tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post4856704257899200563..comments2024-03-28T18:41:31.221+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: The Sharia State of IsraelDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-83550490832387568972008-02-27T17:51:00.000+00:002008-02-27T17:51:00.000+00:00None of this alters the key point: Sharia is the l...None of this alters the key point: Sharia is the law for Muslim Arab citizens of Israel.<BR/><BR/>An Israeli citizen's testimony is worth half that of another Israeli citizen if the former is a Muslim Arab woman and the latter is a Muslim Arab man. He can divorce her (quite easily) and re-marry, whereas she can only divorce him with great difficulty, and then cannot re-marry.<BR/><BR/>That is the law in the West's alleged outpost in the Middle East.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-87029235051665587172008-02-27T17:17:00.000+00:002008-02-27T17:17:00.000+00:00As mentioned in the article, there would be Sharia...As mentioned in the article, there would be Sharia law in Israel as things such as marraige and divorce are purely in the hands of the various groups religious authorities.<BR/><BR/>Basically the problem concerning marraige stems from the fact there is no civil marraige in Israel, only religious. If you want a civil marraige then you go to Cyprus and get it done there.<BR/><BR/>These religious bodies refuse to carry out inter-religion marraige. This in many ways enforces the divisions between the groups in Israel.<BR/><BR/>It also throws up the occassional problem within communities. For example if a Jew wishes to marry they need a license from one of the Chief Rabbinates - Ashkenazi or Sephardic. Whilst most Jews can easily get these, some groups do not fall into either Rabbinate's jurisdiction such as Jews who are descended from the early Jewish settlements in India such as the Cochin Jews and do really belong to either tradition.<BR/><BR/>Of course you could take the other extreme and be like Germany and indeed Turkey where religious marraige is basically outlawed. You have to be married by the state and then afterwards you may have a religious marraige if you wish.<BR/><BR/>Germany's system comes from Bismark when he was fighting the Catholic Church during the Kulturkampf. To bust the practice of the Catholic Church forcing mixed couples before a Catholic marraige that they would raise their children in the Catholic faith, Bismark abolished religious marraige first in Prussia and then in the whole of Germany. And he and his wife were devout Lutherans.<BR/><BR/>Ataturk abolished relgious marraige as part of his secularisation programme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com