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Islamic Sharia law stories: 52 news summaries

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 Radical Muslim Cleric 
 Killed in FBI Raid 

6 others held after series of operations in Detroit area

Oct 28, 09 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The leader of a radical Islamic sect was killed by the FBI today in a shootout in a Detroit suburb, part of a series of raids against the group, said to be plotting “an offensive jihad” in order to establish a state governed by Sharia law. Luqman Ameen Abdullah,... More »

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Iraq • FBI • jihad • Detroit • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic extremists • Dearborn, Michigan • Ummah

Saudi Man
Jailed After Bragging About Sex on TV

He earns 5 years
and 1,000 lashes

Oct 7, 09 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Saudi man has been sentenced to 5 years in jail and 1,000 lashes after boasting about his sexual promiscuity on a TV show. Broadcast in July, it features the man displaying sex toys and talking up his exploits. Three friends who appeared on camera got 2-year sentences, notes... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Lebanon • Islamic Sharia law • sex toys • lashing • extramarital affair • promiscuity • television program • jail sentence

Death Penalty for Virginity- Faking Kit:
Egypt Scholar

Said to spread vice, violate Islamic law

Sep 29, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Egyptian scholar wants the death penalty for anyone importing a device that helps women fake virginity—claiming it violates Islamic law by spreading perversion in society. The gadget releases a liquid that looks like blood, allowing a new bride to make it appear her hymen has been ruptured. The... More »

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women's health • Egypt • Islamic Sharia law • scholar • virginity • premarital sex • hymen • virginity-faking device

 Yemen Right-Wingers 
 Blocked Push to End 
 Child Marriages 

Conservatives claimed introducing minimum marriage age was un-Islamic

Sep 17, 09 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative lawmakers in Yemen, where a 12-year-old girl died giving birth to her husband's child last week, shot down an attempt to set the minimum marriage age at 17 earlier this year, CNN reports. The lawmakers kept the bill from reaching the country's president by arguing that it violated Islamic... More »

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human rights • children • Islamic Sharia law • childbirth • Yemen • child brides • child marriage • underage marriage

(Newser) - A Malaysian model sentenced to caning for drinking beer wants her punishment carried out in public, CNN reports. Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, will be the first woman to be flogged for alcohol consumption in the Muslim-majority nation. "Let's be transparent" about the punishment, Kartika has insisted. Her father... More »

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Islam • beer • Islamic Sharia law • Malaysia • alcohol consumption • caning • models

Burka Is 'Not Welcome' in France: Sarkozy

Prez says religious covering a sign of female 'subservience'

Jun 22, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy today spoke out strongly against Islamic coverings for women, like the burka, the BBC reports. In a rare speech to parliament, which is considering a ban, the French president said, “we cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting. … The burka... More »

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Islam • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • French Parliament • Islamic Sharia law • niqab • ban • clothing • Muslim women • burka

Pakistanis Finally Turning Against the Taliban

Swat Valley battles push citizens away from Islamic extremism

Jun 5, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Only a year ago the Taliban had growing support in Pakistan, and many citizens regarded them as fellow Muslims opposed to the American government and military. But as the New York Times reports, public sentiment has shifted in recent months. Following violence in the Swat Valley and months of televised... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic extremism • Swat • Swat Valley • insurgency

(Newser) - Public opinion is swinging against Sharia law in Pakistan's Swat Valley as tens of thousands flee fighting between Pakistani forces and the Taliban, the Washington Post reports. A public fed up with inefficient and corrupt secular courts once welcomed the Taliban's version of religious law, but lawmakers and pundits now... More »

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Islam • Taliban • Pakistan • courts • Islamic Sharia law • Swat Valley

 Pakistanis Flee Swat 
 Ahead of Taliban Clash 

Militants take control of main city in strategic valley

May 5, 09 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani authorities have warned residents of the country's troubled Swat Valley to leave their homes ahead of an expected military operation in the Taliban-controlled area. The February peace deal between Pakistan and the Taliban, which included the introduction of Sharia law, has effectively collapsed, reports Reuters. Militants have infiltrated several... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Swat • Pakistan militants • Mingora • Swat Valley

 Taliban Are 
 Filmed Killing 
 Pakistani Lovers 

Film captured on cell phone in mountain village

Apr 26, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Taliban enforcers in Pakistan have been filmed in a chilling video shooting down two lovers charged with committing adultery, reports the BBC. The man and woman are seen talking to members of the Taliban, and then move away as they appear to sense the danger they're in. Both are shot... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Islamabad • adultery • conservative Islam • extramarital affair

 Taliban 
 Leaves Key 
 Pakistan District 

Move comes amid peace deal in some areas

Apr 24, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Taliban commander withdrew his troops today from a Pakistani district where their activity was fueling US concern, Reuters reports. “Our leader has ordered that Taliban should immediately be called back from Buner,” a spokesman said of the area, which lies just 60 miles from the capital, Islamabad.... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • militant • peace deal • insurgency • Buner

Emboldened Taliban Gear Up for Pakistan Takeover

Taliban move closer to capital after peace deal allows Islamic law in northwest

Apr 20, 09 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's deal to allow the Taliban to impose Sharia law in the Swat valley in return for peace has inspired the extremists to seek further gains, the Washington Post reports. Taliban fighters are spreading deeper into the region—a mere 100 miles east of the capital—and leaders say they... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic extremists • Swat Valley

Taliban Wield Mighty New Weapon: Class Warfare

Militants exploit tensions in areas where feudalism still holds sway

Apr 17, 09 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Taliban militants are exploiting the deep class divisions in Pakistani society in a push to expand their power, the New York Times reports. The militants gained control of the Swat Valley in part by organizing landless peasants into gangs to force out wealthy landlords. It's a strategy that many fear... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic extremists • Swat Valley

(Newser) - Militants have been pouring into Pakistan’s Swat Valley, thanks to a controversial peace deal between the Taliban and Pakistan’s government, the Wall Street Journal reports. President Asif Ali Zardari signed a bill yesterday to impose Islamic law in Swat, effectively sealing his agreement with the militants. Training... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law • Swat Valley

Taliban Execute Young Couple for Eloping

Afghan clerics accuse them of 'immoral acts,' order firing squad

Apr 14, 09 11:06 AM CDT
(AP) - The Taliban executed a young couple in front of a firing squad for trying to elope in a lawless, militant-controlled region of southern Afghanistan, officials said today. The woman, 19, and the man, 21, were accused by the militants of immoral acts, and a council of conservative clerics decided that... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • execution • Islamic Sharia law • public executions

(Newser) - This was probably inevitable: The world's first known divorce via phone text is on the books. A Saudi man informed his wife of the split by text, then called two relatives to let them know, the Telegraph reports. This apparently jibes with the practice under Sharia law that allows a... More »

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Saudi Arabia • divorce • marriage • Islamic Sharia law • text message

Pakistan Squirms Over Public Flogging

Video shows woman being beaten in militant-controlled area

Apr 3, 09 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Pakistan today ordered an investigation into a video showing a 17-year-old woman, accused of having sex, being publicly flogged in the country’s Swat Valley. The two-minute video, widely aired on local television today, shows a man whipping a woman lying face down on the ground, pinned by... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic Sharia law

Iran Says It
Will Release
US Journalist in 'Next Few Days'

31-year-old imprisoned for buying bottle of wine

Mar 6, 09 2:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Iran will soon free Roxana Saberi, a journalist imprisoned more than a month ago, Reuters reports. Saberi was jailed after buying a bottle of wine, but held on concerns over her working papers. Tehran said its investigation is finished and that the 31-year old Iranian-American’s release is imminent, but... More »

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Iran • Hillary Clinton • Tehran • wine • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic law • detainee • journalist • Roxana Saberi

 US Journalist 
 Vanishes After 
 Wine-Buying 
 Bust in Iran 

Father hasn't heard from her since call from jail in January

Mar 2, 09 3:20 AM CST
(Newser) - A North Dakota woman working as a freelance journalist has disappeared in Iran following her arrest for buying wine, her distraught dad told the New York Daily News. Roxana Saberi, 31, called her father from an Iranian jail in January and he hasn't heard from her since. A store owner... More »

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Iran • BBC • Islamic Sharia law • North Dakota • journalist • NPR • Roxana Saberi

Somalia
Will Impose
Sharia Law

Prez submits to rebel demands, but vows
loose enforcement

Mar 1, 09 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - In a move to broker peace between his troops and insurgents, Somalia’s president has agreed to militants’ call to impose Islamic law, CNN reports. The law bars girls from school, requires beards for men and veils for women, and bans TV and music. But President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed,... More »

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Somalia • Islamic Sharia law • Islamic law • Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

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