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The al–Shabaab rebel group has done it again! It has condemned another woman in Somalia to death by stoning for committing adultery. Judge Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman of the al-Shabaab group said that the 20-year old Halima Ibrahim Abdirahman, a divorcee, was stoned to death before 200 people after admitting to having an affair with an unmarried 29-year old [...]
Why is there a long delay in carrying out the caning sentence imposed by a Syariah Court on Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno for drinking alcohol? That’s the question people are asking.
Officially we know that the caning sentence was first postponed because of the holy month of Ramadan. It seems that it was inappropriate to [...]
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been regarded as somewhat eccentric. He seldom travels overseas, because he insists on having his tent pitched outside whereever he is staying. And often he has problem getting permission to do so. But this week in Rome, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi did something even more eccentric. He paid 50 euros to [...]
If you are a rapist, you are better off doing it in Somalia where you are caned in a painless way if caught. But if you go about raping women in Iran, you better not get caught. A 24-year old man, identified as A.B. found out the hard way over the weekend. He was hanged for raping his [...]
From January 2010, if you are a Muslim woman and you wear trousers (pants), you may want to be extra careful if you happen to be in West Aceh, Indonesia. District head Ramli Mansur has signed a bylaw that prohibits Muslim women in West Aceh from wearing certain kind of trousers. He said recently: “We have [...]
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald caught my attention today. It tells the sad story of how an Australian lady who converted to Muslim and later moved to Saudi Arabia became a victim of the abuse of the Saudi Arabia system of male guardianship.
Jennifer Birrell was 19 years old when her husband died barely 7 months [...]
The story began 4 years ago at the Saudi city of Madinah. There, outside the Prophet ‘s Mosque, a female customer by the name of Jamalat had just purchased some clothes, but she discovered that she did not have any money with her. So she persuaded the vendor to let her bring 10-year old Raziah (the [...]
What do you expect to find for sale at the the neighborhood market? Vegetables? Poultry? Fish? Food items? Yes all of these. But children for sale in a large market? Surely not. But that’s what Swedish investigative reporters Tracey Christensen and Thor Bjorn Andersen discovered at a large market in Baghdad, Iraq. And they saw not only [...]
By now, we have all accepted that Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno had violated Syariah law by drinking alcohol. Indeed she was convicted by a Syariah Court for this very offense and ordered to pay a fine and given 6 strokes of the cane as punishment. But now a professor of Islamic Studies has come [...]
A report in the Kansas City Star caught my attention a while back. Entitled “Man charged with statutory rape in ‘marriage’ to 14-year-old girl”, the report says that 23-year old Vincent Mosby (aka Salih) apparently thought he had entered into a valid marriage contract with the girl’s guardians, notwithstanding the fact that the girl was only 14 [...]
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