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 [...]
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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. [...]
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06 April 2011 An article from the Malaysian National News Agency, dated April 6th 2011, reports that non-Muslims can be imprisoned for quoting the Quran. Such action, the article says, is to ensure harmony among all races in the country. The judicial tools, by which the harmony will be enforced, include the following crimes: [...]
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03 April 2011 The people over at Memri, in a post dated 03 April 2011, report that the Media Council of Bahrain has ordered the closing of the Shiite Al-Wasat publication. Here is a brief excerpt from the post: Bahrain’s Media Council has suspended…Al-Wasat…for printing “false” and “unprofessional” reports about the anti-regime protests…Bahraini [...]
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02 April 2011 The Jakarta Post, in an article dated 02 April 2011, reports that the United Development Party (PPP) has “officially” rejected and condemned the presence of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Indonesia. According to the article, the PPP believes the Ahmadiyya sect is a taint that threatens Islam. This rejection, the PPP says, is for [...]
02 April 2011 The Wall Street Journal, in an article dated 30 March 2011, reports that Insurgents laid siege to a government building in the city of Tikrit. The siege, lasted five hours. The article reports that 55 people died and an additional 96 were wounded. Here are some brief excerpts from the article: [...]
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01 April 2011 According to an article by the AFP (French Press Agency), dated 31 March 2011, Pakistan has suffered from a rash of suicide attacks since 2007. Recently, thirteen people were killed when a suicide bomb blast was targeting yet another politician. It was the second attack against the politician in the last two [...]
01 March 2011 The New York Post, in an article dated 31 March 2011, has brought new information to a case that made news headlines recently. According to the article, on 30 March 2011, Osman Daramay, 11, attacked a 13 year-old girl and attempted to tear off her headscarf. Reports indicated that as he tried [...]
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31 March 2011 An article published at News.In.MSN.com reports that a man was arrested and charged with blasphemy in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Ghulam Mustafa was arrested and charged with burning pages of the Quran in his home. Here are some brief excerpts from the article: Police at Seetal Mari near Multan registered an FIR against [...]
