Word: sharis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Irwandi must perform another balancing act with the ulemas, or Islamic religious leaders. Aceh is famously devout, and since 2003 has implemented shari'a-style by-laws against drinking, gambling, premarital sex and improper dress. These are now being enforced by shari'a officials, who have publicly whipped men and women for adultery. Aceh's ulemas are pushing for even stricter punishments, such as amputating the hands of thieves. Irwandi publicly opposes such ideas, which he knows offend the Western donor countries upon which his province's frail economy partly depends. But the clout of Aceh's ulemas cannot...
...emboldened radical elements, who have orchestrated a series of bombings that have claimed hundreds of lives in Jakarta and the resort island of Bali since 2002. And despite the fact that 10% of Indonesia's population is non-Muslim, more than 50 districts have implemented bylaws inspired by Islamic Shari'a law - requiring, among other things, elected leaders to be able to read the Koran in Arabic and all female students to cover their heads even if they are not Muslim...
...have to guard against people who want to turn Indonesia into another Saudi Arabia," says Syafi'i Anwar, executive director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism in Jakarta. "But in this political climate, if you say you are against the Shari'a bylaws, people say you are a bad Muslim, so no wonder so many are afraid to speak...
...time for western countries to find alternatives to the U.N. not only because it is incapable of preventing wars, as Krauthammer pointed out, but also because it has become an ideological bureaucracy that regards all cultural values as equal. The U.N. has allowed Islamic member states to maintain Shari'a laws, which violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an agreement designed to promote gender equality and freedom of expression. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom...
...truck to arrive and take him back to Boston.Winston says that he finds the system “ridiculous” because he thinks that students who are summoned for jury duty are often not selected to serve in the actual trial.But Visiting Professor of Law Shari S. Diamond says that students are just as likely to be chosen as anybody else. “The rap is that [students] are not going to be selected because you are too bright, and people are going to be afraid of you,” Diamond says. But she said that...