When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan by strict Shariah, girls were forbidden from going to school. Since their overthrow, the Taliban have carried out brutal revenge attacks on female students… KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan […]
“Once again, we see evidence of a nexus between fundraising in the West and the imposition of brutal Shariah and terrorism around the globe.”crowds flocing in Somalia to witness stoning London fundraisers linked to stoning of 13-year-old Girl who tells Shariah court of rape is convicted, executed for ‘adultery’ Posted: November 11, 2008 […]
Somalis grow fearful of Islamists By Mohamed Mohamed BBC Somali Service Public anger at the recent stoning of a 13-year-old girl in Somalia shows the growing resentment towards radical Islamists who have gained control of much of the south and centre of the country. Insurgents from the militant group al-Shabab are seen as authoritarian and […]
Aqsa Parvez had a choice: wear a hijab to please her devout family or take it off and be like her friends. She paid for her decision with her life. When her father and brother were charged with her murder, it raised the spectre of religious zealotry in the suburbs. Is this the price of […]
Tokyo Correspondent Islamic radicals support stoning women, terrorism, and killing converts to Christianity. Islamic radicals in Somalia desire to create an Islamic state based on Sharia Islamic law and the brutality of their thinking can be seen by recent events in Somalia. This most notably applies to stoning a young lady to death and beheading […]
Top News Somali stoning victim said to be 13 Published: Nov. 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM Order reprints | Feedback KISMAYO, Somalia, Nov. 4 (UPI) — A young Somali woman stoned to death by a crowd was 13 years old, not 23 as reported by local news media, human rights activists say. Some 50 […]
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/me_hamas0653_10_29.asp Though this article does not come out and use the term sharia by name, HAMAS is a Jihadist organization that imposes sharia and these rules restricting women are standard sharia fare.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7694397.stm Once again, we have a stark example of sharia in actual practice. We should all realize that sharia is a doctrine that is meant to be followed by all faithful Muslims. Sharia is not meant to be adhered to in some instances, such as finance, and ignored in others, like law. Allowing this barbaric […]
Muslim Cleric Faces Possible Criminal Charges for Marrying 12-Year-Old Contest Winner Monday, October 27, 2008 A wealthy Indonesian Muslim cleric faces accusations of having illegal sex with a minor after marrying a 12-year-old girl selected for him through a contest. Pujiono Cahyo Widianto, a 43-year-old owner of an Islamic boarding school, wed and likely […]
Malaysia bans women from wearing men’s clothes and lesbian sexual relations Malaysian women have been banned from “tom-boyism” and lesbian sexual relations in a fatwa from one of the country’s top religious authorities. By Thomas Bell, South East Asia Correspondent Last Updated: 9:02AM BST 24 Oct 2008 According to the chairman of the […]
Iran Holding California College Student in Prison Friday , October 24, 2008 CAIRO, Egypt — An American university student in Iran to visit family and research women’s rights has been arrested and held in prison for more than a week, rights group Amnesty International said. Esha Momeni, a student at California State University, Northridge, was […]
Comments come as Lords rule on Lebanese woman seeking asylum in UK Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 23 2008 16.29 BST Article history The House of Lords today drew stark attention to the conflict between sharia and UK law, calling the Islamic legal code “wholly incompatible” with human rights legislation. The remarks […]
Egyptian man’s double-murder erroneously labeled “Honor crime” label removed from FBI poster Honor killing controversy Label is legal designation DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) The FBI has removed the term “honor killing” from the wanted poster of an Egyptian man wanted for the murder of his two daughters in a move meant to appease American Muslims offended by […]
Posted on October 23, 2008www.Muslimsagainstshariah.blogspot.com Letter to the Birmingham Post from Imkaan I write with grave concern about the development of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals (MAT). The purpose of these courts seem extremely worrying as it is evidential that traditional Sharia law does not meet the contemporary needs and rights of women, certainly not in […]
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Women protest over prayers 6:29pm Friday 17th October 2008 By Fran Bardsley » Protesters demonstrated outside a Muslim centre in North Oxford to object to a woman leading an Islamic prayer meeting. Today’s prayers, at the Muslim Education Centre of Oxford, in Banbury Road, were thought to be the first time a woman has led […]
By Nayereh Tohidi – WeNews commentator (WOMENSENEWS)–In Iran, the government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently proposed a bill and, in Orwellian fashion, named it the “Family Protection Law.” If passed it would have threatened the stability, equilibrium, and mental health of families by reinforcing and facilitating polygamy, temporary marriage, and men’s privileged position with […]
www.daylife.com Photo of another girls school bombed in Pakistan PAKISTAN: TALIBAN BOMBS CATHOLIC GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL Blast claims no victims but reflects radical Islam’s tightened grip. ISTANBUL, October 14 (Compass Direct News) – Taliban militants bombed a Catholic-run girls’ school in Pakistan’s war-torn Swat Valley as part of a larger effort to subvert women’s status […]
www.ameinfo.com New drive for women’s rights A NEW campaign has been launched for a better deal for women facing divorce or other domestic disputes in Sharia courts.Women claim the courts are biased in favour of men, despite Islam and the Sharia law stipulating fair treatment for all.Campaigner Amal Juma Abdulla says women face humiliation […]
www.allthingsbeautiful.com EGYPT: FATHER’S BRIEF CONVERSION TRAPS DAUGHTERS IN ISLAM Two Christian sisters battle to regain religious identity following forgery charges. ISTANBUL, October 10 (Compass Direct News) – An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to uphold her Islamic identity – an identity she didn’t know she had […]
www.refugeesinternational.org The Monitor (Kampala) 10 October 2008 Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Grace Matsiko Kampala Four Ugandan women are among people arrested in Juba, South Sudan for alleged indecent dressing. “I was going to buy sauce at the market in Konyokonyo and three policemen stopped me and ordered me to get into […]
www.ordoesitexplode.com Some women thrive on ‘misyar’ business Arjuwan Lakkdawala | Arab News JEDDAH: Misyar marriages are usually clandestine and the women in most cases forfeit all their rights. Why should any women accept such conditions? The reason is usually a lack of options to get married traditionally. Some may have passed the most-sought-after marriage […]
New Tunisian film calls attention to inheritance law 2008-10-08 Women only receive half as much under Shariah Islamic Law. Oppression of Women under Shariah is intense, and follows in death as well. A controversial new Tunisian movie calls attention to how Islamic law determines the distribution of inheritances between male and female heirs. On the […]
www.myopera.com Family Security Matters, NJ October 08 2008 By M. Zuhdi Jasser Recently on Pajamas Media, Supna Zaidi of Islamist Watch addresses the Atlanta murder and July 2008 “honor killing” of Sandela Kanwal. She asked the question concerning the July murder, “Does Islam Justify Honor Killings?” Her outrage over the murder and the increasing prevalence of […]
Mother is denied pill by Muslim pharmacist A woman was refused the “morning-after pill” by a supermarket’ s duty pharmacist because it was against his religious beliefs. By Paul Stokes Last Updated: 3:56PM BST 03 Oct 2008 Ruth Johnson, 33, who has two children, including a month-old baby, had not been using her usual […]
Typical niqub of an Egyptian Woman, living in heat of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Limited sight, movement and speech. Comments by Allyson Rowen Taylor Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood on Women’s Rights07/10/2008By Hamdee Saleem Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – Muhammad Mahdi Akif, general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, told declared to Asharq Al-Awsat that, “The […]
Spare Me the Sermon On Muslim Women By Mohja Kahf Sunday, October 5, 2008 Crimson chiffon, silver lamé or green silk: Which scarf to wear today? My veil collection is 64 scarves and growing. The scarves hang four or five to a row on a rack in my closet, and elation fills me when […]
Saudi cleric urges Muslim women to cover up all but one eye By Haaretz Service How much more covered can a woman get? www.instablogimages.com Saudi cleric Sheikh Mohammed al-Habadan has declared that a Muslim veil, or hijab, that covers all but the eyes encourages women to use eye make-up to look seductive, the BBC reported […]
Acid, the new weapon for disfiguring women By Nozrul Islam Dhaka (AsiaNews) – Women in Bangladesh suffer marginalization. And the violence against them, at home and outside, continues to grow. Recently, a new weapon has been added: acid, which disfigures their faces and bodies. Parul’s husband is 30 years old. In 2000, he disfigured her […]
UAE: DUBAI GETS WORLD’S FIRST WOMEN-ONLY TOWER (ANSAmed) – DUBAI, OCTOBER 1 – Hydra Properties, one of the leading real estate developers in the UAE, has completed excavation work on what is being billed as the world’s first tower exclusively for businesswomen, the Abu Dhabi-based developer said […]
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