Thank you Mr. Feldman for this enlightening piece. Its a breath of fresh air in all the negative vibes Islam has been getting.
Some excerpts.
When the British applied their law to Muslims in place of Shariah, as they did in some colonies, the result was to strip married women of the property that Islamic law had always granted them — hardly progress toward equality of the sexes.
The extremes of our own legal system — like life sentences for relatively minor drug crimes, in some cases — are routinely ignored. It sometimes seems as if we need Shariah as Westerners have long needed Islam: as a canvas on which to project our ideas of the horrible, and as a foil to make us look good.
The explanation surely must go beyond the oversimplified assumption that Muslims want to use Shariah to reverse feminism and control women — especially since large numbers of women support the Islamists in general and the ideal of Shariah in particular.
For many Muslims today, living in corrupt autocracies, the call for Shariah is not a call for sexism, obscurantism or savage punishment but for an Islamic version of what the West considers its most prized principle of political justice: the rule of law.
Recommended read.
I really appreciate Feldman’s effort to write an interesting article on Islamic Shariah, atleast better than our mullahs effort to make better (so called) image of Islam…