shariain a sentence
- Sharia does not distinguish between church and state.
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The government had agreed to impose sharia law throughout Swat and in return the militants would stop fighting.
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sharia = Islamic code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed
- The Taliban made two major promises which they would carry out once in power: to restore peace and security, and to enforce sharia, or Islamic law.† (source)
- Under Sharia law, which applied to domestic and inheritance matters, the testimony of two women carried the weight of that from a single man.† (source)
- For those willing to risk the wrath of the dreaded husbah, the sharia police, there were blackmarket cigarettes and liquor to be had, too.† (source)
- Just the day before, to please the Taliban, the barber had told a journalist that he wanted sharia law. (source)
- Fazlullah denounced Pakistani government officials as "infidels" and said they were opposed to bringing in sharia law. (source)
- "To cure a disease before its onset is not in accordance with sharia law," said Fazlullah on the radio. (source)
- If we did not mend our ways and introduce sharia or Islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come. (source)
- He was said to be more moderate than his son-in-law Fazlullah, and there was hope that he would make a peace deal with the government to impose sharia law in Swat and release us from Taliban violence. (source)
- To start with, the only rescue workers who came were a few from a locally based foreign aid agency and volunteers from the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Sharia-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) or Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law, the group founded by Sufi Mohammad that had sent men to fight in Afghanistan. (source)
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- The Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed in accordance with sharia law.† (source)
- And so-called honor killings were still viewed leniently in Sharia courts.† (source)
- They wore black badges which said SHARIAT YA SHAHADAT — SHARIA LAW OR MARTYRDOM—and sometimes black turbans, so people called them Tor Patki or the Black-Turbaned Brigade.† (source)
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