Spengler: bring on the wife-beating??

Spengler looks at Sharia Law and points out a glaring incompatibility with Western Law principles:

"That is why traditional society is incompatible organically with the first principal of law in modern liberal democracy, namely that the state wields the monopoly of violence. Sharia in principle cannot be adapted to the laws of modern democratic states, for it is founded on the deeply-ingrained notion that the family is the state in miniature and that the head of family may employ violent compulsion just as does the state."

Read on.

Thanks, David.
 

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