But Muslims in India do not stone adulterers or chop off hands.
But after years of catching bullets, palming cards and chopping off hands they know most of the tricks around.
British sharia isn't about chopping off hands, but complicated financial instruments to avoid sin of usury.
Just this month, the most fearsome Somali insurgent group, the Shabab, known for chopping off hands and starving its own people, announced it had officially joined Al Qaeda.
Many Somalis have a sense of déjà vu watching the retreat of the once formidable Shabab, who terrorized people by enforcing a brutal version of Sharia law, chopping off hands and stoning teenage girls.
Half a century later, King Leopold II of Belgium, who ravaged the Congo with consequences that survive to this day (among them, the practice of chopping off hands as punishment), built a four-acre winter garden comprising 16 interconnected buildings.
The Shabab, who have gained a reputation of ruthlessness for stoning adulterers and chopping off hands, control much of Somalia and have drawn increasingly close to Al Qaeda in recent months.
The Shabab, which has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, has imposed a brutal reign in areas it controls, chopping off hands of petty thieves, lashing women for showing their ankles and beheading anyone deemed a spy.
The group has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda and installed a reign of terror in the areas that it controls, chopping off hands and blocking the delivery of emergency food to famine victims.
The Shabab, who have terrorized Somalia for years, chopping off hands and killing hundreds with suicide bombs, are now down to one last large redoubt, Kismayo, a crucial source of money and weapons.
In January, the World Food Program pulled out of several areas of the southern part of the country, saying that its Somali staff was being threatened by Al Shabab, an Islamist insurgent group known for chopping off hands and detonating suicide bombs.
