Update On Mazen Abdul Jawad
Remember Mazen Abdul Jawad, the Saudi divorcee with 4 children who worked for an airline? He became famous, or rather infamous, after appearing on the Bold (or Thick) Red Line program aired by the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) in conservative Saudi Arabia. In it he boasted about his various sexual escapades. He spoke of [...]
Save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Plea
“Please help end this nightmare and do not let it turn into a reality. Help us save our mother!” cried Iranian Farideh, 16, and her brother Sajad, 20, as they pleaded to the international community to save their mother – 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani – from stoning.
Death By Stoning And Hanging
Sakineh Mohammadi [...]
Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno Finally Opens Up
Remember Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, the Malaysian model who was charged with consuming alcohol in Pahang and who was sentenced to a fine and 6 lashes of the cane by the Syariah High Court? Her case attracted widespread attention, and she would have been the first woman to be caned in [...]
Lashings for Child Brides Trying To Escape From Their Marriages
Two adolescent Afghan girls who had been forced into marriages with elderly men ran away disguised as boys because their husbands beat them when they tried to resist consummation of their marriages. However, after two days of fleeing across rough roads and mountain passes, Khadija Rasoul, aged [...]
One would have expected that the decision by the Sultan of Pahang to commute the caning sentence of 6 lashes of the cane on Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno to a 3-week community service at a children’s home would be welcome by all. Instead, that decision disappointed the folks at the Malaysian Muslim Lawyers Association (PPPM) which [...]
Sisters In Islam (SIS) is one of Malaysia’s best known NGOs. It is a women’s advocacy group, and from its name, it is assumed to be a Muslim NGO championing the rights of Muslim women. Or is it? Now other Muslim activists have filed a suit against Sisters In Islam, accusing it of not being Islamic 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 Marina [...]
It has been a long while since we last got any update on the caning case of Malaysia model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno. As a reminder, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno was caught drinking alcohol and a Syariah court in Malaysia subsequently ordered that she be sentenced to a fine (which she paid) and 6 strokes of [...]
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