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- 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.
p. 105.2sharia = Islamic code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed
- If we did not mend our ways and introduce sharia or Islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come.
p. 107.9
- 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.†
p. 111.8
- Fazlullah denounced Pakistani government officials as "infidels" and said they were opposed to bringing in sharia law.
p. 115.1sharia = Islamic code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed
- "To cure a disease before its onset is not in accordance with sharia law," said Fazlullah on the radio.
p. 120.1
- Just the day before, to please the Taliban, the barber had told a journalist that he wanted sharia law.
p. 120.6
- 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.
p. 152.2
- The government had agreed to impose sharia law throughout Swat and in return the militants would stop fighting.
p. 167.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(sharia) Islamic code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)