President asks German scholars to help interpret Sharia law for the Maldives
11 Mar 2010, 3:38 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
President Nasheed has asked German scholars with expertise in Sharia law to help apply it to certain fields in the Maldives, during his visit to Berlin.
“I have done my homework and I am quite aware of the amount of German discourse in Islamic jurisprudence”, President Nasheed said, according to German news site deutschenachrichten.
Nasheed told the German press that Maldivian law was based on Sharia, but warned them about “jumping to the wrong conclusions.”
“We are a tolerant and free country, and we want to keep it that way,” he said.
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