Mark Durie Quotes

• Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is.

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  Lying, School, People

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• Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

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  Law, Islam, Way

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• We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because of that it's susceptible to flaws, it is not perfect. Nobody has perfect access to the divine will.

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  Perfect, Mind, Needs

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• Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.

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  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values...

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  Arrogance, Islam, Dresses

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

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  Mind, Different, Way

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• One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he is a prophet that declared he was victorious through terror and that is disturbing to people.

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  Reading, People, West

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.

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  Past, Overcoming, Needs

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. Randa Abdel-Fattah.

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• The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation of Sharia will be bigoted, violent and misogynistic, if you are a democrat and a pluralist and someone who is peace loving, that's how you'll see the Sharia.

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  Violent, Interpretation, Democrat

  "Sharia Deceptions" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. November 3, 2010.

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• There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of different ways by tens of thousands of different institutions, who really disagree with each other far more than they disagree with people of other religions.

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  Law, People, Trying

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• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

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  Christian, Islamic, Apology

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can take these issues of family law to an orthodox Court and have that judge, judge for them. As long as the courts don't violate the laws of the land and as long as there's a room for appeal should one or two parties disagree with the verdict, I don't see how this would have anything to do with being incompatible with what we refer to as Western ideas of democracy.

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  Country, Party, Law

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• Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion.

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  War, Jihad

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• Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.

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  Religious, Islamic, Understanding

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• There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

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  Religious, Colonialism, World

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• One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law.

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  Country, Europe, Law

  "Fear of Islam Episode Transcript". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a very different society and a hope it will be established.

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  People, Vision, Islam

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.

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  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors in their native lands and they are disturbed about the rise of more separate radical Islam in Australia, not necessarily the main stream but there is a voice.

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  Christian, Voice, Australia

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.

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  Middle East, Multiculturalism, One Sided

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• We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear mongering, that has gripped the United States, the notion that we need to pass a law forbidding the institution of a foreign Law in the United States when it is forbidden by the constitutions is yet another example of targeting Muslim communities because they are seen as different, or exceptional in other ways.

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  Fear Mongering, Law, Cities

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• There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.

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  War, Book, Islamic

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.

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  Islamic, School, Years

  "Sharia Deceptions" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. November 3, 2010.

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• If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.

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  Compassion, Perfect, Justice

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• There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course and that is what gets all the attention, there's two countries in the world right now that actually have a Federal mandate to enact penal law according to the Sharia, that's Saudi Arabia, and Iran.

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  Country, Iran, Law

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