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Two years ago tomorrow, Kurdish teenager Du’a Khalil Aswad was publicly stoned to death in an honour killing. She was of the Yazidi faith, and her “crime” was to fall in love and run away with a Muslim boy. Thousands reportedly participated in her murder in Bashiqa, northern Iraq. In her memory, the International Campaign [...]
The police commissioner of Kano State, Nigeria, has been warned not to block enforcement of Sharia law, especially the provisions against consuming or distributing alcohol. Sheik Umar Sani Fagge, Commissioner of the Sharia Commission, said this in a recent speech. Speaking in Kano, while delivering lecture on challenges of shariah implementation, Fagge said, ” the [...]
Many Saudi Arabian women seek divorce through khula, a provision of Sharia law that requires the wife to provide financial compensation to her husband. Such compensation can entail repayment of the dowry plus other expenses incurred during the marriage. Sara, a 32-year-old mother of three children, has been trying to secure a divorce from her [...]
Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN) reports that two Iranian Christian women were arrested and imprisoned earlier this month solely because of their faith. On March 5th 2009, two Iranian Christian women, Miss Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30), and Miss Maryam Rustampoor (27), were arrested by the Iranian security forces. Their only crime is that they are [...]
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, one of the Church of England’s most outspoken leaders, has unexpectedly announced his retirement as Bishop of Rochester, effective 1 September. He will turn 60 in August and could have remained in office for another ten years. Instead, he now plans to minister to Christians in Muslim-majority nations who face harassment and [...]
A woman has told a court in New Delhi, India, that she wants to marry the man accused of raping her in 2005 and has converted to Islam to make that possible. She has been ostracised and harassed since the rape and believes that marrying her rapist will put an end to her distress. A [...]
As part of a negotiated settlement with Taliban forces in Swat Valley, Pakistan has established Sharia courts in the region. However, the system is apparently not working to the satisfaction of Swat Taliban. “I am not going to change the decision as it is valid according to Sharia,” says Maulana Ehsan-ur-Rahman softly but adamantly. Maulana [...]
Last week, a Christian leader alleged that terrorists are being trained in the bush of northern Nigeria. Now comes a police intelligence report saying much the same thing. A Shiite Muslim sect is engaged in gun-running and training of militant youths drawn from 13 states in the predominantly-Muslim northern Nigeria as well as neighbouring Niger [...]
Concern is growing that Wahhabist Muslims from Sudan and Nigeria are infiltrating and transforming Islam in Cameroon. Professor of Islamic religion Father Krzysztof Zielenda spoke about the problem. He explained that “it is moving from the traditional Islam of fraternities, to an Islam marked by the Wahhabite movement,” a Muslim sect founded in Arabia in [...]
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs in the Maldives has been busy blocking access to dissident, Christian, and other unIslamic websites. Ironically, this occurs only one week after President Mohamed Nasheed announced his intention to make the Maldives a safe haven for oppressed journalists from other countries. The list of websites banned by Anni’s [Nasheed’s] government [...]
A leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria alleges that terrorists are being trained in remote areas of northern Nigeria. CAN General Secretary Elder Saidu Dogo says that, if thew government does not act against such activities, the country could be destabilised. “We should be expecting more crises because there are trainings going on in [...]
An Egyptian Islamic scholar has issued a fatwa encouraging people to monitor the condition of their neighbours’ marriages. If evidence of irreconcilable differences is found, he says, bring it to court. A fatwa or religious edict issued by a senior Egyptian cleric invites people to end their neighbours’ marriages if they can prove they are [...]
An Egyptian Muslim accused of killing a Coptic Christian doesn’t seem to understand what’s involved in a murder trial. During yesterday’s first session in the trial of the Aswan murderer Ahmed Abu-elroos, he shouted from inside his cage “Get the Infidels Out of the Courtroom, they are looking at me” The defendant meant the victim’s [...]
Indonesian singer Agnes Monica has released a pop song entitled “Allah Peduli” (“Allah Cares”), but apparently some Malaysian Muslims don’t want that message getting out. The Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS) has now banned the Indonesian song ‘Allah Peduli’ (Allah Cares) because of the word Allah in its lyrics. MAIS chairman Datuk Mohamad Adzib Mohd [...]
For the second time in a week, a Coptic Christian man has been murdered in Egypt over rumours of illicit involvement with a Muslim woman. The man’s body was found floating in the Nile. He had been abducted and tortured for nine days before being killed. Police Investigations confirmed that the victim was lured to [...]
