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To: Elroy who wrote (240238)	8/29/2007 5:23:57 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Maybe the PM can't revoke them, but the Jewish majority certainly can. The principle is the same as the Jew living under some non-Jewish Muslim government in Arabia 500 years ago. No Elroy. There is rule of law, a Prime Minister, a Knesset, a (liberal) Supreme Court. There are many checks and balances on the PM's will. This is like saying the white majority in America could just revoke the citizenship of African-Americans. It won't happen. Now maybe you could invent some drastic national security crisis which would make it happen, like the Japanese-Americans in WWII (though even they weren't deported), but it's a wild stretch. The principle is the same as the Jew living under some non-Jewish Muslim government in Arabia 500 years ago The priniciple of living under some Muslim sultan or pasha was that you lived at his sufferenance and he could expell you at will. Who made you the judge of what is sharia - are you a Muslim religious scholar? Methinks the people here will say they live under sharia law just fine. Sharia says what it says Elroy, and it's not mysterious about the status of dhimmis. True, clever lawyers can get around anything so maybe they have found a special "guest" status for expat workers to exempt them from jizra or something. They certainly go into convulutions to permit collecting intersting in Islamic banks, except it's never called interest, it's rent or something else.