THREE Muslim women – the first in Malaysia to be caned for illicit sex – claim that their punishment was an opportunity for them to repent of their sins, according to this report. Prison authorities caned the women on February 9 after an Islamic court passed sentence. The caning has outraged rights groups and revived [...]
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A MOROCCAN man campaigning to change the law which prohibits eating in public during the Muslim Ramadan fast says he has received 100 death threats this week. Radi Omar denied that his group was anti-Islam. He told the BBC: We are in favour of individual freedom. Six of his colleagues are in custody after planning [...]
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BOY, is the bearded weirdie Rowan Williams a glutton for punishment! A year after the Archbishop of Cant prompted howls of outrage by suggesting that it “seems inevitable” that some parts of Islamic law would be enshrined in this country’s legal code, he has bounced back claiming that “a number of fairly senior people” now [...]
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DESPITE the fact that Islamic (sharia) law is generally thought of as a threat to social cohesion in Britain; that it serves Muslim women badly, and that it is opposed by many Muslims themselves, including Shahid Malik, the Labour MP – it continues to grow in influence the UK . This is most likely because [...]
DESPITE all the promises that the books condoning terrorism would be removed [from British mosques], as would the preachers advocating the rigid enforcement of the narrowest interpretration of sharia law and the overthrow of our liberal democracy – violent, intolerant prejudice continues to be preached, this time by women, in centres of ‘moderate Islam’, such [...]
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AN MP has launched a scathing attacked on suggestions the police could be forced to learn about sharia law under secret plans being agreed by police chiefs. According to the Telegraph and Argus, Shipley MP Philip Davies labelled the idea as ludicrous, and said it would do nothing to improve community cohesion. Earlier this month [...]
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