βBangladesh has a secular legal system and applying Sharia in criminal cases is illegal.β The stoning was certainly in accord with Sharia. Stoning adulterers is not βextremistβ; it is Islamic law. The caliph Umar, one of Muhammadβs closest companions, even maintained that it was originally in the Qurβan: βUmar said, βI am afraid that after [β¦]