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ELI5: What is Sharia Law and why is their so much controversy with it?
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Sharia means 'legislation' in Arabic and is basically the "law of Islam", when a society has the Quran and the teachings of the prophet Muhammad as their law, you could say the country has 'sharia law'. So basically, it's islamic theocracy. So a judge in a country with sharia law would be someone who is an expert in islamic vice and virtue.

I suppose the controversy surrounding it is first and foremost that theocracy is viewed as an old and dated way of rule (here in the west at least).

There is also a general fear of anything 'muslim' in western society today, which is probably part of the explanation as well.