Sharia law

Saving Gaza’s people: A sacred duty before Allah - opinion

Islamic law is founded on bringing benefit and preventing harm.

|ByMARK A. GABRIEL
DISPLACED PALESTINIANS shelter in tents in the central Gaza Strip last week. More than two million Gazan Palestinians remain trapped in devastation; their suffering poses a moral and spiritual test for the Muslim world, the writer argues.
Kenyans attend a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Nairobi, Kenya October 22, 2023.

How is it that progressives support Hamas’s regressive agenda? - opinion

Hamas and its supporters have created an incredibly powerful and viral social media machinery, assuming the favored role of underdog.

|ByIZZY TAPOOHI
Palestinian militants from Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, hold a military parade as part of the 35th anniversary of the foundation of the movement, in Gaza City on October 5, 2022.

Not just an anti-Jewish thing, Islamic jihad is so much more - opinion

“It’s inconceivable that [what] we hold most sacred should cause the entire Islamic world to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing, and destruction' -Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

|ByDAVID S. LEVINE
Two Afghan women in interview with Reuters.

Afghan women battle the Taliban's Sharia laws with hair salons, underground businesses - report

From underground hair salons to selling makeup and jewelry online, a report by The Washington Post details the daily struggles that women in Afghanistan face.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel Police arrest two east Jerusalem residents who intended to join ISIS

Two east Jerusalem ISIS supporters were arrested after attempting to join the group abroad, traveling through Turkey and Jordan before being caught upon returning to Israel.

APRIL 27, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Grafitti shows terrorists from Hamas and ISIS kissing, in south Tel Aviv, September 29, 2024

Suspected al Shabaab gunmen abduct local officials in northeast Kenya

The incident happened in Mandera county when the five village chiefs, government-appointed local officials, were heading to the town of Elwak.

FEBRUARY 3, 2025ByREUTERS
Protesters carry Al-Qaeda flags during an anti-government protest after Friday prayers in the town of Marat Numan in Idlib province, Syria

HTS are aiming to create Taliban-style Sharia government - opinion

No one wishes failure for the new Syria or strives to bring it about. Our region has grown weary of wars and conflict. These newcomers from extreme terrorist groups must now prove themselves.

JANUARY 30, 2025BySALEM ALKETBI
SYRIAN FOREIGN Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani (right) attends a news conference with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Damascus last week. The new Syrian leaders have not fully adopted the Afghan model, though social media debates about their past still continue,

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan

The Afghanistan probe is one of the longest by ICC prosecutors and has been beset by legal and practical delays.

JANUARY 23, 2025ByREUTERS
Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in what is believed to be a 1990 passport photo. Released by the Taliban, this is the only photo of Akhundzada in circulation, and has never been independently verified as authentic.

How Turkey’s founding ideology shaped its oppression of Kurds and minorities – opinion

Turkey’s founding ideology continues to erase Kurdish identity through systemic racism.

JANUARY 21, 2025ByMEHMET KUCUK
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Turkey’s irredentist policies, from its actions in Cyprus to its growing involvement in Syria, highlight a policy of territorial expansion and ethnic dominance, the writer maintains.

Houthis set to execute Indian nurse as family offers ‘blood money’ to save her

Nimisha Priya denied intending to kill her business partner, claiming she was only trying to sedate him so she could retrieve her passport and money.

JANUARY 4, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A banner depicting U.S. and Israeli flags is burned, as protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, rally to show support to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen December 13, 2024.

Mark Ruffalo called out for 'Islamophobia'

Ruffalo criticized the right-wing initiative, Project 2025, which he likened to “the Sharia Law of the 'Christian' crazy people,” in a post on X last week. 

JULY 8, 2024ByHANNAH BROWN
Cast member Mark Ruffalo attends a premiere for the television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, in Los Angeles, California, US August 15, 2022.

Halachic State vs Caliphate: How do Jewish extremists differ from Islamist extremists? - opinion

Each fundamentalist movement presents to its followers a vision of a state of religious law between the river Jordan and the sea - a Halachic State or an Islamic Caliphate.

MAY 2, 2024ByBOAZ TAMIR
A scene from the documentary series The Jewish Underground,

‘F*** Sharia’: Turkey detains lawyer who criticized fundamentalist Islamic law online 

The lawyer said that, in response to her social media, she had received threats online by "people who said they would put me to the sword and that I would become their concubine."

FEBRUARY 23, 2024ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
People gather over the Galata Bridge in solidarity with Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, following the first morning prayer of the New Year in Istanbul, Turkey January 1, 2024

Israel must prevail on the social media battlefield - opinion

In the age of social media, bite-sized tweets, TikTok videos, and Instagram reels can be devastating. The war for the future is one that Israel cannot afford to lose.

DECEMBER 31, 2023ByEVAN NIERMAN
Social media apps on a mobile phone.

Muslims in mixed Israeli cities see higher divorce rates

The Islamic courts of Israel, commonly referred to as Sharia courts, have considerable jurisdiction over family affairs, more so than their religious court counterparts.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.