al-Shari'a al-Islamiyya

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Aug 6, 2018 at 15:13

Prashant you wrote

>The problem with Sharia Court is not the Court but the Sharia.

The word al-Shari'a means in Arabic

ما شرعَه الله لعباده من العقائد والأحكام

https://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-ar/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9/

Notice that the word Shara'ahu means القوانين والأحكام or the laws and judgments So al-Shari'a al-Islamiyya means:

The above can be rendered as: What Allah dictates (as laws and judgments) for those that WORSHIP HIM (Muslims) from what Muslims believe in their religion in regard to proper behavior and politics (ما يتدين به الإنسان ويعتقده في الدين والأخلاق والسياسة )

So it is very clear that al-Shari'a al-Islamiyya is a way of living (it covers halal slaughter, female circumcision, confusing inheritance laws etc...) albeit created for 7th century Arabia.It is supposed to control not just Muslims but also non Muslim dhimmis be it Christian and Jews as in the case of the Middle East, and they have to pay the Mafia tax called al-Jizya. As for the rest of humanity that is not Christian or Jewish they are given the option as per Q9:5 to either convert to Islam or be killed

As for the word Court in Arabic it is المحكمة or al-Mahkama and it is a European concept where the presumption of innocence, equality infront of the law, testimony under oath, confronting ones accuser, cross examination of witnesses do not exist in Islamic law. For example Muhammad and Allah tell Muslims that they can lie and disregard the legal power of an oath. So you can see that there no محكمة (court) in the way we understand it in the West

Why is all of this important? Nicholas Taleb reminds us about the "Minority Rule." Examples? If let us say Britain allows halal slaughter in no time meat consumed in England will be all halal! More? in al-Shari'a non Muslims can convert to Islam but Muslims cannot leave Islam and this very well explain why Muslims are now the majority in let us say Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. Remember Christians and Jews do not have similar rules if you leave either religion then you can be killed! So if an Egyptian converts to Islam, what is the big deal but in due time the majority of Egyptians become Muslims

This is why al-Shari'a al-Islamiyya, courts or no courts, is very dangerous and should be opposed and banned

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