Difference Between Sharia Law And The Us Constitution

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Another difference between the Sharia Law and the U.S Constitution is in the strange way the admission and use of evidence is handled during the court proceedings. For instance, under the US justice system both oral and written evidence are admitted, while Sharia Law seems to allow only the use of oral evidence. Their reasoning for preference of use of oral evidence over other types of evidence is that the other evidence can possibly be forged or tampered with by interested parties. This seems to be a ridiculously made argument, in the case of rape, written evidence including expert opinion is required for an impartial judgment to be made given, this would seem to be a time when written evidence would be needed the most. In fact, the US law

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