Which interpretation of Sharia?
I am sure you will go through the text, and notice at the end that Mr. Luqmaan Suleiman suggests Sharia Law to be established in a united Somalia; this is nothing if compared to the Jihad that Mr. Abdulazez Al Motairi proposes for the unrecognized, breakaway, futureless Somaliland! I will go beyond all this; what many in the West do not understand is that there is Sharia, and there is Sharia. At the times of the Ottoman Empire there was Sharia Law; but the Nubian women were living dressed in topless clothes. In Abbasid Baghdad of Harun Al Rashid, there was Sharia; but people enjoyed spectacles, theatrical performances, drunk wine, and tolerated premarital sex far more unwearyingly than in Charlemagnes Europe. There is a last question in this regard: – Under what sense of logic exactly is Sharia law acceptable in combative Afghanistan, but it is not in indulgent Somalia? I re-publish Mr. Luqmaan Suleimans article integrally. It was first published in a most informative and rather object
