- “In its latest conference in Doha, the International Islamic Fiqh Academy ruled that Muslims can consume cultivated meat if certain conditions are met.”
- “A man and woman were publicly flogged 100 times each in Indonesia‘s conservative Aceh province . . . after they were found guilty of sex outside marriage by a court operating under strict Islamic law.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
- “Despite an uproar by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), President Asif Zardari has approved the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Child Marriage Restraint Bill, making the federal capital and Sindh the only regions in Pakistan where marriage under the age of 18, especially for girls, has been prohibited.” “Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman . . . announced to hold nationwide protest rallies aimed at “creating awareness” among public.” “[The law] has been challenged in the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) in Islamabad, arguing that it was against the Constitution as well as the tenets of Islam and should be abolished.”