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Aceh, Indonesia’s northernmost province, has this month been compared to Somalia, Nigeria and even Iraq. So it goes when lawmakers decide that death by stoning is an appropriate punishment for adultery.
The fact is the law goes much further than...
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The Saharan sands stretching north from this fabled outpost have long been a trade route and cultural crossroads, and this past year has brought worrying signs that the...
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It always sounded so obnoxious to me when American pundits would chastise the Muslim world for supposedly being too tied to religious law and then contrast this...
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A Mosque was recently vandalized in France - home to western Europe’s largest Muslim population numbered at 5-6 million or 10% of the population.
When Muslim...
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Persecution of Christians is an ongoing problem in Pakistani villages, and the police often do absolutely nothing to ameliorate the problem. In one particularly violent...
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sami,
It liberates. It represses. It is a prayer. It is a prison. It protects. It obliterates.
Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been...
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The Minister of Interior is reported to have ordered the immediate detention and flogging of a 75-year-old woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, along with two Saudi Arabian...
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One is often asked whether or not Pakistan will survive the current crisis. You tell them that, yes, Pakistan will survive. After all, territories don’t grow feet to...
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“Veiled Voices” is a documentary into the lives of three women - one Lebanese, one Syrian, one Egyptian - and as with “Beirut Diaries” it lets...
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The Swiss have voted for their referendum, and the vote has decided against the building of Islamic Minarets in Switzerland. Middle Eastern press called it a racist...
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After the expected banning of minarets by the Swiss voters, the Moroccan higher council of Islamic scholars expressed their disappointment over this form of extremism...
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The Swiss Minaret ban is the worst expression of Western bigotry since the days of Nazi anti-Semitism. It did not even play the pretense of banning all religious...
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President Obama - elected on an anti-war platform - is about to greatly escalate America’s war in Afghanistan. The America media will term this the Afghanistan...
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So Switzerland - a nation that only gave women the right to vote in 1970 - voted over the weekend to ban the construction of Minarets in Mosques.
Alessandro Della...
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In a new illustration of American xenophobia directed against their fellow Muslim citizens, electronics retailers Best Buy has come under criticism for wishing Muslims...
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President Obama is keen to make well with the Muslim world. While bringing peace in Palestine is arduous is politically costly, Obama could take an costless and...
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For Muslims this week is one of the holiest, it is the week of the Hajj. Millions will descend to the most holiest site in Islam and perform the Hajj - one of the Five...
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The Kabob invasion of Italia
The right-wing government Silvio Berlusconi has found a new arena to launch a xenophobic agenda: food.
Apparently Eurobia fears do not...
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This week marked the anniversary of two important historical events. Each took place in different time periods and in different parts of the world, but they remain...
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Arab-Americans have long settled in the United States. It is believed that amongst Columbus’ crew were several Arabs and even Muslims. That is very plausible....
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The United States is regrettably home to too many shoting: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Waco, and the same week that the Ft. Hood shoting took place an unemployed man in...
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Indonesia — Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stoning, just months after voters...
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