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I know it’s an actual thing lmao but the people who it’s effectively used on as a propaganda tool think it’s some great boogie man worse than whatever evils they were taught in Sunday school

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I don’t think most people would be, but it’s highly ironic given the people fearmongering about sharia law are pushing christofascism in our country. Quite literally just a different flavor of the same thing

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1. Sharia (which already means law lmao) is really a bunch of Islamic jurisprudence shit that includes a wide range of non-governmental legal matters. Most Muslims in the US are not Islamists, Islamism meaning the aim to establish a theocracy, so sharia is practiced within community organizations and is voluntarily opted into. There aren’t legally sanctioned killings and enforced subjugation of women. (1/X)

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2. What occurs in communities practicing sharia in the western world is analogous to civil law matters rather than criminal law matters, so property law between members of a community adjudicated by Islamic religious leaders, family law such as custody of children, disputes between members, etc... This isn't stereotypical mainstream media ideas of beheadings and shit Imao, and within the west, the sharia done is often done with significantly less fundamentalist interpretations and more secular

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I’m pretty libertarian, so I’m for freedom of association to extent it doesn’t violate people’s rights. If people want to have community figures in a non-governmental organization handle stuff outside civil law legal system when it otherwise could, that’s fine by me. I’m not religious so I’m not for it, yet if that’s the extent of sharia and it isn’t being enforced on me, whatever. Other religions do this too yet without a catchy name applied to it.

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McCarthy would’ve loved you

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no one wants whatever harmful laws you are referring to. oppressive governments take advantage of religion to further their own ends all the time btw

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what harmful laws are you specifically talking about & who do you think wants to put them into place?

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Get like 20 different legal opinions from different Muslim scholars who study Islam. That’s just bc of methodological differences between scholars, once you bring in contextual case differences that goes up by an order of magnitude. So there isn’t really a one and done style to the sharia, it demands deep study and contextualization, with filtering through in application via humans who are each different, in cases that are each different. Okay that’s a very intro 101 basic intro to the sharia

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Now the sharia itself as one of the things scholars agree on is that if you’re in a country you have to follow its laws and be a good community member (unless it requires you to do haram/impermissible things like drink alcohol, treat ppl cruelly, murder, etc). This means Muslims that are American have to follow the law here by religious reasoning. If one is Muslim, they follow the sharia by being a chill nice person, it’s spiritual guidance. Sharia does not legally apply to non-Muslims

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Historically, non Muslims have just been left to follow their own community’s laws in areas where Muslims have been in power civilizationally. There’s no point in applying sharia to non Muslims, they don’t even believe in it, so why would they care? You can’t force ppl to convert, that’s haram, it’s also pointless bc ppl pretending to believe doesn’t even help them. The modern nation state unfortunately just muddies the water on these things since it engages in legal hegemony across ppl groups

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So then ppl just end up wrongly assuming that’s how all types of law works. What’s funny is that a lot of American law is derived from English common law, which has a famous 12 juror system—lol that was actually taken from the Maliki sharia methodological school in Muslim Spain & Sicily, where they would have a jury of 12 peers decide in various legal disputes. Anyway, yeah as a Muslim American the whole discourse on this has always puzzled me bc of how off it is from what sharia even is

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