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that shariah law can simply be reduced to such unjustifiable and
reprehensible penalties as beheadings, stonings, cutting of hands, and
repression of women is not only to demonstrate an utter lack of
knowledge of the history of Islamic politics and jurisprudence, but
ironically enough also to give a fresh impetus to the claims of the
most extreme Islamist groups arguing for a general struggle (jihad)
against the allegedly neo-colonial design of an imperialist, monolithic
“West” threatening the very values and way of life of the community of
believers (ummat al-mu’minin). This is exactly where the work of
translation outlined above as the main task of the Al-Andalus Caliphate
Project in SecondLife inscribes itself. By retrieving authentic
principles of Islamic government and justice, and recreating a virtual
Ummah composed of various nationalities, religions, and creeds,
conducting its affairs in accordance with a system of government and
justice which will be both legitimate in Islamic terms and in
conformity with universal values of

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