Posted on 08/04/2005 5:34:06 AM PDT by OESY
...Across Europe, Muslims are hungry for advice about how to integrate in their new countries while remaining true to their faith. Questions range from the complex (Can I pay into a pension system that is based on interest, which is forbidden by Islam?) to the mundane (When do sunset prayers take place during the summer solstice in Scandinavia, when the sun doesn't set?). In response, councils, television shows and Internet sites have issued a flood of fatwas aimed at aiding the residents of Islam's newest frontier, Europe.
But as the French woman found out, this avalanche of advice is heavily skewed toward interpretations of Islam that can make integration harder, not easier. Well-financed organizations based in the Middle East dominate the discussion in Europe, promoting scholars who display little understanding of the problems facing European Muslims. Some advice contradicts local laws, especially in questions of marriage and divorce. And even in an Islamic context, much of the advice is issued by self-appointed experts with a shallow grounding in Islamic law. Says Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of law at the University of California in Los Angeles, Islamic law has become the "playing field for shabby scholarship, political sloganism and ideological demagogues."...
Europe's most influential Muslim rule-making body is known as the European Council for Fatwa and Research. It was set up by an organization and scholars tightly allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that has widely penetrated Muslim life in Europe....
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That's just weird.
Regards, Ivan
Yet one more reason why wine makes dinner more delightful.
Mo was long dead before anyone started working on the body of Islamic law called "Sharia Law"
BTW, if you believe all the BS in the hadiths concerning the supposed life and times of Mo and his followers you are very gullible.
Even primitive goat herders in the Yemeni deserts don't really believe all that stuff happened.
Islamic law The Democratic Party has become the "playing field for shabby scholarship, political sloganism and ideological demagogues."...
So I guess my new line of "Tommy Osama" silk shirts is going to be a loser in Islamabad? ;)
what, you mean the bullsh!t about his momma squeezing him out, him pickin' up a fistfull of dirt and shoutin' "God is great!"?
heh.
bet you some camel-humpin' sand-rats believe every word of it.
Face it: Sharia is a concordance based on the Hadiths and the rulings of the "well directed" caliphs - all of which is based on what Mo is supposed to have said, which includes a great deal of truly horrendous crap.
This is a dangerous practice.
The Sharia was "closed" circa 1000 AD and is not subject to change. That, currently, is one of its major problems.
...not least because, well, Old Mo would probably answer "Pillage! Murder! Plunder! Sack! Lie! Invade! Rape! Kill! Rape again!" to just about any iteration of any such question.
There isn't any other way to say it, sort of like finding the definition of "a."
In the book, Hawaii, James Michener spent a good deal of time trying to explain the religion of the Polynesians. The Polynesian priests would point to this or that behavior and say it is tabu. It was just that simple. Never mind that some tabu things were utterly nonsensical, such as walking on the shadow of the Alii Nui, violation of the tabu in the witness of a religious authority carried a simple sanction: death.
I may need to start learning more about this Islam thing. I've always been a live-and-let-live sort, but these intolerant souls need to be isolated.
"a" means "one"
aside from that, no criticism of your post.
You do realize, of course, that for the first 300 years of its existence Islam was generally conducted right alongside Christian services, in churches.
Again, the Koran wasn't put together (or "written" as many people suspect) until well after the first stages of the Arabic conquest of the Middle-East. The core of the document appears to actually be a handbook written for Christian missionaries traveling to Mecca to convert the Arabs.
what I know of Islam comes from the Hadiths, Koran, the traditional history, and byzantine records once they came into conflict with Islam.
Islam swept across the former Roman territories of the Levant and North Africa in less than 50 years after Mo finally went home to Shaitan, and I have no records indicating it was practiced peacably in churches side-by-side with christianity.
Well now I know why the NBA players wear baggy long shorts.
Isn't "kaafir" a derogatory term? I was surprised to find it in the insert.
technically, no.
but, like Japanese "gaijin", in usage it IS pejorative.
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