Islamic religious law is separate from secular law in most Muslim nations
Evidence
All the scholars argued that Luttwak had a rigid, simplistic view of Islam that failed to take into account its many strains and the subtleties of its religious law, which is separate from the secular laws in almost all Islamic nations. The Islamic press and television have reported extensively on the United States presidential election, they said, and Obama’s Muslim roots and his Christian religion are well known, yet there have been no suggestions in the Islamic world that he is an apostate. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 599
Related
- Mainstream Islamic scholars rejected Luttwak’s apostasy reading as rigid and wrong. (similarity 0.86)
- Under Muslim law a child of a Muslim father is irrevocably Muslim (similarity 0.81)
- Islamic doctrine has justified opposite political programs alike (similarity 0.80)