CAVEAT
Throughout this memorandum, the term Shari’ah is used to denote the authoritative and authoritarian corpus juris of Islamic law as it has been articulated by the recognized Shari’ah authorities over more than a millennium. The specifics of this body of law and jurisprudence are discussed more fully in the text and accompanying footnotes herein.

The term Shari’ah as used herein, therefore, does not refer to a personal, subjective, pietistic understanding of the word or concept of Shari’ah. This latter understanding of the word Shari’ah is closer to its literal meaning in Arabic  without any of the legalistic connotations it has developed as an authoritative institution in Islamic history, as it is currently practiced in such countries as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, and as it is meant when referred to in the various laws and constitutions of most Muslim countries.

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Cheikh Mohamed ben Abderrahmane Al-Maghraoui recently published a religious decree on an internet site calling for girls as young as nine years of age to become wives. A lawyer as well as human rights activists have joined the ever swelling number of critics to denounce this call to legalise paedophilia.

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Sharia-following Islamic nations demanding anti-'defamation' law

Oringinally Posted: July 10, 2008 2:00 am Eastern By Bob Unruh

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