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June 15, 2011

Pakistan’s female madrassas breed radicalism

Pakistan’s female madrassas breed radicalism. via:[http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/15/us-pakistan-women-idUSTRE75E27T20110615?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FworldNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+International%29]
June 14, 2011

Dangers to women in South Asia

From forced marriages in Afghanistan and “honor killings” in Pakistan to feticide in India and trafficking in Nepal, […]
June 13, 2011

Gruesome details emerge in ‘honour killing’ retrial

The re-trial of the so-called Hogsby ‘honour killing’ opened in southern Sweden on Monday with the parents of […]
June 12, 2011

U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents […]
June 12, 2011

Police ‘covered up’ violent campaign to turn London area ‘Islamic’

In the UK, police have been accused of “covering up” a campaign of abuse, threats and violence aimed […]
June 11, 2011

Genital mutilation to be outlawed

The Swiss Senate unanimously agreed to ask the government to prepare an amendment to the criminal law to […]
June 10, 2011

Turkey: Backward Step for Women’s Rights

The Turkish government’s changes to the current Ministry for Women and Family is a step backward in its […]
June 9, 2011

The state cannot curb sharia law alone

British commentator Andrew Brown writes “sharia rulings, especially the informal ones, already derive much of their force from […]
June 8, 2011

UK bill limiting sharia law is motivated by ‘concern for Muslim women’

Islamic courts would be forced to acknowledge the primacy of English law under a bill being introduced in […]
June 8, 2011

Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques

A study of 100 American mosques found that “51 percent of mosques had texts that either advocated the […]
June 7, 2011

07/06/2011German police say foiled forced-marriage kidnap bid

German police said Tuesday they had foiled a bid by two Turks to kidnap a 17-year-old girl for […]
June 6, 2011

The AHA Foundation Honor Violence Symposium

On June 6th, 2011, the AHA Foundation held the first ever conference on honor violence and forced marriage […]
June 6, 2011

Muslim Woman Seeks to Revive Institution of Sex-Slavery

A Muslim woman in Kuwait, Salwa al-Mutairi, a political activist and former parliamentary candidate for Kuwait’s government seeks […]
June 5, 2011

Universities ‘complacent’ over Islamic radicals, Theresa May warns

British Home Secretary Theresa May told The Daily Telegraph that universities were not taking the issue of radicalization […]
June 5, 2011

AHA Foundation to Host First-of-its-Kind Conference in the U.S.

The AHA Foundation is proud to host a symposium on honor violence and forced marriage on June 6, […]