Sentence examples for offence under sharia from inspiring English sources

And so Kané stopped listening to music – an offence under sharia law – and avoided the rebels as far as possible.

Now Aceh has taken another controversial step, by telling everyone to follow sharia Muslim and non-Muslim alike.This all follows from a criminal code which Aceh's outgoing parliament passed back in 2009, increasing the number of offences under sharia and introducing much stiffer penalties, such as death by stoning for adulterers.

While suicide is a crime under Sharia law, mental illness is not generally criminalized.

Reports suggest he was fighting under the name Abu Ahmed the Lebanese and was killed for "cursing the Prophet Mohamed", a crime punishable by death under sharia.

Some have gone a step further, accusing Shammary of apostasy, an offense that carries the death penalty under Sharia law.

"Even living under Sharia, it shouldn't be a crime to fall in love with another person," she says.

Dearborn was decidedly not under Sharia law.

"We can't be forced to live under Sharia law.

Under Sharia law giving or receiving interest is forbidden.

They wouldn't themselves want to live under sharia law.

Adebolajo told the Old Bailey that he wanted to live under sharia, or Islamic law.