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It has been a week now since Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno had her audience with the Tengku Mahkota of Pahang, Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah. During the meeting, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno reportedly told Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah about the stress that the long delay in carrying out the caning sentence given by the [...] Last month, a Muslim woman by the name of Jannah B’int Hannah led a group of Muslim women in gatecrashing the main prayer hall of the Islamic Center of Washington to demand an end to sex segregation in mosques in America. That demonstration was broken up by Washington DC police but the Muslim women said [...] Eyebrows were raised recently when Malaysia’s Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail decided not to take action against the Al-Islam magazine and 2 of its Muslim journalists despite police reports lodged against them for desecrating a Roman Catholic ritual last year. But now, Al-Islam and its 2 Muslim journalists involved have apologized to Christians, and [...] Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir is a well known personality in Malaysia. On her blog she describes herself, inter-alia, as a “general nuisance” who occasionally “irritates some people by going on about feminism and Islam”. And now she may have just proven herself right when The Star newspaper pulled an article that she has written. But [...] Last month Datuk Abdul Manan Abdul Rahman, director of the State Religious Department said that Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno will be caned after her meeting with Tengku Mahkota of Pahang, Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah. Well, this meeting took place yesterday, and now it seems that Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno could well receive an unsolicited royal [...] For years, Muslim extremist groups like al-Qaeda justify sucide bombings cum mass murders from their own self-serving interpretation of the Quran. Every male suicide bomber is sure that he is going to paradise and be rewarded there with a bevy of 70 virgins. Now an internationally respected religious scholar has issued a 600-page fatwa that countered this [...] A report from Washington DC caught my attention a while back. It says that one Muslim woman by the name of Jannah B’int Hannah led a group of 20 Muslim women to worship in the main prayer hall of the Islamic Center of Washington. In most American mosques today, the main prayer hall is the preserve of [...] It is difficult at times to understand what the Malaysian leaders are thinking. Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein’s recent announcement that Malaysia has started on the path of caning Muslim women for offenses under Syariah law came as a complete surprise to a nation that was eagerly waiting to see if Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi [...] We are used to reading reports of terrorism in newspapers and watching video clips of such acts of terror on TV. Perhaps the most spectacular act of terroism was the September 11, 2001 suicide attack on the World Trade Center in New York City by al-Qaeda operatives who hijacked 4 commercial airliners and used them as [...] |
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