Sentence examples for islam face from inspiring English sources

And there's the matter of the double standard that is created when a sheikh who burned a Bible — rather perplexingly, since Muslims consider it a holy book — is free whereas Christians who insult Islam face immediate backlash.

Retirees who want their investments to comply with the tenets of Islam face a dilemma in that fixed-income investments include riba, which is forbidden.

ReAroundlling for Honor: How Reputheion Became Life and Death Currency in Pakistan" .

Islam faces no challenge in Afghanistan except from its own variations.

Its regime, dominated by the minority Alawite sect that is an offshoot of Shia Islam, faces growing unrest, and is wary of provoking a religious backlash from its majority Sunni population.While the show of Saudi willpower appears to have secured an uncomfortable calm in Bahrain, the potentially much more dangerous problem of Yemen festers (see article).

"We often find ourselves between two fires," he says, "the lack of a democratic state where we can express ourselves, and the risk of treading on what other Islamists feel are sacred principles".Because of such tensions, the strongest glue holding the Islamist movement together aside from the declaration of faith remains the perception that Islam faces enemies.

"We are going to have to work together with people of the Muslim faith even as Islam faces a serious crisis within it".

British people's dry sarcasm works really well when confronting the times the more traditional parts of Islam come face-to-face with modern gay culture.

Despite an outcry over the incident, the government ordered Ahmadiya members to "stop disseminating interpretations that deviate from the main tenets of Islam" or face legal action.

In every big "apostasy" case, the authorities have faced pressure from sections of public opinion, and from Islamist factions, to take the toughest possible stance.In Malaysia, people who try to desert Islam can face compulsory "re-education".

Early in his reign, a party of theologians approached him with the plea that the infidel Hindus be forced, in accordance with Islamic law, to accept Islam or face death.