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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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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

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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Can Iran Be A Precursor To Major Changes in the Muslim Wordl?

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Ayatollah, Shariah, Iran Election, Quran, Iran, Democracy, Muslim, World News

Muslims are yearning for justice that they have been denied for so long, often due to outside interference but increasingly due to internal failures of Muslim majority states.

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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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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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Pakistani Women Protest Taliban But Support Islamic Law (VIDEO)

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

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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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

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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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Getting Real on Shariah

M. Zuhdi Jasser | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Islamist, Global War on Terror, Islamist, Shariah, Overseas Contingency Operation, World News

Until Muslims are able to separate mosque and state, the slippery slope of Islamic supremacy will be a constant regardless of how deceptively modern \Shariah is.

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Swat Valley: Pakistanis Flee As Peace Deal Collapses (PHOTOS)

AP | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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MINGORA, Pakistan — Black-turbaned Taliban militants seized government buildings, laid mines and fought security forces Tuesday in the Swat Vall...

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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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Post Turkey: Obama's Challenges and Opportunities in the Muslim World

John L. Esposito | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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Obama's performance in Turkey was flawless; he met the expectations of his admirers and won approval from many skeptics.

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Zardari Agrees To Sharia Rule In Swat Valley

Al Jazeera | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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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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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

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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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