| 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 | How can Muslim political leaders, who abide by the Sharia law in their private and communal life, distance themselves completely from their religiously based practices and norms once they are selected voted to a state office? 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 |
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| Do Muslims is such a case have to re-interpret the Sharia so as to make it conform to the man-made law? The second unresolved problem in my mind is this | I concur to most of the points raised by Prof Al-Naiem in his treatise on the place of Sharia in modern times |
Not only that, but it considers polygamy a felony, punishable by law.
20| Turkey is a constitutionally secular state and the present Islamic party support the secular state of Turkey | We tend to equate the global Islamic world withe the Arab region |
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| Muslim constitute the clear majority of the population in more than 40 countries | In any case, the question should NOT be whether Arab countries of today are likely to accept this view or not |
I will ask IT colleagues for the way to do that next time.