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Proponents of Islamic Law or Sharia as defined by the Quran and Hadith:
I have a suggestion for improving dialogue. I think that one can limit the offensive strategy divised by internal assistants to occupation and defamation of Islam with some simple yet potent language changes. So for instance, take a cue from the Americans. A lawyer can be subspeciality trained in constitutional law. When Americans and democracy proponents speak of the law they speak of constitutional law with a reverence. Its almost like as in medicine where an oncologist or some other self sacrificing field is seen as very giving and non money oriented and then other fields like plastic surgery get a bad rap despite all the good they do for folks with facial trauma and deformity. So in the same way patent law and corperate law are terms of disdain but constitutional law is seen as a sort of intellectual and very honorable direction.
However, constitutional law does not simply mean one goes and does hifz of the constitution and then poof he becomes a Harvard degreed constitutional lawyer. No, he has to read supplementary cases and the documents of the founding fathers and precedent cases (their sort of supplements to interpreting the constitution. It is implicit that these supplementary evidences will be taken into account. So for instance, David Boies had to have a command of both federal and state constitutions in the famous case of Al Gore taken to the highest courts.
It is recognized that there will be differences in interpretation as in the cases of folks like Judge Alito and then other more liberal judges who contrast sharply with Alito.
In this same way, one can blunt the red herrings and and make it very difficult for folks to falsly attack Islamic law by replacing the term based on the very constitution of Islam, the Quran.
So I recommend that in the future replace the term shariaat and the term Islamic Law with Quranic Law.
It is almost similar to the move that Muwaiyah did in the Battle of Siffin where he recognized that everyone is extremely hesitant to be seen as attacking the Quran.
Therefore, let us now refer to Quranic Law. The effect will be to either blunt those that try to use equivocal language and subvert it or bring their more obvious motives out into the light of day.
I have a suggestion for improving dialogue. I think that one can limit the offensive strategy divised by internal assistants to occupation and defamation of Islam with some simple yet potent language changes. So for instance, take a cue from the Americans. A lawyer can be subspeciality trained in constitutional law. When Americans and democracy proponents speak of the law they speak of constitutional law with a reverence. Its almost like as in medicine where an oncologist or some other self sacrificing field is seen as very giving and non money oriented and then other fields like plastic surgery get a bad rap despite all the good they do for folks with facial trauma and deformity. So in the same way patent law and corperate law are terms of disdain but constitutional law is seen as a sort of intellectual and very honorable direction.
However, constitutional law does not simply mean one goes and does hifz of the constitution and then poof he becomes a Harvard degreed constitutional lawyer. No, he has to read supplementary cases and the documents of the founding fathers and precedent cases (their sort of supplements to interpreting the constitution. It is implicit that these supplementary evidences will be taken into account. So for instance, David Boies had to have a command of both federal and state constitutions in the famous case of Al Gore taken to the highest courts.
It is recognized that there will be differences in interpretation as in the cases of folks like Judge Alito and then other more liberal judges who contrast sharply with Alito.
In this same way, one can blunt the red herrings and and make it very difficult for folks to falsly attack Islamic law by replacing the term based on the very constitution of Islam, the Quran.
So I recommend that in the future replace the term shariaat and the term Islamic Law with Quranic Law.
It is almost similar to the move that Muwaiyah did in the Battle of Siffin where he recognized that everyone is extremely hesitant to be seen as attacking the Quran.
Therefore, let us now refer to Quranic Law. The effect will be to either blunt those that try to use equivocal language and subvert it or bring their more obvious motives out into the light of day.
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