Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear mongering, that has gripped the United States, the notion that we need to pass a law forbidding the institution of a foreign Law in the United States when it is… — Mark Durie Copy Share
If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism. — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways. — Mark Durie Copy Share
We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because… — Mark Durie Copy Share
There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of different ways… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
