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Violet_Crumble

(36,159 posts)
7. The OP said they're looking for a positive discussion....
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 04:50 AM
Jan 2012

Seeing as how yr in this group, I think you should use it as a learning experience, not to try to make it a negative thing...

Everything in yr post is totally incorrect. Some countries have been mentioned in this thread that are the 'least bit' progressive.

And I'm sure it's been pointed out to you before, but Israel has Sharia courts. Here's an article about it for you to read and learn from

'Israeli family law is in the hands of the religious courts, and has been so since the creation of the country. Everyone has heard of the travesty that is the rabbinical court system, but few people realize that there is also a publicly-funded Sharia court system: some 19% of the population of Israel is Muslim, and naturally they are not expected to have rabbis marry and divorce them. There are eight Sharia courts in Israel: in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Be’er Sheva, Nazareth, Acre, Taybeh, and Baka Al Garabiya.

Why does Israel maintain such courts? Because family law is mostly out of the reach of the civil courts. You can’t have a civil marriage in Israel. You can’t even have a civil divorce, even assuming you were married elsewhere. Why not? Because in a civil court, the government will have to acknowledge “miscegenation”, marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Most Jew are opposed to that, sometimes violently – the 50 rabbis who yesterday demanded that Jews will refrain from renting apartments to non-Jews based their demand, inter alia, on the fear of “miscegenation” – yet nobody wanted a Nuremberg-like laws. That would be hard to explain away. The result was the empowerment of the religious courts, who preceded Israel, by the young state. Since religious courts would not permit intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews, and would demand conversion, and since wishing to marry a Jew would automatically disqualify a gentile from conversion to Judaism, this seemed like a neat solution.

And so Israel adopted Sharia. Just don’t tell American conservatives. Neocons, of course, being acolytes of the Noble Lie school, probably know this already.

And lie about it.'

http://972mag.com/why-israel-imposes-sharia-law/5824/


btw, how do you feel about Oklahoma's ban on sharia law being overturned?

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***crickets*** ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2012 #1
Well, give it time. MH1 Jan 2012 #2
Still nothing but ***Crickets*** ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2012 #4
The OP said they're looking for a positive discussion.... Violet_Crumble Jan 2012 #7
Interesting, I didn't know that about Israeli law. MH1 Jan 2012 #12
I am not aware of any progressive Islamic Counties, but there are progressive Muslims. ZombieHorde Jan 2012 #3
That group is defunct, but there is a new one, Muslims for Progressive Values MH1 Jan 2012 #13
Turkey seems to be the most progressive Islamic country. Alameda Jan 2012 #5
Actually Turkey is a secular nation, not an islamic one. ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2012 #8
So yr arguing that one of the most populous Muslim countries in the world isn't an Islamic country? Violet_Crumble Jan 2012 #9
Turkey's the best example of one... Violet_Crumble Jan 2012 #6
A very good question for discussion. harun Jan 2012 #10
Thanks everyone for the informative responses! MH1 Jan 2012 #11
it is NOt Andrew_Writer Feb 2012 #14
Turkey and Malaysia naragdaban Feb 2012 #15
what country based in religion is progressive? La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2012 #16
The United States! Pterodactyl Aug 2012 #17
Interesting fact, but irrelevant. Didn't think I needed to define "Islamic country" but here goes: MH1 Sep 2012 #18
What do you mean by progressive? iqbal1980 Oct 2012 #19
Do a litle research into Oman. pangaia Nov 2012 #20
With regards at least to inheritance... Herman4747 Apr 2016 #21
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