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Sun 11 Jan, 2015 08:17 am
Sharia Law is it Tyranny
It could easily happen that an appearance of humanitarian 'liberalism' and 'free speech' will exist in Europe, but will in fact be a form of Anarchism.
Not anarchism as related to individuals, but as related to semi-autonomous societies or groups within the country.
The main law of the country may be fairly altruistic, but it will also permit 'religious' practice in communities that is not altruistic. "We have to live together." Political expediency, that can well end in loss of all altruistic practice and conversion of the country to authoritarianism.
According to various accounts:
Sharia Law treats conversion of Muslims to other religions as apostasy
Capital punishment for apostasy can be death
Marriage law is not equal for women, and she is dependent on her guardian.
Amputation as a punishment for theft
A hundred or more lashes, and a penalty of death for adultery
Etc Etc Etc
These are all either outright Tyranny in not allowing people to change their philsophies, or the punishments are out of propertion even where the ethic may be arguable.
@RW Standing,
For most of the past 240 or so years, the US has had and enforced religious laws, even DESPITE claiming separation of church and state. These have included blue laws that keep people from conducting business on Sunday "when they should be in church." It includes forcing them to place their hand on a Christian bible in court, women covering their breasts in public (public decency laws), anti Gay laws, and requiring religious slogans such as "in god we trust" on the money that every citizen handles. It is arguably less hypocritical for a country founded on tightly woven government and religion to openly tie their laws and religion together. This isn't limited to Islamic countries; it has included Israel, the sovereign state of the Vatican City, and Japan, for instance where the Emperor has long been considered a deity. Ironically Atheism can also become tyrannical, as has periodically happened in Russia and China, where practitioners of various religions including Judaism, Islam, Tibetan Buddhism and Falun Gong have been persecuted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong
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