1.   Along with the fight against Israel, Hamas has fought other Palestinians to enforce its strict Islamic code.

2.   But the stringent Islamic code they imposed forced many changes.

3.   In Somalia, by contrast, a strict Islamic criminal code was imposed two years ago, largely to restore order.

4.   Israel said he never identified with the strict Islamic code of the Taliban, and never brutalized civilians the way they did.

5.   Mrs. Arslan accepts these rules as part of an ancient Islamic code that protects women from what is perceived as the sinful nature of men.

6.   Oumar explained that no one cheated, stole or haggled in the market thanks to the Islamic legal code.

7.   Strict Islamic codes, applied with the confidence of absolute truth, were seen as a way to cleanse a wayward country.

8.   Suicide, like drinking alcohol, is also banned by Islamic codes, he said.

9.   The clerics who run Iran are intolerant of civil authority and see it as a threat to the Islamic code.

10.   The clerics have shut down newspapers, cracked down on censorship of movies, brutally enforced strict Islamic codes, and arrested leading reformists.