sharia law

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Movies, video games, Sharia law.

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.

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

In the far north extreme sharia law is being applied