A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian doctor accused of making “derogatory remarks against the beard of Prophet Muhammad”.
When ANS [Assist News Service] asked him why blasphemy allegation was leveled against him [Dr] Robin said that he was liked by most of Muslims due to his hospitable, generous and kind posture.
Some Muslims, he said started [...]

A special court holding session behind closed doors inside a Burmese prison today sentenced a young blogger named Nay Phone Latt (at right) to 20 years and 6 months incarceration.  Also, poet Saw Wai, received a two-year term for a poem containing concealed ridicule of Senior General Than Shwe, head of the governing military junta.
Reporters [...]

What would the Beatles sound like if they came back as a garage band? Probably a lot like Locksley, one of the most energetic and enthusiastic rock bands I’ve heard in a long time.
In this clip, they sing two songs from their only currently available CD, Don’t Make Me Wait. Crank it up and [...]

Tajikistan’s Council of Islamic Clerics are encouraging Tajik women not to wear hijabs; rather, women should wear traditional national clothing. The hijab, they say, is imported and “not compatible” with the norms of Islam.
So much for the argument made by many Muslims in other countries that the hijab is a religious requirement of Islam. [...]

So argues Katherine Sinnott, MEP (Member of the European Parliament), Ireland South, speaking in Rome last week.
[A]s an MEP, I also work in an environment where we have two languages, and I don’t mean English and French. I mean the language of the culture of life and the language of the culture of death and [...]

Travesty alert!
The egregious Jennifer Lynch, head of the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission, has somehow managed to wangle an invitation to lay a wreath at tomorrow’s National Remembrance Day Ceremony.  Is this supposed to make the agency appear patriotic and freedom-loving?  If so, it’s not going to work.
Ms Lynch appears set to pull off a manifestly [...]