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...northerner. But with Yar'Adua sick and a southern Christian back in power, Nigeria's sectarian divide - which frequently results in large scale Christian-Muslim pogroms - could worsen. "I have no confidence in his leadership," Dr. Baba Ahmed, secretary general of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria, told TIME. "Jonathan is a frontline member of the Pentecostal church, which is the most vocal against Muslims...
...fourth country. The British Foreign Office has concluded that holding pirates indefinitely can infringe on their human rights and give them a case for asylum. But, at the same time, the British also can’t return them to Somalia, where they would face harsh punishment under Shariah law, which would violate the British Human Rights Act. This situation presents an obvious need for an international court for the express purpose of trying pirates and other individuals outside of typical national jurisdictions...
...Other critics responded that Shariah compromises true British values. The Labour government even released an absurd statement reiterating the Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s opinion that “British law should apply in this country, based on British values.” The government introduced a package of measures designed to define what it means to be British last summer, including a definition of British citizenship, formulation of a “bill of rights and duties” for citizens—similar to a constitution—and even notions...
...This backlash against Williams’ moderate suggestions derives from an inherent misunderstanding of what the Archbishop’s intentions were. He recognized that certain provisions of Shariah were already acknowledged by society, not that the U.K. should adopt Shariah as a “parallel jurisprudence.” For example, Williams said individuals could resolve aspects of specified matters such as martial law and regulation of financial transactions under the jurisdiction of their choice, allowing British Muslims to forego choosing between cultural and state loyalties. That there is one law for everybody is an important part...
...international media has heavily criticized harsher interpretations and practices of Shariah in the past. In some Islamic states, extreme punishments and misogynistic attitudes toward women are a reality. Heavy media criticism is thus fair in such cases, where Shariah sentences—such as punishment by stoning—veer from the embedded standards of human rights. Williams was not proposing a carte blanche for this set of laws. Merely, he wanted to express a confidence in the amalgamation of cultures, religion and loyalties...