Here's the deal if you live in a western secular state. if you don't like it, live in a Muslim country.
A Social Contract for Muslims in Secular States
Here are the clauses in the contract that all theocrats, of whatever religion, will find difficult to swallow.
1. Groups don’t have rights, only individuals.
2. Secular constitutions supersede all religious law (Sharia, Koranic, Catholic canon law, Mosaic law). All satire of religious belief is protected speech. Religion as an ideology and belief system enjoys no special exemption from satire, ridicule, insult and open debate. Blasphemy is not a valid legal concept.
3. Absolute freedom of conscience in religion. All individuals, including all your family members, have the right to convert to another religion or no religion. Apostasy has no legal existence.
4. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is illegal and criminal.
5. Women have equal rights under the law. Your female children over the state’s age of consent have the right to marry, partner and have sexual relations with whom they choose, of a different religion or of no religion. Your female children have the right not to marry. Coercive arranged marriage is illegal. Child marriage is illegal.
6. Family honor is not a valid legal concept. Muslims in the West must explicitly renounce family honor as a legal concept and acknowledge the illegality of honor killing.
7. Wife-beating is illegal. Wives, and daughters over 18, have absolute freedom of choice in dress. Male relatives have no legal right to limit female family members’ freedom of choice in dress. (Only this taboo-breaker can solve the problem Daoud wrote about: “ Clothing is also given to extremes: At one end is the burqa, the orthodox full-body covering; at the other is the hijab moutabaraj (“the veil that reveals”), which combines a head scarf with slim-fit jeans or tight pants. On the beach, the burqini confronts the bikini.”)
8. Homosexuality and homosexual relations are legal and homosexuals have equal legal rights. If you own a business you have no legal right to refuse employment to a qualified homosexual applicant or service to a homosexual customer because of his or her sexual orientation.
9. Holocaust denial is illegal hate speech.
10. Antisemitic speech is a hate crime punishable by imprisonment.
The Arabs and Muslims I’ve known know they don’t need what George H.W. Bush called westerners’ “soft bigotry of low expectations” with regard to Islam’s fraught relationship with secularist freedom of inquiry, female empowerment and the dismantling and deregulation of their authoritarian patriarchal family life. The secular Syrian refugees I met when teaching in Stuttgart and Berlin and travelling in Prague agreed with me. They also agreed with the ideas embedded in this contract for assimilation into secular societies for refugees.
https://medium.com/@ljgolden55/imaginary-anti-semitism-c933d146da12
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/youre-an-anti-semite-if-you-3d0b022ffa05
