[Islaminaction]

Fasting and washing are not part of the LAWS of sharia. Making sharia law illegal needs to be done to send them a messgae.

[mnehring]

Fasting and washing are not part of the LAWS of sharia.

Actually, they are. Sharia law has seven major areas:

• 'ibadah (ritual worship)
• mu'amalat (transactions and contracts)
• adaab (morals and manners)
• i'tiqadat (beliefs)
• 'uqubat (punishments)

• al-ibadat- acts of worship:
  • Ritual Purification (wudu)
  • Prayers (salah)
  • Fasts (sawm and Ramadan)
  • Charities (zakat)
  • Pilgrimage to Mecca(hajj)

• Human interaction, or al-mu'amalat includes:
  • Financial transactions as applied to Sharia-compliant Islamic finance
  • Endowments
  • Laws of inheritance
  • Marriage, divorce, and child care
  • Foods and drinks (including ritual slaughtering and hunting)
  • Penal punishments
  • Warfare and peace
  • Judicial matters (including witnesses and forms of evidence)

    With every piece of the law, comes a punishment. For example, in Sharia, a woman must remain covered- in our society a woman can freely choose it. In Sharia, however, comes a punishment for this if she doesn't, idreb or beating. The punishment aspect is what is already illegal in our society and not compatible. Thus, it is already illegal to practice full Sharia law in this country, it isn't however, illegal to freely choose to follow many of the practices of said law as long as you don't cross the line into violating another's right.

    If you have a blanket law making Sharia law illegal, you are also making illegal private practices within it that don't violate other's rights.