Adelle M. Banks reports Wednesday on Pat Robertson’s controversial statements about assassinating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Criticism of his comments has spread across the religious spectrum, and today Robertson says that when he said the U.S. should “take him out” he wasn’t referring to assassination.

With the current debate over the new Iraqi constitution, and the role of Islam in it, Andrea Useem considers the disagreements over different interpretations of sharia, or Islamic law: Muslims around the world are divided themselves over exactly what Islamic law, or sharia as it is known in Arabic, is and how it should be applied. In its broadest sense, sharia is a system of laws based on the Quran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Like other legal systems, it has been elaborated on and debated by centuries of trained scholars. The result? Competing schools of legal thought on a body of work that primarily addressed the concerns of Muslim life centuries ago.