Tag: Sharia

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2008-02-20 Sharia is "rooted in the sense of doing God's will in the ordinary things of life".
-- Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, public lecture in Cambridge, Britain
2008-02-20 "In some of the ways it [= sharia] has been codified and practised across the world, it has been appalling. In some of the ways it has been applied to women in places like Saudi Arabia, it is grim."
-- Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, public lecture in Cambridge, Britain
2008-01-29 "Once they're a majority, you don't know, things change, the proportion that wants Sharia law is subject to expansion or contraction, but it's not stable. But [you can get] this sort of triumphalism that is common to all social groups and is strong in Islam. Bernard Lewis has said many times it is the nature of Islam to dominate, and how are you going to dominate if you are a majority? By impressing your culture on the surrounding culture."
-- Martin Amis, author, interview with the Independent
2008-01-29 “Sharia law may still be an alien concept to some Westerners.
But it’s staring gay Europeans right in the face — and pointing toward a chilling future for all free people.”
-- Bruce Bawer
2007-12-06 “Clearly, there is expanding demand for these products, and a closely associated desire on the part of banks, including non-Islamic banks, to provide Islamic financial services… The broadening appeal of Islamic finance is also evident in the move by large international banks and other private sector financial institutions to provide Islamic financial services.”
-- Malcolm Knight, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, addressed the Islamic Financial Services Board Forum in Frankfurt, Germany
2007-12 “Teddy bear” case in Sudan, where a British teacher was sentenced to 40 lashes and a year in jail for allowing her students to name their teddy bear “Mohammad.”

Islamic mobs demonstrated in the streets and called for her execution.
2007-11 In Saudi Arabia, a 19 year old gang-rape victim received a sentence of 200 lashes for riding in the car with her rapists.
2007-08-30 50 years of independence had failed to free Malaysia from the "clutches of colonialism". Sharia should be "infused" into the gaps created by abolishing common law.
-- According to Ahmad Fairuz, chief justice, at an Islamic conference in Kuala Lumpur
2007-08-14 “Introducing the Sharia in Indonesia is not something the average citizen wants or understands. It is simply propaganda by a political elite.”
--Prof Azyumardi Azra, a Muslim intellectual and former rector of the Islamic State University in South Jakarta, who spoke about a mass Islamic rally that was held on Sunday in Jakarta’s main stadium.












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