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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Sharization\" or \"Islamisation\" (Urdu: محمد ضیاء الحق کے اسلامی حکمرانی) was the \"primary\" policy, or \"centerpiece\" of the government of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the ruler of Pakistan from 1977 until his death in 1988. Zia has also been called \"the person most responsible for turning Pakistan into a global center for political Islam\".Pakistan had been founded as a separate Muslim-majority state for India. Zia committing himself to enforcing his interpretation of Nizam-e-Mustafa (\"Rule of the prophet\" Muhammad), i.e. establish an Islamic state and sharia law.Zia established separate \"Shariat\" courts and court benches to judge legal cases using Islamic doctrine. New criminal offenses (of adultery, fornication, and types of blasphemy), and new punishments (of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death), were added to Pakistani law. Interest payments for bank accounts were replaced by \"profit and loss\" payments. Zakat charitable donations became a 2.5% annual tax. School textbooks and libraries were overhauled to remove un-Islamic material. Offices, schools, and factories were required to offer praying space.Zia bolstered the influence of the ulama (Islamic clergy) and the Islamic parties, conservative scholars became fixtures on television.10,000s of activists from the Jamaat-e-Islami party were appointed to government posts to ensure the continuation of his agenda after his passing. Conservative ulama (Islamic scholars) were added to the Council of Islamic Ideology.In 1984 a referendum gave Zia and the Islamization program, 97.7% approval in official results. However, there have been protests against the laws and their enforcement during and after Zia's reign. Women's and human rights groups opposed incarceration of rape victims under hadd punishments, new laws that valued women's testimony (Law of Evidence) and blood money compensation (diyat) at half that of a man. Religious minorities and human rights groups opposed the \"vaguely worded\" Blasphemy Law and the \"malicious abuse and arbitrary enforcement\" of it.Possible motivations for the Islamisation programme included Zia's personal piety, desire to gain political allies, to \"fulfill Pakistan's raison d'etre\" as a Muslim state, and/or the political need to legitimise what was seen by some Pakistanis as his \"repressive, un-representative martial law regime\".How much success Zia had strengthening Pakistan's national cohesion with state-sponsored Islamisation is disputed. Shia-Sunni religious riots broke out over differences in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) -- in particular, over how Zakat donations would be distributed.There were also differences among Sunni Muslims."@en }

• Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haqs_Islamization abstract "\"Sharization\" or \"Islamisation\" (Urdu: محمد ضیاء الحق کے اسلامی حکمرانی) was the \"primary\" policy, or \"centerpiece\" of the government of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the ruler of Pakistan from 1977 until his death in 1988. Zia has also been called \"the person most responsible for turning Pakistan into a global center for political Islam\".Pakistan had been founded as a separate Muslim-majority state for India. Zia committing himself to enforcing his interpretation of Nizam-e-Mustafa (\"Rule of the prophet\" Muhammad), i.e. establish an Islamic state and sharia law.Zia established separate \"Shariat\" courts and court benches to judge legal cases using Islamic doctrine. New criminal offenses (of adultery, fornication, and types of blasphemy), and new punishments (of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death), were added to Pakistani law. Interest payments for bank accounts were replaced by \"profit and loss\" payments. Zakat charitable donations became a 2.5% annual tax. School textbooks and libraries were overhauled to remove un-Islamic material. Offices, schools, and factories were required to offer praying space.Zia bolstered the influence of the ulama (Islamic clergy) and the Islamic parties, conservative scholars became fixtures on television.10,000s of activists from the Jamaat-e-Islami party were appointed to government posts to ensure the continuation of his agenda after his passing. Conservative ulama (Islamic scholars) were added to the Council of Islamic Ideology.In 1984 a referendum gave Zia and the Islamization program, 97.7% approval in official results. However, there have been protests against the laws and their enforcement during and after Zia's reign. Women's and human rights groups opposed incarceration of rape victims under hadd punishments, new laws that valued women's testimony (Law of Evidence) and blood money compensation (diyat) at half that of a man. Religious minorities and human rights groups opposed the \"vaguely worded\" Blasphemy Law and the \"malicious abuse and arbitrary enforcement\" of it.Possible motivations for the Islamisation programme included Zia's personal piety, desire to gain political allies, to \"fulfill Pakistan's raison d'etre\" as a Muslim state, and/or the political need to legitimise what was seen by some Pakistanis as his \"repressive, un-representative martial law regime\".How much success Zia had strengthening Pakistan's national cohesion with state-sponsored Islamisation is disputed. Shia-Sunni religious riots broke out over differences in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) -- in particular, over how Zakat donations would be distributed.There were also differences among Sunni Muslims.".