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Indonesia’s Efforts To Block Pornographic Sites Not Working

“We Have Not Succeeded”

Indonesia’s Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring was hopeful that his ministry could block pornographic sites from reaching Indonesia during the current holy month of Ramandan.  But he has just discovered that hoping is one thing, delivering is quite another.  Now an official from his ministry has openly admitted: “We have not [...]

Peterporn Sex Videos – Ariel And Luna Maya Still In Denial Mode

Police Say Ariel And Luna Maya May Face Heavy Sentence

Ever wonder how the whole Peterporn sex scandal may play out?  Cut Tari has admitted to be the woman in the third Peterporn sex video, and she has identified Nazril Irham aka Ariel, lead vocalist from the pop band Peterpan as her sex partner in that video.  However [...]

Pakistan – Death Of Child Domestic Worker Shazia Masih

Children As Domestic Workers In Pakistan

Extreme poverty in Pakistan forces many females to work as maids in Pakistan. A report in the New York Times in February this year about a 12-year-old girl, Shazia Masih, who is alleged to have died at the hands of her wealthy lawyer employer in Lahore, said: “Many wealthy Pakistanis employ children [...]

Super-Injunction Granted To Third England Footballer

The Guessing Game Continues

Blogosphere has been busy speculating the identities of the 2 England footballers who obtained super-injunctions recently to protect their privacy.  Now a third England footballer has joined them in getting a sujper-injunction.  And critics continue to protest that super-injunctions are crippling a free press and preventing freedom of speech.

The Third Super-Injunction

High Court judge [...]

Disneyland And Employee Imane Boudlal In Hijab Controversy

The Allegation Against Disneyland

A Disneyland Resorts employee is accusing her employers of discrimination because she says that they will not allow her to wear the hijab, the Islamic-style headscarf, at her work as a hostess at the Storytellers Café at the Grand Californian Hotel. 26-year-old Imane Boudlal, a native of Morocco, has been employed as a [...]

Saudi Scholar Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al-Ammari Condems Intellectuals With Modern Views

The Divisive Lecture

Islamic scholar Ahmad bin Abdullah Al-Ammari, in his recent lecture entitled “We and the Others…Our Islam is Our Identity” at the Madinah Islamic University, asserted that many Arabs were seduced by Western ideals.   Ahmad bin Abdullah Al-Ammari viewed these modernistic Arabs as “the tails of the intellectuals in the Arab world”, and in his [...]

UK Priest Leaves Wife And Children For Married Mistress

Forsake All for Mistress

The Reverend Peter Ballard, a priest of the Church of England in Blackburn, stunned his congregation with his decision to leave his wife and their two children for his already-married personal secretary.  This decision was made after the affair with his mistress, a mother of two, was discovered.  For his extramarital affair, Reverend [...]

Nadja Benaissa Gets Suspended Jail Sentence For Transmitting HIV Infection

Community Service Sentence For Nadja Benaissa

Nadja Benaissa, a member of the No Angels pop group, has been given a 2-year suspended sentence and ordered to do 300 hours of community service for  withholding from a man her HIV-positive status and causing him bodily harm through unprotected sex. The sentence for this offence could be up to [...]

Chairman Habib Rizieq Orders Islamic Defenders Front Members To Arrest Former Editor Of Playboy Magazine

Does Habib Rizieq Has The Power To Order An Arrest?

The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is in the news again.  Now Chairman Habib Rizieq has ordered his members to arrest Erwin Arnada, the former editor of the Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine.  The FPI has also given police a deadline to arrest Erwin Arnada, failing which FPI members [...]

How Do Soap Operas Fit Into Ramadan?

Is Ramadan Being Observed Correctly?

An Islamic preacher in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with his own TV show has lamented that Ramadan is not being observed the way it ought to be. Dr Khaled Abdelalim said that “During Ramadan the doors of heaven are open and the doors of hell are closed, so not a single [...]