Armads said:
About Sharia law though, why is everyone against it? Well it infringes upon human and civil rights. Under sharia law a man can beat his wife merely if they fear highhandedness in the woman. This means basically anything can be turned into an excuse to physically abuse your spouse, and it's not only legal, it's your responsibility to do so. It commands that theives have their hands cut off. Doesn't matter what their economic situation is, it's either steal and lose your hands or keep them and starve. Simply put this is an excessive and cruel punishment which will affect the poor the most and in such a debilitating way that they could never recover. It commands that homosexuals be executed. It commands that extramarrital sex be punished by whipping and fornication with stoning to death. This means you must marry to have sex, and if you make a mistake and marry someone you don't love, well you get to die. It commands death for anyone who criticizes sharia law, the quran, or mohammad. So you would be obligated to kill me as I'm already pointing out how horrid sharia law is. The punishment for apostasy is death, this means that if you ever leave the muslim faith, you must be killed. It also commands aggressive use of jihad for unjust reasons, the rules of jihad: (1) Women and children are enslaved. They can either be sold, or the Muslims may 'marry' the women, since their marriages are automatically annulled upon their capture. (2) Jihadists may have sex with slave women. Ali, Muhammad's cousin and son—in—law, did this. (3) Women and children must not be killed during war, unless this happens in a nighttime raid when visibility was low. (4) Old men and monks could be killed. (5) A captured enemy of war could be killed, enslaved, ransomed for money or an exchange, freely released, or beaten. One time Muhammad even tortured a citizen of the city of Khaybar in order to extract information about where the wealth of the city was hidden. (6) Enemy men who converted could keep their property and small children. This law is so excessive that it amounts to forced conversion. Only the strongest of the strong could resist this coercion and remain a non—Muslim. (7) Civilian property may be confiscated. (8) Civilian homes may be destroyed. (9) Civilian fruit trees may be destroyed. (10) Pagan Arabs had to convert or die. This does not allow for the freedom of religion or conscience. (11) People of the Book (Jews and Christians) had three options (Sura 9:29): fight and die; convert and pay a forced 'charity' or zakat tax; or keep their Biblical faith and pay a jizya or poll tax |
You can have your 0% tax rates but you will need to embrace sharia law. Maybe sharia law would be more to people's liking: no minimum wage agreement, capital punishment for controversial issues, hands chopped off for stealing, etc. By the way does anyone on here believe in sharia law? A government could use some of the elements as a fight against crime if he wanted to. Sharia law works effectively in Iran.
The military can very easily be privatised, same with the police force and everything else. The military would belong to the richest family in your country, they would also own the police, courts and their privatised government under their control. You will have to pay to use everything. You could be arrested in the middle of the night and taken away for no reason.