Perfect news to follow our post on The One inexplicably, to the shock of even liberal supporters, won the Nobel Peace Prize. His Highness has seen fit to have in his administration an advisor who supports the brutal sharia law. Because that’s all peace-like ‘n stuff.

His advisor on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, decided to give an interview on British television in which she extolled the “gender justice” that is apparently sharia law. Countries with sharia law are best known for using its precedents to stone women for such outrageous crimes as not wearing the proper clothing expected of them.

Gender justice!

President Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified” and the majority of women around the world associate it with “gender justice”.

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party. …

During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular “man-made law” and the West’s “lethal cocktail of liberty 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”.

Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that “promiscuity” and the “breakdown of traditional values” were what Muslims admired least about the West.

Ed points out just how ridiculous this is:

Gender justice? Under shari’a, a woman’s testimony in court only counts for half of that of a man. If a woman is raped, she needs four male witnesses to prove her case. If she makes the accusation and doesn’t find four witnesses, the victim gets charged with fornication or adultery and faces death.

Like I said: Gender justice! Woohoo!

Does anyone really believe that the Obama Administration has been ignorant of her beliefs until this point? No, it’s more likely that she’s in his administration for a “diversity of ideas”. Which would be like having Nazis in FDR’s administration just to get another perspective on the world. Nazis? Yes. Sharia is a brutal system that puts women to death for being raped. The victim gets killed for the crime. And it’s facilitated such outrages for far too long. The comparison is just dandy, thank you.