Legal Islamization and the challenges of human rights : a case study of religious-derived bylaws in Indonesia

For some Muslims, to distinguish between law as a branch of religion and law as a secular product of the state is an odd practice. Any law enacted in Muslim countries has to take religious aspects into account. Otherwise, it creates resentment and opposition of certain religious leaders. As law and religion mostly appear to be conflicting in the modern world, it is no wonder that many religious leaders sought to resolve disputes between religion and the modern nation-state. A simple way to do so was to subjugate a state to religion, or precisely to religionize (or lslamize) legal political system of a state.