faustobiason
Junior Member
Hi everybody
Regarding the shari'a law, now 2 questions:
- when Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Church of England, said that the Shari'a Law was inevitable in Britain (and attracted tons of vitriol from the right-wing press that called him all sorts of names) a Muslim scholar answered: "there are many denominations of Islam, each with a different interpretation of Shari'a, so which version of the Shari'a Law are we going to enact and enforce?"
and I am hereby asking you the same question;
- we know that Saudi Arabia is governed by Shari'a, however not everyone knows thatmany of those Saudi nationals who can afford it spend almost every week-end in places like Bahrein and Lebanon, and for the sole purpose of having that kind of fun they cannot have inside Saudi Arabia, and I am here talking alcohol, prostitution, etc.
So, if most Saudis say one thing in public and do another in private (or in a bar or brothel) is the Shari'a really enforceable?
Or wouldn't be better to just educate people?
I stopped drinking alcohol altogether 3 years ago when I joined a Christian Fellowship that regards drinking alcohol as a sin, but I am not sure that alcohol can just be prohibited.
America tried in the 1920, Prohibitionism, remember, and what happened?
AL CAPONE !!!
SO, isn't it better to leave Shari'a Law to civil matters, as it is already happening in Britain?
Fausto
Regarding the shari'a law, now 2 questions:
- when Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Church of England, said that the Shari'a Law was inevitable in Britain (and attracted tons of vitriol from the right-wing press that called him all sorts of names) a Muslim scholar answered: "there are many denominations of Islam, each with a different interpretation of Shari'a, so which version of the Shari'a Law are we going to enact and enforce?"
and I am hereby asking you the same question;
- we know that Saudi Arabia is governed by Shari'a, however not everyone knows thatmany of those Saudi nationals who can afford it spend almost every week-end in places like Bahrein and Lebanon, and for the sole purpose of having that kind of fun they cannot have inside Saudi Arabia, and I am here talking alcohol, prostitution, etc.
So, if most Saudis say one thing in public and do another in private (or in a bar or brothel) is the Shari'a really enforceable?
Or wouldn't be better to just educate people?
I stopped drinking alcohol altogether 3 years ago when I joined a Christian Fellowship that regards drinking alcohol as a sin, but I am not sure that alcohol can just be prohibited.
America tried in the 1920, Prohibitionism, remember, and what happened?
AL CAPONE !!!
SO, isn't it better to leave Shari'a Law to civil matters, as it is already happening in Britain?
Fausto