Islamic Law in none-Arabic and Muslim Countries

Sharia or sharia law, is the basic Islamic legal system derived from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Quran and the Hadith. Sharia deals with many topics, including crime, politics, and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexual intercourse, hygiene, diet, prayer, everyday etiquette and fasting. Adherence to sharia has served as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Muslim faith historically. In its strictest and most historically coherent definition, sharia is considered in Islam as the infallible law of God (source). To have a more detailed explanation about the Islamic Law, click here.

Let's see what the Muslims support when they talk about the Sharia or Islamic Law. I think it's important to know, especially when you live in countries with a large number of Muslims, like the UK, France and Belgium.

Many westerns (and others too) read (and watch on TV)  about the barbaric practices like beheadings, stoning adulterers, floggings, amputating limbs and much more. For the westerns, that's the ugly part of the Sharia or Islamic Law. ISIS is presenting the ugly part of the Sharia as well, and everyone knows about the beheadings and other barbaric practices, which they claim is executing the Islamic Law (which is true). Saudi Arabia, which fully implements the Sharia, is beheading their criminals as well, and they are not the only country! But you, dear reader from the west, must be aware that large part of your Muslim minority wants to implement the Sharia in your country! Look at the following statistics in this article.

  • 83% of Pakistanis support stoning adulterers, 78% of Pakistanis support killing apostates (source)

  • Center for Social Cohesion: 40% of British Muslim students want Sharia (source)(source)

  • ICM Poll: 40% of British Muslims want Sharia in the UK (source)

  • GfK NOP: 28% of British Muslims want Britain to be an Islamic state (source)

  • MacDonald Laurier Institute: 62% of Muslims want Sharia in Canada (15% say make it mandatory) (source)(source)

  • World Public Opinion: 81% of Egyptians want strict Sharia imposed in every Islamic country 76% of Pakistanis want strict Sharia imposed in every Islamic country 49% (plurality) of Indonesians want strict Sharia imposed in every Islamic country 76% of Moroccans want strict Sharia imposed in every Islamic country (source)

  • World Public Opinion: 64% of Egyptians said it was “very important for the government” to “apply traditional punishments for crimes such as stoning adulterers.” (source)

  • Pew Research (2010): 77% of Egyptian Muslims favor floggings and amputation 58% of Jordanian Muslims favor floggings and amputation 36% of Indonesian Muslims favor floggings and amputation 82% of Pakistanis favor floggings and amputation 65% of Nigerian Muslims favor floggings and amputation (source)

  • Pew Research (2010): 82% of Egyptian Muslims favor stoning adulterers 70% of Jordanian Muslims favor stoning adulterers 42% of Indonesian Muslims favor stoning adulterers 82% of Pakistanis favor stoning adulterers 56% of Nigerian Muslims favor stoning adulterers (source)

  • Pew Research (2013): 81% of South Asian Muslims and 57% of Egyptians support amputating limbs for theft. (source)

  • Pew Research (2013): According to an interpretation of this study, approximately 45% of Sharia supporters surveyed disagreed with the idea that Islamic law should apply only to Muslims. (source)

  • Economist (Pew 2013): 74% who favor Islamic law in Egypt say it should apply to non-Muslims as well. (source)

  • WZB Berlin Social Science Center: 65% of Muslims in Europe say Sharia is more important than the law of the country they live in. (source)(source)

  • FPO (2014): 43% of Islamic teachers in Austria openly advocate Sharia law over democracy.(source)

  • The Polling Company CSP Poll (2015): 33% of Muslim-Americans say that Sharia should be supreme to the US Constitution (43% disagree).(source)

  • The Polling Company CSP Poll (2015): 51% of Muslim-Americans say that Muslims should have the choice of being judged by Sharia courts rather than courts of the United States (39% disagree). (source)

  • 2015 (Jyllands Posten): 77% of Muslims in Denmark believe the Quran's instructions should be 'fully appied'. (source)

  • 2015 (Jyllands Postn): Only 53% of Danish Muslims believe Danish law should be based on the constitution and not the Quran. (source)

[gallery type="rectangular" size="full" ids="3291,3332,4177,4178,4249" orderby="rand"]