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Originally Posted by bryantm3
whether you believe in sharia law or not, it seems foolish to approve china's decision to supress their people. it's a non-sequitur; it has nothing to do with the chosen and religious imposition of sharia law. rather, it shows your disapproval of the western system of democracy.
what you fail to understand is that different culture groups around the world have different needs and live in different ways. in saudi arabia, many people are happy with the sharia law system; however, in america, we have many different religions and very different traditions in reference to government. to assume that a western country could survive under a sharia law is foolish, first, because the majority of the united states is christian. secondly, because in the united states we believe that people become closer to God by their own personal relationship with God, rather than having religion forced upon them by a central power.
the inverse is also true. the united states has tried to impose democracy on iraq and afghanistan over the past 8 years and has mostly failed. i suppose you see this as an infringement on your traditional system of government, however, in one case, the country was not under sharia law: iraq had a secular government with a dictator in power, and in the other case, the theocratic country directly funded and helped a terrorist group attack our country and kill thousands of people. therefore, we have a right to impose on afghanistan because they attacked us. in the second case, we had no right to invade iraq, but i imagine that some countries that will go unnamed over there were pretty hepped up to do the same to impose their rule on that country.
so, either way, you've got your turban in a wad because we're imposing our law on iraq and getting in your territory. fair; it's your country, it's your right to have whatever form of government you wish to have. but i fail to see the parallels between sharia law, and the secular dictatorship in china that persecutes its people and has historically forbidden established religion, except the old, tired logic that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
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Yeah, after I wrote this thread, I thought about it and seen that what I meant to mean, wasn't conveyed.
The point of this was not to compare governments, because like you said, I don't think that a Sharia based government would work anywhere except in a Muslim country.
However, that being said, no one is trying to force Sharia, or Communism on Western Democratic countries, while the opposite is try with the US and the West. They are forcing their forms of government upon other nations, and this is what I have an issue with.