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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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Who Speaks for Islam?

Dalia Mogahed | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Barack Obama, Sharia Law, Muslim Womens Rights, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Gallup, Sharia, World News
Dalia Mogahed

From Morocco to Malaysia, Muslim respondents described their respect for much of what the West holds dear: freedom of the press, the rule of law, and transparency and accountability of government.

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Taliban YouTube Channel: Group Creates YouTube Channel To Spread Propaganda (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Istqlal, Afghanistan, Channel, Terrorism, Pakistan, Taliban, Fareed Zakaria, YouTube Channel, Pashtun, Portlant, Istqlalmedia, Youtube Videos, Youtube, New Media, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Taleban, Sharia, World News

The enemy in Afghanistan has discovered YouTube. CNN's Fareed Zakaria briefly reported on the Taliban's foray into new media during his show on Su...

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Political Hooliganism is Now Part of the Democratic Process

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Tories, Stop Islamification of Europe, Birmingham, Muslims, Enlgish Defence League, Liberal Democrats, British National Party, Sharia, World News
Sabria Jawhar

Political debate legitimizes fringe groups. It allows these groups to obscure racism and xenophobia with phony arguments of UK border security while the real work is performed in the street.

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Palin Supports Corsi: District 9 Is a Documentary

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Charles Grassley, Death Panels, The Rapture, Immigration, Iran, Obama, Media, Facebook, Civil Rights, The Washington Post, South Africa, Politics, Liz Cheney, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, Illegal Immigrants, Gop, Washington Post, Health Care, Sharia, Abortion, Birthers, Twitter, Food Stamps, Books, The New York Times, Lou Dobbs, Aliens, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Illegal Aliens, Tom Coburn, District 9, Jerome Corsi, Todd Palin, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Return-of-Shantytowns, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alaska, NY Times, Metacritic, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

An indignant Palin immediately released a series of searing Facebook status updates denouncing the impending alien immigrant infestation as "icky" and "un-American,"

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Iran's Dark Secret: Child Prostitution and Sex Slaves

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Prostitution Behind the Veil, Child Prostitution Rings Iran, Iran Sexual Trafficking, Iran Prostitution, Sigheh, Iran, Nahid Persson, Sharia Law, Iran Child Prostitution, Islamic Revolutionary Council, Sharia, World News
Reporters Uncensored

In a recent report by the U.S. State Department, Iran was listed among the dozen countries with the poorest record of human trafficking. In recent years, child prostitution has risen 635 percent.

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Model in Malaysia To Be Caned For Drinking Beer

AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Muslim, Alcohol, Model, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, Malaysia, Sharia, Caning, Islamic Law and Alcohol, World News

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Muslim part-time model will be caned next week, becoming the first woman in Malaysia to be given the punishment under...

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Somalia: Islamists Yank Gold Teeth Of 'Sinners'

Huffington Post | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Somalia Islamists, Somalia Violence, Somali Insurgents, Somali Islamists, Foreign Affairs, Somalia Terrorists, Somalia, Al Shabaab, Sharia Law, Sharia Law Courts, Sharia, Advocacy, Somalia Tooth, Somalia Gold Teeth, Al Shabab Teeth, Gold Teeth Somalia, World News

The notorious Somali Islamist group al Shabaab is yanking gold and silver teeth from the mouths of people in southern Somalia for transgressing from I...

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Iraq Women Wrestlers Spark Controversy

Huffington Post | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Islam, Olympic Wrestling, Sports, Wrestling, Foreign Affairs, Women's Rights Iraq, Iraq, Sharia, Advocacy, Diwaniya, Iraq Wrestler, Huffington Post Iraq Women Wrestlers, Iraq Women Wrestlers, World News

A new women's wrestling team in Diwaniya, Iraq, south of Baghdad, is sparking controversy with the countries more traditionally religious and conserva...

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Lubna Hussein Pants Trial Adjourns Until Tuesday

Huffington Post/Associated Press | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Lubna Hussein, Sudan Flogging, Hijab, Foreign Affairs, Flogging Women, Sharia Law, Sharia Law Courts, Flogging, Lubna Ahmed Al-Hussein, Shariah, Sudan, Flog, Sudan Sharia, Sudan Human Rights, Advocacy, Sharia, Sudanes Lady Trial Indecent Clothes, Lubna Husein, Lubna Husein Punishment, Lubna Hussein Pants Trial Adjourns Until Tuesday, Flog a Female Journalist, Hussein Pants, Lubna Hussain Pants Trial, Lubna Hussain, Huffington Post Lashes Sudan Pants, World News

Lubna Hussein, who was arrested July 3 for wearing pants and is now standing trial, openly defied the court by wearing the very same outfit to trial t...

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Mazen Abdul Jawad: Saudi Man Jailed For Bragging Of Sexual Exploits On TV

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia Jail, Saudi Arabia Law, Jailed for Bragging, Saudi Television, Saudi Tv, Advocacy, Shariah, Saudi Arabia Sharia, Sharia Law, Sharia Law Courts, Sharia, Mazen Abdul Jawad, Abdul Jawad, Mazen Abdul Jawad Video, Mazen Abdel Jawad Video, Saudi Man Lbc, Mazen Abdel Jawad, Mazen Abdul Jawad Lbc, Lbc Mazen Abdul Jawad, World News

A Saudi man who lewdly bragged of sexual exploits on Lebanese television channel LBC's "Red Line" has been jailed, Arab News reports. On the show, Ma...

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Beer-Drinking Muslim Model, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, Sentenced To Public Flogging In Malaysia

AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Malaysia, Malaysia Islam, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno Flogging, Sharia, Sharia Law, Shariah, Sharia Law Courts, Malaysia Sharia Law, Malaysia Islamic Court, Islamic Court, Religion, Islam, Flogging, Kartika Sari Dewi, Shukarno, Kartika Shukarno, Kartika Sari, Sari Dewi Shukarno, Kartika Sari Dewi Shu-Karno, Model Shukarno, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno Photo, Dewi Shukarno, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukamo, Kartika, Kartika Dari Dewi Shukarno, Kartika Sari Devi, Kartika Sari Shukarno, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnoa, Kartika Malaysia, Public Flogging, World News

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — An Islamic court in Malaysia has sentenced a Muslim woman to be flogged with a rattan cane for having a beer in a night...

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Adulterous Saudi Princess Granted British Asylum For Fears Of Death Penalty

The Independent | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Saudi Princess, Shariah, United Kingdom, Saudi King Abdullah, England, Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, Sharia Law, Sharia Law Courts, Saudi Royal Family, Advocacy, Sharia, Saudi News, Women of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Princess and British, Death Penalty Saudi Princess, Saudi Princess Honour, Saudi Princess Fled to England, Adulterous Princess, Saudi Princess Asylum, Saudi Princess Prosecution, Saudi Princess Granted British Asylum, Saudi Princess Uk Asylum Comments, Saudi Princess Granted Amnesty, Saudi Princess Given Asylum, Saudi, Saudi Princess in Uk Court, Saudi Princess Adultery, Adulterous Saudi Princess, Princess Asylum, World News

By Robert Verkaik | The Independent A Saudi Arabian princess who had an illegitimate child with a British man has secretly been granted asylum in thi...

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A Jealous Wife's Revenge Makes for Bad Law

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Regulation, Adultery, Sharia Law, Sharia, Uae, Citicorp, Discrimination, Ubs, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

What should be clear to everyone in the UAE is that sex outside marriage is against the law. This is not France. What isn't clear is whether the implementation of this law is even-handed.

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Sundance Film Afghan Star Incredible

Jim Luce | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Islam, Sundance Film Festival, Islamic Council, Britain’s Got Talent, Pakistan, United Nations, Adam Lambert, The Kite Runner, Democracy, Mathew Luce, Film, Dari, Oprah Winfrey, Muslim, Havana Marks, Pashtun, Herat, Taliban, Documentary, Rachel Reid, Pop Idol, Dance, Afghanistan, Sharia, Ismail Khan, American Idol, Afghan Star, Incredible, Mujahiddeen, Barack Obama, World News
Jim Luce

Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What I would normally consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary here.

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The iPod and the Queen, the Kindle and the King

Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Egypt Speech, Islam, Women's Rights, Obama Egypt, Obama Cairo, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Obama Mideast Trip, Sharia Law, Obama Mideast Speech, Obama Cairo Speech, Sharia, World News
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Promotion of literacy for girls is a noble cause. But unless sharia laws are repealed, more girls will find themselves in flogging pens rather than rising up the career ladder.

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Afghanistan Cracks Down On Alcohol Consumption

GlobalPost | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan Alcohol Prohibition, Shariah, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Alcohol, Afghanistan Parliament, Sharia Law, Afghan Parliament, Sharia, Advocacy, World News

Afghanistan's parliament has passed a tough new bill mandating harsh punishments for alcohol. Those who buy, sell, or consume the evil brew can be fin...

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Women's Rights In Afghanistan Depends On Where One Lives

Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Ann Jones, Foreign Aid, Usaid, Islam, Women's Rights, Women, Rotary International, Violence Against Women, Women's Issues, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, US Foreign Aid, Sharia Law, Taliban, Robert Greenwald, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Development Aid, Religion, Women for Afghan Women, Women and Politics, Women Education, Taliban Women's Rights, Afghan Taliban, Advocacy, Sharia, World News
Stuart Whatley

Conditions in Afghanistan are acutely compartmentalized. Reports from one village can be bright and optimistic while another locale is rife with atrocities towards women and girls.

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"Menahi": Saudi Movie Screened In Riyadh First Time In 30 Years

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: Saudi Arabia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Menahi Saudi Movie, Riyadh, King Abdullah, Saudi King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Saudi Women, Sharia, Sharia Law, Islam, Menahi, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia, Film Menahi, Saudis Movies, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — For the first time in three decades, Saudis in the nation's capital did something that most Westerners take for granted _...

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Pure Politics: The Koh Nomination Fight Drags On

Jay Michaelson | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, John Cornyn, Recess Appointments, Sonia Sotomayor, Harold Koh, Fox News, Harry Reid, Bush Recess Appointments, Ken Starr, David Vitter, Sharia, Harold Koh Nominee for State Department Legal Advisor, Confirmation Hearings, Politics News
Jay Michaelson

The Republicans are starving for a victory -- any victory -- and if they can block Harold Koh, then, hey, at least that's something. But it's always been a bit more than that.

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Pakistani Women Protest Taliban But Support Islamic Law (VIDEO)

Link TV - Global Pulse | Evelyn Messinger | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Taliban Flogging, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Pakistan Flogging Video, Sharia Law, Taliban, Pakistani Women, Pakistan Shariah, Taliban Flogging Girl, Video, Shariah, Swat Valley, Taliban Fighters, Taliban Pakistan, Taliban Women's Rights, Advocacy, Sharia, World News

Evelyn Messinger | Link TV - Global Pulse In February, the now-famous video of a young woman being flogged by Taliban brought women in cities across...

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Somali President Ahmed Enacts Islamic Sharia Law; Insurgency Continues

Voice Of America | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Somalia Government, Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Somalia Islamic Insurgents, Somalia Islamist Insurgents, Somalia, Advocacy, Sharia, Somalia Sharia, Mogadishu-Somalia, World News

As Islamist insurgents continued an assault on government forces in Mogadishu, President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed signed a bill late Wednesday enacting Isl...

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Palestinian Woman Judge Transforming Islamic Court

Christian Science Monitor | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Khouloud El-Faqeeh, Religion, Union of Islamic Courts, Shariah, Islamic Courts Union, West Bank, Middle East, Foreign Affairs, Sharia Law, Advocacy, Sharia, World News

Khouloud el-Faqeeh has shattered the glass ceiling of Islamic jurisprudence. After years of pushing to break into the all-male ranks of sharia judges...

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Judge Hamad Al-Razine, WIFE SLAP RULING

AP | ABDULLAH SHIHRI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Saudi Arabia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Judge Hamad Al-Razine, Slap, Wife Slap, Judge Hamad Al-Razine Slap, Saudi Women, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Saudi Judges, Sharia, Sharia Law, Shariah, Wife Slapping, Beat Wife, Wife Slap Ruling, Wife Slapping Ruling, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully ...

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Pakistan: How Did We Get Here?

Huffington Post Contributor | Ahsan Butt | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Military, Fazlur Rehman, Taliban, Nawaz Sharif, Afghanistan, India, Sharia, Spotlight on Pakistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

Pakistanis of all stripes -- from the media to the public, the political leadership to the military -- must unite in the face of this threat.

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