On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:35 PM, hamilto...@aol.com wrote:
Point of clarification--So genital mutilation is culturally Islamic as
opposed to theologically Islamic?
FMG is not practiced by the vast majority of Muslims and there is nothing in
traditional Islamic law that supports it. My
FGM is not Islamic at all. It is a cultural phenomenon. It, like the chador
and other cultural things, got linked to Islam over centuries of relative
isolation.
Steve
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:35 PM, hamilto...@aol.com wrote:
Point of clarification--So genital mutilation is culturally Islamic
If you don't separate religious from civil, the question becomes nonsensical.
Contracts are to enforced under the sharia -- as a matter of religious
obligation.
Separation of religion and state systems is not the only viable system. But it
may well be the best.
If a contract in Saudi Arabia
[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of hamilto...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 6:36 PM
To: Nathan Oman; Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: May American court appoint only Muslim arbitrators, pursuant
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Point of clarification--So
