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What about these Muslims and the Sharia some of them embrace?



I know wonderful Muslims. Great people.



These rotten apples seem to ruin the whole basket of apples. I do not think that is fair.

All practicing Muslims observe shari'a. It's just that not all Muslims are practicing Muslims, just like not all Jews are observant of Judaism. Some just cuturally or ethnically identify with the religions, on the surface.

The plot thickens when we realize that among practicing Muslims, there are some who see shari'a as the law of the land, whatever land they are in, and applicable to everyone whereas some see shari'a correctly as religious law, applicable only to their own co-religionists. Much like Christianity was once the "law of the land" in European countries, but as Christians developed into people, they realized that their own "law" applied only to themselves, and not to the secular realm.

To further complicate it, there are different schools of shari'a, different "sets" of laws and different interpretations of the various shari'as that exist.

Islam is in the midst of developing into an Allah-centered religion, and at this juncture could go either way. We can hope it develops into a full grown religion rather than the developmentally-challenged but integrated socio-economic-religious system the Islamic Fundamentalists are trying to make it into.

Remember, it's been less than 400 years since Catholics fought wars of extermination to spread their religion and killed anyone not a Catholic. Protestant Christian, Muslim, Hindu, it didn't matter - if they were not a Catholic, they were subject to torture and murder by Catholics. Kinda like Islam is right now to the Fundamentalists.

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