Raymond Ibrahim

They're just going to run it, the police, the town council, all of it.

But what about this argument that you've seen thrown up?

Well, it's just a religion, and if you're going to let Christianity, you're going to help Christianity flourish.

You can't suppress Islam.

Your thoughts on that?

Christianity can flourish without us necessarily doing anything active.

Just let Christians preach, let them live their lives.

But Islam is codified with rules, the active rules that you have to do.

So for example, things like prayer and fasting, the five pillars of Islam, those are Sharia.

But there's other things as well, which is, for example, killing the apostate.

Okay, so Christians don't do that.

That's why Christianity can flourish side by side with what is perceived as secular governance, whereas true Sharia, true Islam cannot.

Same thing with blasphemy laws.

And this, I think, is something that Islam and the so-called left actually have in common with each other because they both do believe in blasphemy.

you know squashing free speech about anything they don't like and that's exactly what islam's blasphemy laws are um so maybe the left is fine with that to that sense but as you can see in a strictly true free country a free democracy with freedom of speech you can't have something like blasphemy codes even though it is completely enshrined in islam and then you also have

Okay, Christianity is monogamous by nature, and that's sort of what we have right now.

Well, if you allow Islam, now you have polygamy, up to four wives, and also concubines, infidels who are enslaved and your right hand possesses, according to the Quran.

So I think that's the problem.

Christianity can flourish and still walk side by side with the law, whereas Islam, because it is its own law,

Okay, secular Western law developed side by side with Christianity.