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When The Quran Is Mishandled Or Insulted

Consequences

The Quran (Koran) is the Holy Book of Islam.  Why then do some people continue to mishandle/insult it.  The deliberate mishandling the Quran through acts of disrespect can bring about undesired consequences.  Muslims feel insulted and frequently retaliations of sort will result. Just recently, I read of 2 such cases, one in Saudi Arabia and the other [...]

Nigeria – How Many Wives Can A Muslim Man Have?

89 And Counting

In October 2009 I posted an article about a Nigerian man with 86 wives.  Now he has 89 wives, not counting those who died and those whom he divorced.  Mohammed Bello Abubakar aka Mohammed Bello Maasaba, an Islamic faith healer and one time preacher claimed to be married 110 times in total.  When challenged, [...]

Pakistan – CLAAS Helping Munir Masih And Ruqqiya Bibbi

Munir Masih Freed On Bail

The ordeal continues for a Christian couple, Munir Masih and his wife Ruqqiya Bibbi in Pakistan, framed by neighbours and sentenced to 25 years in jail for defiling the Koran. Meanwhile the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) has intervened to assist the couple in their bail applications. Now Munir [...]

Pakistani Man Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Defiling Koran Out On Bail

Husband Released On Bail

Within a day of two prominent Muslims leaders threatening to call nationwide protests if the President of Pakistan pardoned Asia Bibi, a  Christian woman sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad, a Christian man sentenced in Pakistan to 25 years’ jail with his wife for allegedly touching the Koran with unwashed hands [...]

Saudi Arabia – No Foreigners Allowed To Teach The Koran In Jeddah

Non-Saudi Teachers Stopped From Teaching Koran

The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call, and Guidance has stopped 1240 non-Saudi teachers of the Koran from teaching in Jeddah.

The Government Directive

The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments. Call, and Guidance has said that it wants only Saudis to teach the Koran because of violation caused by expatriate teachers, but neither [...]

Should Indonesian Muslim Leaders Preach And Practise Monogamy?

What’s Wrong With Muslim Leaders In Indonesia?

Do Muslim leaders, whether political or religious, regard women as anything other than as sexual objects?  Khairil Azhar, in an opinion piece in the Jakarta Post, thinks too many of them are. He calls on Muslim leaders “to focus more on what the people need instead of continuously treating women [...]

Egypt – Coptic Bishop Suggested Some Verses In Koran Inserted After prophet Mohammed’s Death

Additional Verses

A new controversy of a different kind has erupted in Egypt.  According to media reports, Bishop Bishoy, the secretary of the Coptic Church’s Holy Synod, suggested last week that some verses of the Koran were inserted after the death of the Prophet Mohammed.  Bishop Bishoy said that he believed that one of Prophet Mohammed’s early [...]

Remembering 9/11 – By Burning Korans?

 ”You Burn Quran You Burn In Hell”

September 11 this year is the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and on the Pentagon.  At a time when tension is running high over the controversial plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, along came the Dove World Outreach Center’s [...]

Aceh Leader Says Women Who Don’t Dress According To Shariah Law Are Asking To Be Raped

MUI Says “No Such Thing” In Islam 

What can one say about the recent comment by Ramli Mansur, the West Aceh district head who is also the leader of the Aceh Party, that women who don’t comply with Shariah law in the manner of dressing are “asking to get raped”?  Ramli Mansur is the one who sponsored [...]

KFC In Halal Fiasco

Call To Boycott KFC By Both Muslim And Non-Muslim Customers

Many international companies are beginning to discover that there is a big and growing market for halal food.  The latest to jump into the halal food wagon is fast food giant KFC, or Kentucky Fried Chicken. Now KFC is famous for 2 things.  One, its fried chicken [...]