What is Sharia law?

Question

I am am an American who if fascinated with what is going on in the UK with Muslims. We don't seem to have the same problem. I don't get how there is even a debate. The are in your country and should live by your laws. If they don't like it they can go back home. I don't understand why so many are in Europe when the land they came from was the land Allah gave them. The culture and laws belong in their countries. I am not religous, but I feel that the western culture and prosperity was based on a Christian foundation. We evolved and prospered even more under a separation of church and state. Look aroung the globe and you can see the poverty and misery in nations goverened by religous organizations. I just think that what is resolved in the EU and UK will determine the freedom of all of us in the "west".

Answer 1

the down fall of humanity as we know

Answer 2

I dont really understand the point you are trying to make here. If you are as "fascinated" by the subject as you state, then it follows that you will have , at the very least, a vague understanding of what Sharia law is. Are there not a few Muslims in the US who have not also called for it? Do you seriously a believe that a few hundred ( at most) such people present a bona fide threat to the future of the US government?

There are religious extremists of all shades and opinions everywhere in the world, and certainly within your own country. Amongst Muslims here in the UK and also Europe, those who argue for Sharia law are a miniscule minority. Inevitably, they are given a disproportionate amount of media coverage because it is clearly a highly controversial subject and is therefore a good, juicy story which sell papers and causes uninformed reactions like some of those above. But if a mere one in a hundred thousand people are arguing for it, does it therefore make it a vitally important topic "for the freedom of us in the West" ? A religious nutter is a religious nutter, however he chooses to bellieve..it doesnt make his opinion any more valid. And doesn't freedom involve being able to say how you believe the world should be run, even if no-one else agrees with you?

There are extreme Christians in the US who strongly argue that creationism should be taught as an absolute scientific fact in American schools..is that any less bizarre or worrying for the rest of us?

Answer 3

It's law based on the 'teachings' of Islam.

And under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should it be acceptable to use Sharia law in the UK over English law, as some Muslim's have recently tried to do.

You want to live in England? YOU ABIDE BY ENGLISH LAW.

The same goes for every other religion/culture/nationality.
OR GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

Answer 4

Sharia (Arabic: شريعة transliteration: Sharī‘ah) is the body of Islamic law. The term means "way" or "path"; it is the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles of jurisprudence.

Sharia deals with many aspects of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business law, contract law, sexuality, and social issues. Some Islamic scholars accept Sharia as the body of precedent and legal theory established before the 19th century, while other scholars view Sharia as a changing body, and include Islamic legal theory from the contemporary period

Answer 5

It means living your life by the rules of someone's imaginary friend from 1000's of years ago, just like basing any laws on religion.

It's developed from a religion so that the church or whatever they call amuslim church, can exercise mass control over the population. Other examples of this kind of bullying come from the Roman Catholic church and many others.

Answer 6

Imagine a boulder that weighs 500 lbs. sitting on the back of your neck.

That is Sharia law.

Answer 7

An Evil , Insidious Destructive Device for controlling the masses in the countries where this Lunacy takes hold- to enable the Sickening , Demented , Power Mad so Called "Religious Leaders" to Direct their Mindless Followers to do whatever they Decide "they want them to do" - Murder , Bombing , Create Mayhem , Misery and Devastation throughout the World --- All in the Name of their "God" ---- An Evil Threat to the Free World and the whole of Humanity

Answer 8

Wow! I've read most of the links that the other YA user (As_it_is) placed here. It was hard to fight back crying (I'm in the office). This is really disgusting and should be banned. This religion and its laws are dangerous and evil.

Answer 9

It is a law based on the teachings of the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an for those who do not know, and the laws laid down inside of it. It bases the punishments on the severity of how the were punished in the Qur'an, so at times it is quite arbitary and barbaric.

Answer 10

According to Sharia law:

• Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand (above).
• Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.
• Criticizing Muhammad or denying that he is a prophet is punishable by death.
• Criticizing or denying Allah is punishable by death (see Allah moon god).
• A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death (compulsion in religion).
• A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
• A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.
• Girls clitoris should be cut (Muhammad s words, Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251).
• A woman can have 1 husband, who can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more.
• A man can beat his wife for insubordination (see Religion of Peace).
• A man can unilaterally divorce his wife; a woman needs her husband s consent to divorce.
• A divorced wife loses custody of all children over 6 years of age or when they exceed it.
• Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape against a woman.
• A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s).
• A woman s testimony in court, allowed in property cases, carries ½ the weight of a man s.
• A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits (see Errors in Quran).
• A woman cannot drive a car, as it leads to fitnah (upheaval).
• A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
• Meat to eat must come from animals that have been sacrificed to Allah - i.e., be "Halal".
• Muslims should engage in Taqiyya and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.
• The list goes on. See Sharia law in America, UK, Europe and Saudi Arabia.

Answer 11

Melissa, I think you already know the answer to this question, but it has something to do with Muslims law of how they can exchange wives if they get bored with one of them....