>>14964832yeah maybe
I am not extensively familiar with sharia law but I do have a few thoughts about it with parts I am familiar with.
As opposed to Christian conquests, under sharia law religious conversion is not required as long as a tax is paid. Often refusal to convert resulted in execution under Christianity.
I think a lot of its harsh impositions on women are a product both of the caliphate's extreme warmongering resulting in an extreme deficit of men and the need to control women as a result of this, it being the case that the rise of women in political power has always throughout history been a harbinger of society's downfall. I think this continued after the destabilization of the middle east with the rise of Israel and the US's persistent attempts to cause coups in any country that opposes its economic or military interests.
I don't really have a problem with its practice and I think it is often closer to justice than western alternatives, though I might be mistaken in this. I do know a lot of these changes to its practice are instituted by imams who interpret the Qur'an in a convenient way, and I've never been a fan of that sort of thing. I long for a time when people can be allowed to find a personal connection with the divine, free from such convenient interpretations by a priest class. I think its subjugation to such things was a product of necessity due to literacy not being widespread, but I am drifting topics now.
