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While still on the subject of child marriage, here is a YouTube video clip that may throw some light on the subject. The debate is still ongoing as to whether child marriages should be banned or not.
In this video, the question is asked whether a 12-year old boy can marry a 11-year old girl according to [...]
In case you are wondering what happened to Jennifer Birrell, here is an update. Last we heard, she had appealed to Saudi Arabia King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud to intervene for the release of her Egyptian husband Mohammed Ahmed Nagi, who was imprisoned and caned on false charges brought by her former husband. Now, unexpectedly, on the [...]
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 [...]
Think of Valentine’s Day and inevitably we conjure up an image of lovers eating a romantic candle lit dinner and red roses galore. Valentine’s Day falls on February 14 each year. Although it probably had its origin in a Roman Catholic religious context, like Christmas it has become commercialized to such an extent that the origin [...]
So former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has just seen the Hollywood blockbuster film called “Avatar”. He must have been impressed with the latest technologies used to produce this sci-fi movie. After watching Avatar, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has changed his views on the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Word Trade Center (WTC) towers in [...]
A question that is often asked following the New Year’s Eve Allah ruling by High Court Judge Lau Bee Lan that the Roman Catholic’s newspaper, The Herald, is free to use the term “Allah” as it is not exclusive to Islam is this: Why didn’t the Christians and/or the Sikhs mount a legal challenge against the ban imposed by [...]
If you have been following the British case of Tulay Goren, you will know what honor killing in the Muslim world is all about. In that case, 15-year old schoolgirl Tulay Goren met 29-year old Halil Unal during a school vacation job. The 2 had an affair, which angered her father Mehmet Goren. He considered that Tulay [...]
We hear of honor killing among Muslims, but the horror of this practise became clearer as we read of the recent UK case where a father murdered her daughter in an act of honor killing.
The tragic part of this story is that 15-year old Tulay Goren had pratically begged police for protection but her pleas were ignored. [...]
Malaysia is seeing another case of a converted Muslim woman trying to renounce her Islamic faith. 20 years ago, Banggarma Subramaniam and her 3 siblings ended up at a government orphanage in Penang state. At the tender age of 7, Banggarma Subramaniam was converted to Islam by welfare officials. That was in 1989. Now 27-year old Banggarma Subramaniam wants [...]
There used to be a time long ago when men don’t attack girls. But in this upside down world, that no longer holds. Recently Britain’s best known Muslim woman, Baroness Warsi, the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action was out campaigning at Luton when her skills in community cohesion and social action were put to [...]
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