Examples of Shariah Law include the following: (from the authoritative source Reliance of the Traveller, The Sacred Manual of Islamic Law)
- Requirement of women to obtain permission from husbands for daily freedoms;
- Beating of disobedient woman and girls;
- Execution of homosexuals;
- Engagement of polygamy and forced child marriages;
- Requirement of the testimony of four male witnesses to prove rape;
- Stoning of adulteresses;
- Lashing of adulterers;
- Amputation of body for criminal offenses;
- Female genital mutilation;
- Capital punishment for those who slander or insult Islam;
- Execution of apostates, or those that leave the religion of Islam
- Inferior status for all non-Muslims, known as Dhimmitude.
- Concept of Taquiyya: A Muslim may lie or deceive others to advance the cause of Islam.