In some areas the FSA controls, it has implemented a Sharia law enforcement police force that is a replica of the Wahhabi police in Saudi Arabia -- forcing citizens to abide by the Sharia code.
After a moment's pause, he went on, "You know, if al-Azhar had not neglected its duty, had it not become only a mouthpiece of the government, had it implemented Islamic Sharia law, you would not see any Islamic groups, like Gama'a, working as they are now.
Shortly after gaining control of Raqqa, ISIS implemented harsh Sharia law on the population, banning music, cigarettes, alcohol and forcing prayer and Islamic dress on the population.
They ruthlessly implemented sharia law and picked an unnecessary fight with the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, a grouping of rebel Tuaregs.
In 1983 Sudan's government implemented Sharia law, and when President Omar al-Bashir seized power in a 1989 Islamist-backed coup, his government vowed to continue implementing it.
Within a month a region the size of France was under the control of first Tuareg rebels and then al-Qaida-linked jihadists, who implemented sharia law and brought national governance to an end.
The group implemented Sharia law in towns it captured during the 2012 uprising, including the ancient city of Timbuktu.
Have we implemented sharia law?
Kano is one of 12 northern Nigerian states that have implemented Sharia criminal law since the defeat of Nigeria's military dictatorship in 2000.
Joseph is a Burkinabé student I met who was studying just over 300 miles away in Timbuktu when Ansar Dine took over last April and implemented Sharia law veiling women, stoning adulterers, and destroying ancient shrines.
