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Thousands urge sharia law to stem graft in Indonesia
Jakarta :: Indonesia | about 1 hour ago
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Thousands of hardine Muslim protesters staged rallies in Indonesia on Sunday urging the government to apply Islamic law as the only way to tackle widespread corruption. Members of Hizbut Tahrir demonstrated in several cities including the capital Jakarta,...
Tags: Indonesia JAKARTA, sharia law, Indonesia, Jakarta, Caliphate, Sharia, Islam and antisemitism, Pan-Islamism, Islamism, Islam in Uzbekistan, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Religion Belief, War Conflict
Muslim Privileges
Gaza :: Palestine | 18 days ago
Credibility I received this in an email that was a Fw: Fw: so I don't know where it came from or whether it is fact or fiction. There is a signature at the bottom, but an internet check failed to find anything about this person and this email. I did however find...
Tags: Muslims, Muslim Imams, Islamic House of Peace, R.P. BenDedek rpbendedek@hotmail.com Islam, Sharia Law, Islamic Law, muslims populations, Palestine, Gaza, Persecution of Muslims, Dhimmi, War Conflict, Islam, Jihad, Muslim, Religion Belief
A Bad Exuse Is Worse Than None
Grapevine :: TX :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility I recently heard Nonie Darwish speak at the University of Toronto, her subject being the contrariness of Sharia Law to Western societal norms and judiciary. I had expected something similar to the courageous address given by Wafa Sultan in Grapevine,...
Tags: Nonie Darwish, Islam, Sharia Law, Muslim, Grapevine, Sharia, Criticism of Islam, Religious law, Religion Belief
Indonesian law: Death by stoning for adultery
At first sight this law seems to be a sign of creeping (more like galloping) fundamentalism in Indonesia but as the article points out the context makes it clear this is not so at all. If anything it shows the defeat of fundamentalism. The law was...
Tags: Aceh Indonesia, Sharia law, punishment of adultery, death by stoning
Aceh council passes bylaw on stoning adulterers to death
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 2 months ago
Credibility Headlines Defying strong objections from human rights groups and the provincial administration, the Aceh legislative council passed the Islamic criminal code Monday, allowing adulterers to be stoned to death. Under the new bylaw, homosexuality is also...
Tags: Muslim Indonesian, North Sumatran, Aceh Province Legislators Vote, Aceh legislative council, Aceh Mov, flash floods, indonesia floods, health ministry, sumatra province, sharia law, Indonesia, Jakarta
"A tiny minority of extremists?"
The New York Police Department inserted into a report entitled "Radicalization in the West: the homegrown threat" a "statement of clarification" that includes that a tiny minority of Muslims are radicals. The report was originally written in 2007 and...
Tags: Islam, terrorism, suicide bombing, Sharia law, NYPD
Hannity advances dubious claim that Koh
Friday, September 11, 2009 Share Print Email September 10, 2009 4:21 pm ET — 8 Comments In the past four editions of his Fox News program, Sean Hannity has claimed that State Department legal adviser Harold Koh "advocates the use Sharia law in...
Tags: Sean Hannity, harold koh, sharia law, biodun iginla, bbc news, media
Nigeria clashes kill dozens
Bauchi :: Nigeria | 4 months ago
Credibility At least 42 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after clashes erupted between police and members of a Muslim group in Nigeria, a hospital source said. The clashes began after a failed dawn attack on Sunday on a police station in Dutsen...
Tags: Nigerian, police stations, Bauchi Specialist Hospital, Muslim, security forc, muslim rebels, Taliban, hospital source, Afghanistan, sharia law
Somali gunmen kidnap foreign aid workers
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago
Credibility Somali gunmen kidnapped 3 foreign aid workers on Saturday in a raid on a Kenyan border town, the latest attack on relief workers, an official and Somali residents said. "The authorities in Mandera (in Kenya) told us that those aid workers had been kidnapped.
Tags: Somalia, aiding workers, Kenya, foreign aiding, border town, Mandera, Islamic Sharia, gunmen kidnap, sharia law, Mogadishu
Somali Parliament Endorses Sharia Law
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 7 months ago
Credibility Somalia's parliament has voted unanimously to implement Islamic Sharia law. At a meeting in the capital Mogadishu Saturday, all 343 lawmakers present voted to approve Sharia as a basis for Somalia's legal system. The Somali Cabinet approved the implementation...
Tags: Somalia, Islamic Shariah, Somali Cabinet, Osman Elmi Boqore, Mogadishu, Osman Elmi Bogore, sharia law, Islamic Courts Union, shariah law, deputy speaker
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