Saturday 27 Aug 2022 Rep: Ratna Ajeng Tejomukti/ Red: Ani Nursalikah Friday prayer worshipers at Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque in Brunei Darussalam are inspected before entering the mosque, Friday […]
Source: Washington Post By Shibani Mahtani HONG KONG — The sultan of Brunei said his country would not impose the death penalty, appearing to back away from harsh punishments including death by […]
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah extended a moratorium on the death penalty to incoming legislation barring gay sex Maya Oppenheim @mayaoppenheim Brunei has announced it will not enforce the death penalty for gay sex – […]
Source: Associated Press By ANNABELLE LIANG SINGAPORE (AP) — New Islamic criminal laws that took effect Wednesday in Brunei that punish gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death […]
Source: Asis Times: Though no organized opposition group has ever openly challenged the state’s religious stance, some observers believe the laws aim to placate Islamists who may otherwise be put off by the monarchy’s ostentatious displays of wealth. Some analysts regard Brunei’s adoption of sharia law as a bid to […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 5, 2017 Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah waves to people as he passes in a procession to mark his golden jubilee of his […]
Three Royal Brunei Airlines pilots have made history by being the company’s first all-female flight crew, making their first journey to Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive.The […]
Hollywood celebrities boycott Beverly Hills Hotels By Maureen Callahan The Beverly Hills HotelPhoto: Getty Images Last week, celebrities including Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Osbourne, Richard Branson and Clive Davis united for an unlikely cause: a boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel, because its owner, the […]
The country’s ruler says sharia was created as guidance from Allah ANDREW BUNCOMBE Saturday 29 March 2014 The Sultan of Brunei, one of the world’s wealthiest rulers and a […]
National Geographic Daily News: by Eve Conant — An Afghan law that protects perpetrators of domestic violence, new sharia criminal laws in Brunei that allow stoning, sexual assaults in Arab Spring countries, and proposed “virginity tests” in Indonesia. These are just a few examples of a rollback of women’s rights […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
Sultan of Brunei’s Daughter’s Wedding May Cost $20 Million, is Going on for a Week sorosayers.com: Possibly the most lavish wedding the world has ever seen happened Friday, in Brunei, […]
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Bruneian Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said Sunday the two countries’ cooperation is fruitful and conducive to regional stability and prosperity. Read More…