Rather than rejecting
Sharia out-right, we need to fix it. Sharia serves as a system of justice to the
given populations in Muslim majority nations; without it a large swatch of
population would become rudderless. Our own constitution has been amended
several times, and that is what is needed to be done with Sharia.
The right-wing Muslims will scream at
me for questioning the divinity of Sharia, and the right-wing Christians, Jews,
Hindus, and others will be calling me names, as this essay does not condemn
Sharia. They simply cannot see another point of view.
effort to dispense justice to fellow beings in accordance with Quran and the
Prophet’s examples; however, men are fallible beings and have failed to deliver
justice. They have got it all wrong when it comes to women, apostates,
blasphemers and the victims of rape. Sharia as practiced in a few of the Muslim
nations does not reflect God’s wisdom or the practice of the prophet. It needs
to be fixed badly.
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Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker and a
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