Posted on 03/17/2008 1:10:47 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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In some sense, the outrage about according a degree of official status to Shariah in a Western country should come as no surprise. No legal system has ever had worse press. To many, the word “Shariah” conjures horrors of hands cut off, adulterers stoned and women oppressed. By contrast, who today remembers that the much-loved English common law called for execution as punishment for hundreds of crimes, including theft of any object worth five shillings or more? How many know that until the 18th century, the laws of most European countries authorized torture as an official component of the criminal-justice system? As for sexism, the common law long denied married women any property rights or indeed legal personality apart from their husbands. [...]
In fact, for most of its history, Islamic law offered the most liberal and humane legal principles available anywhere in the world. Today, when we invoke the harsh punishments prescribed by Shariah for a handful of offenses, we rarely acknowledge the high standards of proof necessary for their implementation. Before an adultery conviction can typically be obtained, for example, the accused must confess four times or four adult male witnesses of good character must testify that they directly observed the sex act. The extremes of our own legal system — like life sentences for relatively minor drug crimes, in some cases — are routinely ignored. We neglect to mention the recent vintage of our tentative improvements in family law. It sometimes seems as if we need Shariah as Westerners have long needed Islam: as a canvas on which to project our ideas of the horrible, and as a foil to make us look good.
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Ah, it worked so well before...
“Forget the sexist angle, how about the insanity of executing people for adultery in the first place?”
Oh yeah, forgot about that LOLOL!!!!!
Don’t you just love moral relativism? I guess we can go back to slavery because the Arabs (usually Muslims) still engage in it.
Everyone should read
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
to dispel all this BS about what Shari’a really is about.
Your picture shows what it’s like for dhimmis - and some things are even worse.
Sharia Law also provides for pushing brick walls over on homosexuals.
This same prof will decry the conviction, much less the execution of a cold blooded child murderer in America.
I think your sarcasm detector is out of calibration.
I find it hillarious, in a sick way,
when a leftist denounces, in the same breath,
“right wing islamophobia” and “right wing homophobia” and “right wing sexism”.
Sharia: coming to a high school near you.
Where did you get that poster? Could we use it at our rally?
Consider the American democrats, its all about the Mob.. same in Sharia.. they are the same thing.. Democracy is Mob Rule.. That is WHY the American System is a republic and not a democracy.. The democrats ae very tribal.. Democracy is tribal law.. The tribe that rules is the most ruthless tribe.. You know, like in Sharia Law..
But this isn't the first time. They loved, and still love, every despotic communist state. The leftists are really bad people, they will gladly hand you over to a commisar for execution.
I made it.
Could we use it at our rally?
By all means. Use it in good health!
-”Ah, it worked so well before...”
It sure did, and the Nazis learned it from the Muslims, not the other way around. The Mohammedans were using that trick centuries ago.
This is the same guy who went completely bats#!t when the Jewish high school he went to forgot to include a picture of him and his non-Jewish wife in their alumni newsletter.
The thing is, the practice of law and constitutional argument in the “West” has progressed to the point where those rather harsh legal standards that were once applied have been either rescinded in the statutes, , or vastly reduced.
Shar’ia “law”, on the other hand, is all the very worst of the capricious, authoritarian, and overly enthusiastic application of vague “principles” that vary from one religious authority to another. Inconsistent in its application, it is a code written in invisible ink, on paper that disappears with a puff, only to reappear when the accused is standing in the dock, preparatory to executing the “just punishment” for some real or imaginary infraction of an obscure prohibition.
And it is always about some prohibition, never granting an equal representation to all parties involved.
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