Originally Posted by djplong

Not knowing all about Sharia law, I can't comment. The closest thing I *do* know a *little* about would be some of the Jewish kashrut (learned by osmosis from working for an observant Jew and becoming friends with him and his family over the course of 7 years).

There are aspects of Sharia law I've heard of that are clearly over the line. But, there's nothing wrong with writing a business contract stipulating, for example, that work will only be done during certain hours.

It goes over the line when stipulations start violating someone's rights - especially those that the court says you cannot sign away (as an example, you cannot sell yourself into slavery in this country).

The Bible itself has verses stating when it's ok to sell your kids into slavery and when you're allowed to stone your wife to death. If someone looked at that and said "Bible bad, Bible is Christianity, therefore Christianity bad", you'd disagree - with good reason.

Sharia doesn't apply to me and I will oppose any effort to make it so. The same holds true for the kashrut and many of the things in the Bible.