According to the Constitution of Pakistan, Shariah courts should consist of three Ulema judges to ensure decisions are made ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Umar Oseni of Harvard Law School says the international concern over the announcement of Islamic law in Libya is misplaced, and instead the international community should focus ...

Texans continue to lead anti-Sharia law initiatives, including launching a new caucus in the U.S. House and filing legislation to remove the tax-exempt status of organizations ...

Last week in Tennessee, a Republican legislator introduced a bill that would make following sharia — Islamic law — a felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. How such a law would be enforced is ...

One of the defining characteristics of the post-9/11 world has been a ubiquitous fear, in Euro-American countries, of the creepy imperial prowess of Islamic law — a prowess that never seems to exist ...

Marches against Sharia were confronted by counter-protests across the U.S. — -- Police in Seattle and St. Paul, Minnesota, made arrests after fighting broke out during a series of marches across ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Faisal Kutty of the Valparaiso University School of Law says that there is hope for compromise between Western legal systems and Islamic law regarding the adoption of children ...

One of the most urgent questions raised by the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan is whether the radical Islamist group will again impose draconian restrictions on women and girls. Great ...

It doesn’t take much to whip up Britain’s irascible press: “Secret courts imposing draconian Islamic justice operate across Britain,” read one paper’s front-page splash last week, following a BBC ...

ACT for America founder Brigitte Gabriel says the Islamic law known as Sharia is taking over the land, eclipsing the U.S. Constitution, with radical clerics turning the nation into a modern-day ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. FAIRWAY, KS — For more than three years, lawmakers in Kansas, Missouri, and a host of other states have been pushing bills to ...

The fake news story has been making the rounds on Facebook. — -- A fake news story claiming the U.S. House passed a bill to block Sharia has gotten twisted around online. Though no such bill has ...