Islamic Norms in Secular Public Spheres - Panel 4

Islamic Norms in Secular Public Spheres Conference: political problems, legal issues, and social practices
UC Berkeley, May 7th-8th 2009

Panel 4 - Adaptation/recasting of Islamic norms and practices in local legal environments
Chair: Hatem Bazian, UC Berkeley
John Bowen, Washington University, St Louis
Dino Abazovic, University of Sarajevo
Alexandre Caeiro, Utrecht University

Conclusion
Olivier Roy, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsors: The Robert Schuman Centre, The Carnegie Corporation, The Graduate Theological Union, The Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Chaire de recherche du Canada en etude du pluralisme religieux et de l'ethnicite (CRSH/Universite de Montreal)

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BEST PROFESOR ON P.S. IN SARAJEVO

[ritchloui]

The whole point about Islam is its utter commitment to traditions dating from a 7th century slaving culture. So any attempt to debate with them is a total waste of time because they cannot adjust their position. That’s alright, it really only negatively affects women and children so to appease the Muslim men they can be thrown to Sharia ‘justice’ and we can make polite noises if we even get to hear about what actually happens to them.

[ritchloui]

As usual we are being soft-talked into thinking firstly that Islam is merely a religion, oh and then it turns out it has a huge legal system. Who can possibly take a legal system seriously when its ‘experts’ come from Sudan, Pakistan, Yemen or Saudi Arabia? This is just utterly insane!