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Cenk Uyguy gets it
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RE: Cenk Uyguy gets it
(August 16, 2016 at 6:04 am)ReptilianPeon Wrote: Probably somewhere like Albania. (snip) Then it also comes down to which Fiqh or whether there is any Sharia at all.

Two issues worthy of adressing without turning them into seperate quotes.

First, Albania is an excellent example of archaic culture meeting religion. There's a very old culture - for lack of a better word - of honor killings in certain parts of the country. Generations of different clans fight each other because of some insult someone committed, maybe decades or even centuries ago. It's a huge problem for the legal authorities. That's not religious at all, but it's often intermingled.

Secondly, Sharia. Most people in the West perceive it as punitive in an archaic way. Yet Sharia law, in it's vast majority, isn't punitive at all. It's about settling border disputes and property issues at a very local level. Such as farmers disputing over a stretch of land or over the price of a goat or a cow. And it bears mentioning that it is probably older than the Quran, since it's a tribal law geared at the regional customs, which was one of nomadic and semi nomadic peoples moving about.
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Cenk Uyguy gets it - by Grandizer - August 14, 2016 at 4:26 am
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RE: Cenk Uyguy gets it - by YahwehIsTheWay - August 15, 2016 at 8:20 pm
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RE: Cenk Uyguy gets it - by Brian37 - August 16, 2016 at 6:20 am
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RE: Cenk Uyguy gets it - by ReptilianPeon - August 16, 2016 at 6:04 am
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RE: Cenk Uyguy gets it - by Brian37 - August 16, 2016 at 5:12 pm
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