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Why is Sharia a nondemocratic system if practised in the form of a government?

Posted by: Nizar on: January 31, 2009

This article is specially written for the ignorant religious hot heads that blindly defend their religious believes in hope of making them look modern, civilized or humane.

Now I know that I have already explained in detail why Sharia can not coexist with democracy, but it seems to me that it was too hard for some people to follow and understand my reasoning, in fact the idea of comparing Sharia with democracy itself caused them a lot of confusion, this has resulted in ongoing debates in the bloggesphere.

Now because not everybody accepts and allows opposing thoughts and opinions on their so claimed to be ”freedom of expression supporting” blogs, Such as Qwaider, Who has deleted most of my comments claiming that they are barbaric, undisciplined, disrespectful and undemocratic, I have decided to rewrite this post one more time only this time easier, hoping that they will understand something this time.

Now the thing that I hate the most about religious people that try to blindly defend their believes is that they cherry pick what ever the fuck they want and leave anything else that doesn’t go along with their believes out, and that is WRONG!

If the definition of democracy does not go along with Sharia, they redefine democracy! If their behaviours do not go along with being civilized, they redefine being civilized! If science proves their holy book stories and fairy tales to be untre, they reinterpret their verses or ignorantly claim that science is wrong!

They just do not accept defeat, they fight ignorantly to their last breath, they always have to be right because God said that they are and so it is always you that is wrong!

Let us get to the point, why is Sharia a nondemocratic system if practised in the form of a government? because it does not go along with the principles of democracy, DUH!

Do not agree with me? then allow me to explain why! I unlike religious people will not quote a definition out of a 2000 years old script that can be misinterpreted to whatever pleases me, nor will I come up with a new definition of democracy that no one has ever heard of! I will used the most accepted definition today:

There are two principles that any definition of democracy includes. The first principle is that all members of the society (citizens) have equal access to power and the second that all members (citizens) enjoy universally recognized freedoms and liberties.

This definition is quoted from Wikipedia and you can check it out yourself  here (2nd paragraph): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

The first principle clearly states that all citizens of the society have equal access to power, is that the case in Sharia? No, only Muslims are allowed to be elected to power.

The second principle clearly states that citizens enjoy universally recognised freedoms and liberties, is that the case in Shari? No, We all know that apostasy in Islam is punished by death so there is no freedom of belief under the Sharia governing, We all know that the criticism of Islam and it’s prophet Mohammad is punished by death so there is no freedom of expression under the Sharia governing, We all know that a woman’s testimony is only worth half of a man’s in the Sharia court so there is no equality in the eye of law under the Sharia governing.

So how the fuck does anyone dare claim that Sharia is a democratic system? when it clearly isn’t! by claiming that it is, you are just fooling yourselves and insulting our intelligence.

For those that still do not get it, answer this question, if I was elected democratically to run the government of a given society, and I decided to deny equal access to power among the citizen and just restricted it to members of my family, gave people the right to speak their mind on any given topic except sports, allowed people to believe in any religion they want except Islam and made the testimony of redheads worth only half of the rest of the individuals in the eye of law, Is my government a democratic one?

If you are unable to answer this question correctly, you seriously have IQ problems.

Now do not get upset and all that, you should not loose faith in God and your religion just because your religion happened to be undemocratic, If your religion happen to be undemocratic does not mean that it is false, bad, evil or you should stop following it, it just means that it can not be practised in the form of a democratic system, that’s it!

I am not writing this to prove any religion wrong, I respect all religions and believes equally and I believe that everyone has the right to believe in what ever he wants to believe in and we all should respect each other no matter what our differences are, I just hate it when someone fucks everything upside down in order to make his belief seem democratic when it isn’t.

Thank you!

7 Responses to "Why is Sharia a nondemocratic system if practised in the form of a government?"

I totally agree with your post. The term democracy has been used by to many groups representing communist dictartorships, as well as to justify the obsolete religious laws you have discussed.

The problem with a great religions, as their teachings are often based on century-old writings, is that the original teachings are considered perfect and sacred. This leaves no room for improvement in modern times, and as it is considered heresy to call for change, it can hardly be called democratic.

Sharia may have been one of the best lawsystems in the world when it was new in ages past, but it’s current form does surely not fit in today’s evolved society.

See what I’m trying to say?
Keep the posts up, they’re great.

Fornander:
True, true, you have made a couple of very good points, people tend to redefine democracy to suit their acts and behaviors just to look modern or civilized.

There was a time when Sharia was good, it has brought justice, equality and security to the Muslims of the middle east, but just because it was a good system once upon a time does not mean that it will be the best system to practice through man kind’s existence on this planet.

We have created by far more developed justice systems that punish the guilty fairly and allow people to enjoy security without loosing their freedoms and rights.

I am glad to see you on my blog Ola :D

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http://bambamworld.com/blog/?cat=15&paged=2
thats just to giver you and idea of previous discussions enjoy :D

Bambam: That was quite a good archive, I had a look at a couple of posts and I was impressed!

I maybe agree with you that Sharia is not democratic, however it is inspired by equality. In Islam the Man is breadwinner and has to provide and support his family, including his sister maybe.

so even if his sister may get less of lets say inheritence, the fact that the Man has to support her equals out the inheritence, does’nt it?

There isn’t a single country on earth that has …

“The first principle clearly states that all citizens of the society have equal access to power, is that the case in Sharia? No, only Muslims are allowed to be elected to power.”

Name me one. Oh and say what you really want to say. I am kinda confused.

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