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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well that explains that--thanks.  I just got into these discussions late last night so am not familiarf with the cast of characters.

The PP keeps insisting Islamic inheritance law have been imposed on the Arab Christian community when they have not.  The Christian community could change the laws that apply to them but haven't chosen to do so.  (Perhaps not unrelated to the fact that all the powers that be in the churches are male, and Islamic inheritance laws favor males.) PP appears to keep insisting Islamic law is imposed on Christians to re-enforce her anti-Islamic point of view

In my own view, the Islamic inheritance laws are disadvantageous for women, but only in comparison to 21st century Western standards.  They were a model of women's rights for their time, and indeed were very favorable to women compared to the laws that prevailed in much of the West even into the 20th century.

I appreciate this history, but the world has moved on.  The biggest weakness of Islam in my view is the belief that the Koran is immutable and everything in it must be followed slavishly for all time and in all places.

This was not actually the view of earliest Islam, which certainly saw the need to adapt to different cultures and societies and evolve over time.  Unfortunately, Islam became stuck in time around the 11th century when it was seen necessary to stop evolution in thought to prevent the proliferation of Islamic sects (something we've become used to into Christianity and have actually come to welcome as a positive development to keep the established sects honest and relevant).

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The Sharia is not only outdated in some areas but it is actually contradictory to the Quran. It needs to be changed to properly  reflect the Quran. However, this is not a flaw in the actual faith, its a flaw in the humans interpreting the faith. The islamophobes can not distinguish the two.[/quote]

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