Which values do you think they should ignore with regards to law?
What clothes people can legally wear, who can socialize with whom, when and what individuals can eat, what sex you need to be to drive, and most things that are basically ridiculous in modern life, and opposed by all but the most fanatical Muslims population as well as all the non-Muslim population. Iranians can't dance in public places, for example. I think even most Iranian Muslims agree that that law is completely ridiculous. If one thinks a good Muslim shouldn't dance in public, he shouldn't, but if other Muslims think its OK, then let them dance.
"So why legally prohibit non-Muslims from eating in public during Ramadan?"
I don't think that is a major issue, do you? I don't see it as a 'value' in any event.
It's not a major issue at all, but it is what I mean by legislating their religion. If good Muslims don't eat in public during Ramadan, fine, they don't have to. On the other hand to forbid eating for everyone is legislating religious behaviour, and that's the area where I'm saying Muslims are way behind the other major religions. |
