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New Zealand’s Te Papa Museum Warns Pregnant And Menstruating Women To Stay Away

The Spirits Won’t Like It

The Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand announced in a media briefing recently that pregnant or menstruating women should keep away from its Maori exhibits.  According to Michelle Hippolite, the museum’s advisor on Maori subject matters, such visitors may incur the wrath of Maori spirits.  The spirits were believed to have been [...]

Saudi Arabia – Man Caned For Sending Love Messages Via SMS

It has to happen sooner or later.  An article in the Arab News caught my attention a while back.  It speaks of a Saudi man who was caned 70 times all in the name of love.

The story goes like this.  The wife apparently filed for divorce in the Sharia court under a process called “khula”. Now [...]

Muslim Child Marriage – What Is Marriageable Age?

As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Pujiono Cahyo Widianto aka Syech Puji, the 43-year old Indonesian cleric who has a 26-year old wife and who recently married Lutfiana Ulfa, a girl barely 12 years of age as his second wife with the declared intention to marry 2 more girls aged 9 and 7, the question [...]

Syech Puji – Child Marriage Or Pedophile?

2  separate headlines in the Jakarta Post just caught my attention.  The headlines reads: “Syech Puji acquitted from child sexual abuse charge” and “Cleric files report over extortion”. 

Who is Syech Puji? Well he is Pujiono Cahyo Widianto aka Syech Puji. 43 year old Syech Puji is the head of an Islamic boarding school (Ponpes Miftahul Jannah) in [...]