Religion & Law

Malaysia Islamic court allows reconversion from Islam
[JURIST] An Islamic court in Malaysia [JURIST news archive] ruled Thursday that a Buddhist woman who converted to Islam should be allowed to return to her original faith. The ruling is unusual in Malaysia, which has both secular and Sharia courts; Sharia courts rarely allow converts to renounce Islam, a fact which has led to tensions with the country's minority religions...

Malaysian Sharia Court Agrees To Cancel Woman's Prior Conversion To Islam
AFP today describes as "rare" a decision handed down in Malaysia by Penang Sharia Court judge Othman Ibrahim. He permitted a Buddhist woman who had converted to Islam to reconvert to Buddhism...

Sharia Law in Great Britain
The Archbishop of Canterbury has recently come out in favor of allowing Muslims to settle disputes in courts of Sharia law. The religious leader states that a movement in this direction "seems unavoidable," arguing that providing access to religious courts for members of minority faiths, including Muslims, would relieve tensions between ethnic and religious communities...

England Officially Recognizes Sharia Rulings
British courts will now enforce rulings from Sharia courts in cases ranging from divorce to domestic violence. The five Sharia courts will now be recognized as binding systems of adjudication...

Sharia law not legal in England
Sharia law not legal in EnglandIt is not legal for the government to introduce Sharia law into England on the quiet and through the back door, as reported in the Sunday Times yesterday, and picked up by the Daily Telegraph today, simply because Parliament has not passed a statute authorising such a move...

Mickey Mouse Meets Sharia Sam: Disney Character Condemned to Death under Sharia Law
Mickey Mouse is a marked rodent. Just this morning, I opined that it would be difficult to top a Saudi Cleric who has called for the execution of horoscope readers on television in the name of Sharia law...