Muslim vigilantism -- I.

Two events, one from Pakistan and one from Turkey on the mindset of individual Muslims who confront the law of the land and what they, in their wisdom, consider to be their privilege under Islam. Law of the land piss you off? Just kill or kidnap whomever you please. You're just doing the will of Allah:

Female Islamic students on an anti-vice drive have abducted an alleged brothel owner and have locked her up at their fundamentalist seminary in the Pakistani capital, police said Wednesday.

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Abdul Rashid Ghazi, vice principal at the seminary, threatened jihad, or holy war, unless the teachers were freed by 4 p.m. He said this was in line with a religious decree issued by the Lal Masjid mosque’s prayer leader — Ghazi’s brother, Abdul Aziz.

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Authorities are holding negotiations with the school administrators to hand over the woman to the police but they are "being unreasonable," the officer said on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to make comments to the media.

"They have taken the law into their hands," the officer said.^[1]

Comforting that Muslims do not call for jihad over relatively trivial incidents.

Witness here the devotion of this young Turkish lawyer to the rule of law. Is he on board with the notion of secular society, or what?!!

Alparslan Arslan followed a tea server toward a chamber where five judges were meeting. The 28-year-old Mr. Arslan paused to look at their faces.

A few months earlier, these judges had ruled that a kindergarten teacher was rightfully denied a promotion because she wore a Muslim headscarf near the school. . . . The ruling . . . it pushed Mr. Arslan over the edge.

Pulling the gun from his bag once inside the chamber, he pronounced the words "Allahu Akbar" -- God is greater -- and fired four times. The shots killed one judge and wounded three others. Then Mr. Arslan blasted another round into the air and issued a warning that "verdicts should be determined more carefully from now on," . . . .^[2]

Fast forward to, say, June, 2007 in the United States:

Imagine that an Arizona judge rules that U.S. laws properly forbid the wearing of a jibjab, buraka or a kafeteriyya anywhere other than in the privacy of one's bathtub with the door locked. A saladin from Dearborn, Mich. drives 2,000 miles to rescue the honor of Muslims everywhere and unloads a shotgun into the judge's face. Allah wills it, you see, because it's "just" infidel law that stands in the way of Muslim ambitions. You know, the law that we've been happy with for centuries.

Wave of the future?

We believe it.

These are more than hints, friends. The "small platoons" of Muslim society are in lock step with the ones needing to be shot down like dogs.

Notes
^[1] "Islamic students abduct alleged brothel owner." Associated Press, 3/28/07.
^[2] "In Turkey, a Judge's Murder Puts Religion in Spotlight." By Philip Shishkin, Wall Street Journal Online, 3/30/07.