim, and therefore per Sharia law of every stripe he remains a Muslim to this day.

Somehow, the same MFM that reported the Miriam Ibrahim story, which became an international story precisely because under Sharia once you are born or convert to Islam you are a Muslim for life, and your children are Muslim for life, pretended Obama can choose not to be a Muslim. Of course, being a leftist requires cognitive dissonance.

Which brings us to Hillary! Clinton’s former aide Huma Abedin. Huh? Yes. Like Miriam Ibrahim she is a Muslim woman who married a non-Muslim man. Unlike Miriam Ibrahim she was raised as a Muslim. Her father was Syed Zainul Abedin, who presented as a scholar and was the nominal founder of the London-based Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. The IMMA poses as a scholarly organization with a mission to study Muslims in non-Muslim countries. In fact it is a seditious organization that is the foreign policy arm of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs. It’s true mission is to ensure that Muslims don’t assimilate into western societies and to indoctrinate them to see oppression everywhere and press grievances in order to cultivate and maintain a siege mentality. Huma Abedin’s mother was a prominent member of the Muslim Sisterhood, the women’s auxiliary of the original Islamic terrorist group and ideological ancestor of all follow-on terrorist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood or Ikhwan. Upon Syed Zainul Abedin’s death, Huma’s mother Saleha Mahmood Abedin took over as head of the IMMA.

Not only was Michigan-born Huma Abedin raised as a Muslim in Saudi Arabia from the age of 2 until she entered college, she has extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi government via their front groups in her own right, so this isn’t a guilt-by-association accusation. Although, note for the record the left is fine with guilt-by-association when accusing non-leftists of non-crimes. It’s just that I have higher standards.

It isn’t my mere opinion that the Musllim Student Association is a MB front-group. The government proved as a matter of fact in the 2008/9 Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial held here in Dallas that the MSA was founded by the North American arm of the Ikhwan, and its mission is the same as the Saudi government front group IMMA. To ensure that Muslims in western societies don’t assimilate and remain a hostile element to the countries they live in.

CAIR, BTW, is also a MB front group under the facade of being a civil rights organization. In fact it was founded at the behest of Hamas, which by its own charter self-identifies as merely the Gazan wing of the Ikhwan.

Huma Abedin wasn’t merely a member of the MSA while attending Georgetown university. She was a member of its board of directors. The rank-and-file membership may not be aware of what kind of organization they’ve joined, duped into believing it’s just a social and student activist club. The leadership knows damned well the real mission of the MSA. In addition to keeping Muslim students segregated and perpetually aggrieved, they also evaluate Muslim students for their dedication to Islam and therefore their potential to go onto bigger and better things. In other words, they are the recruiting arm for their terrorist founders and like minded groups. In Britain the MB front groups that pose as student organizations are called Islamic Societies. It’s no accident that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who gained notoriety as the “underwear bomber” for his failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas day in 2009, was the former president of the Islamic Society at the University College London when he was a student there. He was the fourth former president of a London student Islamic Society to be charged with terrorism-related crimes in three years. Many American jihadis have similar pedigrees, having been heavily involved in MSAs and even as officers of MSAs. Just like Huma Abedin.

As an aside, in North America the MB has front groups called Islamic Societies, too. But these are MB affiliated Mosques. The Boston Marathon bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, were identified, groomed, and indoctrinated at the Islamic Society of Boston and Cultural Center. When rightly accused dropping the ball since Russian intelligence & security services had notified their U.S. counterparts of the Tsarnaevs’ jihadist tendencies the worse than useless FBI bristled and attempted to defend itself by pointing out its agents had visited the ISBCC.

Not to investigate its obvious links with terrorist groups. As part of Obama’s Muslim outreach program, as it turns out.

For twelve years beginning in 1996 when Huma Abedin was a student at Georgetown she worked for her father and later her mother as assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Her mother, still a prominent member of the Muslim Sisterhood, as the head of the IMMA remains the executive editor of the JMMA. It purports to be a scholarly journal, but it is in fact a Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs propaganda organ. Her immediate supervisor in Washington is currently a fugitive of justice who fled numerous terrorism-related charges.

When people point out her ties her leftist apologists cry “Islamophobia” and “racism” and “misogyny” and claim these honest people are simply finding her guilty by association. Her associations are important, but in fact she is guilty by participation.

Are we supposed to believe that Huma Abedin, given her family’s terrorist ties and her own involvement with MB/Saudi subversive front groups, didn’t know her own marriage to a Jewish man was like Miriam Ibrahim’s null and void? Of course she knows, just like BHO knows he is a Muslim per Islamic law.

Yet unlike Miriam Ibrahim they’ll get away with it because they’re performing too valuable a service. The Ikhwan is quite open about the fact that, given its terrorist history and ties to other terrorist groups (it’s banned as a terror organization in many Muslim countries) it has to advance its agenda using front men that aren’t officially members. And by using fraudsters who appear to be entirely secular and westernized. They’re not alone; the USG has captured Islamic State training materials that instruct jihadis entering western countries to commit acts of terrorism to shave their beards, never have a Quran in their possession, avoid Mosques, and go to bars and strip clubs (just like the 9/11 crew did on the night of 9/10/2001) and drink alcohol. If their identifying documents can support the deception they are to pretend to be Christians, wear a crucifix, attend church, and carry a Bible (I know it’s a touchy subject, but these aren’t original ideas and are the reason behind the Spanish Inquisition; Muslims were given very lenient terms and granted religious freedom after the reconquista, but they continued to wage jihad at every rumor of an advancing Muslim army and when finally the exasperated Spanish gave them the ultimatum of converting to Christianity or be exiled they pretended to convert but still waged jihad just like these MB/IS “Christian” jihadis).

Many people are familiar with the Islamic concept of taqqiyah, which actually means “concealment.” It doesn’t cover all forms of lying, several of which are divinely ordained in Islam. Muruna is one of those divinely ordained forms of lying. It means “setting aside;” jihadis are allowed to “set aside” the laws of Sharia in order to deceive their non-Muslim targets. As Muhammad said in a sahih hadith, if a Muslim drinks wine (alcohol is haram) in the morning and dies in jihad in the afternoon he goes straight to paradise; his sin doesn’t count against him. As Muhammad is also recorded teaching in all the canonical hadith collections, “All war is deceit.”

Islam is also forced collective in which no one has an individual identity. Instead everyone’s identity is the group identity forced upon them by their totalitarian overlords. In Islam the group identity is based upon religion. In communist/socialist countries it’s economic class. In the leftist western/U.S. caste system the group identity is of course one’s ethnic/racial/gender/gender identity/orientation.

In summary, having gone the long way around the barn to get here, leftists recognize in Islam a kindred totalitarian spirit. Both rely on terrorizing their own subject peoples including, and perhaps especially, their own “party members.” Both demand unthinking compliant populations to give total submission (again, Islam means submission and that’s what leftists mean when they say they want an “inclusive, tolerant” society; by inclusion the mean rigidly enforced orthodoxy and by tolerant they mean no dissent is tolerated). Neither are consistent ideologies but then totalitarian ideologies are never consistent except in two important respects. The first of these is that the totalitarian impulse is simply about gaining and keeping power “by any means necessary” as Antifa/#BLM helpfully never fail to tell us. Do communist countries allow free markets? It depends. If it keeps the communists in power they do. If free markets pose a threat they’re banned. Do leftists care about gay rights or women’s rights? It depends on whether agitating for those rights serve their cause. On the other hand, if propping up Muslims as “the real victims” is more important than who cares if Muslim gangs are raping non-Muslim girls and women across the width and breadth of Britain; the authorities will ignore it. And if Muslims are throwing gays off of tall buildings or toppling walls on them, burying them alive in the rubble, oh well. When building the worker’s paradise on earth you have to break a few eggs. There are Muslim bakeries, you know. Just go to Muslim dominated areas in the U.S. like Dearborn, MI, and try to order a custom SSM wedding cake. And you’ll never see a lawsuit against Muslims. Apparently on the leftist totem pole of “intersectional” victimhood Muslims outrank women and the LGBT miasma of competing interests the left laughably calls a “community.”

The second and only way these ideologies are consistent is that while free markets in goods and services my be legalized, there can be no free markets in ideas.

This is why the left instinctively has an affinity for Islam as their fellow totalitarians. Like Stalin truly believed he understood Hitler, hence the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. And it the leftist-Islamic alliance will work out just as well. Leftists really can’t comprehend that Islamic totalitarians my actually believe that veneer of religion they apply to their governing ideology. They believe that Muslim leaders are like “devout Catholics” Pelosi and Biden, or “devout Christian” Obama. Their actions betray the fact they think religion is complete B.S. Hell, in one of Obama’s own vacuous “autobiographies” Obama admits he only became “Christian” to be taken seriously in the Chicago black community as a community organizer. Naturally he chose to join Rev. Wright’s TUCC, which is no more Christian than Pelosi/Biden’s post-scriptural, post-Jesus “Catholic Catechism.”

Muslim leaders have always been perfectly willing to align themselves with infidels. Like Stalin, who was so shocked when Hitler invaded the USSR he stayed drunk in his dacha for an entire week, the infidels are always surprised when the Muslims turn on their allies. Obama’s shock may turn out to be greatest of all. Indonesian Islam has never been particularly virulent. His step dad, Lolo, was for all practical purposes only a nominal Muslim. Obama, who is nowhere near as intelligent as he’s portrayed, apparently extrapolates from his “lived experience” that all Islam is like Indonesia’s and all Muslims are like Lolo.

Sorry for the long comment. I truly am; now I’m afraid no one will bother reading it. I didn’t see how to cut any of this out, though.

You don’t seem to understand what Obama did as president and what he is still doing. I listed a lot of things that were not just cultural shifts continuing at the same pace as before. In particular, he normed certain types of behavior for officeholders, and he politicized the DOJ and the military to a much greater extent than previously. And you don’t seem to get the Emil Jones story, either. If you didn’t understand its significance from that quote or from my longer post that I linked to, that’s not much more point in trying to explain further.

Eyeroll. The strange cultural shift among the young took place before he took office and the appellate judiciary has been a scandal for 60 years.