Word: shari
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...place in government, was an easy source of political legitimacy for leaders struggling to hold what was left of the fractious country together. The success of Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution in neighboring Iran eight years later launched a revival of conservative Islam, including in Pakistan. Elements of Shari'a were implemented. Iqbal's son calls it the revenge of the orthodoxy. "They were saying, 'You used Islam to carve out a state. Alright, we will make it Islamic.' That launched the struggle between modernists and conventionalists...
...Shari'a Dilemma Once unleashed, it is nearly impossible to put the genie of militant Islam back in the bottle. Even Pakistan's moderate Muslims are caught in the middle. Islam has never been decoupled from Shari'a, and though few Pakistanis see the Taliban period in neighboring Afghanistan, in which women were stoned for adultery and thieves faced the amputation of hands, as the ideal Islamic state, they feel conflicted about throwing it out entirely. "Hardly any Muslim will say, No, I do not want Shari'a," says Najam Sethi, a top Pakistani newspaper editor. "To say that would...
...seems unavoidable.' Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the possibility that elements of Islamic Shari'a law could be applied in the U.K. His comments provoked a furious reaction and calls for his resignation...
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a mouthpiece for the mullahs. I can't vouch for the factuality of the Strait of Hormuz dustup, but I have no doubt about what Iran's ruling clerics want: Shari'a and the rule of the caliphate. Richard Mogelson, MINNEAPOLIS...
Fatima Zibouh, a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at the University of Liège in Belgium, says her hijab is "not a flag or a symbol, merely a manifestation of my spiritual life." A British teaching assistant, sacked for wearing the face-covering niqab, invoked not Shari'a or tradition but her concern for the rights of career women: the ruling, she said, made her "fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work...