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WALLACE TOM Jr. (2015) Refuting Islam, The Christian Patriots Guide to Exposing the Evils of Islam, Bellingham, Fundamental Publishers.
Chapter Six: Divide and Conquer
On page 50, the author discusses dividing the religion of Islam from Shariah. Mr. Wallace states that Muhammad was building more than a religion; he was building a kingdom. (50).
A political kingdom. Islam is therefore far more than just religious (50), it is by nature very political.
The Shariah (51) also known as Shariah Law (my add), is made up of laws to govern a nation. (51).
Mr. Wallace, reasons, that Shariah should be opposed within the United States of America because Shariah would establish a religious law that would oppose the constitution of the United States of America (54-55).
The author raises a reasonable objection. But are Westernized, and in his case, Americanized, Muslims that left Islamic nations to immigrate to the West, in the majority, or even large minority, going to support the establishment of Shariah Law? Even if it was established, there is a very significant difference between Shariah for submitting Muslims, in a religious context and a forced Shariah for those that do not support Islam in a society. It is very difficult to view a scenario where immigrant Muslims have enough of the population in support to force and coerce Shariah Law as the law of the land.
Quora: Muslim support of Sharia
Cited
2018
The research data by PEW to back up the following 2017 statistics is found at the end of this answer under Research data.
World Muslims who want Sharia
Basically the straight forward answer is 69.7% (call it 70%) of the world’s Muslims want Sharia Law. That is a shocking 70% of about 1.8 billion people, which is 1.26 billion Muslims, 16.8% of the world’s population of 7.5 billion.
What do we know about Muslims World-Wide that want Sharia?
I am going to answer that via an article in the following
UK paper of Dec 2016 (So almost 2017) pertaining to UK Muslims that want some aspect of Sharia: (SHOCK POLL: Four in ten British Muslims want some aspect of Sharia Law enforced in UK).
Four in ten is a disturbing number, but not a majority. A large minority in the United Kingdom, but not the United States of America, that is the main focus of Mr. Wallace's text.
Poll
By MACER HALL PUBLISHED: 00:01, Fri, Dec 2, 2016 | UPDATED: 13:54, Fri, Dec 2, 2016
Forty-three per cent of followers of the religion living in the country believed that parts of the Islamic legal system should replace British law while only 22 per cent opposed the idea. Researchers also found "deeply worrying" levels of belief among British Muslims in conspiracy theories such as blaming the US government or “Jews" for the 9/11 terror attacks on America.
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As I have noted previously in this review series. I will agree with Mr. Wallace that in principal, I do not philosophically support the concept of a group of people in a Western nation being ruled by their own laws. (16). In my opinion, religious rules and law should not be sanctioned by the state, but should be administered internally within the state support of freedom of religion in Western democracies.
Reasonable religious rules that is. I would not support a religion that supports a horrid practice such as human sacrifice, or is unethical.
For example, I am a member of Northview Community Church and its second church plant, TriCity Church. If I break a rule required for membership, it is my view that for a reasonable separation of church-state, any church discipline with me should be administered via the church and not in any way by a state government. But again, I support freedom of religion via the state.
For Islam, I am opposed to state sanctioned Shariah Law, but support the right of Islam to rule internally. The modern West, unlike traditional Islam, does not have the religion-state unity and this should be maintained within Western society and law.
