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

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

Anne Marie comes and scares us with her talk of Sharia Law,

I would like to see the book of Sharia Law, it doesn't exist.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

On cue, the hashtag شريعة_العلمانية (Secular Law) soon came up, and was populated with suggestions on what this new sharia (law) for secular people should be.

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

People argue about what the Sharia Law is and you empower the extremists by saying there is only one version.

His crime A non Sharia compliant smile.

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

And it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fatwas based on wrong interpretation of the sharia law, or the religious laws.

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.

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

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

For example, Singapore allows aspects of sharia law to apply to Muslims, including Muslim men being allowed four wives, although only under stringent conditions.

It was his understanding that the considerable number of girls under 18 years of age who were marrying out of economic necessity did so not under domestic law but under Sharia law.

The case of the 11 year old Muslim girl who had been kidnapped, had become pregnant and had thus been married under Sharia law, albeit in violation of Greek law, was exceptional.

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.

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.

If the spouses were from different sects, did the husband's or the wife's law apply in the event of marriage or divorce. Were Muslim Christian marriages even possible, given the strictures of Sharia law.

The far North, some of whose leaders responded, like MASSOB, to Obasanjo s ascendancy in 1999 by embracing Islamic Sharia law, also needs to be watched carefully.

Customary law in Afghanistan varies widely by region but significant procedural and conceptual similarities exist throughout the country, particularly the reliance on respected community members, who are trained neither in national law nor in sharia.

For example, he was widely criticized for a lecture in 2008 in which he spoke about the relationship between Islamic Sharia law and the British legal system.

The Warriors of God demands a pure form of Islamic practice throughout the Gaza Strip, including the implementation of Sharia religious law and a rejection of democracy.

It will be particularly difficult in an environment in which the sharia that is, Islamic religious law administered not by judges but by priests is never far away.

In the past, Morsi advocated a platform that excluded Christians from political life and granted Islamic scholars oversight authority to ensure that all legislation complied with Sharia law.

What really worries some democratic secularists in Turkey and elsewhere is that the AKP s efforts at constitutional reform might be simply a first step toward introducing Sharia law.

The Emir, while directly accountable to no one, cannot violate the Sharia (Islamic law) and, in practice, must consider the opinions of leading notables and the religious establishment.

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

Their initial demand the rebuilding of eight illegally constructed mosques that had been knocked down by Islamabad s civic administration became a call for enforcement of Sharia law across Pakistan.