MetaFilter posts tagged with Sharia

States Target Foreign Law

reenum — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:36:55 -0800

There are several groups trying to pass bills in different states to ban the application of foreign laws in a US court, especially Sharia law. These groups are almost all using model legislation drafted by anti-Muslim activist David Yerushalmi.

I just met an URL named Sharia

defenestration — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:01:37 -0800

The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe The domain [vb.ly] was seized by the Libyan domain registry for reasons which seemed to be kept obscure until we escalated the issue. We eventually discovered that the domain has been seized because the content of our website, in their opinion, fell outside of Libyan Islamic/Sharia Law.

Sharia law, marriage contracts, and the rights of women

jb — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:16:43 -0800

How Sharia law can be both good or bad for women (via a&l daily)

Recanting Jihad

netbros — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:59:13 -0800

Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again — A generation of British Islamists have been trained in Afghanistan to fight a global jihad. But now some of those would-be extremists have had a change of heart. Johann Hari finds out what made them give up the fight.

Frontline on the frontline.

gman — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:11:35 -0800

Children of the Taliban. More info on the homepage, including this slideshow on women's issues in Afghanistan.

I Am The Eye In The Sky

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:17:02 -0800

Discoveries made using satellite imagery, particularly via Google Earth, have made headlines in the blue and green before. Increasingly high-resolution photos, combined with obsessive interest, have lead inevitably to the next step: interpretation and analysis of spots on the Earth's surface for which information is restricted, censored, or classified, such as the preparedness of military defenses in North Korea and Iran, or the viability of Saudi Arabia's next big oil play. Of course, not all mapping is benevolent.

Polygamy pays (in more ways than one).

gman — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:57:08 -0800

It's been going on in Britain for a while. Now hundreds of men in Toronto are receiving welfare for each wife. Is this what Rowan Williams has in mind?

Did we jump to conclusions?

dirtynumbangelboy — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:23:52 -0800

It turns out that those boys who were hanged in Iran may not have been quite so innocent after all. [original post]

Gay Teens Executed in Iran

digaman — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:34:51 -0800

Iran executes two teenagers. Their crime? Making love. Homosexuality is a crime under Sharia law. Meanwhile, newly "liberated" Iraq moves closer to embedding traditional Islamic laws in its new constitution, reducing rights for women. Will Iraqi gays be the next to suffer the wrath of "Allah's law" after years of secular oppression under Saddam Hussein?

A job well done

magullo — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:02:45 -0800

Woman stoned to death for adultery ... ... in Afghanistan.

Sharia? Shuria thing

DrJohnEvans — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:30:10 -0800

Sharia recommended to Ontario government. A review of Mumtaz Ali's recommendation to permit legal arbitration by Islamic law has concluded in his cause's favour, recommending that sharia be allowed for family disputes and inheritance cases. Sharia may be joining Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish laws as religious law arbitration options, which is good. But women's groups are worried about the inherent discriminatory nature of sharia, which is bad.

So, not cutting off the hands, eh?

shepd — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:00:24 -0800

Islamic law, traditionally, as practiced in countries such as Iran, is being considered by courts in Ontario, Canada as to whether it should receive status as a legal manner of settling disputes through arbritration. Canadian women are worried it will be unjust.

Beauty queens take a stand against stoning.

alms — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 06:04:56 -0800

Beauty queens take a stand against stoning. I guess it's bad luck for Miss World that their contest this year was scheduled to take place in a country increasingly subject to Sharia law. Meanwhile Nigerian Muslim activists decry neckless nudity.

Woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery

brookish — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:59:03 -0800

Woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery The man with whom she had sex admitted it, then denied it, and was set free for lack of evidence. She was pregnant when she received the sentence (which provides for her to be buried up to the chest and stoned by male villagers until dead). The Nigerian court in question recently implemented a fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic Law (Sharia, in the case), and have returned to mandatory sentences like stoning to death for adultery and amputation of hands for theft. Modernity, how we luff ya.