2- What is Shari'a?
As any other religion, Islam comes with laws which includes rights and duties, and together they are called Shari'a.
As it is obvious, "Shai'a" (شريعة) is an Arabic word which means law and path to follow, and Islam in general is the right path and the only way to understand the truth and to make peace in the world. "Shari'a" in general is a set of rules, duties and rights for all human beings and not only for Muslims. Unfortunatly, and because of the big haters towards Islam and Muslims, they make it sound as a horrible thing by relating it to killings and inhumanity, and this is what people believe in.
The first thing in "Shari'a" is to understand that killing is not allowd and that it is the most horrible thing a Muslim can do, unless he is defending himself and Islam from those who wants to kill him. And generally speaking "Shari'a" comes to say treat others the way you want to be treated, plus a solution to stop crimes and keep everybody's pride, and grow a community based on respect and fully understanding the rights and duties. Also, through "Shari'a" we know how to love each other and instead of complaining and digging for nonsence so called "rights", we learn how to perform our duties and seek perfection in every single thing we do, in order to build a strng community and in order to offer the best services and the best quality of anything.
"Shari'a" is the Quran itself, and you will never understand Shari'a if you don't understand the Holy Quran, it is even difficult for Arabic people to understand if they don't study it, same as studying law. However it's not that complicated as human law it is, nor it has flows as human laws have, and we all know and understand that the flows in human laws make a lot of mess in the community and in the world, and because of these flows criminals can be considered as oppressed and vice versa.
While you are living for sun, and seeking only your own benefit, be sure that you won't be able to see the truth because simply you don't want to and you don't like to know it nor you like to make other knowing it. you can only know and understand the truth if only you "want" to.
Finally, we all understand and know who are those behind all this misunderstanding, mess, and false accusations, but we don't want to stop this because we benefit from it and because we are afraid from the future that we even don't know about! to understand more, take a little time to read the Holy Quran and its explanation through the messenger of Allah Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him. And like Christians and other religious people say about their books "let the book lead you to the meaning" I am going to say the same to you while reading the holy Quran. If you are seeking the truth and knowledge I am sure you will get. Our life is in our will which is part of Allah's will.
Shari'a simply means law and path.