Jamila Hussain,

Put your position in the ivory tower on the line by getting down to debate us. Not just publishing your views unfettered.

If you're proven to be inadequate in your reasonings and found wanting as an intellect, then I won't be the only one to expect your resignation from your lecturer post, which offers you a vantage position to influence the young and gullible towards Islam.

U wrote: "... the Hudud penalties... amputation, stoning and other drastic penalties - are only a very small part of Islamic criminal law and are invoked only rarely... "

This is a frauded reasoning. If something is wrong and unacceptable, the fact that it is VERY SMALL or is very RARE does not make it less wrong and more acceptable...

In logic, 'one' means just that- ONE.

ONE does not equal ZERO. Neither can ZERO be ONE. There is no such thing as a minuscule 'one' which is 'as good as' zero.

Your frauded argument is one of excuse and expediency.

You have FAILED the first test of being an intellect.

you ISLAMOFACIST!!

"... the Hudud penalties... amputation, stoning and other drastic penalties - are only a very small part of Islamic criminal law and are invoked only rarely... "

"only invoked rarely", but yet STILL invoked. Hence, sharia is inconsistent with Australian law and therfore CANNOT 'co-exist'.

Congratulations, your own article deisporved your argument,. thank you for wasting everybodys time. now piss off back to Saudia Arabia or Iran where Sharia is paractised

Question for Jamila, Irfan, Fellow_Human or any other muslim poster.

If "The Shariah system of personal law can co-exist with the Australian legal system" why doesn't it?

Irfan's article in the Herald yesterday, "Would Sir Like His sharia Law With or Without Sufism" (forgive me Irfan I had to say it) was making similar noises. Apparently Sharia values are the same values as we have. If Sharia law is so compatible to the point you can co-exist with the current Austrlian legal system - why do you need changes?

Larger minorities in Australia want the tax lowered, child support laws changed and some fairly radical immigration reforms. If you want to change our laws, just what is it that makes you so special?

If Sharia law is so compatible with Australian law , will the Sikhs,Bhuddists, Swedes,French, Canadians,South Americans , South Africans ect ect all have to abide by Sharia law because the Muslims want it?
Is one religious lot permitted to make every other culture obedient to muslim law?
Isn't that why they came here in the first place?

Ms Hussain admits that the situation of women in Muslim countries is among the worst on the planet but has no idea why. Strange!

Well, it is true that Islam gave women “unprecedented” rights, like the right to be beaten by their husbands (Surah 4.34). In fact, Mohammad himself was a wife-beater.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/004.smt.html#004.2127

And don’t forget that slave women have a right to be raped by their Muslim masters: “all married women are forbidden unto you save those captives whom your right hand possess (your slaves). It is a decree of Allah for you” (Muslim 4:24). Mm. Hussain, do you have a problem with this verse? Is this the word of Allah?

Islam does not endorse terrorism either by or against Muslims or anyone else. Well except for those "So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam" (Koran 8:39), "Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, but ruthless to unbelievers" (Koran 48:29) and the “Kill them wherever you find them” and many other verses. Tell me, does that sound like “process of law” to you?

Please read this about the failed attempt to implement sharia in another country:
http://www.muslim-canada.org/apostasy.htm
Muslims wanted the right to murder apostates/blasphemers under Islamic sharia law - in Canada!

The fact is that Islam is oppressive and intolerant. It is a religion of hate, anger and murder. Witness current events! And don’t let anyone fool you saying that it only affects Muslims. Where Islam dominates, non-Muslims are also subject to the cruelties of Sharia. The official Islamic position is that religious minorities can have their own laws, as long as they conform to sharia. Gee thanks.

So, Ms.Hussain, please tell me, does it bother you that your dear prophet was a wife-beater, slaver and torturer? And you want Mohammed to rule our lives? In your dreams!

Perhaps you would feel better living in a Muslim country and enjoying life under sharia. No? I thought so. Of course not! The West is so bad, but Muslims just love it, but they hate it.

Kactuz

They'll keep chipping away like this until they get their way.Firstly ,try to dress up Sharia Law in a seemingly more palatable form and slip it in under the cover of multi-culturalism,victim status and we will have one law for the Muslims and one for the rest of Australia.

Muslim audacity never ceases to amaze me.Imagine if we went to Saudi Arabia and tried to impose a Christian religion and our democratic system on them.You would be stoned to death at the mere suggestion.

Yet another Muslim article that futher alienates Muslim society.Perhaps this is what they want.They seem to thrive on conflict.I'm beginning to understand what Israel faces on a daily basis.

The Western Society and the Muslim way are totally incompatible.