What Stops Muslim countries from being totally and completely Islamic?

Nisha25 · September 17, 2011, 6:54am

Re: What Stops Muslim countries from being totally and completely Islamic?

explain your response in a short and sweet way please, too much to ask i know, especially your second response. what did you mean by “stuff that we consider normal” and that is not allowed in islam, so much could fit into that grouping. don’t see what your definition of normal is.

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Like i said there many myths about Shairah, one of them is about Jizya, what is Jizya, it is a TAX on non-muslims in a muslim state, this tax is emposed on those who are capable of paying it and not on every non-muslim.. on the same note Muslims have to Pay Zakat, which again is a sort of Tax which muslims pay have to the govt. Jaziya, Zakat, Ushr etc are part of taxation.

In the same muslim lands, if a non-muslim are not capable or do not earn enough to fall in the category to pay this tax called Jaziya, then still they are not thrown in jails or out of the country, it is responsibility of the state to provide him with the basics regardless to his religion or believe.

I hope it is cleared now, to summarize it, Jaziya is tax non-muslim pay and Zakat is the tax Muslim pays and i guess it is fair for the state to ask its citizen to pay certain tax on their possessions to run the affairs of the state and to provide under-privileged.

**On spreading religion, Under Islamic Shariah, it is responsibility of Muslim State to provide infrastructure and create environment where non-muslims can practice their religion with comfort and peace of mind. This is all the Muslim govt is instructed under Shariah Law.
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No, Modern Turkey was founded on Secular rule, the secularism was so strict that Muslims were not allowed to say prayers openly and/or read Quran in Arabic text. Anyway, with all those things, Turkeys economy was suffering throughout and it is from last 10 odd years since the Islamists have taken over and have introduced reforms..

On top of that, Shairah is not what Taliban of Afghanistan shown us, it is not measured with the size of beard or with the number of fasts one keep, it is all about Social Justice, and for some who thinks that personal freedom is prohibited under Islamic Shariah should read about the Shairah Jurisdiction…

yes the nonmuslim in me is smart enough to understand that the taliban doesn’t speak for muslims or aren’t the model muslims. give nonmuslims some credit.

the bold part here, so a christian or a hindu can hold preaching sessions of their religions to big crowds of people including muslims? like what christian missionaries do so they can get converts to their religion, the way it’s allowed in secular countries.