As long as the EU can make these sort of decisions, Islamic fundamentalists around the world will welcome a fresh arsenal of moral ammunition in their claim that conflict between the west and Islam is inevitable.
Having converted to Islam at the age of 16, after reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, John Walker Lindh had travelled to Yemen and later Pakistan to study classical Arabic and Islamic studies - decisions he made with the blessing and permission of his parents and about which he was completely transparent.
http://home.gwu.edu/~jreboll/sketches_0192.doc Wrng msg The Malaysian cabinet last week said it may ban declarations of divorce through electronic media, following an Islamic court's decision that a text message was valid notification.
Instead the country is at its most disunited and unable to take even the simplest decisions while Islamic extremist groups have been allowed to take over the streets with their demands for a never ending confrontation with the US, the West and India.
In 2012, Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill to ban state courts and agencies from using Islamic law to make decisions.
Meanwhile, in the private sector, it is claimed that the AKP has played a coordinating role in strengthening networks of Islamist-owned businesses, which, combined with preferential regulations and procurement decisions, prepared 'Islamic capital' to benefit the most from its neoliberal reforms (Hoşgör, 2011).
PAGE B4 TALIBAN POSTPONES DECISION The Islamic clerics who control Afghanistan's Taliban government postponed a final response to the demands that they hand over Osama bin Laden.
"There exists no unified code of punishments in the country, thus similar crimes often result in very different punishments, as long as the judge can find some sort of justification for his decision in Islamic texts," she said.
For a few days this month, it was illegal in Oklahoma for a state judge to base a court decision on Islamic religious law or consider any form of international law.
With outrage still fresh around the world over the destruction of two giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan, a Taliban envoy says the Islamic government made its decision in a rage after a foreign delegation offered money to preserve the ancient works while a million Afghans faced starvation.
Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the effects of this religious guideline on the financial decisions of an Islamic country's population and its impact on saving and investment.
