Sharia as a Counter-model in the direction of democratic system… (original) (raw)

Divine VS Human Law Most Sharia supporters had hoped for a religious renewal that would liberate society from decades of moral and economic decay. But the Islamic upper class, now acting as the pioneer of a divine order, was no more concerned with the fate of its impoverished fellow believers than it had been before. Kano, the metropolis of the North, had a longstanding reputation as the ›capital of vices‹. The rich had made it their habit to fly to London to go shopping while at home, before local audiences, they ranted about the decadence of the West. According to a former minister who had moved in these circles for a long time, there was no reason to take their pious assertions seriously: »Every one of these Sharia politicians is an adulterer. Why should these people fight to stone adulterers?