U.S. MUSLIM LEADERS: "WOMEN ARE SATAN'S SNARE"

"Bringing about the enforcement of the Divine Law (Shariah) and the abolition of man-made laws cannot be achieved only through preaching," the lateMuslim Brotherhood leader Sayyid Qutb of Egypt beseeched followers in his book "Milestones." "When obstacles and practical difficulties are put in its way, it has no recourse but to remove them by force."

"Islam has the right to destroy all obstacles in the form of institutions and traditions. It is the duty of Islam to annihilate all such systems," Qutb argued. "Wherever an Islamic community exists which is a concrete example of the Divinely ordained system of life, it has a God-given right to step forward and take control of the political authority so that it may establish the Divine system on earth."

AMJA has called for reviving the call to "Shariah rule."

"Muslims are to be ruled and governed only by the Shariah," it says in one recent fatwa.

Critics say many of its rulings are misogynistic, oppressing women's rights and micromanaging every aspect of their lives.

According to AMJA's fatwas, Muslim women living in America are prohibited from:

* Growing their fingernails or using nail polish;

* Plucking their eyebrows;

* Showing their hair in public;

* Wearing jeans in public;

* Handling the Quran during menstruation, or praying in the mosque during menstruation;

* Traveling without a male escort who is a close relative;

* Resisting their husband's sexual advances outside of the menstrual period;

* Praying in close proximity to men in the mosque or anywhere near the front of the prayer room;

* Swimming or sunbathing in a bathing suit even in a women-only area;

* Undergoing surgical contraception such as tubal ligation;

* Running for political office;

* Posting photos of themselves on Facebook or MySpace.

"Women are Satan's snare," AMJA says.

AMJA supports Shariah punishment including "lashing" women who have premarital sex (zina) and "stoning" those who have sex outside their marriage.

"We should emphasize here that the way out of these problems in this day and age is to judge by Shariah and to implement the Divinely ordained criminal punishments (hudood), as commanded by Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, at the hands of the rulers," AMJA scholars agree, "for establishing one of the hadd punishments in a land is better for its people than if it were to rain every morning for 40 years."

AMJA also says President Obama, whose father and stepfather were Muslim, was born and raised a Muslim and should return to Islam.

"We ask Allah to bring him back to his religion," AMJA says.

Obama says he became a Christian as an adult while attending Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

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