16 February 2012 According to the below news video, an Iraqi mother has been arrested and charged with a felony-for allegedly tying up and padalocking her daughter to a bed and then beating her. This punishment, it has been alleged, is in response to one of her daughters talking to a man. The mother is seen [...]
11 February 2012 According to an article in the Guardian, dated 10 February 2012, the government of Saudi Arabia used the Interpol system to arrest a journalist. Twenty-three year old, Hamza Kashgari, was arrested in Malaysia. Here are some brief excerpts from the article: Kashgari, a newspaper columnist, fled Saudi Arabia after posting a tweet [...]
Dec 142011
14 December 2011 The BBC reports that the Canadian government has banned the wearing of veils for individuals wishing to take the oath of citizenship. One of the reasons given by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration-according to the article-appears to be that question of whether or not the applicant was actually reciting the oath. [...]
26 October 2011 An article in the St. Petersburg Times (25 October 2011) reports that a Florida Appeals court has apparently upheld the use of Islamic Law (Sharia) by a judge considering the disposition of Mosque assets. Surprisingly, it was actually the intneded use, by the judge, to use sharia that prompted the Islamic Education [...]
Jul 202011
According to an article at the Asssyrian International News Agency (19 July 2011), Christian pastor Yosef Nadarkhani has been officially asked to renounce his faith before being executd. Asking the condemned to return to Islam does not mean that he would be spared. The Islamic punishment for a male who turns his back on Islam [...]
May 072011
07 May 2011 According to a report by WJBK Fox News-Detroit (02 May 2011), a twenty year-old woman was killed by her step-father in what appears to be an honor killing. Jessica Mokedad was apparently killed by her stepfather, Rahim Alfetlawi. Jessica, assisted by friends, fled her family home in Minnesota and settled in Michigan. [...]
07 May 2011 The Copenhagen Post (03 May 2011) reports that the President of the Free Press Society, Lars Hedegaard, has been found guilty by the Eastern High Court of making “racially offensive” remarks. Here is a brief excerpt from the article: The Eastern High Court today fined Lars Hedegaard, the president of the [...]
21 April 2011 According to an article in The Telegraph, dated 18 April 2011, a man recently arrested for stealing a Quran and burning it in front of bystanders has been accused by the presiding Judge of perpetrating “Theatrical Bigotry.” The article reports that Andrew Ryan, who pleaded guilty to “Religiously Aggravated Harassment,” has a [...]
15 April 2011 According to an article from RT-TV, dated 14 April 2011, a Lutheran Pastor has been defrocked for calling someone a terrorist. The article reports that Juha Molari was dismissed by the Lutheran Church of Finland after giving an interview with RT-TV in which he described Doku Khamatovich Umarov, one of the U.N.’s [...]
13 April 2011 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in a report dated 11 April 2011, says that Farooque Ahmed has been sentenced to 23 years in prison. Farooque pleaded guilty to “attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization and collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility.” [...]
