(1) Islam is the state religion in Malaysia, and sharia is the law prescribed for the Muslim majority.(2) A third of those surveyed said they would rather live under sharia because they so disapproved of British culture.(3) Aceh is the only Indonesian province under sharia or strict Muslim law.(4) He wants Islamic law or shariah to be the law of the land, but does not want the Shiite clerics to be government officials.(5) The people who have implementation of shariah or Islamic canon law as their project know very well that power goes in such a system to the interpreters of the law.
