sharia

• “The average American hears the word sharia and thinks only of the stoning of adulterers.”

  The Huffington Post: John Feffer: Extremists on Extremism: Peter King and the Sharia Scam

• “The term "sharia" is much broader than that, though.”

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• “And when certain states impose what they refer to as sharia or when certain Muslim activists demand its recognition alongside secular jurisdictions, they are usually referring not to a universal and fixed code established once for all but to some particular concretisation of it at the hands of a tradition of jurists.”

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• “There is no justice in sharia, just egregious human rights violations.”

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• “Because sharia is an abstract concept that can include a wide spectrum of different opinions, interpretations, and practices, as Arab and Islamic affairs expert Lee Smith explained in a recent column.”

  The Huffington Post: Josh Goodman: What Sharia Law in Democracies Tells Us About Islam

• “He pointed out, however, that sharia is not the mere contents of the Qur'ân, the teachings of the Prophet and the schools of law but an attempt to process lived reality in light of these.”

  The Huffington Post: Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change

• “But just as the early community following the Prophet's death encountered new, non-Muslim realities and processed these into new sharia rules, there is nothing in sharia that would prevent a similar process from taking place in America today.”

  The Huffington Post: Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change

• “Thus, it makes no difference when or where a manual on sharia is written; these books all reflect the permanent, unchanging -- and unchangeable -- law of Islam.”

  The Huffington Post: Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change

• “A common approach to convincing people that sharia is at irreconcilable odds with America and that Muslims who argue otherwise are just not telling the truth is to refer to sharia manuals themselves, books written by Muslim jurists with the presumptive purpose of laying out the law of Islam.”

  The Huffington Post: Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change

• “As the anti-sharia critics usually do not know Arabic themselves and are untrained in sharia, the books they rely on are invariably translations of books that are themselves invariably centuries old.”

  The Huffington Post: Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change

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