Amusing

Submitted by Safraz (United States), Dec 28, 2006 at 22:02

I find it quite amusing that the legal opinion that you quote in support of your goal of banning Islam borrows from the secular court of Turkey - a country that is 99% Muslim and where Islam is surely not banned or even close to being banned.

I am a secularist Muslim, and therefore no fan of the sharia or Islamists, but in defence of the Sharia - it is simply religious law that changes over time. It is fluid, and has changed over time and in fact is different in every country you find it. Sharia law in Nigeria is a compltely different thing than that in Saudi Arabia and both are completely off the wall when compared to Sharia law in Egyptian sharia courts and Indonesian sharia courts.

Bottom line is that it all depends on who interprets it. And if you are a feminist your sharia law is probably very oriented to women's rights. If you believe in democracy, your sharia is probably very democratic. Religion and religious law is all about interpretation, and the reason most sharia is offensive to western standards, is because they have been formed by sexist men who want to keep themselves in power.

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