In Islamic Law, Gingrich Sees a Mortal Threat to U.S.

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11. Two Types

You have the Sharia of Creation and the Sharia applied to Muslims.

So pure water freezing at 32 degrees is a law of the Creation, the Standard Model of Physics, etc. etc.

For Sharia as applied to Muslims the vast majority of Muslim Legal Systems apply this only to Muslims. Paying the poor rate, etc. and non-Muslims pay a tax for protection by the Islamic Authority and usually have their own set of applicable laws.

In the UK for example there is English Common Law and then more and more Muslims are using Sharia to settle disputes amongst themselves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16522447

For me living in the United States there are protections for my wife under Islamic Law that I apply to our marriage. Mostly dealing with financial protections to her if something should happen to me. Most non-Muslims obviously do this as well in many ways.

Most of it deals with contracts, marriage, giving to charity and passing on capital if one dies. So if a practicing Muslim in the U.S. wants to do those things they simply do them. They don't need to institute Sharia in the U.S. to do it. They are the ones individually accountable before God, so not only are they not worried about imposing it on other Muslims in the U.S. but it is against Sharia to impose Sharia on non-Muslims. What good does it do them? It would only be for Nationalistic purposes.

(Sorry for the lack of detail but at work and that is all I had time to write