Author: Maher Abu-Munshar Reviewed by: Rabia Mir (Canada) About the author: Dr Maher Abu-Munshar is Assistant Professor in Qatar University. He completed his PhD in 2003 (Dundee, UK) and won in […]
THE list of those charged or accused under the country’s questionable blasphemy laws — that too on the flimsiest of pretexts — is far too long. Soofi Mohammad Ishaq, sentenced to death by a judge in Jhelum on Monday in a blasphemy case, is another addition to this unenviable list. As […]
Philadelphia – What’s so scary about sharia, or Islamic legal principles? According to a recent decision from a US Federal Appellate Court – one level below the Supreme Court – […]
Atheism does not violate Pancasila. All Indonesians may consciously and rationally choose their own beliefs. The country’s very foundation protects their right to do so.’ Alexander Aan, a civil servant […]
While in a Karachi park a frenzied, self-righteous TV show host chased couples out on a date filming them without their consent last week, in Lahore the Punjab assembly passed a resolution seeking a blanket ban on music concerts in educational institutions. Both are despicable acts of moral policing in a country which […]
Dawn: While in a Karachi park a frenzied, self-righteous TV show host chased couples out on a date filming them without their consent last week, in Lahore the Punjab assembly passed a resolution seeking a blanket ban on music concerts in educational institutions. Both are despicable acts of moral policing […]
Jakarta Globe: When dealing with religious conflict in the field, police officers and other law enforcement officials tend to put their beliefs before their uniform, a researcher said on Wednesday. Gadjah Mada University political analyst Samsu Rizal Panggabean said that several factors explained why field officers were reluctant to take […]
The National Post; The jury is still out — figuratively and literally — on whether the 2009 deaths of three sisters and another woman in a cold canal in Kingston, […]
Source: NY Times. In Shift, Police Say Leader Helped With Anti-Islam Film and Now Regrets It The New York City police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, through a top aide, acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that he personally cooperated with the filmmakers of “The Third Jihad” — a decision […]
Source: Times of India. To those blessed – or perhaps cursed, given the times we live in – with a long memory, Salman Rushdie’s absence from the Jaipur Literature Festival and the parallel and related Congress courtship of the Muslim vote in Uttar Pradesh are an eerie and discomforting throwback […]
Courtesy Op ED: NY Times: By JONATHAN LAURENCE: TWO weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was […]
Source: Dawn Author: Syed Amir THE separation of religion and state is grounded in the first amendment of the US constitution and has long been recognised as a guiding principle. Thomas […]
Courtesy Press TV: Hundreds of people in Libya have staged rallies in major cities, calling on Libyan authorities to enforce Islamic Sharia laws in the North African country. Protesters staged […]
Source: Washington Post By Harris Zafar On Tuesday, January 17th, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich said that the only way he would ever support a Muslim for the […]
BBC: A Sikh man in France has won the backing of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in his fight over religious headgear. It said France was violating Sikhs’ religious […]
TEHRAN—Iran’s morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on […]
Extreme modesty, or freedom gone wild? Why the debate over the veil is much more complicated than you think. Anne Kingston No item of female apparel summons more attention, animosity, […]
source: http://www.persecutionofahmadis.org/ Introduction Introduction to Section PERSECUTION ARCHIVES and Index This section contains a Chronology of important events that involved persecution, a sub-section of facts and figures in a tabulated form, a file of official documents relevant to persecution, a repository of other important documents and another one of […]
Daily Times: PESHAWAR: In an unprecedented move Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed “Enforcement of Women Ownership Rights Bill”, which seeks to ensure provision of rights for women in the inherited property, on Thursday. Pakistan People’s Party-Parliamentarian MPA from Swat Noor Sehar had tabled the bill last week, and the House with Deputy Speaker Khush Dil Khan […]
DAWN: Sana Saleem: It was on this day last year, when a 26-year-old Mumtaz Qadri killed the very man he was meant to protect. Twenty seven bullets to silence Salman Taseer and to make sure that the debate on misuse of blasphemy laws is shunned for good. It was this […]