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Indonesia: In Sharia-ruled Aceh province, unmarried couple caned 140 times each for sex and drinking, woman faints

OpIndia Staff -
The public caning event organised by the Sharia police also had other ‘criminals’. One police official also received 23 canings for being caught ‘in close proximity to a woman’. 
Crime

Attacks to continue until Sharia Law is imposed in Pakistan: TTP’s splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claims responsibility for Islamabad suicide blast

OpIndia Staff -
Judges and lawyers were the intended targets of the attack in Islamabad, according to the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Opinions

Islam puts women in a lose-lose situation: How women are dying after deadly earthquake in Afghanistan because Taliban’s Sharia imposition stops men from rescuing...

Shriti Sagar -
Taliban's Sharia law disallows men from rescuing women, and since women can't work, there are no women rescuers to save them after Afghanistan earthquake
News Reports

Allahabad HC says Muslim men who have multiple wives can’t be punished under Bigamy laws if marriage conducted under Sharia law: Details

OpIndia Staff -
The court pointed out that polygamy is mentioned in the Quran only once and that too for a fair historical reason.
News Reports

Muslim Personal Law discriminatory, violates women rights: Read about ex-Muslim woman Safiya PM’s legal battle for secular inheritance law

Rukma Rathore -
Safiya PM, a Muslim woman from Kerala, petitioned the Supreme Court and requested that as she is not a believer, the Indian Succession Act should apply to her concerning the matters of inheritance, not the Muslim Personal Law
News Reports

Iraq passes new laws giving more power to Sharia Courts: As activists say it will legalise child marriage, read how India grapples with Islamic...

Rukma Rathore -
Parliament of Iraq approved changes to the nation's personal status law that opponents contended would effectively legalize child marriage
News Reports

Delhi HC rejects plea against refusal of bail to terrorist Mohammad Heydaitullah who took ISIS oath to establish Sharia law in India

ANI -
The Delhi High Court has rejected a plea against the refusal of bail to Mohammad Heydaitullah, an alleged ISIS operative
News Reports

‘Getting raped is a test from Allah’: Old video of Zakir Naik engaging in victim blaming goes viral, says ‘violation of Sharia’, ‘provocative dress’...

OpIndia Staff -
Zakir Naik stated that a girl failing to dress in accordance with Sharia Law should be considered responsible for her rape.
World

Malaysia: 42-year-old to be caned for repeated Islamic offense of ‘close proximity’ with a woman, punishment to be meted out at Al-Muktafi Billah Shah...

OpIndia Staff -
Terengganu in Malaysia is controlled by the Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), which has pushed for a harsher interpretation of Islamic law.
World

Iraq set to legalise men marrying little girls: Country’s amendment to marriage law, that will allow men to marry even 9-year-old girls, passes first...

OpIndia Staff -
The proposed amendment also deprives women in Iraq of rights to divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
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