French academic proposes Muslim state



I agree, my proposal would be at the bottom of the deepest ocean or inside an active volcano.

The likes of Pakistan, Iraq and Iran are 95% plus Muslim anyway.
 
Frijj said:
French academic can fuck off.

A move to religious states within a state would be a huge step backwards for society
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The central problem is how Muslims conceive law and then, how it conflicts with that of others.

A central tenant of Islam is the universality of Sharia law for all believers (only believers, a non-believer is in the theoretical sense, not subject to it). Now whilst I will be careful in noting that interpretation of Sharia law is not a universally consensual concept, with many different legal schools and philosophies of Islam co-existing (some more extreme than others), nevertheless, the trait that all Muslims should be governed under it is a key pillar of Islam.

It is important to note that Sharia is religious and is not necessarily political. Outside of Muslim countries, believers technically already "govern themselves" under Sharia in the religious sense. Thus, even if Sharia is not recognized by the state in an official sense, it exists because communities simply will it to be.

This causes problems for UK jurisprudence. For example, when Muslims get married in Britain, or any other western country, they marry themselves not under the civic laws of the state, as non-Muslims do, but they marry themselves through Sharia. Yes, they marry themselves under a system of religious law which is has no involvement with our own porocesses. In terms of rights and protections, this penalises Muslims. If a Muslim woman has been married to a man under a legally unrecognised system of religious law which the state played no role in, then she can't get a proper divorce (as in Sharia, only the husband has permission to initiate a divorce). This causes enormous problems for courts in the UK, especially with child protection rights and custody.

So thus when legal scholars propose a "Sharia system" in western countries, it means simply recognising Islamic laws which are only applicable to Muslim communities and not applicable to anyone else. Its design is not appeasement or islamification as the far-right have termed it, but to ensure Muslims can gain legal representation and rights within the framework of their own beliefs which they are currently denied.

Essentially if Sharia is "recognised" then lawyers can fight cases in court on the grounds of Sharia, moderate its interpretation (thus taking out of the hands of extremists) and promote equality.
 
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