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Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by logicchains on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:17PM (#50430275)
Everyone hates on Sharia law but it solves the problem cleanly by requiring the man to agree on a fixed sum deposit (Mahr) that the wife will get on divorce (with some paid up front and some potentially deferred to divorce time), rather than requiring him to give up half the property he earned while married regardless of how much his wife did or didn't contribute to it.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by orochimaaru on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:23PM (#50430382)
Really? Sharia? What’s next stoning people who have sex outside of marriage…
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by phyzix5761 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:29PM (#50430506)
That's not part of Sharia law. In Islam the crime of sex outside of marriage requires a public penetrative act that is witnessed by 4 adults; basically equivalent to having sex in public in the west which is a jailable offense in many US states.

Alternatively, the accused could both do a confession in front of a judge 4 separate times but they can retract this confession at any time and avoid any punishment.

Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by orochimaaru on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:35PM (#50430615)
Let’s keep Islamic perversion out of civil law. The very fact that sex outside of marriage is considered a crime is perverse.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by phyzix5761 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:46PM (#50430848)
Looks like you didn't read what I posted. Its only a crime if you do it publicly in front of people and they report you just like in every country in the civilized world. Sex outside of marriage is considered a sin but not a crime unless it meets the specific criteria I posted.

Your Islamophobia is showing a bit too much.

Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by logicchains on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:53PM (#50430954)
It's also worth noting that in the most minimal reading of Sharia the punishment for adultery is whipping, not stoning, as stoning isn't mentioned in the Quran, only in a statement written down a couple hundred years later by someone claiming he heard someone claiming he heard that a goat ate the page that mentioned stoning.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by orochimaaru on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:16PM (#50431347)
I am unabashedly islamophobic. I consider that faith harmful to modern society. It refuses to evolve.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by phyzix5761 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:30PM (#50431586)
Nobody is forcing it on you or on anyone else. In fact the Quran says, "There is no compulsion in religion." But we should respect the choices of other people. Just like you should be free to practice or not practice whatever you want, Muslims should have that same freedom.

If they choose to get together and through the democratic process of whatever county, city, or state they live in decide to implement laws that they believe are beneficial to them then the democratic process is working as its intended.

Islam, as written in the Quran and the authentic ahadith, will never force anyone, including non-Muslims, to practice any part of the Muslim faith.

Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by orochimaaru on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:48PM (#50431877)
I think the past millennia where Muslims went forcibly converting populations was just not “Islam”? Most people in the Muslim world look fondly on the glory days, don’t they?
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by BigTTYGothGF on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:13PM (#50432246)
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Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by boringg on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:23PM (#50430393)
I don't think sharia law has anything to do with this.
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by logicchains on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:26PM (#50430449)
Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by cowlevel on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:32PM (#50430558)
"Sharia" is the Arabic word for "law", so "Sharia law" just means "law law", or at least "law in places that speak Arabic" which is at least a bit more specific.

Sharia law actually has some good ideas in it. I think we should investigate Islamic banking and see if any of it would improve our economies. Because charging interest is forbidden in Islam, many of them do mortgages as a rent to own system instead, which leaves the bank on the hook if the house value crashes, instead of the buyer, so banks don't give out stupidly big mortgages that you might not want to pay back.

Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by dlisboa on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:25PM (#50430420)
> Everyone hates on Sharia law

I wonder why.

Re:Too many men suffering in silence, national health report... by hsuduebc2 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:00PM (#50431071)
It's truly a mistery.