07-20-2016, 04:49 PM
(07-16-2016, 05:07 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Yes, there are some absolutely repugnant parts of it, and there are parts that are just standard practices in their religion. The point being, you cannot lump it all together as a bad thing. If I were a Muslim who followed all of the day to day practices, I would technically be following Sharia. HOWEVER, even if someone did believe that it SHOULD be right to do that, the 1st Amendment still protects their right to think that, just not do it or tell others to do it.
It's like lumping in the idea that you can rape a girl if you marry her and pay her dad in with honoring your mother and father.
Actually, we can lump it all as a bad thing, particularly with Islam. For two reasons.
1. It's common within the religion itself. Those that practice some of the worse parts of Islam outnumber those that don't.
2. Other western religions have it too, but have experienced periods in history where it was criticized heavily. Islam hasn't experienced a single period of critical evaluation in its history. Mainly because of people like you coddling it.
