Letters to the Editor
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You should be ashamed
You all need to learn something about Islamic law, and Salon should be ashamed of itself for publishing this piece of fear-mongering propaganda. Tripathi's injudicious comparison of the beth din to "the fundamentalist Muslim" [sic] gives the game away. What Williams was proposing is precisely analogous to the Jewish courts that have existed in Britain (and Canada) for over a century. Most authentic forms of shari`a world wide and historically have been voluntary, just like the British beth din. If there are those who would impose Islamic "law" on others against their will, so too are there those who would do the same with Christian "law" and Jewish "law."
In this day and age to be promoting ignorance like this. Really. And I say this as a committed atheist and proponent of radical secularism. I assume this will be syndicated to Fox News post haste? Or is Salon a new privileged site for bigotry and crypto-racism?
PS Why not look into your authors before publishing their jingoistic hate pieces? Those of you who consider yourself liberals should check out Mr. Tripathi's attack on Arundhati Roy before swallowing too much of his swill:
http://www.saja.org/tripathiroy.html