Sentence examples for hardline interpretations from inspiring English sources

Hossein Alizadeh of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a New York-based lobby group, says that religious awakening is strengthening hardline interpretations of Islam and a repressive backlash on all kinds of sex-related issues.

Zawahiri mentioned those countries repeatedly for a reason: there was an al-Qaida presence in those places that could now be expanded to demand hardline interpretations of sharia as state law.

Countries like the US, which created overwhelming stigma against the medical use of controlled substances by pushing hardline interpretations of the UN drug treaties, only compounded the problem.

Al-Shabaab is seeking to establish a hardline interpretation of Islamic law in Somalia.

Local people in the town say that there are many Salafists living there, following a hardline interpretation of Islam and based at the mosque that Rezgui attended daily.

His modernist outlook puts him directly in the firing line of Boko Haram, who claim to be fighting to impose a caliphate ruled by their hardline interpretation of sharia law.

The list of heritage crimes goes on, driven by state-endorsed Wahhabism, the hardline interpretation of Islam that perceives historical sites as encouraging sinful idolatry – which spawned the ideology that is now driving Isis's reign of destruction in Syria and Iraq.

Alawi says this wilful destruction of Islamic heritage is no accident: it is driven by state-endorsed wahhabism, the hardline interpretation of Islam that perceives historical sites as encouraging sinful idolatry.

The Union of Islamic Courts, which has just wrested control of Somalia from its putative government, started life as a collection of local gangs meting out brutal punishment to all who fell foul of its hardline interpretation of sharia law.

"According to the laws, everything is illegal," he says, referring to Saudi Arabia's hardline interpretation of Islamic law, which prescribes harsh punishments for consuming alcohol, having sex outside of marriage or failure to carry out religious duties.

One of Isis's stated aims is to remove the border between Iraq and Syria, which took shape after the fall of the Ottoman empire, and impose its hardline interpretation of Sunni Islam enforced by a new caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.