Tag: islamic law

The Gaza military court has sentenced R.A. to twenty years of imprisonment and forced labor after he was convicted of passing information to Israeli “occupiers.”

A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end “severe” discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children.

JAFFA, Israel – An internationally renowned Egyptian Islamic cleric has sparked an outcry by saying that “Islamic governments” must be entirely subordinate to Islamic law.

CAIRO — It was an outrageous argument, by any measure: Women should “reduce their sexual desires” because Egyptian men are “sexually weak.”

TEL AVIV – In response to a Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric’s now infamous sermon claiming that Islamic law permits men to beat their wives, a columnist for the country’s daily Okaz slammed the idea, saying that state law supersedes Sharia law and female victims of domestic violence must not be afraid to speak out.

JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic movement of Morocco, the ruling Justice and Development Party, has decided to eject from its ranks two senior officials, a man and a woman, who were reportedly discovered being intimate in a car near the beach.

JAFFA, Israel – The Jordanian authorities have reportedly recently barred a middle aged man from marrying a 14-year-old Syrian refugee.

JAFFA, Israel – A top Egyptian cleric sparked outcry after declaring that Ahmed Zewail, an illustrious Egyptian-American scientist who died last week, was an infidel who should not be mourned.

Khizr Khan wrote that any writings on judicial matters “must always be subordinated to the Shari’ah and open to reconsideration by all Muslims.”

One of the reasons Western liberal culture has so much difficulty grappling with the reality of radical Islam is that liberals think religion, in general, is a quaint hobby no one is really serious about. Islam, however, has a code of law called sharia, which is meant to transcend secular law.

Gays should be put to death under sharia law whether the Islamic doctrine is implemented in Muslim countries or the West, exclaimed Britain’s most notorious radical Islamist preacher, Anjem Choudary, during an interview.

Iran has arrested eight people in a crackdown against women who “promote immoral and un-Islamic culture and promiscuity,” by appearing on Instagram without wearing the mandatory hijab head covering.

Three halal slaughtermen and their bosses have appeared in court charged with the “systematic” abuse of animals killed in accordance with Islamic law. Kabeer Hussein, Kazam Hussein, Artur Lewandowski, Robert Woodward and William Woodward sat alongside each other yesterday at

JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic State published pictures showing its operatives exhibiting “judgement and compassion” against a man who confessed to prostitution, one of Sharia law’s most punishable offenses. Instead of stoning and whipping the defendant, the organization decided to spare him, citing his celibacy, and making do with censuring him in public.

JAFFA, Israel – Kuwait police have published new “modesty rules” for its female officers following a recent surge in complaints. While on duty, female officers must not “wear tight clothes, conspicuous hairpins, bracelets and earrings,” the new regulations dictate. Nor

JAFFA, Israel – A Bahraini court was asked to okay sex reassignment surgery for a man who claimed that his manhood was “extinguished” after his wife spilled boiling oil on his genitals. The man, who is in his thirties, was

The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh has banned celebrations of Valentine’s Day this weekend, arguing the holiday violates Islamic law.

Islamic State (ISIS) theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when “owners” of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured

JAFFA, Israel – A young Saudi woman driver came under fire this week after a video of her driving a car in the city of Tabuk has gone viral on social media in the kingdom.

TEL AVIV – Hundreds of religious and academic scholars, most of them Muslim, have added their names to an open letter that uses Islamic jurisprudence to refute the ideology of the ruler of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

There have been a couple of disturbing signs lately that the United Kingdom no longer aspires to have one law for all, that instead UK Muslims are entitled to preferential treatment. Both signs take the form of extending special privileges to Muslim

Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have changed their plea to guilty and confessed to beating a ten-year-old boy with a stick for making mistakes when reciting the Quran. Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 23,

Proponents of stricter Islamic regulations in Indonesia have scored another victory with the passage of sharia measures mandating the separation of sexes in educational institutions and certain social situations.

Breitbart Texas confirmed Tuesday that “an Islamic Tribunal using Sharia law” is indeed operating in Texas. But not to worry: an attorney for the tribunal assures us that participation is “voluntary,” and one of the Sharia judges, Dr. Taher El-badawi, says it’s devoted only to “non-binding dispute resolution.”

Printed with $300,000 in assistance from Google, Charlie Hebdo returned to the stands with a post-attack edition that sold out before dawn on the day it was released, leading to an increased print run of 3 million copies – more than fifty times the previous weekly circulation of the magazine.