moralist Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Can Islamic sharia law and western democratic freedom coexist in Pakistan... ...or anywhere else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Sure, if one is in jail.Extremely good video.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dldelancey Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Can they co-exist in Texas?http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/02/09/sharia-law-in-texas-dont-miss-this-incredible-interview/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Sharia is just tribal law gone too big like cancer.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Prager is doing a really good job on his Prager University YouTube channel. His short videos are mostly stories, not lectures. Small morality tales, if you will with a small amount of commentary.By my count, if we consider a viral video to have over 500,000 views, he has 18 viral videos so far. All of them are recent, too (the oldest was uploaded 1 year ago, but most 2 or 3 months ago.)And for those on the way to becoming viral, say over 100,000 to 500,000 views, he has 46.That's a crapload.This is the power of couching ideas in stories.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Shariah can be a mode of arbitration, wherein both parties agree to abide by the decision. This is no different in principle from Rabbinic Courts used by Orthodox Jews to settle disputes according to Halachah (Jewish law). The parties agree to abide by the decision of the Rabbinic Courts. Since submission to arbitration is voluntary, the law recognizes the validity of the contract signed by both parties to abide by the decision of the arbitrator. At no point does arbitration assume an authority greater than the laws.Where such arbitration is legal it does NOT mean Shariah has replaced law. Why? Because no party is compelled to submit to Shariah law. Both parties have to voluntarily agree to do so.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Are whippings stonings and cut off hands part of Sharia law? (not to mention chopped heads...)I doubt those are "voluntary". Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Can Islamic sharia law and western democratic freedom coexist in Pakistan......or anywhere else? Can Orthodox Jewish Rabbinical Courts and freedom co-exist. They do in New York City. Where two parties have a dispute they can have a Rabbinic Court arbitrate the dispute. No freedom lost.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Does your comment mean that you regard behavior as proscribed by Judaism and Islam to be morally equivalent?Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Does your comment mean that you regard behavior as proscribed by Judaism and Islam to be morally equivalent?Gregcertainly not! I am pointing out that rabbinic courts function as mediation courts which are a legal alternative to law courts in settling civil disputes between parties who voluntarily agree to abide by the decision of the mediator. Shriah courts could do the same thing.Law courts are not overruled or put down. Parties wishing to resolve civil dispute have an alternative to law courts. In criminal matter law courts have primary standing. Neither Orthodox Jewish Law or Shariah would replaced or displace the law of the land.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Shriah courts could do the same thing.This is "Sharia law":Cairo (AFP) - The Islamic State group in Libya released a video on Sunday purportedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, prompting Egypt's president to threaten a "suitable" punishment for the killings.http://news.yahoo.com/says-beheaded-egyptian-copts-libya-193850727.html;_ylt=AwrBEiS3O.FUohoAr1rQtDMDGreg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reidy Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 As a matter of facts that I'd only discovered recently, the Hasidim in New York have long had Sharia - a semi formal criminal justice system that the formal one rarely interferes with and that doesn't always work:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/outcast-3http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/nyregion/ultra-orthodox-jews-shun-their-own-for-reporting-child-sexual-abuse.html?pagewanted=allhttp://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/satmar-leader-weberman-guilty-molesting-girl-article-1.1217092For more, look up new york hasidic molest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Shriah courts could do the same thing. This is "Sharia law":Cairo (AFP) - The Islamic State group in Libya released a video on Sunday purportedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, prompting Egypt's president to threaten a "suitable" punishment for the killings.http://news.yahoo.com/says-beheaded-egyptian-copts-libya-193850727.html;_ylt=AwrBEiS3O.FUohoAr1rQtDMDGregThe US uncorked three bottles by its fruitless meddling in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. I'm sure there's more to come--Ukraine, Iran and, if it lasts long enough, China.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Maybe the US should actually switch from meddling to if they are going to fight, fight to actually win, or just stay the f home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Maybe the US should actually switch from meddling to if they are going to fight, fight to actually win, or just stay the f home.Too late for that. The US will never win by waging a politically correct war against the Islamic fascists with a weak feminized leftist Commander in Chief who is occupied with appeasing the enemy. Heck, he's so spineless he can't even name the enemy, so how could the US ever defeat them?Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 You will have to tough it out until this president hands over his unused big boy pants to the next POTUS who very well may be a Clinton.... Ok maybe the president after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Maybe the US should actually switch from meddling to if they are going to fight, fight to actually win, or just stay the f home.Too late for that. The US will never win by waging a politically correct war against the Islamic fascists with a weak feminized leftist Commander in Chief who is occupied with appeasing the enemy. Heck, he's so spineless he can't even name the enemy, so how could the US ever defeat them?GregMaybe the US should start with Saudi Arabia.--Brantthey do chop headsjust how many Iraqis were killed by the US through two wars and economic sanctions?upwards of 6 1/2 million Vietnamese and Cambodians were killed consequent to the Vietnam Warand the beat goes onhttp://youtu.be/to0irFedGqc?t=59s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiodekadent Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 In theory, Sharia as a form of Private Binding Arbitration could coexist with freedom (presuming it was a voluntary legal code), and the previous example of Jewish religious courts in New York City is roughly similar in how it acts.However, the Jewish courts certainly didn't work to prevent the molestation scandals. Indeed, it is arguably no different from the Catholic Church's "internal" dispute resolution process (after all you can't POSSIBLY damage the reputation of the Church/Jewish People in front of the world/the Gentiles!) in that it swept things up under the rug for PR reasons.There's no reason to believe an Islamic court wouldn't succumb to the same pressures. Not only that but several punishments endorsed in Islamic law are on-their-face violations of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause.And of course, there's an important issue with respect to "voluntary" legal codes being based in religion; people tend to bring up their own children within their own religion (and this often gets into the realm of full-on indoctrination in the case of theologically-conservative religious groups). We can hardly say a child growing up in a family that has "voluntarily" accepted Sharia law (ditto for a child growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family!) has voluntarily accepted that legal code.If we are to accept the existence of religiously-based Private Binding Arbitration when voluntarily accepted, I think the law must do two things: First, there has to be some sort of 'supremacy clause' in which Constitutional rights and secular law trump religious law. For instance, if the 'crime' violates secular law it must immediately be referred to secular authorities (irrespective of whether or not the crime also violates religious law). In addition, cruel and unusual punishments must be forbidden.Secondly, children must be exempt from these religious laws. After all, PBA must be agreed to via contract and children cannot sign contracts. Religious PBA must be an "opt-in" thing and a person should have to be a legal adult before being able to exercise the choice to opt in.Naturally, these restraints will have to be applied across any form of religious PBA, including but not limited to Sharia. Equal treatment, after all.Under these constraints I can at least in theory see a coexistence between some form of religious PBA based upon Sharia (to at least some extent) and a classically liberal society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 In theory, Sharia as a... In reality, Sharia as a... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 The use of technology and social media to bait bears and recruit warriors and make the world shit in its pants. In the meantime, Israel goes to war with Iran.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 The use of technology and social media to bait bears and recruit warriors and make the world shit in its pants. In the meantime, Israel goes to war with Iran.--BrantIsrael could never win a ground war with Iran. Iran has five times the population of Israel. The only war Israel could win with Iran is a nuclear war, and the Israelis simply will not do that.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 The use of technology and social media to bait bears and recruit warriors and make the world shit in its pants. In the meantime, Israel goes to war with Iran.--BrantIsrael could never win a ground war with Iran. Iran has five times the population of Israel. The only war Israel could win with Iran is a nuclear war, and the Israelis simply will not do that.Ba'al Chatzaf I didn't say ground war and it wouldn't necessarily need nukes. Such a war would have a severely limited objective. But, WTF do you think it has nukes for? It was prepared to use them in 1972 until Nixon came with massive resupplies.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Ba'al Chatzaf The only war Israel could win with Iran is a nuclear war, and the Israelis simply will not do that.What an odd idea, faced with its destruction Israel won't use extreme force? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 What an odd idea, faced with its destruction Israel won't use extreme force? That sounds far more like weak politically correct liberal America than it does Israel! Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Troy Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 They don't have Dolphin class subs loaded with 250Kiloton warheads off Iran's coast just to look pretty.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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