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Originally Posted by mqa
... I think that's one of the main reasons the Middle Eastern countries are barbaric and underdeveloped - their religion is too closely related to the legal and political system.
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do you mind explaining what you mean by 'barbaric and underdeveloped'?
ive travelled most of the middle east and im yet to see what you mean.
Just a note, that the muslim religion itself IS the legal and political system. If you read the posts earlier, you;ll see that shariah law is based on the quranic text, hadith (sunnah), and interpolated laws through both of these based on the opinions of jurists from different schools of thought.
since i live in the middle east (UAE), and some of you find it so dificult to fathom, but i live under quasi-islamic law. the laws here are based on shariah, but not implemented in the same way that say saudi arabia implements its laws. you will find this the case throughout much of the middle east, with cultural differences and interpetations of the laws differing from country to country. a hijab in turkey, is not a hijab is saudi etc.
probably with the exception of saudi, there isnt one country that is run purely on shariah law...and even then, the wahabbi ideology has killed the spirit of the message in the way it is being implemented.