Sharia Law

Submitted by Bryan Jackson (Canada), Jan 12, 2007 at 13:23

There happen to be many people among Muslims that want to reform Sharia Law because it doesn't change with the times and is largely irrelevant to 21st century life. One best example of this is Qatar in the Middle East - definitely a Muslim nation, but a better one and considerably more liberal than just about anywhere else in the Middle East.

They live under Wahhabism as does Saudi Arabia, but here they are more open. Women have the same rights as men, the elected government actually has teeth and butts heads with the Emir from time to time, the majority of the population is well-educated and bright. They question the way things are.

Muslims aren't stupid and not all Muslim clerics are death to the USA death to Israel types. Said people are what we need to encourage. Yeah, the Muslim street hates the US and Israel - but with what Israel does to the Palestinians and what the US has done in Iraq this shouldn't surprise anyone.

Unless we are prepared to kill every Muslim on the face of the Earth - which I don't think many people are in the West - we have to minimize the radical elements in Islam. That's the only solution to terrorism. Wars on terror are stop-gap measures, because without addressing the root of why a teenage boy will strap Semtex to himself and blow up a bus, terrorism will never be destroyed, ever.

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