Quote:Can you be more specific? How do you judge whether pedophilia has been committed?
I'm no legal scholar, so I couldn't really give you the fine details. However, any sexual activity outside of marriage is considered illegal. Since nobody can be married prior to attaining puberty, then any sexual activity with a minor (that is, someone who hasn't attained puberty) would be considered illegal.
Quote:Is it OK to be a homosexual, provided you don't actually have sex?
Islam does not recognise any such category of people as "homosexuals". Islam recognise thress classes of people, male, female and mukhaneth, those whose sex is ambigious. There are certain laws pertaining to them, and their condition is just considered a medical abnormality. However they are not what I think you refer to as homosexuals. What you mean is people who choose, yes they do choose, to engage in illegal sexual activities with members of the same sex. Such perversions were quite rare under Islamic rule, as the society was one which was conducive to people experiencing normal and healthy relationships within the confines of marriage. I know you're going to tell me "No, at all periods of time, they've existed in all societies in roughly the same proportions" etc. but this is just nonsense. There are very few cases of it ever being discovered in Islamic societies, and the records of punishment for it are few and far between. It existed in the fantasies of orientalists, that's about it.
I guess Islam would consider those who've experienced an urge towards such activities to be the victims of temptations from the devil, and that like any other temptation, it is a test for them, to see if they resist and pursue the correct path, or take the path of illegal and destructive activities.
Quote:Does Islam compel you to lobby for capital punishment for gays and pedophiles? What other crimes?
Islam doesn't really compel Muslims to lobby for anything. We can lobby for our rights if we like, but as for lobbying for something like that, what would be the point? It's all through the media and in popular culture everwyehre. It is encouiraged a lot amongst society, so what would be the point in asking for capital punishment for it? Is it just to punish for something which is so heavily encouraged in society anyway? It just doesn't make sense. Your whole question actually doesn't make sense, it just seems to be worded in some half baked attempt to implicate Muslims as fanatics wanting to implement an out of place law in this society. Please make your questions at least half sensible.
Islam is a wholistic system, just picking one of it's punishments and applying it out of context, and out of place, in a society which doesn't even implement the most basic tenets that Islam relies upon is just a ludicrous idea.
Quote:Is it clandestine to publicly declare your support for something up until you are able to change it to what you really want?
I am not speaking for Malik specifically, as I really don't know him enouigh to know how he thinks. But amongst Muslims generally there is a lot of confusion surrounding concepts lioke secularism and democracy, and this is quite a deliberate thing. The West has installed, and continues to fund and openly support the most brutal dictatorships in the Muslim countries, whilst at the same time, has also supported their opposition, although only through empty talk. So they've propagated these ideas that "Democracy is the opposite of what you live under now, you live under tyrrany, you need democracy, you live in poverty, you need democracy".
Also a lot of Muslims, even intelligent, educated Muslims mistake the word democracy to mean "popular election of a ruler", when it fact this not the case at all. This misconception obviously occurs because Islam has had a system of popular election (called bay'ah) of the ruler for well over 1350 years now, although it wasn't implemented that often, it was part of the model of the Caliphate that the early Caliphs established, although not the only means of appointing a ruler they implemented.
As for secularism, I don't know how anyone could mistake secularism for being in any way compatible with Islam, as it is clearly not.
Quote:How does this work? Is a gay Muslim allowed to have sex with other men if the local law allows it?
Allowed by who? If you mean is it allowed under Australian law, I think you know the answer to that. In Islam it is, as I've mentioned an abhorrent crime, and is therefore strictly forbidden. There's no such things as a "gay muslim" because believing yourself to be "gay" means that you reject Islam as a belief system. Anyone who considers homosexuality to be a valid lifestyle, would've taken themselves outside of the fold of Islam, and would not be a Muslim.
Quote:Also, how hard does Islam say you should work towards changing laws? Should you write to the media and encourage people to (legally) execute gays?
I've already addressed this point for you in another thread, search for the word vigilantism. Although I'm pretty sure you read it, and you're just trying to be provocative. Please, stick to rational discussion, if I wanted to listen to mindless sensationalism, I'd open a paper or turn on the idiot box.