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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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Saudi Judge: Slapping Your Spendthrift Wife Is OK

AP | ABDULLAH SHIHRI | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Saudi Women, Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Law, Saudi Wife Slapping, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Advocacy, Sharia, 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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What Shariah Law Is All About

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Muslim, Sharia Law, Cordoba Initiative, Islam, Burka, Islamic Radicalism, Sharia, World News
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

Rather than fear Shariah law, we should understand what it actually is. Then we can encourage Muslim countries to make the changes that achieve the essence of fairness and justice at the root of Islam.

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Tibet: Polar Perspectives. Can Both Sides Be Heard?

Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Serfs, Hanificiation, East Asian Studies Major, India, Taiwan, Mandarin, Family Planning, Dalai Lama, Colonialization, Puritans, Poverty, Native American, Han Chinese, Togo, Hong Kong, Ghana, Theocracy, Iran, Tibet, Priest Class, Anti-Chinese, Appalachia, Slaves, Singapore, U.S. Healthcare System, Ewe, Buddhist Clergy, Birth Control, Middle Kingdom, Buddhism, Separation of Church and State, Sharia, Thomas Friedman, World News
Jim Luce

The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.

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Zardari Agrees To Sharia Rule In Swat Valley

Al Jazeera | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Swat Valley Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Taliban, Sharia Law, Sharia Law Courts, Swat Taliban, Pakistan Shariah, Shariah, Swat Valley, Taliban Swat Valley, Taliban Pakistan, Sharia, Advocacy, World News

Pakistan's president has signed a regulation allowing the Taliban to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, in the country's northwestern Swat valley, a presi...

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The Smear Campaign against Harold Koh

Charles J. Brown | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Harold Koh, Glenn Beck, Sharia Law, Sharia, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

The right has gone nuts with this. Fox is running it regularly, Glenn Beck is foaming at the mouth, and numerous conservative blogs are screaming.

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President Karzai 'Legalizes' Rape

Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sharia, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan Women's Rights, Hamid Karzai Rape, World News
Taylor Marsh

In all the arguments against Obama's Afghan strategy, many coming from the left, what the President's commitment means to women is rarely in the mix.

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Nowrouz Sees Binge Of Drinking, Drugging In Iran Despite Nationwide Ban

BBC | Faraj Balafkan | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Nowruz, Iranian New Year, Sharia Law Iran, Iran Sharia, Middle East, Iran Alcohol, Nowruz, Persian New Year, Iran, Sharia Law, Iran Drugs, Sharia, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

During the month building up to Nowrouz police statistics show that on average more than 25,000 cans of alcoholic drinks and some 135,000 litres of ho...

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Somali Cabinet Backs President's Plan To Implement Sharia Law

BBC | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Shariah, Somalia Government, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Somalia, Sharia Law, Sharia, Somalia Sharia, World News

The cabinet in Somalia has endorsed a proposal by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to implement Islamic law in the country....

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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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Why Restoration of Sharia Law is No Taliban Victory

GroundReport | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Taliban, Afghanistan, Pakistan Democracy, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Sharia, World News
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Published by GroundReport.com, a global citizen news platform with over 4,000 international reporters. By Kashif Aziz Today was an historic moment f...

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Pakistan's Swat Valley: Taliban Broadcast "Wanted" Lists

The Independent | Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich in Islamabad | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Militants who have seized control of large parts of Pakistan's Swat Valley are issuing "wanted lists" for four dozen people they plan to bring before ...

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Taliban Forces Sharia Onto Large Areas of Pakistan

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Afghanistan, Nato, Pakistan, Mumbai Attacks, North West Frontier, Taliban, Lakshar E Toiba, Taliban Pakistan, Islamist Militants Pakistan, Sharia, Hangu, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

The announcement to 'go Sharia' is usually made at a mosque, by decree, at Friday prayers. Sharia is imposed by those who have the power and the weapons to tell people how they will live.

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Who Are the Taliban?

Anand Gopal | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kabul, Taliban, Sharia, Al Qaeda, Tomdispatch, Afghanistan War, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News
Anand Gopal

If there is an exact location marking the West's failures in Afghanistan, it is the modest police checkpoint that sits on the main highway 20 minutes south of Kabul. Here, the American-backed government of Afghanistan no longer exists.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Bp, Exxon Mobil, Donald Rumsfeld, Pepper Spray, Traffic Pollution, VA Chantix, Dick Cheney, Shell Oil, Iraq War Veteran, Childhood Allergies, Peak Oil, Democratic National Convention Denver, Blackwater Iraq, Clean Technology, Ptsd, No-Bid Contracts, Global Warming, Sharia, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.

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Osama Bin Laden's Letter Writing Campaign

Newsweek | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau and Mark Hosenball | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden Video, Pakistan Taliban, Al-Qaida, Taliban, Osama Bin Laden, Sharia, Politics News

Osama Bin Laden appears to be reasserting his influence among the Afghan and Pakistani tribal leaders upon whom he's depending for survival. Since Dec...

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