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Well said, Grant!
Lawrence
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> >>
> >Are you thinking of "sharia" or Islamic law? Shi'a are one of
> the two main
> >streams of Islam, the other being the Sunni. This division goes way back,
> >but I be darned if I know the details.
> >
> >What I know of Islam could fit on a postage stamp.
> >
> Yes, that's probably it. I just couldn't remember the right name in the
> heat of the moment. But it's the kind of law that leads Jews and
> Palestinians to play "an eye for an eye" and proclaim that God
> sent them to
> Israel two thousand years ago and they therefore have a right to
> govern it
> now. Under that kind of thinking, the Italians should rule the whole
> mediteranean. I don't think the law as it was handed to Moses is
> any better
> for today's world than the law that was handed down by Mohamed. I don't
> know much of either law, but I can see the effects of the kind of
> thinking
> it produces. I don't see how we can go back in time and recreate
> the world
> as it existed then. We need laws now that take a global economy into
> consideration and can deal with creating a stewardship of the world we've
> inherited.
>
> We need laws that settle conflicts with logic rather than guns
> and bombs and
> airplanes and tanks. But if neither side will accept any law but
> their own,
> then a pox on both their houses is what I say. And, yes, the
> U.S. is in the
> same league when they refuse to accept international law as pertaining to
> them but want everyone else to abide by it. Why we think we can
> be the only
> truly sovereign nation in the world is beyond me. It must come with the
> hubris if being the only super power left.
>
> Grant
>
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