One more post on the clitless pet Muslima Yassmin Abdel-Maggot
The Q&A sharia shout-out

The cool and hip, if occasionally shouty, face of young Islam in Australia, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, opines that if sharia law has got some rough edges it’s all the fault of dead white males. Yes, you’ve read it correctly – the White European colonisers have turned the progressive and feminist sharia into a tool of patriarchal oppression:
The advent of modern colonisation, starting with the British East India Company (EIC) and the Dutch entering India and Indonesia in the late sixteenth and seventeeth Centuries, would eventually lead to some pretty drastic changes in how Sharia was practised and understood. With the arrival of the colonisers in predominantly Islamic communities came the concept of the nation-state — and with it, codifying (translating and writing down) laws. The colonisers viewed Islam as a threat to the system and civilisation they understood, and began thoroughly remodelling Islamic legal systems.
Started by the Governor of Bengal Warren Hastings in the 1770s and followed by the Dutch in the 1880s, western powers began separate projects to translate, write down and convert the Sharia — as they understood it — into written law. In doing so they turned Sharia’s fluidity rigid, and hollowed out the interpretive core that Sharia law depended on. Islamic law became unable to do what it needed to do to function.
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