9 ،16 The Influence of Western Legal Heritage on Islamic Religious Law in Modern Times

Since Sept. 11th up to the present moment, the Muslim belief and the Muslim culture became a favourable target, against which fierce campaigns of hostility had been launched by some western circles, headed by the new conservative regime of the USA leadership represented by the Bush administrative team. Though one can understand the wrathful reaction of the US against the brutal and unjustified attack against the Twin Towers of New York, one can find no rational justification of such massive hostile campaigns against Islam as a religion and doctrine of belief. At the same time one can find no legitimate excuse or even a moral pretext for such assault against some Muslim countries and some Muslim nations, like the Afghan people and later against the Iraqi people. The military assaults resulted in heavy loss of life of innocent people, estimated at tens of thousands sofar. In this paper I will try to shed light on but one aspect related to the legal doctrine of Islamic Laws, termed as the Sharīca system. It aims to prov