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Explain to me the worry about Sharia Law becoming the law of the land?

volsrock said:
Are u saying there are no Sharia councils in the UK
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the councils give advice only, they have no standing in law at all. you are getting all heeby geeby over nothing. there is no sharia law in the uk
 
Let me understand, liberals are like a cancer and right wingers are just the greatest thing since Bull****e. If that is so, why do we have better economic rowth under Democratic Presidents. The last tow presidents are a good example of what I speak. With Bush in power and using his and right wing trickle down theory this country almost went into a depression. With Obama we have had yes slow but steady growth with almost 15 million new jobs. So the leftist ideas lead to growth and the right wiing economics leads to recession and almost depressions and yet leftist ideas are a cancer. BY the way, the growth under dem presidents has been greater than under GOper's on average for the past one hundred years.
 
OrphanSlug said:
We talk all the time that of the monotheistic religions out there that Islam is the furthest behind the curve in social evolutions, and all one has to do is look to nations where Islam is the dominant culture to see example after example of authoritarian rule no matter if leaning military dictatorship or some modern day theocracy. In the majority of the nations of the greater Middle East region we can see example after example of some flavor of Islamic rule in place with very little tolerances for freedoms in our context.
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Well, there is certainly some truth to what you say. I would point out that Muslim empires have historically flourished all over the Middle east, Africa, and Asia and have developed into extremely advanced societies for their time, more advanced than most of Europe up through the Renaissance. They were scientifically proficient, excellent mathematicans and engineers, and had well developed political systems that survived for hundreds of years and spawned one of the most successful empires of all time, the Ottomans. The only real defect in Islam that sets it apart from Christianity as a strong State builder was it never developed a strong heirarchical structure and economic power that could compete with the power of the Sultans like the Catholic Church did in response to power struggles with the Holy Roman Emperor and inevitably became a subject of the political order rather than an actor in it. Thus Islam wasn't able to become the early rule of law for society that religion became for Indian culture and the Christian nations.

I would argue that the state of the Middle East has infinitely more to do with the make up of the political and economic systems of the various Muslim empires and external pressures that led to their failure, the subsequent remolding into colonies of European powers after World War I, and then the unchecked authortarian power of the autocrats and military dictators that followed than anything fundamental in Islam itself.
 
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