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Introduction Of Sharia Law In Aceh Unlike other parts of Indonesia, the province of Aceh has Islamic law added to its penal code. In 2001,some Sharia-inspired byelaws were put into effect in Aceh and a form of Sharia was formally introduced in 2003. Aceh has long been a conservative Muslim area, and is thought to be the [...] Basis For Application Of Asylum Word has it that the USA has denied political asylum to the Saudi diplomat who fears for his life if he were to obey the call to return to his home country. Ali Ahmad Asseri was the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles. He sought asylum in August 2010 [...] UK’s Threat To Cut Aid The UK’s threat to cut aid to countries that persecute homosexuals has caused indignation among African leaders. Although this threat is not new, and in fact has been carried out against Malawi, the issue was publicized again recently after Prime Minister David Cameron was interviewed on a BBC1 Andrew Marr Show televised [...] Normalizing The Abnormal When it comes to the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Arab countries that ratified this did so with qualifications. But now, Tunisia has just withdrawn all such reservations, making it the first Arab country to grant equal rights to men and women under CEDAW. With Reservations It is [...] ”No Place For Human Rights, Democracy Or Citizenship In Islam” Remember Egyptian Sheikh Adel Shehato who declared recently that democracy “is not the faith of Muslims, but the faith of Jews and Christians”? Well he is not alone. Now Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesban-Yazdi has endorsed that view, and expanded it to include human rights and citizenship in [...] Passage Of The Bill Banning Full-Face Veils That Italy’s parliamentary committee has passed a bill to outlaw women from wearing full-face veils in public is of little surprise, since Belgium and France already have such a law in place. What is unusual is who sponsored the bill. The bill will be voted on by the Italian parliament [...] The Agreement At a meeting of the OIC last week in Istanbul on combating religious intolerance, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met up with OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to seek new ways of resolving debates over religion without resorting to legal steps against defamation – ie, to take forward the OIC resolution passed by the [...] The Honor-Revenge Attack A 50-year-old Pakistani woman was stripped naked and forced to parade thus in the streets of Neelor Bala village after 4 men had barged into her house in search of her son Kazim and found him not there. This honor- revenge event took place in front of her younger, 10-year-old, son, who was slapped [...] The Challenge Of The Ban On The Full-Face Veil Merely 2 months after the law on wearing the full-face veil in public was passed in France, it is being challenged in court. A French Muslim couple is taking the French government to the European Court of Human Rights over France’s ban on the wearing of the niqab [...] Best Of Blogs Awards The stereotype of Arab women is one of “voiceless” women, women who are not allowed to express their views. But new media technology has changed that. Women can blog. And several Arab women are using their blogs not for tittle tattle, but for speaking out against oppression and injustice. Several Arab women have [...] |
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