Why isn't sharia law introduced in the US and UK in areas where Muslim out number Christians ????

Question

serious answers only please and no sikhs.

Answer 1

Well, in the U.S. at least, we STILL have a Constitution...and people willing to fight to defend it.

Answer 2

Because the law would affect other minorities that do not wish to practice Islam. Indorder to mantain the balance and welcome all cultures the United States decided to separate church and state.

The Islamic law rules with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business law, contract law, sexuality, and social issues. This would restrict many poeple from doing things that they want to do.

However you as a Muslim can fallow this law even in parts where Muslims are the minority. This is the guarantee of the constitution. That you can worship as you see fit. There is no need to make this law solid, because it wouldn't be fair to other religions.

Answer 3

Because of two things --

One -- these remain free countries, the equivalent would be introducing gay only laws in areas where gays outnumber straights and so forth. The idea is prima facie silly in a democracy.

However, I know a secret you don't -- which is the other reason.

Two -- at least in the US, the vast majority of Muslims (and we have many close Muslim friends) are liberal Muslims who do NOT agree with any form of Sharia law. Some of them came here to escape the religious extremists in Islamic countries.

I can't speak for the UK -- but here that fact, and it is a fact, not a fancy -- would cause such an attempt to be rejected, even by those you think it would placate.

Modern fundamentalism -- whether Islamic or Christian is a fairly recent phenomena. It is, at least in Christianity, and according to Muslim friends, in Islam (though I can't speak with authority there obviously, being a Christian), a perversion of the idea of the faiths in question -- and a disgrace to those who are believers.

I know that I hasten to explain, after saying that I am Christian, that my church is rational and liberal. That it accepts evolution and science in general, that it supports gay and women's rights, and that it is in NO WAY involved in the Christian Right, and that it knows the Bible is fictional, not factual. Several close Muslim friends who attend thriving suburban Mosques in the Midwest, make the exact same declamation after noting that they are Muslim. One of our new democratic House members, Keith Ellison is a liberal Muslim -- read his positions if you doubt what I say, and he and his congregation are among many similar.

Again, fundamentalism is an unfortunate outgrowth of religion. Fundamentalism, of whatever stripe, pushes a literal interpretation of bronze and iron age documents full of factual and historic errors. (I speak here of the Bible, but friends and religious scholars I know tell me the same is true of the Koran) and push religious laws that have never actually worked historically for any prolonged length of time, and are not likely to do so now. These people seek stability in a changing world, and so turn to fundamentalism to give them "unchanging truths."

Reality is that the actual unchanging truths of faith are that you love one another and you love God. Documents that purport to be God's (under whatever name) literal word and that go beyond those simple precepts need to prove themselves by being totally without any factual or prophetic error whatsoever. They need to prove this by critical examination, not by, as at least Christian fundamentalists attempt to impose, force. (I cannot say if that phenomena exists in Islam, it is not something that I've discussed with anyone who would know.)

I can only suggest that you openly think about these things, I think that critical consideration will reveal to you not only that Sharia law should not be imposed anywhere in a democracy, but that it flies directly in the face of the genuinely universal principles of loving God and man to have it in place anywhere. Exactly as it does when Christians assert their code of laws, or any other religion does the same.

Regards,

Reyn

Answer 4

It happens but laws should not be passed or based on religious ideologies, no matter who outnumbers who. This is a country based on freedom for a reason. I hope a Sikh answers this question.

Answer 5

Because NO relgious laws should EVER take precedent over the secular law of the land. There are no Christian laws where a majority of Christians live only the laws of the land.

Answer 6

Sharia violates Constitutional and Parlimentary law. Sharia will never be deployed in the US or UK except as vigilante justice, and those who use such justice will face the full force of the real law.

Answer 7

I can't speak for the U.K., but in the U.S., only laws passed by our state and federal legislators are recognized. Further, the first Amendment of our Constitution would prohibit the U.S. government from waiving our laws in favor of religious law.

Peace.

Answer 8

If there is sperate of church and state that mean all religions. sharia laws is based on Islam and it does not say that religion is apart.

Answer 9

Because Muslims only outnumber christians in their own homes. there are more Christians than Muslims in these countries.

Answer 10

'Cause many of the Muslims probably came to escape from sharia law!

Answer 11

If its an Islamic country...no problem.
But the US and UK are far from Islamic...