Sentence examples for this case sharia from inspiring English sources
His claim would never stand up in a British court – he is not a citizen so I don't know how he would contest it – but in this case sharia law overrides British law.
In such cases, sharia courts can take the daughter's side and declare the father incompetent to act as a guardian.
Following the strictures of Sharia, the heirs of the victim — in this case the abandoned husband and the two children — exercised their right to forgive the murderer.
In this case, however, ruining the UN-sponsored power-sharing agreement would likely keep the Europeans out, giving the militants more time to set up their new government based on an ultra-orthodox interpretation of Sharia law.
As a related American Civil Liberties Union report highlights, the proponents of so-called anti-sharia bans have failed to demonstrate a single case of sharia overtaking our judicial system.
It's hard to pin down specific accusations by women against specific councils (many are afraid to speak out for fear of retribution from their communities), but human rights organisations point to numerous cases where Sharia councils have made getting a religious divorce – often from abusive husbands – harder for women, causing unnecessary psychological trauma as a result.
A report for the IKWRO – and submitted to the Home Affairs Select Committee – by clinical psychologist Dr Savin Bapir-Tardy, who interviewed dozens of women in their native languages about their experiences, details many cases where Sharia courts are alleged to have been enablers in the abuse of women.
His next programme is This World: Sharia Court on BBC2 on July 17.
This account of Sharia law relates that, in the early centuries of Islamic jurisprudence, it was conventional for scholars, when called upon to decide a case, to weep and refuse to pass judgment until they were dragged to the bench.
