Islam and democracy

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Apr 7, 2008 at 07:17

Our dear Atoo wrote

>The majority of Muslims rejected Sharia in the Toronto area killing the idea of having it.

Could it be because there will never be shri'a nonsense in Canada?

> For sure, Islam will grow rapidly in Europe and in North America.

The rapid growth is from immigration but this can be stopped more so if the economy gets worse and the second reason is Muslim families tend to be large. How could we stop it? Get Muslims to work and enter the middle class and they will breed less babies

>But Islam is powerful without Sharia.

Islam the Arabian religion cannot be changed and if one part is missing there will be no Islam and you know what? It will be defeated in the market place of ideas

>Sharia and many silly Hadiths distort a lot of issues about the religion.

The hadith is silly and anachronistic and the shari'a is really the Roman and provincail law in the late antique Middle East. You see our dear Atoo books do not drop from the sky and the Qur'an included

>Rulers like in Saudi Arabia use them to justify their dictatorship. The majority of Muslims in Muslim countries do not want Sharia law. Separation of religion and politics is the right thing to do.

But this would not make it Islam anymore and it is just fine with me

>Democracy is the answer.

But democracy pre-supposes secularism and there is no secularism in Islam so it is either Islam or democracy so which one do you want our dear Atoo?

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