And where does it say in any sharia law that any of the items in your list would be banned? I've said it many times before, common sense runs through the laws of sharia. What you've clearly read about sharia law is rubbish.
Correct me Im wrong, but Islam and shariah are frequently cited to be preventative arnt they? Now how many muslims do you believe would allow what I described above if they cant even handle some cartoons and books theyve never bothered to read?:skeleton:
On paper, sharia doesn't fall apart. People are stupid so they won't understand the sheer awesomeness of sharia.
It does actually. Economically and politically. Stripping political rights of groups only tends to work if you are pushig to heavily industrialize your country. Which is impossible to do effectively with the mass social programs shariah allegably promises. This coupled that there is no breaks (interest rates).
So on the one hand you have second class citizens based entirely on faith and not any type of merit system, on the other you have no way to improve your economy w/o having it implode.
To give you an amusing history lesson, when the french socialist and communists got into power (80 I believe?) they tried to enact an ambitious plan than resembles the promises of shariah (except it actually makes sense). Despite their efforts, the keynesian model is dated. Wanna take a guess how long before they had to retract their plans? Ill give you a hint, its one 12th of a year.
Give the above of mentioned, there is no reason to believe a "true" shariah state would last a week. Unless of course you are into fantasy 
The lack of sharia states is due to corruption and dogmatism. If people used their God-given common sense, they'd be able to carry out sharia properly.
Strange a god given governing and economic system be so flawed eh?^o) Seems its impossible to take off the ground when other man-made models have advanced humanity to heavily.
Democracy only works because it's an illusion of power to the masses and no responsbility. In reality the masses have no power - the leader has all the power and all the responsibility.
What are you talking about? Responsibility in a democracy comes in the form of economic and political consequence to their leader's actions. This directly influences standard of living, social programs etc etc.
And what are you referring to when you mean its an illusion? Quite a few countries have switches in parties and policies directly related the feelings of thepeople. Or are we ignoring 100yrs history?^o)
In short, what democracy promises on face value, it fails to achieve. But since people are stupid, it works. It's like dangling Haribo infront of a child just so they come towards you. Then you give it to them and they find out it's really Porridge instead.
It works cause its stupid eh? So if shariah is failing agaisnt that, what does that tell us about shariah?:thankyou:
The ones who wish to reform Islam don't understand a thing about it in the first place - they've grown up with some dogmatic version of it (illustrated by their parental figures and surrounding environments) and have not actually studied the history of sharia law and the importance of both male and female genders.
O I so called it! No true scottsman
In fact, if you've studied Islam and the Prophet properly, you'll see the correct interpretation of sharia law and how it stopped slavery, gave women rights (more than any other methodology at that time) and enhanced the importance of both genders.
Why do you say it stopped slavery? The Ottoman empire dabled in the slave trade for a very longtime and no where in shariah does it say you must free all your slaves or that slavery is bad.
Noone is disputing that it gave women generally progressive rights for its time The arguement from the get-go was that Islam never got around to giving women full-rights
What gender roles? There aren't any in Islam other than the core values that seperate the two in the first place (one gives birth, one doesn't, one is female and one is male etc)
So where does a man being able to hit a woman, or the woman having to submit to the husband play into all this?
I stated the
importance of a female. The rights for both male and female are the same - both are free to live, to divorce, to marry, to be educated, to practice their religion and so on and so forth.
I got a sneaking suspicion you havent looked the Qur'an and hadiths. :skeleton:
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As for lack of political rights, what rights are you speaking of?
