The barbarism in the name of god, dark ages and religious intolerance in the middle east as the antithesis

Authors

  • Danilo Porfírio de Castro Vieira Doutorando em Ciências Sociais. UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Faculdade de Ciências e Letras – Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais. Araraquara – SP – Brasil. 14800-901

Keywords:

Islam, Tolerance, ISIS, Caliphate, Sharia,

Abstract

Again the Western world looks at the Middle East with self-reported concern. The northern Iraq and eastern Syria recently are under control of a “jihadist” movement, fruit of the union of armed resistance factions to Americans in Iraq and against the Assad regime in Syria, called ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), self-proclaimed caliphate. The ISIS installed a regime of radical and cruel repression against political opponents and religious minorities. There are reports of crucifixions, executions, decapitations and selling women as slaves. Shares of ISIS are assigned to the precepts of Sharia, the set of sacred sources of the Islamic law (Fiqh). The purpose of the paper is to analyze the political and religious legitimacy of the caliphate self-proclaimed, and its legal processes against religious minorities such as Shia, Alawites, Druze and Christians, and ethnic really consistent with Islamic law.

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Author Biography

Danilo Porfírio de Castro Vieira, Doutorando em Ciências Sociais. UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Faculdade de Ciências e Letras – Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais. Araraquara – SP – Brasil. 14800-901

Advogado, Professor em Direito Civil, Filosofia do Direito e História do Direito pelo Instituto de Direito Público de Brasília, Centro Universitário de Brasília e Universidade Paulista-Campus Brasília

Graduado em Direito pela UNESP - Franca

Mestre em Direito pela UNESP - Franca

Cursou o clausto de doutoramento em Direito pela Universidade de Coimbra

Doutorando pela FCLAR - UNESP

Published

14/10/2015

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