The bigots behind the "anti-Sharia" marches

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

"ON JUNE 10, demonstrations are slated to take place in more than two dozen cities across the U.S. against the supposed threat of Islamic "Sharia law."
Why, exactly, are protests needed against something the majority of Americans don't know anything about, that doesn't exist in the U.S. on any institutional level, and that isn't actually a threat to anyone?
Because it's an easy opportunity for the right wing to whip up anti-Muslim sentiment--and capitalize on the racist rhetoric of the bigot-in-chief occupying the White House."

To read more:

http://socialistworker.org/2017/06/08/the-bigots-behind-the-anti-sharia-marches

[erpowers]

1. Not Just About Obama

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So, this Sharia Law fear was not just about President Obama. I am not trying to make light of what happened to President Obama because I was one of the people who thought the whole thing was about him being a black man with a foreign sounding name. I expected this to end once he was out of office. I would have thought that with Donald Trump in office these people would have ended their cause.

Apparently, these are just some angry and deranged people. It was not simply Obama Derangement Syndrome; it was Derangement Syndrome. There is a chance that this Sharia Law fear will never end. There was never a chance America was going to enact Sharia Law under President Obama. It was not going to happen in a President Clinton administration. Now it will not happen in a Trump Administration, but these people continue to protest the idea of Sharia Law coming to America.

Someone needs to ask these protesters question about Sharia Law. I would like to know what these people think they know about Sharia Law. I bet most of them could not explain what they are angry about.

[guillaumeb]

2. I would bet that many of these protesters could not answer many questions

about US history or the US Constitution, much less Sharia law.

Oklahoma recently passed a law banning sharia law. All about creating enemies and focusing people on division and hate rather than realizing what capitalists are doing to this country.

[Doreen]

3. Sharia law is Sharia law even by any other name.

These people who are against Sharia law to the extent these people have been are the same ones who are pushing for very extreme right wing laws particularly pertaining to woman. I would call their Sharia law Christian law but there are to many Christians who are not like that. What they/we can call their brand of Sharia I do not know but it is the same just approached in a different way.

[guillaumeb]

4. Sharia is composed of commentaries on Islam.

My feeling is that all of this is simply attempting to divide people to distract from what the right wing is doing.

[blueinredohio]

5. That's what my Fox loving aunt said talking about Sean Hannity

asked did I know who he was I said I never ever watch Fox. She wouldn't know what sharia law was if it bit her in the ass

[blitzen]

6. "Shariah Law" does not exist, period...

I know a lot of you won't believe this. But trust me, I know what I'm talking about--knowing this stuff is part of my profession. This is not a scholarly forum, but if it were, I would happily provide plenty of bibliography. If anyone is interested, Bernard Weiss's "In Search of God's Law" is among the most authoritative books written by a Western scholar on this topic.

"Shariah" is God's Law: God's commandment's concerning human actions, which are categorized as: 1) obligatory 2) forbidden 3) recommended 4) disapproved 5) neutral.

Since God, in the Qur'an and the Sunna (Muhammad's deeds, sayings, and way of life), does not often explicitly state which actions belong to which category, it is left to humans to try to figure this out.

Human interpretations are called "fiqh," loosly translated as "law." They are attempts to figure out Shariah--but they are just attempts: they vary among different interpreters and in different times and places. So, "law" is not Shariah--it is an (imperfect) effort to understand Shariah. This makes for a very flexible legal code that can be altered and adapted according to historical circumstances.

Needless to say, there have been countless such interpretations. Anyone who says there is such a thing as "the Shariah law" is wrong. Not to mention the fact that Shariah and Law ("fiqh&quot are two very different things.

True, idiot ISIS types and other so-called "Islamists" think there is such a thing as THE Shariah Law. That does not make them right--and in this area, as in pretty much everything concerning the classical formulations of their religious tradition, they know nothing.

[guillaumeb]

7. Thank you for the brief explanation.

But those who fear the non-existent menace will not believe you.