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FUNDAMENTALISM BANISHED
LawFont reports:
Melbourne University Law School Masters program has changed its subject “Fundamentals of Islamic Law” to “Principles of Islamic Law”. He He He.
(Via Dan Lewis)
Should be a short course, they seem to have no principles that I can see.
Posted by Captain Sensible on 2008 01 13 at 01:56 AM • permalinkExcept it seems that fundamentalism seems to be one of the key principles.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 01 13 at 02:13 AM • permalinkTwo ‘seems’ in my comment above. I should have been more unseemly.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 01 13 at 02:15 AM • permalinkIs it acceptable to say ‘You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear’ in relation to this one?
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2008 01 13 at 02:22 AM • permalinkDetails on the course here.
I assume participants can behead Arts Students for extra credit.
Jokes aside, I am wondering why exactly Sharia law is being taught at an Australian University. I can only hope it is to create “home grown” Sharia experts such that the local Muslim communities don’t need to import them from the Middle East. However, excuse my cynicism… On history, I’d be very surprised if it were a “critical analysis” of any part of Islamic law, knowing where critics have ended up in the past .
So how many credit points does a student get for a beheading anyway?
Dan it’s not the points, it’s the virgins that really count.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 01 13 at 03:30 AM • permalinkI assume participants can behead Arts Students for extra credit.
That’s one way to turn Arts students into productive members of society.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 13 at 04:23 AM • permalinkFrom the course objectives:
“A candidate who has successfully completed the subject should:
* Demonstrate a firm grasp of the history and development of Islam and Islamic law (sya’riah)”
Yeah & I know what type of islamophobic zero you’d get for a mark if you really did demonstrate a firm grasp of the history of islam to Abdullah. Plus you’d really have to watch it if any of your fellow students asked you if you wanted to get stoned after class.
Posted by stahlblume on 2008 01 13 at 04:34 AM • permalink#13
Modern reforms.So, instead of hoisting young girls by the neck on a crane they’ll now build gallows?
It would be interesting to read more about this course. How they cover the many sinful things that in secular society are quite legal.
Although the segment on sexual assault and wife beating are surely pretty short. “It’s her fault” being the legal angle.
# 15 - Kae - and they will use a softer, non chafing rope.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 01 13 at 05:33 AM • permalinkOT: My TV says the funniest things. Just saw an ad for a show debating nucular power.
“Greens are right to be opposed to nucular power, because we know nucular power plants are a terrorist target.”
Hmmm… well, if the Greens stopped supporting terrorists and started supporting the actions to stop terrorism, I’d think that the view is a little more substantiated.
I had a very reasoned debating point previewed for this post, but then decided “what’s the fucking point?”
These mongrels are infiltrating and subverting everywhere and anywhere they can get a look in.
Particularly in Victoria’s Spencer St Soviet, where Blair’s Law seems to be the Attorney General’s first guiding principle.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2008 01 13 at 07:30 AM • permalink10: they are not virgins but rasins. Thousand years ago when the koran was translated the bloke who did it stuffed up so now we have a situation where all these martas/suicide bombers/fuckheads are blowing themselves up for 72 rasins.Guess no one had the heart to tell them.Pity,you can get a box for less than a dollar at coles.
#23 From the article
Saudi Arabia beheaded 137 people last year, up sharply from the 38 in 2006.
No pun intended I expect. It must be that modern reform refered to in #13
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 01 13 at 11:03 AM • permalinkWhy register for classes, pay tuition, and sit through boring lectures when you can always Ask the Imam?
That’s a pretty cutting remark, Wimpy. BTW, I wonder if the Muslim assholes from Osgoode Hall presenting the HRC complaint against Steyn will be taking the course over the Net? I’m sure that the “Law Is Cool” assholes would fit right in.
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 01 13 at 11:44 AM • permalinkLook further - there’s a component called Islam and Human rights.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 01 13 at 10:57 PM • permalink
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Now if they can just get rid of the word “law” their long journey back towards honesty will be complete…