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Court Documents Detail a Deadly Family Feud From Brooklyn to Pakistan

Source: NY Times. By MOSI SECRET She fled her husband and her family, sneaking out of her home in Pakistan to take sanctuary in the American Embassy, which then whisked…

State Dept. Report Says Countries Have Repressed Religious Freedom With Laws

Source: NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents,…

UK bill moves to limit power of Sharia Courts

CFP: By David C. Jennings Under the Arbitration Act of 1996, Muslims in the UK were empowered to resolve certain legal matters within their faith in a similar way to…

Video: Sharia Law in the Eyes of Khalifatul Masih IV, Mirza Tahir Ahmad

MTA Video Documentary: The Life of Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh)  A Man of God (Biography of Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad) MURDER in the NAME of ALLAH (Book) Shariah Relationship Between Religion and…

Blasphemy in Islam: The Quran does not prescribe punishment for abusing the Prophet

Source: The Times of India Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Oct 2, 2012, 12.00AM IST In Islam, blasphemy is a subject of intellectual discussion rather than a subject of physical punishment. This concept…

Secularism debate

Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani: He  is a lawyer based in Lahore and the author of the book Jinnah: Myth and Reality.  Secularism merely says that as there…

Islam and Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Sharia- by An Naim

Top university in the world: Harvard University in Boston, USA Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 30, 2010) By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im: He is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at…

SHARIA LAW AND PUNISHMENT IN ISLAM: LANKAWEB

SHARIA LAW AND THE PUNISHMENTS IN ISLAM Posted on January 23rd, 2013 By A. Abdul Aziz   The world today presents a horrific scenario of crime, violence, killing and a determined…

The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East, By Timur Kuran

Source: The Independent Reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar Around 300 years ago, the bazaars of the Middle East were overflowing with luxury goods. The commercial centres of the region attracted all…

Opposing Sharia Law Is a Defence of the Rights of Muslims

Huffington Post: by Anne Marie Waters: How can we be a multicultural society if we do not accommodate sharia law? That is one of the most common questions I am asked…

4-month reprieve for OFW murder convict

GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Friday 16 November 2012 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has delayed the execution of Filipino migrant worker Joselito Zapanta by four more months, giving his family more time…

Muslim man’s power to divorce not unrestricted: J&K High Court

Srinagar, Daily News & Analysis The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi…

Qatar Islamic Bank launches $750m, five-year sukuk

Source: Gulf News Dubai: Qatar Islamic Bank, the Gulf Arab state’s largest Sharia-compliant lender, will return to global debt markets after two years on Wednesday with a new five-year sukuk,…

Shariah Law: Gods’ Law, Moral Law, the Natural Law or Man made Law?

Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Shariah Law is a bogeyman for right wing politicians in the West to spread Islamophobia and a political tool for the Mullahs to…

Saudi Arabia: Banks seizing dormant accounts against Shariah

ARAB NEWS Sunday 30 September 2012 JEDDAH: Shariah experts on financial matters declare that local banks are committing a crime by seizing the deposits in accounts that had not been…

And now another movie: Scholars, Al-Azhar demand Iran refrain from screening film on beloved Prophet

RIYADH: NAWAL KSAR ARABNEWS With the announcement almost three years ago about the production of a film portraying the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the Iranian director…

Ahmadiyya Muslims Highlight Plight of ‘Blasphemy’ Girl

LONDON, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Annual Convention: 7th- 9thSeptember 2012, East Worldham, Alton, Hampshire A Muslim community has highlighted the plight of persecuted minorities in the wake of a…

Another Sharia Law that USA Follows: Right to Inheritance for All Children

As the Republican party, in USA excels in its Islamophobia, by scaremongering against Sharia Law, it will be useful to find examples of Sharia Law in the USA constitution and…

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