By Elizabeth Kendal, Special to ASSIST News Service AUSTRALIA (ANS) – In May 1980 Egypt amended its constitution to elevate Sharia (Islamic Law) as ‘the principal source of legislation’. This provision is now common in Muslim constitutions, including the new constitutions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Constitutional guarantees of religious liberty and equality before the law are illusory under Sharia. It forbids apostasy (leaving Islam) and eliminates fitna (anything that could even tempt a Muslim to leave Islam). Sharia also establishes dhimmitude: the subjugation of Jews and Christians as second class citizens; systematic discrimination; religious apartheid. … Read entire article »