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Terri Schiavo and Muslim law 

In a really unusual take on the Terri Schiavo case, Islam scholar Juan Cole compares Congress's intervention with a little-used function of Islamic law that says "...any individual can use the courts to intervene in the private lives of others."
He goes further, to claim that Congress was partially acting in behalf of the Catholic Church, violating separation of church and state, and claims that the action "...will have the same effect in the United States that it does in the Middle East. It will reduce the rights of the individual in favor of the rights of religious and political elites to control individuals".

...and American law
An article in Slate, Activist Legislators, compares Terri's case to that of Elian Gonzalez.

For more coverage including documents and background, see Miami Herald's complete coverage of Terri Schiavo case.

posted by liz at 11:57 AM