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To: Chad Fairbanks
Ever seen a law relaxed in a society that is based on Sharia?

That's still not the point, which is that Christians have them too. Luckily, our society believes in freedom, so some of these laws are dying, but they are and were there.

But for Shari'a, yes. There are four different legal schools in Islam, from the strict Hanbali to the more liberal Hanafi. Interestingly, the Hanafi school is the oldest, while the strict Hanbali school is the youngest. The Hanbalis actually have an ancient history of coercing other Muslims to conform to their school of law, so it's no surprise that Wahabbism follows it and its coercive tradition.

To give you an example of where these are practiced, Turkey uses Hanafi, and it has a pretty Western legal system. Saudi Arabia uses Hanbali, and we know how draconian the laws there are.

180 posted on 05/25/2004 11:37:48 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

I think you and I are, for the most part, in agreement. The main area that we appear to agree on is that you think it's great that Christians are no on "the receiving end", while I don't like the idea of seeing any one religion on :the receiving end"

The bottom line for me is, Christianity is being forced out of public view at an alarming rate (and often through the most trivial things - current ACLU actions as an example) while other religions are getting "prime time" airing, such as Muslim kids given a special room to pray in at school, but Christian kids better not pray or else lawsuits would be filed quicker than you can say :Bob's your uncle"...

This "Call to prayer" issue is just another example of it.


183 posted on 05/25/2004 11:49:32 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (You make me feel warm all over. No...wait...I'm soaking in a puddle of my own urine.)
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