Do the right thing, Tunisia
A bit of good news, potentially (though it could be just window dressing, or good intentions, or doomed): Tunisia “has become the first country in the region to withdraw all its specific reservations...
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One hand is enough
It doesn’t matter what you believe. The important thing is how you live. An Islamic sharia court in Nigeria has sentenced two men to amputation at their right wrists for stealing a bull, with the...
View ArticleAnd they lived happily ever after
Oh how sweet, Hamid Karzai has pardoned a woman who was serving a 12 year prison sentence for…arson? Armed robbery? GBH? No; for being raped. That’s what women who are raped get in Afghanistan (and not...
View ArticleOh yes, go right ahead
Memri reports a fatwa that says it’s fine for mujahideen to kidnap “the infidels’ women” and rape them, because once they’ve been kidnapped the infidel men don’t own them any more. The inquiry in...
View ArticleTenets of Islam are not subject to change
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay went to the Maldives, and there she said some things. She said some things relevant to human rights. In an address delivered in parliament last...
View Article“If I hear that anything is said against the holy Prophet Muhammad”
Yesterday evening, One Law for All Co-Spokesperson Anne Marie Waters was to speak at a meeting on Sharia Law and Human Rights at the University of London. Maryam continues: It was cancelled by the...
View ArticleEgypt, meet sharia
Oh hey gee what do you know, the Muslim Brotherhood hasn’t turned all that “moderate” after all. How about that: when they said they had they were just bullshitting people so that they could win...
View ArticleCharge £400 for her, £200 for him
The wonderfulness of Sharia councils. After fleeing a forced marriage characterised by rape and physical violence, Nasrin applied for an Islamic divorce from a Sharia council; that was almost 10 years...
View ArticlePeople must accept that we will impose Sharia whether they like it or not
The Islamists in Mali aren’t bothering about winning hearts and minds. Hundreds of people protested their plan to chop off someone’s hand and a radio journalist was beaten up for urging the protesters...
View ArticleCompiling a list
This is bad. Radical Islamists are compiling a list of unmarried mothers in northern Mali, raising fears of cruel punishments such as stoning, amputations and executions, a senior United Nations...
View ArticleWelcome to Islamist Mali
The glories of life in Northern Mali now that the Islamists have taken over. Women and girls no longer have to suffer the indignity of having naked hair and necks, because they are all required to wear...
View ArticleNon-Muslims may not inherit at all
From the Lawyers’ Secular Society, a practice note issued by the Law Society. This practice note provides guidance to lawyers specialising in areas such as wills, succession and inheritance, and in...
View ArticleSo what’s the problem?
Charlie Klendjian says more on why the Law Society’s guidance on how to draw up Sharia-compliant wills is such a crap idea. The Law Society has said its practice note has not changed the law. The LSS...
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