Archive for the 'Islam' Category
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
A Singapore court has convicted a Christian couple for handing out a particular brand of religious tracts to Muslims. The pair could be fined or even imprisoned.
A Singapore court Thursday has found a Christian couple guilty for distributing seditious and objectionable publications to Muslims, media reports said. Between March and December 2007, Ong Kian Cheong, [...]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
A British judge went out of his way to denounce “honour” crimes in a case involving three children of Pakistani descent being cared for by a non-Muslim family. The children’s mother is in prison for setting her sister-in-law’s house on fire in a dispute involving alleged violations of family honour. The father [...]
Filed under: Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, Life Issues, United Kingdom
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
A British Muslim mother has been sentenced to three years for forcing her school-age daughters to marry cousins in Pakistan.
A Muslim mother who forced her two daughters to marry their cousins in Pakistan has been jailed for three years and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.
She told her elder daughter that if she didn’t [...]
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
So says Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (at right), a British Muslim peer, Conservative MP, and Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action.
PC SENSITIVITIES must not block efforts to protect women from forced marriage and violence, a leading Muslim peer said yesterday.
Sayeeda Warsi believes “white liberalism” – the belief people cannot talk about such matters because [...]
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
US President Barack Obama has chosen Egypt as the site of his promised major speech to the Muslim world. Christian Freedom International (CFI) hopes he will not overlook Egypt’s atrocious record of trampling on the religious liberties of Christians.
According to [CFI President Jim] Jacobson, “When it comes to human rights and the treatment of minority [...]
Filed under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, Non-Christian Religions, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United States
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
So much for that “Islamic solidarity” stuff.
Tehran has canceled the Islamic Solidarity Games after Saudi Arabia asked Iran to remove the term Persian Gulf from game medals and brochures.
The Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) Secretary General Saleh Gazdar and Technical Committee Chairman Mohammad Bashir Al-Trabosli said in a Tehran meeting that Arab states would only [...]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issued a letter of greeting to the Coptic Diaspora on the occasion of Easter, which Eastern Christians celebrated on 19 April. Voice of the Copts says President Mubarak’s letter contains Taquiah—dissimulation or falsehood permitted by Islam under certain conditions. (The word is also spelled “Taqiyya” in English.)
In last week’s [...]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
A Glasgow jewellery shop has decided to bar individuals wearing face coverings after being robbed by two men in Muslim female dress. BBC News reports.
ATAA Jewellers in the west end of Glasgow was raided by two Asian men entirely covered apart from their eyes.
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The two girls working at the time were left so shaken [...]
Filed under: Islam, Law Crime and Legal Issues, United Kingdom
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
In an interview published in Macleans, Hossain Ali Ramoz, executive director of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, insists that most Afghan Shia Muslims do not support the controversial law obligating a wife to “fulfill the sexual desires of her husband”.
Afghanistan’s Shias, most of whom belong to the Hazara ethnic group, are typically among the most [...]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Four Christian leaders in Camden, Australia, have spoken against the construction of a Muslim school. Their attack goes beyond the logistics of this particular project to condemn Islam itself.
Most astonishing (to me, anyway) is that one of the Christians leaders is Anglican.
Calling the religion an ideology driven by world domination, a submission to the [...]
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
The British Home Office calls it “search engine optimisation”, but that’s just a euphemism for “manipulation”. Whatever you call it, it’s idiotic and futile.
Whitehall officials will train pro-West Islamic groups to manipulate their Google search ranking in an attempt to drown out extremist voices online, The Register has learned.
The policy is being developed despite recent [...]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Muslim militants set upon Christians and burned churches in Niger state, northern Nigeria, during Easter celebrations last weekend. Christian services and processions were attacked in the state capital of Minna and the nearby town of Gwada.
[T]he day turned bloody in Gwada, where three churches were burnt while about 26 Christians were injured. In Minna, [...]
Filed under: Africa, Christianity, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Good news! Hamoud Bin Saleh, who was arrested in January after announcing on his blog that he had converted from Islam to Christianity, has been released from detention. Although he was freed in late March, the news was only reported today by Middle East Concern.
Hamoud was arrested on 13th January 2009 and detained [...]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a bloc of 57 Muslim states, has announced plans to establish its own “independent” human tights commission. This is the same bunch of tyrants that wants to outlaw criticism of Islam around the world.
Eklemeddin İhsanoğlu, the OIC Secretary-General, stressed in a statement Monday that “human rights and man’s [...]
Filed under: Christianity, International, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Muslim-born Christian convert Maher Mu’Tasim—whose Christian name is now Peter Athanasius—has sued to force Egyptian authorities officially to recognise the change of religion for himself and his 14-year-old daughter Dina (at right). During a court session in February, a state lawyer made the ludicrous claim that Christianity mandates killing of apostates.
Last week in court, according [...]
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