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To: Elroy who wrote (223025)3/8/2007 3:55:51 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
True, but that's a chacteristic of any monarchy - it has little to do with Islam. Even the local citizens are not "equals", and are subject to changes of will of the ruling family. It's not a democracy, its a monarchy.


Since Islam insists on the monarchy, and insists that the monarch's job is to enforce good (= Islam) and forbid evil (= unbelief), Islam has rather a lot to do with it.

They go to sharia court

You are aware that legally, under sharia, the testimony of a woman is worth half that of a man? She was lucky to be acquitted if the case was just he said, she said.