Linda Sarsour Quotes
Sharia is, for me, a personal basic set of guidelines that Muslims follow. It's about being respectful to elders. It's about praying five times a day. It's about etiquette that I have with members of my family. It's about inheritance, and it's about how we get married. Just the kind of basic things that anyone engages in in life.
Sarsour, Linda. We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance. Gallery Books, 2020.
Muslims were in the majority and there was a sizable Jewish Community in Libya. Ironically, the objection to religious law having any jurisdiction has usually been that civil rights were denied. However, the same was true (in different ways) with Fascist law.
The road name is not only descriptive of the fact that Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca for religious purposes. But by Saudi law, no one but a Muslim may use this road. Everyone in Saudi Arabia must have an identity card and that card is color coded by religion. For American’s the notion that there might be a public road on which only members of one religion may travel is as foreign a concept as there is.
Although Sharia specifies the death penalty for homosexuality, the practice appears to be as frequent in Islamic society as in the West. Although the penalty is very harsh, Sharia requires FOUR witnesses to the acts. This makes it almost impossible to convict two homosexuals.
The Muslim Brotherhood had won the Presidency in the first Egyptian democratic election shortly after the ouster of Mubarak when they were the only party that was organized. However, after one year of government, their performance was so bad that critics like El Baradei offered strong public criticism—especially of the preoccupation with Islam with little government attention given to freedom, human rights, and the economy which was in terrible shape. This was the focus of the pointed article title. A few days after this article was published there was an insurrection of huge crowds of Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi was forced to resign.
Linda Sarsour (born 1980) is an American political activist. She was co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women's March. She is also a former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. She and her Women's March co-chairs were profiled in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" in 2017.
