A Review of Sharia in "Islam And Democracy" Part ll

 In the time of the Mutazila, the time of reason, peace, and intellectual advances ended with the Abbasid dynasty embracing sharia and stripping it of it's questioning, speculative dimension and imams became blood-thirsty tyrants. Reasoning died to mean faith wielded by a tyrannical sharia. pp 36-7
    Sharia became a strict interpretation based on Allah's revealed knowledge in the Arabic language only. This continued to weld reason and personal opinion -thinking aloud- to charges that these activities were weakening Islam and aiding the enemy. p 39 Since these activities were not discussed in Islamic culture, when other Western ideas were brought to the Islam world such as democracy and constitutions, the Islamic people weren't prepared for them and these ideas were rejected and suppressed by the imams.p 48
    Mernissi says the the Koran is for Islam what the United Nations Charter is for democracy. She is wrong for the United States is the fountainhead and main supporter of democracy, but let us go on with Mernissi. She says this charter is a superlaw that gives citizens the freedom to think. We Americans say that is an inalienable right. It comes before birth, and is a part of our being, not something that a mere and pompous government confers upon us. Then she says that sharia condemns freedom of thought. This is another vindication of what I have told you: Sharia means death. In this example, it kills even an unborn baby, and demands that he come out of the womb brain-dead, and like a robot do and "think" only what the total war religion of Sharia Islam tells him to do and think.
He has no freedom to have thoughts. His thoughts are what he's told to think. Is this your idea of yourself - as Sharia's brain-dead person who will be guided not by your own thoughts, not by rationality, but by dictates commanded by force including torture and death. If Sharia Islam is so good, so perfect, why does it have to spread by force, by the sword? If it were really a good religion, wouldn't people flock to it willingly? God knows, the world is certainly aware of Sharia!
If it's good, its goodness will speak to all of us, far and wide. It will not need force or the sword. It needs force and the sword, and the gun and the cowardly bomb that kills innocents because Sharia is bad and despicable! That is why!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And allows others to do,
  In his presence."
  - Navy Seal Instructor

"Your free will is your ability to be rational in spite of your genes and your
experiences including the one you are having right now." Peter Nickerson, William and Mary Philosophy Major.
P.S. I know we use the bomb that kills innocents too. If you read me, You know I don't support drone use that kills innocents. As far as trying to take back cities from ISIS using bombs, I wonder instead about alternative methods such a war between snipers - but then how do you defend your soldiers against the bombs from ISIS? - and I think about other weapons hinted at in the Wall Street Journal as a pulse gun. But I read there that the Red Cross is against them. If they work, why don't we have the spine to use them anyway? Is it because our president is best understood as an Iranian Islamist? Are our military-industrial-government people against less lethal, more discriminate ways to wage war? Why do our whistle-blowers suffer so much, and why is there less transparency after whistle-blowers blow? We are not perfect, but we have the freedom to think and question what the powerful are doing, and change what they are doing through voting. Sharia Islam does not have that. We are largely self-correcting. Sharia is not. It is still back in the most barbaric part of the Medieval Times and is trying to remain there. Its only defense of itself is death. It can't defend itself except through the death spectrum - frowns, warnings, insults, violence, torture, mutilations, and finally the end of the spectrum: death. It has to conquer the world to survive- to quell all dissent, all freedom of thought. I pity you.