May 24, 2010Kenya court rules Islamic courts are illegalKenya’s Islamic courts are illegal and discriminatory, a panel of judges has ruled: the three judges said the […]
May 16, 2010Iran jails women activists, arrests top former MPIran has sentenced in absentia award-winning women’s rights activist Shadi Sadr and another fellow activist to jail and […]
April 29, 2010U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women’s RightsWithout fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing […]
April 27, 2010Iran, gender discrimination, and the UN’s Women’s CommissionWriting in Foreign Policy, SB Anderlini, Hadi Ghaemi and Dokhi Fassihian write: “The Iranian government by contrast has […]
April 25, 2010Islamic Scholar: ‘There Is No Jihad Against Noncombatants’Ever since the influential Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri last month issued a 600-page fatwa, or religious ruling, condemning […]
April 24, 2010Dutch Cabinet Finds No Sharia Courts in NetherlandsA report prepared for Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin finds there are no sharia courts strictly speaking, […]
April 19, 2010Stoning story draws attention of Turkish women’s federationFollowing media reports about a powerful film depicting an Iranian woman’s stoning coming to Turkey, a leading women’s […]
April 14, 2010Suspect held in slayings of wife, baby son, two young niecesA Chicago man has killed his wife, his son and two nieces: the wife’s sister and a neighbor […]
April 5, 2010Rifqa BaryA teenage girl who converted to Christianity and ran away from home is being blocked by her Muslim […]
March 23, 2010Sharia law would harm Aussie Muslim womenIn Australia, Sharia law is being considered again: the Australian Muslim Mission and Islamic Friendship Association of Australia […]
March 23, 2010Veiled Saudi poet rises to stardom after bashing clericsA Saudi housewife’s bold poems which blast “evil” extremist fatwas by Muslim clerics have earned her death threats […]
March 14, 2010Fears over non-Muslim’s use of Islamic law to resolve disputesThere are concerns in the UK over a growing number of non-Muslims using Islamic law to resolve legal […]
March 8, 2010Muslim leader wants elements of sharia in AustraliaElements of Islamic law, the sharia, should be legally recognized in Australia according to a prominent Australian Muslim […]
March 7, 2010Irish ‘Sharia law’ website gets 270,000 hits a monthAn Irish Islamic website which argues for the introduction of Sharia law here and extols the benefits of […]
February 4, 2010Indonesia’s Anti-Pornography Law Raises Fears for Minorities, LiberalsThe recent arrest of six people in Indonesia over a nightclub show is raising concerns among minority groups […]
February 2, 2010Letter to the editor: No place for Sharia law in JamaicaFollowing calls to implement Shari’a law in Jamaica, Anthony Gordon writes: “In the 21st century, there is no […]
February 1, 2010Iran’s judiciary chief refuses to speed executionsIran’s judiciary chief said Monday he will not give in to political pressure to speed up the execution […]
January 28, 2010Vanderbilt Imam stirs controversyVanderbilt Islamic chaplain Awadh Binhazim has stirred controversy by endorsing the death penalty for homosexuals, arguing “I don’t […]
January 21, 2010Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to schoolA 13-year-old Saudi schoolgirl is to be given 90 lashes in front of her classmates after she was […]
January 6, 2010Protesters charged for anti-army display refuse to stand for judgeSeven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for […]