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- noun Islam
traditional Islamic religious law ; it covers thetotality of religious,political ,social andprivate life making nodistinction between religion and life, in other words between transgressions of moral rules (sin ) and of social rules.
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Examples
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Instead of understanding shari'a as a code of good conduct, they think European Muslims want to amputate hands, stone women and generally return to a medieval jurisprudence.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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To the extent that she remains a practicing Christian, she has incurred a death sentence under shari'a.
April 2nd, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Instead of understanding shari'a as a code of good conduct, they think European Muslims want to amputate hands, stone women and generally return to a medieval jurisprudence.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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Instead of understanding shari'a as a code of good conduct, they think European Muslims want to amputate hands, stone women and generally return to a medieval jurisprudence.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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Nancy Holm, a friend and former Bay Area TV journalist, who immigrated to Denmark and, as head of the TV department school of journalism, supervised news stories and documentaries of the cartoon crisis in 2005, explains: Any type of intense religious belief scares Europeans and shari'a law scares them.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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Nancy Holm, a friend and former Bay Area TV journalist, who immigrated to Denmark and, as head of the TV department school of journalism, supervised news stories and documentaries of the cartoon crisis in 2005, explains: Any type of intense religious belief scares Europeans and shari'a law scares them.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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The unabashed attack on Islam as a "death cult" and on Muslims as sleeper cells seeking to supplant the Constitution with shari'a is a harbinger of acceptable discourse on race in America as well as the unraveling of its tenuous multicultural fabric.
Noura Erakat: The Tea Party and Race in America Noura Erakat 2010
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The unabashed attack on Islam as a "death cult" and on Muslims as sleeper cells seeking to supplant the Constitution with shari'a is a harbinger of acceptable discourse on race in America as well as the unraveling of its tenuous multicultural fabric.
Noura Erakat: The Tea Party and Race in America Noura Erakat 2010
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A collection of analytical essays about, as the book's subtitle puts it, "the worldwide spread of extreme shari'a law", sent me by one of the contributors shortly after its publication in 2005.
Cooking 2) Thickening nwhyte 2010
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Nancy Holm, a friend and former Bay Area TV journalist, who immigrated to Denmark and, as head of the TV department school of journalism, supervised news stories and documentaries of the cartoon crisis in 2005, explains: Any type of intense religious belief scares Europeans and shari'a law scares them.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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