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Shariah in Lawless Somalia

Abukar Arman | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Shabab, Shariah, Governance, Somalia, Hizbul-Islam, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Religion and Politics, Islamic Law, Tfg, World News

Can lawless Somalia be governed by Shariah? It depends! The Somali people are desperate for a government and indeed a system of governance that they can invest their trust in.

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Indonesia: Adulterers Can Now Be Stoned To Death In Aceh Province

AP | FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Shariah Police, Stoning to Death, Aceh Indonesia Islamic Law, Indonesia Islam, Homosexuality, Aceh Indonesia, Indonesia, Shariah, Islamic Law, Aceh, Aceh Islamic Law, Indonesia Islamic Law, Woman Stoned Death Video, Indonesia Adulterers, Aceh Jakarta Stoning, Stoning, Stoning to Death in Aceh, World News

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stonin...

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The Rape of Iranian Women -- Under Reported?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Mainstream Media, Rape of Iranian Women, Iran, Women Demonstrators in Iran, Rape, Iran Election 2009 Demonstrations, The Jerusalem Post, Youtube, Iran Violence, Iran Videos, The National Council of Resistance of Iran, Torture, Islamic Law, World News

I had been hearing stories about women demonstrators being raped before their executions, since it was against Islamic law to execute a virgin.

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Sudan: Women Allegedly Lashed For Wearing Trousers

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan, Sudan News, Corporal Punishment, Sharia Law, Islamic Law, Arab Africa, Lashed for Wearing Trousers, Lashed for Trousers, BBC Africa, Sudan Lashings, Sudanese Law, Women Lashed, Women Lashing, Sudan Law, Dressing Indecently, Women's Rights, World News

Sudanese women have been flogged for wearing trousers, according to a local journalist who is also facing the punishment, the BBC reports. Journalist...

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Stoning Soraya, Murdering Neda, and the Hope of Muslim Women

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Politics, Religion, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Law, Iran Election, The Stoning of Soraya M, Women and Politics, Religion and Politics, Muslim, Neda, Movies, New Movies, World News

No wonder, given stories like Soraya's and Neda's, that people worldwide assume Islam is oppressive of women.

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The Neo-Islamists' March of Ignorance

Abukar Arman | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: War in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shariah, Islamic Courts, Islamists, Islamic Law, Tfg, World News

Neo-Islamists can only win this war of ideas when they succeed in winning the hearts and minds of the Somali people, yet they seem convinced that sustained violence will achieve them that end.

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Dubai Crash: Mother Convicted Of Manslaughter For Losing Unborn Baby

AFP | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Dubai, Islamic Law, Shariah, Crime, Uae Mother Manslaughter, Dubai Baby Manslaughter, United Arab Emirates, Dubai Mother, World News

A mother who lost her unborn baby in a Dubai road crash has been convicted of manslaughter and ordered to pay blood money, in the first such ruling in...

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Piracy, Geopolitics, and Private Security

Abukar Arman | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Somalia, Fishing, Piracy, Islamic Law, Somali Pirates, Robert Kaplan, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Aden, Humanitarian Aid, Phil Carter, World News

Piracy is not only disrupting international trade, it is preventing the flow of humanitarian aid to several million Somalis and is perpetuating the very culture that kept Somalia in an abyss of anarchy.

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Pakistan Taliban Exploit Class Rifts To Gain Power

New York Times | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Pakistan Islamists, Islamic Law, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Pakistan Islamic Law, Peshawar Pakistan, Taliban, Pakistan-Swat-Valley, Islamists, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small gro...

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Taliban Whips Young Girl For Being With Married Man

Guardian.co.uk | By Declan Walsh | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Maulana Fazlullah, Muslim Khan, Women's Rights, Taliban Brutality, Sharia Law, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Taliban, Islamic Law, Afghanistan, Taliban Influence in Pakistan, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, World News

A video showing a teenage girl being flogged by Taliban fighters has emerged from the Swat Valley in Pakistan, offering a shocking glimpse of militant...

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Pakistan President Emerging As Divisive Figure

Wsj.com | By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ZAHID HUSSAIN | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan, Peshawar, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Swat Valley, Nawaz Sharif, Taliban, President Asif Zardari, Afghanistan, Gen. Ashaq Kayani, Karachi, Punjab, Islamic Law, World News

When Asif Ali Zardari won the presidency last year, he vowed to unite this fractious country after nearly a decade of military rule. Instead, Mr. Zard...

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Pakistan: Swat Valley Locals Relieved With Sharia Peace

The Times Of India | Nandita Sengupta | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Mingora, Taliban, Sharia Law, Sharia Peace, Peace, Peace Deal, Pakistan Taliban Peace Deal, Peshawar, Shariah, Middle East, Taliban Peace, Swat Valley, Taliban Swat Valley, Pakistan Peace, Sharia, Islamic Law, World News

There was general merriment on the streets of Mingora, the valley's most important town, say activists based in Peshawar and Mingora. Not everybody su...

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Pakistan Agrees To Impose Islamic Law In Parts Of Country

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Us Missile Strikes, Swat Valley Shariah, Pakistan Taliban Ceasefire, Pakistan Taliban Cease-Fire, Shariah, Islamic Law, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Taliban, Pakistan Shariah, Al Qaeda, Pakistan Impose Islamic Law, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan agreed Monday to suspend military offensives and impose Islamic law in part of the restive northwest, making a ges...

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