If the constitutional court will not stop a potential AKP led imposition of Sharia, who will?

His crime A non Sharia compliant smile.

In other areas, sharia law is being introduced by force.

Under sharia law, raped women are prosecuted for adultery or fornication.

There was the same silence from the Islamists, who apply the sharia.

Following Al Razzouk's abduction, Radio AlKul reported that Basel Aslan of Al Raqqa Revolutionary Media Office was attacked by Al Hai'h Al Sharia (Authority of Sharia) while covering Eid Al Adha festivities.

The parties that still support Sharia have largely disappeared or changed their platform.

Islamization was the main tool of repression, in particular the imposition of Sharia law.

(o) The overbroad discretionary powers of the sharia court judges in the application of personal status law and criminal law and, in particular, reported failures to take into account clear evidence of violence confirmed in medical certificates following violence against women

Indeed, Indonesian women have shown how Sharia can provide a tool for combating misogynist policies.

Mr. Taal (Gambia) stressed that sharia law applied only to family matters in the Gambia.

Saudi Twitter user Sultan al Fifi noted the paradox in citing Sharia law to outlaw religious groups

There won't be any classes on evolution. But there are classes on Sharia criminal law and religion.

In parts of southern Yemen, an Al Qaeda affiliate, Ansar al Sharia, functions as a de facto government.

But political parties advocating for implementation of Sharia have lost ground in successive elections from 1955 to 2009.

Sharia law was applied women who were never forced to do so before had to wear the veil.

The Supreme Military Council is overwhelmingly Islamist, with rebel controlled areas of Syria already practicing sharia (Islamic law).

Having now sworn allegiance to Daeish ,Ould Mohamed Khayrou also created Gao, a Judicial Council for Sharia Law.

Leading organizations like Umar, Fatayat, and Muslimat provide a corrective to the widespread view that Sharia necessarily impedes women.

The state is seen as a vehicle for ensuring social justice, and there are scant references to sharia principles.

But 42 of these women are members of Ennahda, which regards Sharia (Islamic law) as the source of legislation.

Sentences to death by stoning for adultery, while seldom applied, were in accordance with the provisions of sharia law.

Reviewing the relevant provisions concerning Sharia law and the status of muftis, she said that Muslims could use either Sharia law or Greek civil law, but the decision of the muftis must be compatible with Greek law and must not endanger the rights of the Muslim population.

Fear of sharia law is matched by anger at the rapacious vulgarity of developers and entrepreneurs backed by Erdoğan s government.

Over 90 per cent of women were governed by either customary law or sharia law, both of which permitted polygamy.

Those married under Muslim law, for instance, which covered 90 per cent of all marriages, were governed by sharia law.

Under sharia law and customary law women did not have the same rights as men with regard to divorce or inheritance.

The right of every child to wear clothes compatible with her beliefs , while complying with Islamic Sharia, public etiquette, and modesty.

Sharia was enforced on mostly black communities in Gao and in Timbuktu, not in Kidal where most of the Tuareg rebels live.

Bahrain interprets Articles 3 (no sexual discrimination), 18 (freedom of religion) and 23 (family rights) within the context of Islamic Sharia law.

Moreover, the few appeals that had been made focused on the procedural application of Sharia law, rather than on the law itself.

Draft legislation that reflects a restrictive interpretation of sharia (Islamic law), particularly concerning women s status, is now being submitted for debate in Tunisia.

Likewise, the sharia , Islamic law, entered political life in its least enlightened version in hopeful democracies like Nigeria, to say nothing of Iran.

Based on the purposes of the Islamic Sharia, we will criminalize those who join the Muslim Brotherhood which trades religion for political gain.

This , your Ummah Sharia or religion ( Islamic Monotheism ) is one religion , and I am your Lord , therefore worship Me ( Alone ) . Tafsir Ibn Kathir

This , your Ummah Sharia or religion ( Islamic Monotheism ) is one religion , and I am your Lord , therefore worship Me ( Alone ) . Tafsir Ibn Kathir

The Jamaat e Islami Party, indeed, told me during my stay that they had a 30 year agenda to introduce Sharia law into Bangladesh.

The Taliban soon banned all forms of imagery, music and sports, including television, in accordance with what they considered a strict interpretation of Sharia.

Mr. Castillero Hoyos said that he wished to know what steps had been or would be taken to address the issue of Sharia law.

Gibraltar retains its own court system, which includes lower courts (Court of First Instance, Coroner's Court, Magistrate's Court), a Court of Appeals and a Supreme Court.

People fear that sharia law will replace secular legislation, and that Islamism will spoil the fruits of Kemal Atatürk s drive to modernize post Ottoman Turkey.

Islamic banking, for example, may soon be introduced, though some local and foreign investors argue that sharia regulations could drive away much needed foreign investment.

Second, support for Sharia, never high in Turkey, has actually declined since the AKP came to power, from 19 in 1996 to 8 in 2007.

Ms. Al Saleh (Oman) said that Omani women enjoyed a wide range of civil and political freedoms founded on Islamic sharia law and civil law.

Moreover, if women studied sharia law and the Koran, they could decide for themselves what those texts dictated and would not be misled by others.