A group in Australia has drafted a constitution in which Aqeedah will hold sway.
Article 1
The Islamic ‘Aqeedah constitutes the foundation of the State. Nothing is permitted to exist in the government’s structure, accountability, or any other aspect connected with the government, that does not take the ‘Aqeedah as its source. The ‘Aqeedah is also the source for the State’s constitution and shar’i canons. Nothing connected to the constitution or canons is permitted to exist unless it emanates from the Islamic ‘Aqeedah.
I find it fascinating that Islamic elements see fit to decry the central tenets of Western constitutional law--separation of church and state--for a celebration and a return to medieval Islamic law.
These well-meaning Muslims are the moderates with which Western governments will need to contend with. On the one hand, flourishing because of Western liberal constitutions, Islamic impulses are seeking to dismantle its central tenets.
And in these impulses, I see little difference between them and the Nazi glorification of the past, and how in Weimar Germany for example the Nazis worked to dismantle constitutionalism, in favor of their glorified view of the past, and their distorted vision of the future.
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