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This has prompted the militants to demand a more extreme form of Islamist rule and for sharia to be extended to the whole of Nigeria.

Under the agreement, sharia law was to be adopted in Malakand district, to which Swat belongs.

His previous attempt at this almost led the Constitutional Court to ban the AKP on the ground that it was trying to impose sharia law.

But conservative parliamentarians argued the bill violated Sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age of marriage.

If Muslim tribunals are starting in Britain, it would be odd to abolish sharia in a place where it has been applied since Ottoman times.

In an audio address released in February, al-Zawahri noted that bin Laden assigned him to advise Mujahideen on Islamic Sharia law.

In 2008 AK itself narrowly escaped being shut down on the thinly supported charge that it was seeking to introduce sharia rule.

By early April 2009, Sharia law had been imposed as part of a deal between the authorities and the local Taliban.

The central bank allowed sharia-compliant branches to open, but these met tacit political opposition from within the regime.

Busloads of devout Muslims from around the country swelled the crowd and chanted for the establishment of Islamic Sharia law in Egypt.

They are protesting a Sharia court 's recent decision which sentenced a woman to death in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina.

In Swat, in North-West Frontier Province, it has agreed to a ceasefire in return for the imposition of sharia law.

Recent comments by some Brotherhood members calling for a strict implementation of Sharia law have only heightened those concerns.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system.

If they did not implement Sharia, they deserved death.

Claims by the secular establishment that the AK party's ultimate plan is to introduce sharia law are plainly overblown.

But the issue is complicated by different interpretations of sharia law and a lack of legal certainty.

If the murder was unjust then the sharia court will say that the killer has to be killed.

Sharia law will be implemented ? Whaooo! that is a great achievement. The dream of every muslims.

The two women were found guilty of selling food during the fasting hours of Ramadan, thereby violating Islamic sharia law.

Under sharia, the Islamic legal system imposed after Iran's 1979 revolution, unrelated men and women are forbidden to have intimate contact.

Yet for many politicians the idea of incorporating sharia, even if only technically, is a dangerous breach of France's secular principles.

Under sharia law, sex out of wedlock and the drinking of alcohol are illegal for Muslims.

Alshabab previously declared that it would continue fighting until Sharia law is imposed in Somalia.

The issues that the "official" Sharia courts can rule on range from financial rows to divorce and domestic violence.

TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, Egypt revised its secular constitution to enshrine Muslim sharia as "the principal source of legislation" .

Till now, the rulings of Sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.

Across the south, the Taliban dish out Islamic justice in sharia courts.

But the clergy, particularly the country's evangelicals, falsely claimed that the courts will introduce sharia law.

"I want to fight for the sharia and Islam, " he said, with a child's confidence.

Many other Republicans have echoed his ludicrous claim that Islamic sharia law is infiltrating America's legal system.

Sufi Muhammad has long advocated implementing strict Islamic codes, called Sharia, in Pakistan.

Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sinful" , is demanding the wider application of sharia law in Nigeria.

The predominantly Muslim north has progressively ushered in a stricter enforcement of sharia law since 2000.

Siti' parents matchmade the couple and that the Sharia court granted them permission to marry in July.

I do not believe in imposing a caliphate or sharia law on this country.

Failure to obey Al Shabaab's strictest form of Sharia law can lead to horrific punishments.

Shaya , Sharia, moved to Italy, where his father began playing professional basketball.

In most parts of Europe migration has made sharia a pressing issue.

Sharia law was introduced in 1991; alcohol is banned and women must wear headscarves. Convicted criminals are routinely flogged or executed.

In divided lands like Nigeria and Sudan, Christians in Muslim-dominated regions say they are subject to sharia law at its harshest.

The agreement binds the provincial government to implement Sharia law in the Malakand division.

In the Middle East, Dubai Gold Securities launched a sharia compliant vehicle, also backed by gold bullion.

So, what you are saying is, you are perfectly happy to live under Sharia law.

The agreement, they said, will lead to enforcement of the Islamic Sharia law in the area including Swat, once a tourist paradise.

Would a Swedish court want to apply sharia law to a divorcing couple recently arrived from Saudi Arabia?

Sharia governs every aspect of a devout Muslim's life.

The new judges sit in federal sharia courts in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, an administrative city.

Officials claim that by setting up sharia courts they have drawn local support away from the Taliban.

Opinion polls have found dwindling support for the regulations based on sharia that some local governments have introduced.

A Kuwaiti Muslim cannot buy a Malaysian sukuk (sharia-compliant bond) because of differing definitions of what constitutes usury.

Islam is concerned about the status of women, and its ideas about women are based on Koran, guided by Sharia Law and altered in practice.

Some 15 per cent of capital commitments are screened for Sharia compliance (low debt, non-injurious, no forbidden foods, etc).

At its most theocratic, it forces people to follow sharia laws, sometimes with barbaric penalties.

As part of the agreement, sharia law will be implemented in the district.

The streets are policed by black-clad men who enforce sharia law and whip women who express any free will.

Under Sharia law in Khartoum, the normal punishment for "indecent" attire, including trousers, is 40 lashes.

Yalcinkaya accused the party of seeking to replace Turkey's secular state with Sharia rule.

He particularly stressed the need for Egypt to embrace Sharia, or Islamic law.

Northeast of Tahrir and centered on Sharia Talaat Harb is Downtown, a bustling commercial district.

May I interest you in a susu account or would you like to hear about Sharia-compliant lending?

It allows for the imposition of sharia in Swat, and on March 18, sharia courts began hearing cases.

Its backers stress the ethical side of sharia-compliant finance.

Two more Sharia courts will be started in Edinburgh and Glasgow soon, the report said.

Under Iran's Islamic sharia law, espionage is punishable by death.

We are not hateful toward Muslims. We are not aiming this at Muslims, we are aiming this at Sharia law.

But sharia law is, and that's what fundamentalists want to impose in France.

Nor is sharia law the rigid system that many Westerners deplore.

The new form of law would replace the traditional charter, which was not as strict as Sharia law.

The reasoning is that if the amount owed does not change over time, it is profit and not interest and therefore acceptable under Sharia.

In some areas, most notably the port town of Kismayo, a strict interpretation of sharia law has been introduced.

Even many who dislike the Taliban prefer their harsh sharia courts to the government's slow, corrupt ones.

After a long and difficult battle in the labyrinthine sharia legal system, Taylor won full custody of Nadia in 2008.

Worldwide sharia-compliant assets grew by over the past year to $822 billion, according to The Banker.

So, if that is the case, you must be morally fine with Sharia laws and what governments like Iran are doing under Islamic rules.

This is totally illegitimate from the view point of sharia (Islamic law). This is a crime and illegal.

Movies, video games, Sharia law.

Build a unified single state based on Sharia, and let them engage Europe and the West!

A teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under 'Sharia law' after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine.

But the average voter might think that his recent fuss about the imminent danger of America submitting to sharia law is simply deranged.

A plaintiff who is unhappy with a jirga's verdict may seek an alternative ruling from a sharia court.

The odd thing is that no one has ever proposed making appeals to sharia in America.

Under Sharia law gay sex illegal, with penalty of death for offenders as young as 14 years old.

At the age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters, Shaya and Sharia,

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