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India – Deoband Fatwa On Street Hawking

yessir — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:12:06 +0000

Footpaths Not For Trading Activities

Have you ever been forced to walk onto the road to face the busy vehicular traffic because the pedestrian pavements are taken over by all sorts of traders selling their wares? A mutton merchant in Shivajinagar certainly did. And now he has a fatwa from Darul-Uloom Deoband saying that footpaths are not meant [...]

Sumatran Civil Servant Charged With Blasphemy For Posting Atheist Views On Facebook

nuryn — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:59 +0000

Charged With Blasphemy And Possibly Also Falsifying Documents

Alexander Aan, a 31-year-old civil servant in the Dharmasraya regency of West Sumatra, who was arrested and charged with blasphemy about a fortnight ago, may now face second charge, that of falsifying documents. The first charge came about because of what Alexander Aan wrote on the Facebook fan page, [...]

Women Activists In Britain Threatened With Violence

musa — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:12:42 +0000

Good Samaritans Becoming Victims

The various forms of mistreatment that a significant number of Muslim females receive from the male members of their families, be they their fathers, brothers and even husbands, have been well documented. Fortunately for the victims, they can turn to human rights organizations for help and relief, i.e. at least for those living [...]

Canada – Now A Saloon Offering Female-Only Hairstyling Days

yessir — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:12:32 +0000

Privacy Of Women

Canada is to get a new saloon that offers female-only hairstyling days. This service caters to Muslim women who require privacy. Located in downtown Halifax, the service is exclusively for women every Monday.

CAS Spa And Saloon

The owner of CAS Spa and Saloon, Lesley Williams, was given this idea by Reema Alharthi, a Saudi student.

Reema [...]

Saudi Arabia – Women Can Watch Live Soccer Matches Soon

yessir — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:36 +0000

Private Cabins And Balconies At New Stadium

While women elsewhere can freely play soccer, or go to a stadium to watch a live soccer match, those in Saudi Arabia have not be able to do so, because Saudi Arabia’s strict sex segregation rule against gender mixing makes it impossible for Saudi women to go to a stadium [...]

Sudan – Fatwa Says Creating A Women’s Soccer Team Is An Immoral Act

yessir — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:12:54 +0000

No Excuse To Bypass Sharia Law

Does Sharia law prohibits a country from having its own women soccer team? Well, if you look at Muslim countries in the world, you will find most of them have women soccer teams. Even Iran has it. But in Sudan, a fatwa has recently been issued making it haram to form [...]

Egypt – Now A Fatwa Declaring A Chevy Haram

yessir — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:12:58 +0000

“A Cross On The Car?”

This has to be one of the ridiculous fatwas anywhere. An Egyptian sheikh as just suddenly noticed that a Chevrolet vehicle has a logo that looks like a Christian cross. For that reason, this Salafi sheikh pronounced it haram to drive a Chevy.

Bowtie Or Cross?

For many Americans, the logo of a [...]

Saudi Arabia’s Morality Police Get New Chief

nuryn — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:12:24 +0000

Change In Leadership Of Morality Police In Saudi Arabia

Normally the appointment of a new police chief will not attract much attention outside of the country concerned. However, King Abdullah’s appointment of a new head for Saudi Arabia’s morality police has had commentators and women’s rights activists speculating about what it will mean for reforms in that [...]

Mauritania Imams Declared Fatwa Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

yessir — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:12:07 +0000

“Islam Is Clearly Against Any Action That Has Negative Effects On Health”

On January 12, 2010 a group of 34 imams And Muslim scholars issued a fatwa banning female circumcision, aka female genital mutilation (FGM) in Mauritania. This 2-year old fatwa is based on the fact that the Quran does not require female genital mutilation. Citing Mauritanian medical [...]

Saudi School Textbooks Incite Hatred, Violence And Killing

musa — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:12:39 +0000

Do-It-Yourself Amputation, Anyone?

Textbooks written for and distributed to schoolchildren in Saudi Arabia have recently been found to contain instructions – complete with detailed drawings – on how to cut off the hands and feet of convicted thieves.

Under the Sharia law that is observed in a number of Muslim countries and societies, a common punishment for thefts [...]