Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Blog friend Pieter Dorsman on Dutch Sharia at Politics Central:
Nobody seemed to realize that when Donner was talking about a nation that opted for abandoning liberal democracy in favor of implementing Sharia it was one that would likely be very different from the one that the Dutch inhabit today. Donner’s scenario was thus highly speculative and even if it were to come to fruition, would, to use Mark Steyn’s estimate, not occur until the year 2050...
...What is even more interesting is the debate that ensued over the boundaries of voting in free democracies. If a situation could arise where a majority could agree to shred a constitution in favor of religious law – and one from the Middle Ages at that - than doesn’t a democracy have an obligation to devise mechanism whereby such choices could be neutralized?...