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...Grand Mufti, Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Asheik, proclaimed that fathers and male guardians who try to force their daughters into wedlock should be thrown in jail until the men change their minds. He made it clear that forced marriages originated as a pre-Islamic custom and are antithetical to Shari'a law, which stipulates that a woman must consent to a marriage or else it is not considered valid...
Upon her arrival in Cambridge in September, Scherf first met one of her teammates on the Cross-Country team, freshman Shari Grossman, as they trekked through the mountains of the Northeast as part the First Year Outdoor Program...
...economic reforms, including the overhaul of the 35-hour week, brought Paris to a standstill. But a visit by an International Olympic Committee contingent assessing Paris' bid for the 2012 Summer Games went ahead unhindered, as protesters avoided the areas the delegation was touring. Court Battle PAKISTAN The Federal Shari'a Court in Islamabad, the country's highest Islamic judicial authority, ruled that it had sole jurisdiction in a high-profile rape case. The ruling overturned a lower court's acquittal of five of the defendants a week earlier. The victim said a tribal council ordered her ordeal...
...take back the presidency next spring. The up-and-coming pragmatic conservatives, who negotiated the nuclear deal and agree with reformers that Iran should cooperate with the outside world, have been accused of treachery by hard-liners, who control militant organizations like the Basij, the Revolutionary Guards, the Shari'a judicial system and Islamic charities...
...Open For Business Financial regulators in the U.K. approved Britain's first fully Islamic bank. The Islamic Bank of Britain will serve the country's 1.8 million Muslims in compliance with Shari'a law, which forbids the charging of interest...