Human representation for the purpose of worship is uniformly considered idolatry as forbidden in Sharia law.

Much of the Muslim world uses Sharia ( also called Islamic law ).

Nevertheless, mercy is considered preferable in Islam ,, and in Sharia law the victim's family can choose to spare the life of the killer, which is not uncommon.

The Taliban soon became alienated of those countries ' positive feelings with knowledge of the harsh Sharia law being enforced in Taliban-controlled territories spreading around the world.

Leading Islamist thinkers emphasize the enforcement of Sharia ( Islamic law ); of pan-Islamic political unity ; and of the elimination of non-Muslim, particularly Western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influences in the Muslim world, which they believe to be incompatible with Islam.

Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, and against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday or the construction of mosques around the tombs of Sufi sheikhs, believing that these were unacceptable borrowings from Christianity: Many Muslims ' do not even know of the Christian origins of these practices.

To eliminate jahiliyya, Qutb argued Sharia, or Islamic law, must be established.

He believed that imitation of the early Muslims and the restoration of Sharia law were essential to Islam, that secular, Westernizing Muslims were actually agents of the West serving Western interests, and that the " plundering " of Muslim lands was part of a long-term conspiracy against Islam by the Christian West.

His concept of velayat-e-faqih (" guardianship of the jurist "), held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society – which Khomeini and his followers believed to be himself – should serve as head of state in order to protect or " guard " Islam and Sharia law from " innovation " and " anti-Islamic laws " passed " by sham parliaments.

Taking advantage of liberalization by the unpopular ruling leftist / nationalist FLN regime, it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law, education in Arabic rather than French, and gender segregation, with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men.

Justification for attacks on Muslims often comes as takfir, an implicit death threat since under traditional Sharia law the punishment for apostasy in Islam is death.

Many scholars of Sharia, or Islamic law, interpret homosexual activity as a punishable offence as well as a sin.

Sharia () refers to the body of Islamic law.

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* Sharia law

With the backing and support of the Pakistani Armed Force, the Taliban began creating a new military force purely based on Islam's Sharia law.

* Sharia law, used in the northern part of the country.

Some Islamic societies have religious police, who enforce the application of Islamic Sharia law.

Sharia law took precedence over the will of the ruler, and electing rulers by means of the Shura was an important doctrine.

* Since Shariah, or Islamic law, is the proper law, those holding government posts should have knowledge of Sharia.

Since Islamic jurists or faqih have studied and are the most knowledgeable in Sharia, the country's ruler should be a faqih who " surpasses all others in knowledge " of Islamic law and justice, ( known as a marja '), as well as having intelligence and administrative ability.

* This system of clerical rule is necessary to prevent injustice, corruption, oppression by the powerful over the poor and weak, innovation and deviation of Islam and Sharia law ; and also to destroy anti-Islamic influence and conspiracies by non-Muslim foreign powers.

Due to ancient customary practices and / or religion, the Sinhala customary law ( Kandyan law ), the Thesavalamai and the Sharia law too are followed on special cases.

Some elements of Sharia law were re-introduced, and the ritual phrase " Allahu Akbar " (" God is great "), in Saddam's handwriting, was added to the national flag.

On October 4, the Taliban agreed to turn bin Laden over to Pakistan for trial in an international tribunal that operated according to Islamic Sharia law, but Pakistan blocked the offer as it was not possible to guarantee his safety.

A complex system of courts, based on diverse legal sources, including Sunni and Shi ' a Sharia ( religious law ), tribal law, and other civil codes and regulation, was created with the help of British advisers in the early twentieth century.

This choice was controversial, as a northern Nigerian woman, Amina Lawal, was awaiting death by stoning for adultery under Sharia law there, but Miss World chose to use the publicity surrounding its presence to bring greater global awareness and action to Amina's plight ( see Controversies section ).

Ma Zhancang abolished the Islamic Sharia law which was set up by the Uighurs, and set up military rule instead, retaining the former Chinese officials and keeping them in power.

Bert was also described by Jon Stewart on March 18, 2010 as " A fastidious, pigeon-worshiping, felt tyrant whose draconian Sharia Law allows for neither loud noise or rubber duckies.

In 2004 the UK's first standalone Sharia – compliant bank was launched, the Islamic Bank of Britain.

Masri was formerly the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque, and a leader of " Supporters of Sharia ", a radical group that believed in a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Ansar al-Islam ( AAI ) ( Supporters or Partisans of Islam ) was a Sunni Islamist group of Iraqis, promoting a radical interpretation of Islam, close to the official Saudi ideology of Wahhabism with strict application of Sharia.

On 26 September 1996 Taliban forces set up an interim Government under Mohammed Rabbani and Afghanistan was declared a complete Islamic Emirate under Sharia law.

* The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, that was formed in the former Soviet Union and now operates across Central Asian states with the aim of forming Islamic States governed by Sharia.

In 1996, when the Taliban gained control of Kabul, the station's name was changed to Shariat Ghagh, which means Voice of Sharia.

This group was made up of mostly Pashtuns that dedicated itself to removing the warlords, providing law and order, and imposing the strict Islamic Sharia law on the country.

The courts enforced a Sharia law that the Mahdi claimed was founded on instructions conveyed to him by God in visions.

Sharia in defiance of local common law was imposed to unify tribes.

Sharia was codified into law ( which was called the Mecelle ) and an elected legislature was established to make law.

Baobab for Women's Human Rights, an NGO based in Nigeria, took up her case, which was argued by Nigerian lawyers trained in both secular and Sharia law.

A second appeal was put in motion and on September 25, 2003, Amina's sentence of death by stoning for adultery was overturned by a five-judge panel of Katsina State Sharia Court of Appeal on the grounds that she was not caught in the act of adultery and was not given " ample opportunity to defend herself ".