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Equally murky are the details of how the new legal system will operate. Other countries provide little guidance in the co-existence of Shari'a and civil law. Iran and Saudi Arabia operate under religious law; Shari'a is applied in limited range among the Muslim populations in India and the Philippines. Previous laws in Pakistan that were never enforced allowed Muslim clerics to advise judges on cases...
...President and the center, and sealed with a clause that says that it cannot be challenged in the Supreme Court. That's a violation of the constitution. It also shows that if movements are armed and militant, you can succeed." Her fears were reinforced on Sunday night, when Muslim Khan, Fazlullah's spokesman, said that it remains the Taliban's ambition to establish their brand of Islamic law not just in Swat but throughout the world...
...Over the course of the last few weeks, the red-bricked walls of Harvard Square—along with its shiny metal surfaces—have been hit. Plastered within an archway on an outside wall of The Garage, a Muslim woman totes a gun with a flower in its barrel. Next to The Gap on Brattle Street, a woman decked in roses stares. Variously themed red, white, and black stickers have also been cropping up in the Square, all adorned with Fairey’s signature image of Andre the Giant and all with the same imperative: Obey...
...image of the “Muslim Woman,” for example, pasted in a bricked-up eave of The Garage stands in close proximity to a graffitied iron gate and the faded, stained-glass windows of John Harvard’s. The juxtaposition is subtly ironic, as the antiquated windows adopt cultural figures of their own—John F. Kennedy’s head, for one, is cropped onto a saint’s body, with “Ask not what your country can brew for you, ask what you can brew for your country?...
...brought immediate benefits. He works late and without a bodyguard. When the militias held sway, he employed security and had to shut up shop at 4 p.m. "If I had stayed later, they would have come to kill me," he says. The militias declared that shaving was un-Muslim, but some gangs were simply running protection rackets, says Abdalhadi. In 2007, his friend and colleague Shareef was tortured and murdered with a drill, but Abdalhadi continued to ply his trade. "I'm the breadwinner. Who would feed my family?" he asks...