Top ten reasons why sharia is bad for all societies

[Richard Akindele]

UK: Traditional Muslims who understand the Quran and the hadith believe that sharia (Islamic law) expresses the highest and best goals for all societies. It is the will of Allah.

But is Islam just in its laws that Muhammad himself practiced and invented?

This article says no for ten verifiable reasons.

Here are four points you must read, before reading this article:

First, sometimes these ten points quote the Quran or omit it; sometimes they quote the hadith (reports of Muhammad's words and actions outside of the Quran) or omit it. This is done only to keep down the length of the article. No one should be fooled into believing that these harsh and excessive laws were invented in the fevered imagination of extremists who came long after Muhammad. These harsh and excessive laws come directly from the founder of Islam in his Quran and in his example in the hadith.

Second, each of these ten reasons has a back—up article (or more) that is long and well documented with quotations and references to the Quran, the hadith, and classical legal opinions. The supporting articles also examine the historical and literary context of each Quranic verse. If the readers, especially critics, wish to challenge one or all of these ten reasons, or if they simply doubt them, they should click on the supporting articles. They will see that Muhammad himself actually laid down these excessive punishments and policies.

Third, it must be pointed out that these harsh laws are not (or should not be) imposed outside of an Islamic court of law. Careful legal hurdles must be passed before the punishments are carried out. However, even in that case, it will become clear to anyone who thinks clearly that these punishments and policies are excessive by their very nature, and excess is never just, as Aristotle taught us in his Nicomachean Ethics.

Fourth, in each of the lengthy supporting article (or articles), a Biblical view on these infractions of moral law (or sometimes civil law or personal injuries) is presented. One of the reasons we all sense that these Islamic punishments are harsh and excessive is that Christianity has also filled the globe. Even if one is not a Christian or is only a nominal Christian, he or she has breathed deeply of Christianity by virtue of laws and customs or even driving by churches. New Testament Christianity, when properly understood and followed, offers humanity dignity.

'Islam' in this article stands for Muhammad, the earliest Muslims, and classical legal scholars.

Here are the top ten reasons why sharia or Islamic law is bad for all societies.

10. Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.

In 2001, Iranian officials sentenced three men to flogging not only for illicit sex (see reason no. nine), but also for drinking alcohol.

In 2005, in Nigeria a sharia court ordered that a drinker should be caned eighty strokes.

In 2005, in the Indonesian province of Aceh, fifteen men were caned in front of a mosque for gambling. This was done publicly so all could see and fear. Eleven others are scheduled to undergo the same penalty for gambling.

After going through two previous confusing stages before coming down hard on drinkers and gamblers, the Quran finally prohibits alcohol and gambling in Sura 5:90—91; they do not prescribe the punishment of flogging, but the hadith does. A poor 'criminal' was brought to Muhammad who became angry:

The Prophet felt it hard (was angry) and ordered all those who were present in the house, to beat him [the drinker dragged into Muhammad's presence]. (Bukhari, Punishments, nos. 6774—6775)

Thus, we see no offer of help for the alcoholic when he is dragged before Muhammad and his followers. Why does Muhammad not offer rehabilitation? Why does he immediately go to corporal punishment?

The later classical legal rulings follow the Quran and the hadith, so we do not need to examine them here.

It is sometimes argued that Islamic countries are pure, whereas the West is decadent. No one can argue with this latter claim, but are Islamic countries pure? Islamic countries still have drinking and gambling in them.

[Richard Akindele]

[bountyman]

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for those who actually understand the meaning of lislam would understand what the is lamic law is insinuating,take drinking for example-when a young man starts drinking there is every possibily for him to be addicted cox he would find it as a partner when ever he is down or happy but tell me is this the wright thing to do when ever our body fells so,u compaired food and drink,have u ever seen someone who over feed and start misbehaving but check out a drunk man u see all sort absurd behaviours frm such person and for your info islamically it is wrong to over feed.There is actually difference between over and moderate but when u look at thing islam prohibited totally,u wil realize dis are d things that can easily be part of us imediately we start doing them(drinking and gambling).As for gambling,according to u,living should also be a gamble cox we dont know if u goona wake up d next day,eating should also be gambling,serving GOD should also be gambling cox we dont know if he actually exist,then everytin we do is gambling,my brother its not,these things u called gambling are the reason why we should be grateful to the unseen GOD,islamically business is good but not to cheat other because they dont khow.The issue of islamic countries purity,law does not command abidement but serve as a lesson point for does that refuse to obey,take Nigeria fir example is it that we dont have regulatin or constitution but yet the so called law enforcers are the number one law breaker,so if that could happen her in Nigeria why cant it happen in other countries,we are all human some of us are goat,promise to kill them they will still break the law.If u are looking at it from the fact that iraq has been a place of joy for some period of time,what actually gives u the asurance that they are serving GOD the way the quran as stated or is it written anywhere in the quran that they should be bombing each other,to ur surprise thetve blown the origin of islam b4 and recently they blew a mosque containing people,so is it dis people we call muslems or terrorist or what do we call them but people have always been attributing there behaviour to the muslem cox its an islamic state.Now lets talk about the corrupt countriec in the world,ur own country was rated 4th,is ur country an islamic country or is there any religious country listed among(JERUSALEM,EGYPT,SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHERS),all this religious countries have there own policies which differs from others,these country are not totally clean cox we still have some people like our own tafa balogun and other in this country but to some extent they are clean.