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Where have you gotten that impression? Sharia support is large in most muslim countries, with a few exceptions. Some numbers on the %support of Sharia: Indonesi
by tassl 11y ago
Where have you gotten that impression? Sharia support is large in most muslim countries, with a few exceptions. Some numbers on the %support of Sharia: Indonesia (72%), Pakistan (84%), Bangladesh (82%) [1]. Even in the UK the Sharia is used for certain areas of life.
[1] http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/gsi2-overview-1.png http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/gsi2-overview-1.png
- pharrington 11y agoI guess I'm just wrong. My assumption mostly came from the apparent extreme resistance Isis is facing in actually creating Sharia governance from the local power vacuums. Im also having trouble finding useful information about civilian opinions of existing Sharia regemes.
- _delirium 11y agoPeople answering polls have pretty varying views of what "Sharia" means, since that name tends to be used by any system of law that claims to be based on Islam. If you ask more specific questions, like whether a rigid Saudi Arabian / Wahhabist style interpretation of Sharia should be introduced in their country, support is much lower, though it depends on the country. One example: 60% of Malaysian Muslims believe that their country's current legal system is sharia, so when they say they support sharia, they mean the system Malaysia currently has, rather than a Saudi-Arabia or Taliban or ISIS style system.
- coldtea 11y ago>My assumption mostly came from the apparent extreme resistance Isis is facing in actually creating Sharia governance from the local power vacuums. ISIS is not creating Sharia in the commonly understood sense. It's creating a Nazi-version of Sharia.
- raverbashing 11y ago[citation needed]
- coldtea 11y agoIf you really need one, then there are literally THOUSANDS of books and papers about Sharia, both about its theory and historical implementation. I suggest you get a few (I would also suggest from respectable universities, not polemicists) and compare what they describe to ISIS.
- sbuk 11y agoSharia is not part of UK law and is not recognised by any UK court.
- robk 11y agoSharia courts are recognized as a legally binding arbitration system when used in that way
- hartpuff 11y agoSo they're recognized in the same way as, say, a Jewish court would be, or in fact essentially any body would be?
- DanBC 11y agoNo, they're not. https://fullfact.org/law/uks-sharia-courts/ https://fullfact.org/law/uks-sharia-courts/ > While feuding couples have to at least consider mediation before going to court, it doesn't override family law. A court has to sign off on any agreement made after divorce for it to be legally binding, and won't do so if the judge thinks it's unfair. > In 2013, the High Court was asked by an Orthodox Jewish couple to accept the ruling of a Jewish religious court on post-divorce family arrangements. The judge said that while the agreement would carry weight, it would be non-binding—neither party could get around English law by agreeing to abide by the decision of another tribunal.
- nightspirit 11y agoReportedly, there are places in UK which don't recognize UK laws. edit: I mean practically, not formally. It's enough that violations of host country's laws stay unreported and violations of whatever other norms are punished unofficially. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_area#Contemporary_no-go_areas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_area#Contemporary_no-go_... Getting people from oppressive cultures who end up living in isolation with others like them to suddenly start exercising their new rights is a hard problem which can't simply be wished out of existence.
- iuguy 11y ago
- sangnoir 11y agoThat doesn't mean that people can't change: as recently as 1995, the majority of Americans did not approve of interracial marriages[1]. 1. http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-whites.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...