| ▲ | logicchains 3 hours ago |
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| ▲ | boringg 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't think sharia law has anything to do with this. |
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| ▲ | cowlevel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "Sharia" is the Arabic word for "law", so "Sharia law" just means "law law", or at least "law in places that speak Arabic" which is at least a little bit specific. Sharia law actually has some good ideas in it. I think we should investigate Islamic banking and see if any of it would improve our economies. Because charging interest is forbidden in Islam, many of them do mortgages as a rent to own system instead, which leaves the bank on the hook if the house value crashes, instead of the buyer, so banks don't give out stupidly big mortgages that you might not want to pay back. | |
| ▲ | logicchains 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Look it up if you don't believe me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_marital_jurisprudence . There's no splitting-half-assets in sharia law, instead on divorce the payment is based on what was agreed upon before the marriage, plus child maintenance. |
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| ▲ | dlisboa 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Everyone hates on Sharia law I wonder why. |
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| ▲ | orochimaaru 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Really? Sharia? What’s next stoning people who have sex outside of marriage… |
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| ▲ | phyzix5761 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's not part of Sharia law. In Islam the crime of sex outside of marriage requires a public penetrative act that is witnessed by 4 adults; basically equivalent to having sex in public in the west which is a jailable offense in many US states. Alternatively, the accused could both do a confession in front of a judge 4 separate times but they can retract this confession at any time and avoid any punishment. | | |
| ▲ | orochimaaru 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Let’s keep Islamic perversion out of civil law.
The very fact that sex outside of marriage is considered a crime is perverse. | | |
| ▲ | phyzix5761 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Looks like you didn't read what I posted. Its only a crime if you do it publicly in front of people and they report you just like in every country in the civilized world. Sex outside of marriage is considered a sin but not a crime unless it meets the specific criteria I posted. Your Islamophobia is showing a bit too much. | | |
| ▲ | orochimaaru 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I am unabashedly islamophobic. I consider that faith harmful to modern society. It refuses to evolve. | | |
| ▲ | phyzix5761 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Nobody is forcing it on you or on anyone else. In fact the Quran says, "There is no compulsion in religion." But we should respect the choices of other people. Just like you should be free to practice or not practice whatever you want, Muslims should have that same freedom. | | |
| ▲ | orochimaaru 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think the past millennia where Muslims went forcibly converting populations was just not “Islam”? Most people in the Muslim world look fondly on the glory days, don’t they? |
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| ▲ | BigTTYGothGF an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hacker news, everybody. |
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| ▲ | logicchains 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's also worth noting that in the most minimal reading of Sharia the punishment for adultery is whipping, not stoning, as stoning isn't mentioned in the Quran, only in a statement written down a couple hundred years later by someone claiming he heard someone claiming he heard that a sheep ate the page that mentioned stoning (https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1944). |
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