Raymond Ibrahim

When the Muslim population and the Muslim presence in the West was small and it was still doing what it was doing, of course, they played cover for it and Islamophobia and multiculturalism and diversity, et cetera, et cetera.

But in as much as Islam grows, and obviously here in Europe it's where it's reached critical mass, it becomes too hard for them to cover up.

So it's become really an issue and people are starting to see it everywhere from the UK all throughout the Scandinavias and Germany and France and wherever you're getting these large Muslim populations.

you're seeing what comes along with them, which is, we can say, Sharia.

And by the way, that word gets thrown around a lot, and I think it's important for people to understand its etymology and its meaning.

And in its origin, as with so many Islamic words, Arabic words, they really go back to sort of 7th century Bedouin tribalism from the time of Muhammad.

And all the trilateral roots of the word sharia, shara, means watering spot for your camel.

Okay, so you're in the desert.

Where is life?

So sharia is the road to life, okay?

It's where you get water in these extremely desiccated and parched regions.

So it's understood as life.

So what does that mean?

It means Allah's way to have you live your life and to live the proper life, which is just all these rules and laws as found in the Quran and in the Sunnah, in the Sunnah based on the Hadith, the words of Allah.

sayings of Muhammad.

And in short, this is why I find it interesting because I hear some people acting like Islam is its own thing and Muslims, and then Sharia is another thing, as if to be a Muslim is not to practice Sharia.

But well, saying a Muslim does not necessarily have to practice Sharia is like saying a Muslim doesn't have to believe in the Quran or follow the Quran.

So

They are intertwined.

They're really one and the same in many ways.