shariah

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the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed

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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! Abu Bakar Bashir

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails. Abu Bakar Bashir

That is not just the shariah as enforced by the fatwas. As our governments have not acted upon the directive of the Constitution to enact a Uniform Civil Code, that is the law of secular India enforced by our courts! Arun Shourie

In a word, fatwas are the shariah in action. Arun Shourie

In the face of all this those who continue to assert, ‘Shariah has safeguarded the rights of women like no other system of law has,' do so only because of their confidence that no one but them has read the texts of shariah. Arun Shourie

Islam looks like a religion but in reality it is a dangerous totalitarian ideology which wants to bring the whole world under Shariah law. Islam means submission ... It's either submit or die and I suggest that we will do neither of them. Geert Wilders

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