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Originally Posted by FreedomSeeker";p="
No offense, but YES, the main problem is Sharia (the Islamic texts) because if it did not say things like kill the infidels or kill apostates then the vast majority of the time a government would not kill someone for those "crimes".
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I disagree. People adopt religious and criminal codes that appeal to them, and interpret them in ways that appeal to them. They express them in ways that fit the larger culture. That's why Islam as practiced in, say, Pakistani tribal regions is different from Islam as practiced in the West or even Islamabad.
The problem is radical Islamic fundamentalism as seen through a prism of medieval tribal conservatism.
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Whereas Sharia regimes add one more reason to rape than non-Sharia regimes...
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But only in certain interpretations of Sharia. Raping prisoners isn't a fundamental part of sharia, for example: It's a cynical expedient, a way to get around an Islamic prohibition against executing virgin women. It's easy to envision a "modern" sharia code that doesn't countenance such rape and simply sentences virgins to life in prison in lieu of execution.
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To move into the modern civilized world, first backwards Muslim nations need to overcome rule by Sharia, then they need to overcome rule by totalitarian-thugs.
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I think it's all of a piece. Ditch the totalitarian regimes, be they dictatorships, kleptocracies or theocracies. And separate church from state.
Sharia is more of an expression of existing mores than an imposition of them. Change the mores, and sharia will change or (more likely) wither.