Linda Sarsour

Sharia is, for me, a personal basic set of guidelines that Muslims follow. It's about being respectful to elders. It's about praying five times a day. It's about etiquette that I have with members of my family. It's about inheritance, and it's about how we get married. Just the kind of basic things that anyone engages in in life.

American Activist

Trevor Phillips

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

British Politician

Rowan Williams

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

English Theologian

Maajid Nawaz

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

British Activist

Steve Bannon

I think that most people in the Middle East, at least 50%, believe in being sharia-compliant. If you're sharia-compliant or want to impose sharia law, the United States is the wrong place for you.

American Public Servant

Marine Le Pen

Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equate Islam with Islamic fundamentalism. We have to denounce and eradicate it.

French Politician

Mohamed ElBaradei

You need to form a grand coalition, and you need to put your ideological differences aside and work together to focus on people's basic needs. You can't eat sharia.

Egyptian Scientist

Akhmad Kadyrov

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Chechen Statesman

Fatema Mernissi

Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

Moroccan Activist

Laura Loomer

Sharia law is completely incompatible with our constitution!

Sharia is often referred to in discussions about law and governance within Islamic contexts.

Legal Context

The topic of sharia can be sensitive and controversial, particularly in international or multicultural settings.

Public Debate

For Muslims, sharia guides daily habits and ethical choices, intertwining with cultural practices.

Daily Life

Understanding sharia offers insight into Muslim customs, helping to avoid misunderstandings.

Cultural Sensitivity

Sharia has shaped history, influencing laws, education, and social norms in Islamic societies.

Historical Role

Interpretations of sharia can vary widely, reflecting diverse cultures and histories within Islam.

Evolving Interpretations

 and they need a guardian to protect them, so they need to take permission from this guardian, whether verbal or written, all their lives. We are minors until the day we die. And it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fatwas based on wrong interpretation of the sharia law,

A Saudi woman who dared...

 decentralization started to take place and I think that that's because you now have a situation where people up in the veranda of Mecca for example can make Sharia laws locally without it affecting or scaring the Christians who live over