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sharia
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  • The Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed in accordance with sharia law.†  (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)
  • 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)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
    sharia = Islamic code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed
  • 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)
  • Just the day before, to please the Taliban, the barber had told a journalist that he wanted sharia law.  (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)
  • 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)
  • Sharia does not distinguish between church and state.†
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