Earlier quoted context omitted.
Islam brought the concept of "inalienable rights" to the West. The West still doesn't get it because in their system, emergency powers override every "inalienable right" the Westerners think they are entitled to.
>Islam brought the concept of "inalienable rights" to the West. Could you please elaborate on this? In my understanding, inalienable, or natural rights are of ancient Greek origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_right...
Islam still grants inalienable rights to people that are almost lost in the West. For example: the inalienable right to privacy. Spying on people in their homes is strictly forbidden in Shari'ah, regardless of whether it's the government doing it or anyone. This concept was unheard of in Western Europe until Islam came.
Also, the idea of war crimes. Western Europeans believed that war justifies any and all cruelty to the enemy. The West still believes that, actually, even if they have signed treaties, you can see it in their actions (Libya Iraq, etc.). They learned the idea of wartime ethics through contact with the Muslims during the Crusades.
Belief in equality of opportunity is also Islamic in nature. The Greeks didn't even believe that. Aristotle and other Greek philosophers held that certain races of people were just born for slavery. This is what inspired the Christians to start the triangular slave trade and establish the race-based caste system in the Americas.
When I study European history, it makes me realize that the Dark Age was not a pause in European history like we thought, but a reset. That's because the population of Europe had been almost completely replaced. And there were many other resets before and after that one. Europe was constantly being overrun and devastated over the centuries. So those new people (Goths, Huns, Norse, etc.) who came in were not literate people, but just going off of their own traditions and whatever they learned by way of contact with their nearest neighbor civilization, who in the Age of Exploration, happened to be Muslim.
One of the cornerstones of Scythian and German civilization was this idea of dual rule, where you have one rule for war and one rule for peace. I believe this transformed into the idea of emergency powers in Western civilization. So all the freedoms you think you have are just conditional on whether or not the rulers deem it necessary to override them.
An Islamic government is severely restricted from doing most of the oppressive acts we take for granted our states will do in the West (like levying high taxes, restricting commerce, etc.), in both war and peace. If a ruler came with an idea like eminent domain, he was challenged and stopped by the scholars of Shari'ah (talking about pre-colonial times). In the West, no one challenges eminent domain.
I was looking at the sibling subthread and can tell it's a morass, but I'll just say this. Emergency powers override all freedoms. And under majority rule, minorities often do not have any way to ensure their rights will be respected by the majority.