TR> Shariah Adoption Laws: Incompatible with American Law and   
    TR> Society   
      
    TR> Posted by Clare M. Lopez Jan 3rd 2011 at 6:05 am in Middle   
    TR> East, human rights, sharia   
      
    TR> | Comments (30)Yesterday's Washington Post's feature story,   
    TR> "Muslim orphans caught between Islam and the West;" about   
    TR> Muslim orphans who cannot find adoptive homes because of   
      
    ...   
      
    TR> The reason is shariah (Islamic law), which states in   
    TR> unequivocal terms, "Adoption is unlawful in Islam when it   
    TR> means giving a child one's own name; a share of one's   
    TR> estate division, and so on." [Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of   
    TR> the Traveller), Book K, "Trade,"� section k28.4 (pg. 450).]   
    ...   
      
    Islamonline.net has a fatwa online that explains the real cause   
    and the truth of Islamic adoption. You cannot deny the child's   
    parents. You can do all that is done in western adoption, except   
    that you must allow the child his ancestry and parentage. A   
    child can inherit from the family that raises him, that is   
    allowed. He will also inherit from his biological family if   
    provided for under law. That is automatic.   
      
    IOW, you could adopt a Muslim child, only you have to do it by   
    Islamic rules, which means he keeps his family history, and he   
    inherits from his biological family. You can then also leave him   
    an inheritance in your will. It would be the same as a permenant   
    guardianship in the West.   
      
    The estate division in the Reliance of the Traveler reference   
    applies to the automatic inheritance which then cuts him off   
    from his ancestry.   
      
    ...   
      
      
    TR> See......if this were a Catholic law being talked about   
    TR> here, or a Mormon or Evangelical law, You'd be hopping from   
    TR> one foot to the other while typing curses at everyone in   
    TR> Fido you despise, blaming us for it.   
      
    The laws against Sharia in the US will rebound back to Catholic   
    and Protestant and Jewish laws. The constitution is clear, you   
    can't make laws banning the free exercise of religion. And you   
    can't favor one religion over another. So, to outlaw Sharia in   
    the US you will have to ban consideration of any religious law.   
      
    Jewish courts, that already exist in this country, will be   
    banned.   
      
    Hospitals run by pro-life faiths will have to perform abortions.   
      
    Adoption agencies run by faiths that won't place children with   
    gays will be forced to.   
      
    Or shut down.   
      
    TR> I expect you will remain completely uncaring about this.   
    TR> I saw a statement from some Islamic Imam in Egypt (I think)   
    TR> which said:   
      
    TR> "Don't blame Islam....blame terrorism."   
      
    TR> Who the fuck is he kidding? Islam *IS* terrorism!   
      
    Wahabism is terrorism. When you can say that you have something   
    to say.   
      
    ...   
      
    TR> offense deemed antithetical to Islam, orphaned children   
    TR> forbidden to be adopted into a home setting, and all   
    TR> government laws must strictly adhere to Islamic law.   
      
    Except that it's considered a blessing under Islam to take an   
    orphan into your home. The Quran specifically says it. The   
    Islamic community is responsible for seeing to it an orphan has   
    a home. The only rule the right wingers ignored is, the child's   
    ancestry, as known, must be kept. If his ancestry is not known   
    then he is considered of the brethern of the faith. IOW, a   
    Muslim whose ancestry is unknown. All the rest is the same.   
      
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