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Topic: Sharia

April 16, 2013
5:09 pm

Police clear the area at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon as medical workers help injured following explosions in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Charles Krupa)

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood condemns Boston blasts

Islamic law ‘firmly rejects assaults on civilians,’ group says in statement

March 30, 2013
11:10 pm

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with Al-Aqsa Mosque in the background. (photo credit: Ahmad Jaber/Flash90)

Hebron cleric accuses Israel of plotting to rebuild temple

Leading Palestinian Muslim figure says daily ‘intrusions’ by Israeli leaders into Muslim shrine confirm plan to destroy it

By Yifa Yaakov and Ron Friedman

March 13, 2013
1:17 pm

Saudi Arabia beheads 7 men after appeals rejected

Septet, who were juveniles when arrested, complained of torture and not having access to lawyers

February 21, 2013
2:39 am

Jihadists from the Caucasus seen here in a video posted on Facebook (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Jihadists from Caucasus arrive in Syria

Group calling itself ‘The Battalion of Immigrants to Syria’ promises to help implement Sharia law

By Elhanan Miller

February 8, 2013
9:51 am

Leading Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei (photo credit: AP/Thomas Hartwell/File)

Egypt opposition heads get more security post-fatwas

Ultraconservative cleric goes on TV to justify sexual assaults on female protesters

January 12, 2013
8:22 am

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia waves to members of the Saudi Shura Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2009 (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar, File)

Saudi king grants women seats on advisory council

Female council members will still enter building from special gates, sit in reserved seats, wear a niqab, and pray in segregated areas

By Abdullah Al-Shihri

December 24, 2012
12:57 am

An Egyptian elderly man shows his inked finger after casting his vote in the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in Fayoum, Egypt, on Saturday. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

With referendum passed, Egypt’s Islamists tighten grip on power

Controversial legislation receives broad support, may pave the way for imposition of sharia law

By Hamza Hendawi

December 21, 2012
3:45 pm

Opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi clash with Islamist supporters of the president, unseen, as a cordon of riot police separates the groups in Alexandria, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 21 (photo credit: AP)

Dozens wounded in clashes ahead of second leg of Egyptian constitution vote

Islamists, opponents hurl rocks at each other; police disperse protesters with tear gas

By Najib Jobain

December 16, 2012
9:22 am

An Egyptian soldier stands guard outside a polling center as women stand in line to cast their votes during a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi, in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, December. 15, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Egypt on track to approve Islamist-influenced constitution

Opposition parties accuse Muslim Brotherhood of rigging referendum; final round of voting to take place Saturday

By Gabe Fisher and AP

December 15, 2012
9:00 pm

An illustrative photo of Egyptian women waiting in line outside a polling station last December. (photo credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egyptians head to the polls over Islamist constitution

Authorities extend hours due to high turnout; Alexandria women claim judge stopped them voting because they weren’t veiled

By Aya Batrawy and Sarah El Deeb

December 8, 2012
6:18 am

Footage from a video that purportedly shows a bombing carried out by Jabhat al-Nusra in Damascus in August (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

US may label al-Qaeda-inspired Syrian rebel group a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Al-Nusra Front, a Salafi organization pushing for an Islamic state in Syria, is notorious for suicide bombings against the Assad regime

By Michal Shmulovich

December 7, 2012
11:09 pm

Egyptian protesters chant anti Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mohammed Mosri slogans outside the presidential palace after they broke a barbed wire barricade keeping them from getting closer to the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, December 7. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Constitution enshrining Islamic law stands at core of Egyptian upheaval

Thousands taking to Cairo’s streets oppose prominence of religion in country’s draft charter

November 26, 2012
3:38 am

Twin blasts target church on Nigerian military base

Suspicion falls on Islamist sect with links to al-Qaeda

November 9, 2012
6:00 pm

Egyptian Muslims shout Islamic slogans during a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday. Thousands of ultraconservative Muslims rallied in the Egyptian capital, demanding the country's new constitution be based on the rulings of Islamic law, or Sharia. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In Tahrir Square, over 10,000 call for ‘God’s law’

Ultraconservative Egyptian Muslims want new constitution to be based on Sharia, or Islamic law

By Aya Batrawy

November 2, 2012
8:25 pm

Thousands of supporters raise a poster of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as they celebrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo, late Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (photo credit: Amr Nabil/AP)

Egyptian Islamists hold pro-Shariah protest

‘The people want God’s rule implemented,’ chant ultraconservative demonstrators on march from Cairo mosque to Tahrir Square

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