(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Matthew Knight 

> Sorry, this doesn't ring true.  Sharia isn't just "mentioned" here, but framed in 
> a specific way.  The kind of sharia we are presented with is far from the kind 
> which has gone into effect in parts of the UK.  

It does seem more like that which has recently gone into effect in Timbuktoo.

> Rather than that form, restricted 
> to certain issues of family law and civil disputes over things like inheritance, 
> we are presented with sharia-as-bogeyman, where theft results in severed limbs, 
> and (probably) blasphemy of the prophet or adultery lead to death by stoning.  
> Sharia law is about much more than violent punishment, but it's not usually 
> presented with nuance in the West, including in this book.  At least, the part
>  I've read thus far.

Christian fundamentalism is not usually presented with nuance either.  

- Gerry Quinn


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