Sharia

Women cyclists are especially vulnerable under the Taliban, which is imposing a radical interpretation of Sharia law in its return to power.

Under the Taliban’s interpretation of Sharia law, homosexuality is punished by death.

This causes an escalation of the threats to anyone who opposes Sharia law or who lives differently than what Sharia law allows.

Just as it was for ISIS in Iraq, Sharia law is the Taliban’s guiding compass as it establishes its rule over Afghanistan’s government and society.

Maydaa on Tuesday noted to the Washington Blade that the Taliban use Sharia law to target LGBTQ people.

Advocates claimed that it helped to preserve virtue and to affirm the application of Sharia law.

Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.

These fanatical groups wish to create fundamentalist enclaves in which some version of Sharia law will prevail.

To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking.

Earlier this week she pleaded with ISIS to uphold the verdict of a makeshift Sharia court, which ruled that he was not a spy.

She was in an arabeeyeh, and passed me quickly along the Sharia en-Nahhasin.