Sharia

How are Sharia banks Al Rayan and Gatehouse paying the best savings rates?

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At a time of record low savings rates, any bank actually improving the rates they pay to savers is bound to raise an eyebrow or two.  But this is especially the case when it comes to Al Rayan Bank and Gatehouse Bank, two Sharia lenders which have upped their savings rates in recent weeks and … Read more

UN calls on Nigeria to scrap death penalty for musician who was sentenced to die by Sharia court

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The UN has called on Nigeria to scrap the death sentence handed to a musician by a Sharia court for sharing a blasphemous song on WhatsApp.  Yahaya Aminu Sharif, 22, was handed the death penalty last month by a Sharia court in Kano, in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north, and faces being hanged. ‘Music is not … Read more

British mother who fought Sharia courts in Dubai to see her son faces losing her home

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A British mother who fought the Sharia courts in Dubai for access to her son faces having to sell her home – after a UK judge ordered her to pay nearly £100,000 towards her ex-husband’s legal costs. Afsana Lachaux, a former policy aide to Gordon Brown who now works for The Princes Trust, has spent … Read more

13-year-old boy jailed for ten years by Nigerian Sharia court for blasphemy after row with friend

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13-year-old boy is jailed for ten years for blasphemy by Nigerian Sharia court after he ‘used foul language towards Allah during an argument’ Omar Farouq was sentenced on Tuesday by a court in the northern Kano State Lawyer claims sentence is unconstitutional under Nigerian and international law  Farouq’s legal team say they have not been … Read more