Can a Free People vote in a Shar'i Order?
Reader comment on item: Can a Free People Vote in a Shar‘i Order?
in response to reader comment: Voting yourself into sharia technically not possible in US

Submitted by Jack Donaldson (United States), Mar 17, 2007 at 12:53

No, because the Shar'i law dictates that the Muslim is under the authority of the local Imam.

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