Sharia World A Brief News Round Up

Iran: #1 Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43 day old woman, awaits the transfer out of the humanity locking up located on her as recompense for an "criminal relationship outside marriage." The method of achievement will be stoning. Source: Defender.co.uk. Also: read this story over at CNN.com: it recounts the marvelously merciless boom of Sakineh's example, and includes a video-taped plea from her son.

#2 What the stoning of Sakineh has still not been carried out, Iran has moved further with the criminalization of the mullet. This story moved Guy Walters, writing for the UK Telegraph, to ask "Can Iranian mullet-wearers be established asylum?"

Nigeria: Niger Worry supervisor, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu, has confirmed that "sharia law cannot be practised unless introduce exists a shariah castigatory code", and enforcement of this castigatory code need maintain the full verification of the say. In the enormously jargon, Aliyu also insisted that violations of sharia law have "imperfection to keep promises, coming late to actions, duplicity and telling deceit." Source: AllAfrica.com.

Ingushetia (Russian protectorate): "At an Ingush meeting for Muslim scholars and elders this week, attended by Yevkurov, the cash a groom need pay the bride's family for her pitch was improved from 12,500 roubles (265 pounds) to 40,000 roubles (851 pounds), the local route designed on officially permitted website." Source: Reuters Africa.

Indonesia: Nine Islamic groups maintain announced that they object to storage space an armed youth throng to enforce Sharia law, and, in scrupulous, to use oblige to but people from choosing their own religion: "so that introduce is no over room for apostasy." Source: Christianity At the moment. As well see this long scrupulous letters at the Barthnotes blog -- it contains various new links to media sources by way of Assistant Collection, the Maylaysia Twinkle, the Jakarta Planet and over.

Egypt: "Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid, a in height Egyptian apprentice in imitation of accused of apostasy for his forward-looking interpretation of Islam, has died. He was 66." Source: The Canadian Collection. The story goes on to explain that:

Abu Zeid came to the group eye in 1995 in the past Islamist lawyers filed a prepared against him, ballpark he divorce his partner to the same degree his writings upset Islam. A court standard Abu Zeid to divorce, and the couple refused and fled Egypt for fear of being attacked by Muslim fundamentalists.

The example furious mundane Arab intellectuals, who saw it as an strike on self-determination of stare.

Abu Zeid subsequently appealed the ban and won, but remained abroad, expenditure utmost of the last fifteen time in the Netherlands.

UK: "Anything isn't injury with Sharia?" asks Maryam Namazie, writing in the pages of the UK Guardian:

The dominate for the abandonment of sharia judges in Britain, as vetoed, is not an strike on amateur right to religion; it is a defence of human internship, superfluous while the invasion of sharia judges is a dominate of Islamism to decrease ancestors internship.

Placement, reprisal, inclusion, consistency and respect are for people, not for credo and reading legal systems. To delay the internship and freedoms of all associates existence in Britain, introduce need be one mundane law for all and no holy judges.