Can it work in two legal systems? He is certainly marching into an unchartered terrain, with immense pinholes and dangerous twists and turns | Do Muslims is such a case have to re-interpret the Sharia so as to make it conform to the man-made law? Not only that, but it considers polygamy a felony, punishable by law |
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What I am not clear about in his argument is the relation between Muslims as good citizens of the secular Islamic state, living according to their understanding of Islam, on the one hand, and on the other, participating in a secular state that may pass laws they find objectionable from their own religious point of view | But I am sure his persistence, and open-mindedness will eventually prevail and will secure him a prominent and well-deserved position in this important debate about the future of Sharia in modern times |
For all of us who accept that the secular state is the solution, the question is how to support and advance what we believe to be right, not what we think other people will follow us or not Throughout human history, if prophets and reformers asked whether their views will be accepted by their people, none of those reforms including Islam itself would have succeeded.
23The Mormon in USA whose faith allows one man more than one wife, while the secular law of the land prohibits such a practice | The second unresolved problem in my mind is this |
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The fact that he is perhaps the first among Muslims intellectuals to dare challenge accepted norms, has made his path-setting endeavor even more difficult | Turkey is a constitutionally secular state and the present Islamic party support the secular state of Turkey |
I know that double-citizenship is sometimes allowed in nation-to-nation relations.
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