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With 85 Sharia courts, UK becomes western capital for Islamic rulings

Britain is emerging as the "western capital" for sharia courts, with 85 Islamic councils across the country. The Islamic Sharia Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is based in Leyton, east London, and is a registered charity that provides nikah services, talaq and khula divorce procedures. 100,000 ISLAMIC MARRIAGES IN BRITAIN REMAIN UNREGISTERED These sharia courts in the UK …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Iran amputates four fingers from the right hand of two thieves in rare use of Sharia law punishment

Daily Mail

Iranian authorities have amputated fingers from the hands of two men convicted of theft, rights groups have said, in a relatively rare use of a Sharia law punishment. The two brothers of Kurdish origin each had four fingers on their right hands amputated by a guillotine machine at the prison in the city of Urmia in northwest Iran on Tuesday, …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Bans Mixed Martial Arts in Afghanistan

News 18

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has banned mixed martial arts, believing it to be un-Islamic, its sports authority said in a statement on Wednesday. The order was passed down by Afghanistan’s morality police in the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice after an investigation into the sport’s compliance with Islamic law, or sharia, the statement and local …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Afghanistan bans MMA, finds many aspects ‘contradictory to the teachings of Islam’

The Hindu

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has banned mixed martial arts, believing it to be un-Islamic, its sports authority said in a statement on Wednesday. The order was passed down by Afghanistan’s morality police in the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice after an investigation into the sport’s compliance with Islamic law, or sharia, the statement and local …

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4 months ago

Hefazat-e-Islam bats for Islamic Law in Bangladesh, read details

Op India

Vice President of the Islamist organisation Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Muhyiddin Rabbani, recently stoked controversy when he argued that the nation should adopt Islamic law as opposed to its current legal and constitutional structure, a long-standing objective of the outfit. I’ll strongly speak against it.” He once again voiced that matters including the Hijab would be subjected to consideration under the Sharia …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Sharia rule is Taliban's 'lifelong responsibility': supreme leader

The Hindu

The supreme leader of the Taliban authorities said implementing Islamic law in Afghanistan was their "lifelong responsibility" in a speech marking the third anniversary of their return to power. Our responsibility of service to religion, ruling according to sharia, is our lifelong responsibility," leader Hibatullah Akhundzada told security personnel at an air base in southern Kandahar on Wednesday. "We will …

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8 months ago

Influential former IS supporter Wassim Fayad drawn into probe of alleged Sydney teen terror network

ABC

In short: Wassim Fayad was questioned by the Joint Counter-Terrorism Team yesterday as part of police raids on an alleged terrorist network tied to a stabbing at a Sydney church last week. An influential former Islamic State supporter who was released from a supervision order last year was questioned in Wednesday's police raids on an alleged terrorism network involving a …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Afghan Women Will be Stoned to Death for Adultery, Declares Taliban Leader Akhundzada in New Audio

News 18

Afghan women will be publicly flogged and stoned to death for “crimes like adultery”, Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has purportedly declared in a new audio message in which he also challenges Western democracies. We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.” According to Akhundzada, women’s rights as …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Pakistan: Clerics issue fatwa to bar women from election canvassing

Op India

A group of religious leaders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohistan primarily affiliated with the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl released a fatwa on 26th January pronouncing it unlawful for women to campaign for polls. Addressing a gathering, arranged at the outfit’s central office in Kohistan’s Kamila town, JUI-F’s Mufti Gul Shahzada of Upper Kohistan district’s Kandia region proclaimed, “The women’s act of going from …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

'You can marry multiple times, but all wives must be treated equally': Madras HC cites Sharia law to dissolve marriage of Muslim man

Op India

On December 22, 2023, the Madra High Court upheld the annulment of a marriage, holding that while Islamic Law allows polygamy, equal treatment of all wives is essential and failing to do so amounts to cruelty. Under Islamic Law, the husband is entitled for Polygamous marriage, however, he has to treat all the wife equally,” the court observed. On that …

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1 year ago

'Islam is not compatible with European culture, values and rights of civilisation': Italy PM Meloni I WATCH

India TV News

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday sparked a controversy on social media platforms after her recent remarks on the "non-compatibility of Islam" went viral on the internet. Slamming Saudi Arabia for still having Sharia law in the 21st century, Meloni said she would not allow Islamic laws to be implemented in Italy. "It does not escape my mind that …

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1 year ago

Nigerian woman jailed for ‘blasphemy’ for 18 months over WhatsApp message

Al Jazeera

Jatau has been in detention since May 2022 when she shared a WhatsApp video condemning mob action on another woman. Lagos, Nigeria — For sharing a message among her co-workers that criticised a mob action last May, Rhoda Ya’u Jatau has spent the last year in police detention on charges of blasphemy towards Islam. Isa Sanusi, country director for Amnesty …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public

Deccan Chronicle

KABUL: Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home. “It is very bad to see women in some areas, and our scholars also agree …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home. “It is very bad to see women in some areas, and our scholars …

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1 year, 6 months ago

'Anti-Hindu' Bangladeshi cleric is now spreading radicalism in the UK

Op India

On Friday, a radical Islamic cleric from Bangladesh named Enayetullah Abbasi announced that he has reached the city of London and will participate in 7-8 Islamic conferences in the United Kingdom. Beware, Beware.” In April this year, another video of Enayetullah Abbasi went viral wherein he made it clear that Bangladesh belongs to only Muslims and that the State religion …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Afghanistan: OIC to send Islamic scholars to Kabul, will discuss women’s rights with Taliban

Firstpost

OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha told the media that the OIC will continue to raise the issue of right to education and work for Afghan females with the Taliban. The team of Islamic scholars being sent to Afghanistan by the OIC will hold a dialogue with the Taliban rulers of Kabul Kabul: With women’s rights in Afghanistan suffering a …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Kerala Muslim Couple's Remarriage after 29 Years Creates Ripples in Community

News 18

Even as a debate rages over a Uniform Civil Code in the country, a Kerala Muslim couple in their early fifties entered into a marriage contract on March 8 in Kasargod, the northernmost district of the state. The act may have far-reaching consequences in their community, more so than their personal lives, as it has triggered a discussion on International …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Muslim nations call for human rights in Afghanistan as Taliban enforces Islamic Sharia laws

Firstpost

Dubai: With most of the world watching appalled as the Taliban imposes Islamic rule in Afghanistan, several Muslim countries have urged the ruling regime in Kabul to tone down its radical Islamist tendencies. Writing for Pakistani publication ‘The Dawn’, columnist Mohammed Amir Rana claimed that Pakistan has joined a host of Muslim countries in distancing itself from the Taliban rulers …

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2 years ago

Zubair spreads fake news that Raghuram Rajan didn’t propose Islamic banking in India

Op India

On 15th December 2022, ‘fact-checker’ and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair tried to ‘fact-check’ journalist Rahul Shivshankar but ended up spreading fake news himself. Zubair’s tweet with false claim “The 2008 report by Committee on Financial Inclusion was chaired by Dr. C Rangarajan, Not Raghuram Rajan,” claimed Zubair, quoting the tweet by Shivshankar. In his tweet, Zubair wrote, “The 2008 …

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2 years ago

Living under Sharia laws in 21st century a humiliation, says Iranian activist, chastises West for Islamophobia hoax

Firstpost

Voicing concerns of people, especially women, in Iran Masih Alinejad, journalist and activist, said: ‘We deserve to have secular, democratic country’ New Delhi: Iran has turned into a boiling pot with protesters in the country resisting the regime for more the two months over the death of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini in police custody and the arrests as well as …

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2 years ago

Indonesia criminalises adultery: Which other nations have outlawed extramarital affairs?

Firstpost

Indonesia has also criminalised sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as foreigners, and prohibited the promotion of contraception. Police can now file charges against citizens for adultery based on reports by family members Indonesia has criminalised sex outside marriage with the Parliament unanimously passing the long-awaited amendments to the country’s penal code. The revised criminal code makes sex …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Taliban admits whipping 19, including women, 39 times each for ‘crimes’

Hindustan Times

In a first official confirmation that the Taliban resorted to strict implementation of Islamic law, the Supreme Court said that nineteen people in northeastern Afghanistan were lashed for adultery, theft and running away from home. A Supreme Court official, Abdul Rahim Rashid, said that 10 men and nine women were lashed 39 times each in Taloqan city in northeastern Takhar …

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2 years, 1 month ago

19 Afghans lashed for adultery, theft as 'hardline' Taliban enforces Sharia

India Today

As the Taliban resorted to the strict implementation of Sharia, 19 people, including nine women, were lashed in Afghanistan’s northeast province for adultery, theft and running away from home. When the Taliban seized power last year in August, they had promised to be more moderate and show leniency toward women and minority rights. However, a Supreme Court official, Abdul Rahim …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Public execution to stoning: Taliban asks judges to impose Sharia in rulings

Op India

On Thursday, November 18, a Taliban spokesperson said that their ‘supreme leader’ Haibatullah Akhundzada has recently ordered Afghan judges to fully execute Sharia law provisions such as public executions, stoning, flogging, and amputation of limbs of persons guilty of specific offences. Taliban’s chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid had also taken to Twitter on Sunday, November 13, to inform that Haibatullah Akhundzada …

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With 85 Sharia courts, UK becomes western capital for Islamic rulings

Iran amputates four fingers from the right hand of two thieves in rare use of Sharia law punishment

Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Bans Mixed Martial Arts in Afghanistan

Afghanistan bans MMA, finds many aspects ‘contradictory to the teachings of Islam’

Hefazat-e-Islam bats for Islamic Law in Bangladesh, read details

Sharia rule is Taliban's 'lifelong responsibility': supreme leader

Influential former IS supporter Wassim Fayad drawn into probe of alleged Sydney teen terror network

Afghan Women Will be Stoned to Death for Adultery, Declares Taliban Leader Akhundzada in New Audio

Pakistan: Clerics issue fatwa to bar women from election canvassing

'You can marry multiple times, but all wives must be treated equally': Madras HC cites Sharia law to dissolve marriage of Muslim man

'Islam is not compatible with European culture, values and rights of civilisation': Italy PM Meloni I WATCH

Nigerian woman jailed for ‘blasphemy’ for 18 months over WhatsApp message

Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public

Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public

'Anti-Hindu' Bangladeshi cleric is now spreading radicalism in the UK

Afghanistan: OIC to send Islamic scholars to Kabul, will discuss women’s rights with Taliban

Kerala Muslim Couple's Remarriage after 29 Years Creates Ripples in Community

Muslim nations call for human rights in Afghanistan as Taliban enforces Islamic Sharia laws

Zubair spreads fake news that Raghuram Rajan didn’t propose Islamic banking in India

Living under Sharia laws in 21st century a humiliation, says Iranian activist, chastises West for Islamophobia hoax

Indonesia criminalises adultery: Which other nations have outlawed extramarital affairs?

Taliban admits whipping 19, including women, 39 times each for ‘crimes’

19 Afghans lashed for adultery, theft as 'hardline' Taliban enforces Sharia

Public execution to stoning: Taliban asks judges to impose Sharia in rulings