On Feb 15, 2005, at 6:27 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
But, if an elected body accepts Islamic law as a
basis for civil law, then I see us not having the ability to overrule that
body.
But Islamic Law is Evil. The stoning, the beheading, the chopping off hands... if they choose it then they are not fit to choose.
That is only one variety of Islamic law; there's no guarantee that we'll see a re-emergence of a caliphate by election. There are millions more moderate Muslims than fundamentalists; the seeds for a civil society not unlike the American version (in ideal) exist in Islamic teachings every bit as much as the ones which were found for the US.
That is, while the US absolutely, emphatically was *not* founded as a Christian nation, many of the tenets embodied in its founding documents could be said to come from *some* Christian ideals. Very similar tenets could be drawn from Muslim ideals.
If a bunch of cannibals vote to continue cannibalism then it is obvious they need a bit more schooling in decent behaviour before they get to run their own affairs.
Um, um, no. Sorry. What kind of cannibalism do you have in mind here? Are you referring to icky nasty people going out and killing others just so they can eat them, or are you instead referring to the practice of devouring an enemy slain in war, or do you mean the reverential consumption of a family member after natural death as part of the funerary rite?
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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