British court opens door to Sharia divorces
theaustralian.com: THE prospect of divorce cases in Britain being settled by sharia and religious courts has been opened up by a landmark legal decision. A Jewish couple have had their […]
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East, By Timur Kuran
Source: The Independent Reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar Around 300 years ago, the bazaars of the Middle East were overflowing with luxury goods. The commercial centres of the region attracted all variety of fortune seekers, speaking numerous languages. There was nothing to indicate that the region would not continue to be […]
Upright Opinion: Is Saudi Monarchy Islamic?
November 26, 2012 By Saeed Qureshi, who is a senior journalist and a former diplomat. Those who believe that Saudi Arabia has an Islamic system of government are either mistaken or ill-informed. It is outright a monarchy or kingdom that runs counter to the concept of an Islamic state. Even […]
Shariah4Pakistan: Send in the clowns
The Express Tribune: Vaqas Asghar. Next Friday, a group of controversial religious leaders from Britain are going to visit Islamabad’s Lal Masjid under the banner of something called Shariah4Pakistan to speak about what plagues this country. The ‘conference’, which the Lal Masjid cleric says is not authorisedand has not been discussed with him […]
Opposing Sharia Law Is a Defence of the Rights of Muslims
Huffington Post: by Anne Marie Waters: How can we be a multicultural society if we do not accommodate sharia law? That is one of the most common questions I am asked when travelling the UK as spokesperson of the anti-sharia ‘One Law for All’ campaign (www.onelawforall.org.uk). It accompanies ‘why are you […]
Muslim man’s power to divorce not unrestricted: J&K High Court
Srinagar, Daily News & Analysis The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband […]
Shariah Law: Gods’ Law, Moral Law, the Natural Law or Man made Law?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Shariah Law is a bogeyman for right wing politicians in the West to spread Islamophobia and a political […]
Saudi Arabia: Banks seizing dormant accounts against Shariah
ARAB NEWS Sunday 30 September 2012 JEDDAH: Shariah experts on financial matters declare that local banks are committing a crime by seizing the deposits in accounts that had not been accessed in the past five years. The experts demand that agencies such as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) take […]
And now another movie: Scholars, Al-Azhar demand Iran refrain from screening film on beloved Prophet
RIYADH: NAWAL KSAR ARABNEWS With the announcement almost three years ago about the production of a film portraying the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the Iranian director Majeed Majeedi sparked a controversy all over the Islamic world. Now, as the film is ready for viewing, the temperature […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims Highlight Plight of ‘Blasphemy’ Girl
LONDON, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Annual Convention: 7th- 9thSeptember 2012, East Worldham, Alton, Hampshire A Muslim community has highlighted the plight of persecuted minorities in the wake of a Pakistani Christian girl accused of defaming Islam. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has joined religious and secular groups worldwide that have […]
Another Sharia Law that USA Follows: Right to Inheritance for All Children
As the Republican party, in USA excels in its Islamophobia, by scaremongering against Sharia Law, it will be useful to find examples of Sharia Law in the USA constitution and […]
Republican Party’s Scaremongering against Sharia Law
Source: Tampa Bay Online By AHMED BEDIER, NADIA B. AHMAD On Tuesday, delegates to the Republican National Convention voted in support of the 60-page party platform that has been described […]
Iran Summit – Egyptian President to attend
Egypt President To Visit Iran, A First In Decades by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS text size A A A CAIRO August 18, 2012, 05:18 pm ET CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, a presidential official said on Saturday, the first such trip for an Egyptian leader […]
Learning from Bangladesh
Source: Pakistan Today. Jubail, Saudi Arabia – It has been reported from Bangladesh that Hasina Wajid’s government has started monitoring weekly Friday prayer sermons to ensure imams are abiding by the given guidelines to highlight the dangers of extremism (read religious militancy). Guidelines on anti-militancy sermons were sent to […]
SR 51 m raised to save 2 youths from execution
RAFJA/MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 5 August 2012 A Saudi philanthropist has donated SR 17 million to save a Saudi man from execution. The unidentified donor contributed to a campaign to pay off the diya (blood money) to help save Sameh Al-Rowaily, who was sentenced to death for killing a Yemeni […]
NSW court tells man to pay Islamic divorce dowry
NICOLA BERKOVIC From: The Australian A SYDNEY man who agreed under an Islamic marriage contract to pay his wife a $50,000 “deferred dowry” if he ever left her has been forced by the NSW Supreme Court to honour their agreement. In a decision believed to be an Australian first, the […]
King praises citizens for compassionate gestures
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 30 July 2012 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah received at his palace here Saturday a large number of citizens who came to greet […]
FIJISUN – US should pressure nations to rescind anti-Ahmadiyya Laws
US should pressure nations to rescind anti-Ahmadiyya laws By Katrina Lantos Swett, chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) – 07/16/12 04:59 PM ET http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1340179658.html#_=1342569769945&count=horizontal&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws&size=m&text=US%20should%20pressure%20nations%20to%20rescind%20anti-Ahmadiyya%20laws%20-%20The%20Hill's%20Congress%20Blog&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?api_key=369058349794205&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df4cd998b4%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthehill.com%252Ffb1760c2%26domain%3Dthehill.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=true&show_faces=false&width=150 https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fcongress-blog%2Fforeign-policy%2F238199-us-should-pressure-nations-to-rescind-anti-ahmadiyya-laws&size=medium&count=true&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com&hl=en-US&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DsosyIBURzJA.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!V1HSHW0XVB-YepGbpQ%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTMF2xh6Sr_jc__pdLpN7VOIRO3bPg#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart&id=I0_1342569770450&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com On June 27, along with members of Congress and other guests, I heard a message of peace and freedom from the Ahmadiyya world leader, […]
Applauding Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Religious Freedom
The German government says Jewish and Muslim communities should be able to continue the practice of circumcision, after a regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s […]
True Sharia based on justice, equality, not fear, hatred
By: M. Imran Hayee, Duluth News Tribune On May 21, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed legislation barring all Kansas state courts from considering “foreign” law in their rulings. While many […]