The Baha'i Studies Listserv Susan, I think only Indonesia is such a Muslim state. All other Muslim states impose Islamic law on all people there, regardless of their actual religious beliefs. India is another state that has religious law that varies depending upon the religion of the person. But for the most, theocratic states and religious states always impose one religions's laws on all people in their territory and citizenship regardless of their religious beliefs.
Your alcohol example is actually not the case. Muslim states are completely Prohibitionist. While you can drink alcohol there on the black market, it is still technically illegal. To clarify, Muslim states are completely Prohibitionist regardless of a person's religion. The actual enforcement is actually impossible to eliminate all production and drinking of alcohol. It is actually quite easy to produce, buy, sell, and use alcohol without getting caught under Prohibition due to my study of the history of Prohibition. Sent from my iPad On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:28, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > >Would non-Bahais be bound by Baha'i laws or not? > > Dear Stephen, > > I don't think we can say for sure but if we use Islam as the precedence, > non-Muslims in a Muslim state were generally expected to abide by the laws of > their own religion. For instance, while Muslims were not allowed to drink > alcohol, Christians and Jews could both produce and imbibe it. >> >> Why should non-Bahais care about Baha'i laws? > > I guess you'll have to ask the non-Baha'is that question. ;-} In my view they > shouldn't unless they are considering becoming Baha'is or we start acting > like we are going to impose our laws on them against their will. >> >> How should public policy be decided in current societies whether Jewish, >> Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc? > > Baha'is are rather fond of consultation when it comes to setting policy. > > warmest, Susan __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-697815-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
