They remain devoutly Muslim, even if their opinions vary on things like sharia law.
In Oklahoma, they want to forbid state courts from making reference to Islamic Sharia law.
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Rowan Williams was right to say that aspects of sharia law are already accommodated in Britain.
Since interest is forbidden under Sharia law, companies enter sale-and-leaseback arrangements with trusts that issue certificates called sukuks.
"The new generation are impressionable, " Maulvi Mohammed Seddiq, former adviser on Sharia law to the Supreme Court says.
In a telephone interview Tuesday with CNN, Khan demanded the imposition of Islamic sharia law all across the country.
There, they imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia law by banning music, smoking, drinking and watching sports on television.
Dr Williams responded to the criticism by saying his earlier comments on sharia law had met with "scant success".
Nujood got her divorce, but based on the principles of Islamic Sharia law, her husband was compensated, not prosecuted.
Dr Williams also spoke about the row over his remarks concerning sharia law.
Bulgarian officials say the medics will face a special court under laws that include an element of Islamic Sharia law.
The concept of a more "moderate" version of Sharia law that is compatible with democracy is at the forefront of this effort.
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That not all Muslims desire sharia law is unfathomable to radical secularists.
It operates according to the tenets of the Koran and Sharia law, which prohibit charging interest on loans and paying interest on deposits.
But judging sharia law on that basis would be like judging Christianity on a couple of chapters of the Old Testament, he added.
Rowan Williams did not intend to shove that debate along so dramatically, but his comments on Sharia law may have focused political minds.
Under the deal, southerners would no longer be subject to sharia law, and there would be a referendum on southern independence within six years.
Specifically, the courts shall not consider international law or Sharia Law.
Indeed, they regard tribal custom as a deviation from sharia law.
Those who had would be tried according to Islamic Sharia law.
Although they want Sharia law, they are against al Qaeda, too.
Yasser al-Sirri, an Egyptian-born Islamist who has resisted efforts to extradite him to America, made a detailed appeal, based on sharia law, for Mr Bigley's freedom.
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Ms Hussein says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law that forbids indecent clothing.
Muslim sharia law was introduced in 12 northern states after general elections in 1999, but the states' Muslim rulers have usually been cautious in applying it.
What this has to do with the legality of the Oklahoma referendum barring the use of sharia law from the Oklahoma courts, I have no idea.
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Since military rule ended in 1999, politicians have used religion as an electoral weapon and a dozen state governments in northern Nigeria have introduced hardline sharia law.
Part of the problem is that the Islamist groups have not been clear about what they mean when they say they want to implement sharia law, said Elgindy.
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Under a 2005 peace deal between the mainly Muslim north and the largely Christian south, Sharia law is not supposed to be applied to non-Muslims living in the capital.
Dr Williams also reflected on his controversial remarks in 2008 that adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK seemed "unavoidable, " saying he stood by his argument.
As part of such an accommodation, the Islamists would probably have to agree not to impose sharia law on Somalia, at any rate under a transitional government of national unity.
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