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...Assem admits that Hizb ut-Tahrir's goals are incompatible with European political institutions, but insists the organization has no intention of making trouble. "People who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Christianity don't understand Shari'a," he says. "But people who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Western democracy are right." The problem in Assem's view is that "all men are not created equal, and democracy eventually lets the fortunate over-run the less fortunate." So Hizb ut-Tahrir members don't vote or run for office in secular elections...
...mosque. The proximity is significant, because even though Noriba, which opened in September, is wholly owned by Switzerland's largest bank, UBS Group, it is the only Western bank in the Gulf that insists that all of its services adhere to the strict letter of Islamic law, known as Shari'a. Compliance is neither easy nor cheap. The law, which derives from the Koran, covers all areas of Islamic life, including management of financial affairs. Pious Muslims are not allowed to invest in industries that have ties to tobacco, alcohol, weapons, pornography or pork products. Since the law prohibits banks...
...Taliban and al-Qaeda. A reformation of sorts is under way in the Islamic world and, much as in the European one five centuries ago, a militant puritanism is on the rise. Europe has not been spared. A sterner form of the religion - one that demands universal application of Shari'a, asserts the superiority of Islam and rejects assimilation with non-Muslim societies - is supplanting the more flexible faith that long prevailed in the diaspora. Fueled by Wahhabi funds from the Persian Gulf and a radical interpretation of the Koran, Muslim preachers insist that their European congregants are living...
...party swept to victory, partly as a protest against Turkey's Old Guard politicians, who have led the country into an economic crisis. But the election was also a vote against the kinds of laws that put Erdogan in jail. "There would be no need for a call for Shari'a," Gulden Sonmez, an Istanbul human rights lawyer said, "if you could practice religion freely...
...modern, secular society. The book reads like a series of e-mail exchanges, in which Babès and Oubrou put forward their own tightly-argued positions and then respond to each other's criticisms. One of the main strands of debate concerns the nature of the Shari'a - Islam's prescriptions for human behaviour. Babès sees Shari'a as a spiritual code of ethics appealing to each believer's individual conscience, not a strict code of conduct to be enforced by an outside authority. Oubrou argues for a more traditional interpretation, in which the expert analysis...