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By: A. A. B.

A. A. B. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:41:04 +0000

Mel,
Both Sharia courts an Jewish Batei Din function in the UK. Neither of them are recognized to act instead of the state’s laws made by parliament. Some Muslims are asking exactly for that. They want to handle things such as divorce and heritage not according to the same laws that are democratically established, respect human rights and are made for everyone, but by what the claim to be "eternal divine law". Obviously, there are lots of different versions of Sharia law, and in fact it was establish by medieval scholars.

I think it should be obvious that in democratic countries, law is made by the people or its elected representatives, not by religious leaders. That is why "introducing sharia courts" is something I strongly oppose.

As for your comparison with Judaism, you should learn the difference between ethnical slurs and attacks on religious doctrine and practice. Making racist statements against Jews and making racist statements against, let’s say, Turks, are equally evil and inacceptable. But critisizing religious belief and practice cannot be compared to that.

As a Muslim, I frequently critisize madmen in my own religion, and I don’t see why that should be a crime. The same is true in Judaism, where Liberal and Secular Jews don’t hesistate to speak out against Ultra-Orthodoxy. And as a Muslim, I want to be allowed to critisize, let’s say, sexism in Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and i think Liberal Jews should also be allowed to critisize sexism among some Muslims.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:47:55 +0000

There are several muslim apostates who are now in hiding or on the run for criticizing islam and its teachings. Would you call them ‘anti-islamic’ bigots? What the hell is it with the secular progressives/socialists of today who are all of a sudden concened about hurt religious feelings, especially islamic ones? How does having a belief in social justice and peoples rights etc seem to come with a complete lack of common sense? Anyhow, keep taking the safe road and blame it all on GW Bush. He won’t send a hit squad after you.

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:26:49 +0000

admin: personal attacks and bigotry are not welcome here

By: A. A. B.

A. A. B. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:09:58 +0000

David,
What would you say about non-Christians who claim radical, fanatical "Christian" cults to be Christianity period? If you don’t like that, you shouldn’t do that about Islam either.

The claim that Mohammed was pedophile exists in Ahadith recounted by a certain Hisham ibn Urwa. Mohammed’s cousin, early Islamic scholar Abdallah ibn Abbas already denounced him for spreading false ahadith, and one can see from other Ahadith that Aisha was at least about 15 years old.

Now it is interesting to see that pedophilia claims are accepted bothby fanatical madmen like the Irani regime (so that they can rape little girls themselves) and Islam-haters (to "prove" how evil Islam is according to you). Every time I read Islam bashing, it is obvious to me that it only works if you follow the same interpretations as extremists.

By: David

David — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:42:31 +0000

admin: religious bigotry is not welcome here

By: pacific_waters

pacific_waters — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:47:04 +0000

How about "I find Islam repugnant?"

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:34:29 +0000

AAB: I fear you are right about that. Often newspapers do not want to publish columns of ‘moderate Muslims,’ simply because such Muslims don’t provide spectacular (read: clash of civilizations) headlines.

By: A. A. B.

A. A. B. — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:58:15 +0000

Thank you for that great article. Discussing and exposing Mr. wilders’ ideas in the right thing to do. Obviously, he sees Islam as one monolithic bloc, which he identifies with radical thought such as Wahhabism.

Mr. Wilders’ success has to do with the way many non-Muslim Dutch people perceive Islam though. In the Dutch media, I saw Muslim representatives asking for Mr. Wilders’ (still unpublished) moevie "about Islam" to be banned. I did not see any different opinions from Muslims.

Finally I decided to write an open letter to Mr. Wilders, defending his freedom of speech, while disagreeing with him in content. I also sent that letter to the major Dutch newspapers. As far as I know, none of them published it (though I couldn’t swear).