English – Muslims’ concept of law and its impact on Western Europe 2011

Part 1. Reasons behind the conflicts between Muslims and the West 3
1.1. Number and geopolitical importance 3
1.2. Importance of the religion 4
2.3. Different concept of the law 5
2.3.1. Three concepts of the law 6
2.3.2. Revelation, mountains and drugs 10
2.3.3. Where do Muslims find God’s will? 11
2.3.4. System of the personality of the law 12
2.3.5. Application of Islamic law in the time and the space 13
2.3.6. Fundamentalists wish an integral return to Islamic Law 13
2.3.7. Echo among Muslim minorities in the West 16
2.3.8. Claim of the application of the Islamic law in the Countries of immigration 17
Part 2. Conflicting fields: case of Switzerland 18
2.1. Multiconfessional Country 18
2.2. Inapplicable personality of the laws in Switzerland 19
2.3. Conflicting norms in the field of family law 19
2.4. Liberty of religion and expression 19
2.5. Vacations, prayers and fast of Ramadan 20
2.6. Ritual butchery 20
2.7. Mosques and religious personnel 20
2.8. Initiative against the construction of minarets 21
2.9. Norms of attire 21
2.10. Muslim cemeteries in Switzerland 22
Part 3. Remedies proposed by the moderate Muslim liberals 23
3.1. To cut the Koran in two 24
3.2. To keep to the Koran and to throw out the Sunnah 24
3.3. Distinction among the Shari’ah and the Fiqh 25
3.4. Mohammed is the last prophet 25
3.5. To cut the umbilical cord 25
3.6. And if God were in Rimini to tan? 26
3.7. And what if we call God? 26
3.8. What do fundamentalists think about liberals? 27
Part 4. Remedies proposed by the westerners 27
4.1. Interreligious dialogue 27
4.2. To prepare experts 27
4.3. To redefine the revelation 27
4.4. To be firm and coherent 28
4.5. Mixed marriages 28
4.6. Religious liberty: the right to change religion 29
4.7. Integration or disintegration… up to the death 29
4.8. Naturalization and immigration in the respect of the laws 29

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