The BBC has a documentary about the execution of a 16-year old girl, Atefah Sahaaleh. Her crime was pre-marital sex.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22295_Irans_Execution_Of_A_Teenage_Girl&only
2006-08-27 16:40:57 · 20 answers · asked by nobody 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Under the loosest definition of democracy, they could be compatible. All it would take is for the majority to be in support of Islamic law, and that would meet the criteria for democracy.
Of course, most people attach other conditions to democracy aside from majority rule. I think the term also includes things like equality under the law, basic civil liberties, the rule of law, etc. Under this stricter definition of democracy, Islamic law could not be compatible with democracy. Islamic law would not treat believers and non-believers equally.
2006-08-27 16:57:25 · answer #1 · answered by timm1776 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is not compatible at all. Sharia law is based on what many today would call barbaric, antiquated rules, which are more in line with the way things were dealt with over 2000 years ago. Modern democratic societies spurn such actions where women are oppressed, overly subservient to men, and where "an eye for an eye" is the answer to many justice rulings.
2006-08-28 00:04:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Islam is incompatible with democracy. Unlike other religions Islam demands secular control as well as religious control. So, the head of the religious sect is also supposed to be the head of state or be able to control the head of state. Since there can only be one master and the mullah has to be it, the people cannot control the country which by definition means it cannot be a democracy.
2006-08-28 00:30:29 · answer #3 · answered by rehabob 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honor killing is very common in the middle east. Some have tried to practice it here in the US and have been prosecuted for it. Also according to Sharia, the word of one man is worth the word of two women, that doesn't seem very democratic to me. If a woman is raped, under Islamic law she needs 4 male witnesses to assert that she was indeed raped otherwise she is prosecuted for premarital sex. I have actually confronted some Muslim friends with this, they did not deny it. They just said that it was to protect men from false accusations. So blaming the victim seems t be universal and not to democratic either IMO.
2006-08-28 00:33:10 · answer #4 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This question is a joke, right? You made a funny?
All infidels are created equal? Women get to vote? Separation of church and state will get you the death penalty? You WILL worship daily?
Praise for the slaughter of daughters that don't conform to the rigid Islamic standard of head to toe dress code?
Compatible with democracy?
I'll be back - I've got to go and get a couple of aspirin before my head explodes.
2006-08-27 23:49:59 · answer #5 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. Sharia Law mocks the foundations upon which free government stands. It requires the elimination of religious equality and conversion (to Islam) by use of force and compulsion.
2006-08-28 01:32:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only the girl was executed. Then how could it be Democratic.
Laws changes with time but Islamic laws never.
2006-08-27 23:48:29 · answer #7 · answered by Cool_GENIUS 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, sharia Law is not compatible with democracy. If we don't fight the war in Iraq and win it we too could live under Sharia Law. So support the war in Iraq. Unless you too want your head chopped off.
2006-08-27 23:44:30 · answer #8 · answered by stick man 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not believe that Sharia Law is compatible with the future.
2006-08-27 23:49:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not in the traditional western notions. But we must understand that there are people living under those systems and if they are not complaining who should ? After all, that is democracy. If we fail to acknowledge and accept that how democratic are we ? There is something known as cultural relativism. Of course we are free to air our views. But let them decide. It is a government of their people !!!!!
2006-08-28 03:45:12 · answer #10 · answered by Olga 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋