Islamic Law in the News Roundup

The Philippine Law for the Islamic burial fills a normative vacuum source of tension with Christians and guarantees the burial within 24 hours in compliance with religious precepts. The offenders will be sanctioned by prison or through the payment of a fine. This success for the Muslim religious minority has provoked the reaction of some Catholic sectors.

Islamic Law in the News Roundup

ISLAMIC LAW IN THE NEWS Commenting on Saudi Arabia‘s art scene, one commentator noted: “A paradox remains: how to foster a creative art scene within the setting of state control. Artists are no longer subject to the Inquisition-like Mutawa, the morality police charged with enforcing Islamic law, banned in 2016.” “The General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars in Saudi Arabia reiterated its statement from April of last year, which man…