Noah Feldman’s Fantasy Shari’a By David Yerushalmi

According to Noah Feldman’s latest contribution to the New York Times Magazine this past Sunday, March 16, a forum in which his essays regularly appear, the best thing going for the peaceful introduction of the rule of law and even representative government in the Muslim world is for the West to promote the political goals of Islamism. “Islamism” is the Islamist political agenda which in turn is the effort to overthrow or otherwise root out the secular autocratic tyranny that has plagued the Muslim world since the first half of the twentieth century and to replace it with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah, or any number of Islamic political parties which seek to empower Shariah – Islamic law -- as the supreme arbiter of law and politics among Muslims worldwide.

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