tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post380062296756689477..comments2023-12-24T15:36:16.969-05:00Comments on Chuck for ...: Why Shariah Law ?Chuck Butcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-67278167933704518032008-03-17T01:33:00.000-04:002008-03-17T01:33:00.000-04:00KISS,Because I don't choose to belong to a religio...KISS,<BR/>Because I don't choose to belong to a religion doesn't mean I have not seen people improved by their connection to a religion. I find that, as with most associations, the outcomes are pretty much individually determined. I'm not too sure from studying history that the world's behavior hasn't been generally improved by them. "If" is a pretty large word for so few letters.Chuck Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-72512913120367928642008-03-17T01:26:00.000-04:002008-03-17T01:26:00.000-04:00Deleted is annoying spam.anymouse, I don't think I...Deleted is annoying spam.<BR/><BR/>anymouse, I don't think I asserted anything other than a lack of separation of church and state in regard to England and you seem to have borne that out in your comment.Chuck Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656874242638324636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-1044474327834055312008-03-16T23:59:00.000-04:002008-03-16T23:59:00.000-04:00The situation in England is perhaps not quite as y...The situation in England is perhaps not quite as you portray it. Yes, the monarch is "The Defender of the Faith", officially the Anglican Church, but there is complete freedom of religion and a corpus of secular law. Schools (I lived in England and had a kid in school there) are required to provide religious instruction, and some "state" (public, in US terms) schools are operated by religious denominations essentially under contract to the state. Oddly enough from a US perspective, the number of such "faith" schools has increased a lot since Labour has been in power. Yet the population overall is dramatically less religious than in the US.<BR/><BR/>The opposition to use of shariah law in England, say, has to do with the idea that there is a single body of laws that applies to EVERYONE. <BR/><BR/>There are some countries that use different religious courts for different religious groups, to some considerable consternation. A good example is Malaysia, where shariah is applied to Muslims in civil court cases, but other ethnic/religious groups are handled differently. This leads to conflicts when one party to a case is Muslim and the other is not.<BR/><BR/>A single set of laws for everyone in any country is the scheme that makes sense to me. Sure, those laws may be informed by local religious traditions, but as soon as one starts promoting the idea that laws are divinely ordained, we've got trouble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-66906420365883562652008-03-16T23:34:00.000-04:002008-03-16T23:34:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22183958.post-73642742557408374482008-03-16T20:57:00.000-04:002008-03-16T20:57:00.000-04:00Hilarious how christians howl if another religion,...Hilarious how christians howl if another religion,muslim, wants same blending as Bush wishes. Again whose OX is most important, ignorant christians or ignorant muslims...if anyone of them wins we lose.<BR/>Disclaimer: I am not bias. Being secular I hate 'em all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com