Obama adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, was interviewed by Islamists in London to talk about Sharia Law. Mogahed sit on Obama's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships. She stated that Sharia Law is misunderstood.
The London-based TV discussion programme was hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the Islamist Hizb ut Tahrir party. The group believes in the destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world. Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir's national women's officer, Nazreen Nawaz.
During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma, the two members of the group attacked secular "man-made law" and the West's "lethal cocktail of freedom and capitalism".
They called for Sharia Law to be "the source of legislation" and said that women should not be "permitted to hold a position of leadership in government".
It also includes the controversial "Hadd offences", crimes with specific penalties set by the Koran and the sayings of the prophet Mohammed. These include death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality and the removal of a hand for theft.
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