Tag Archives : Sharia

A few hours after announcing the ban on three UN agencies working in Somalia for being “enemies of Islam and Muslims,” hardline Somali Islamists of the al Qaeda-inspired Shebab insurgency attacked the agency’s offices. They divested the premises of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Political Office for [...]

UK authorities have granted permanent asylum in the United Kingdom to a Saudi princess who had a child out of wedlock with a British. Had this not happened and mother and child return to Saudi Arabia, both run the risk of being meted the capital punishment by flogging or stoning to death. The identity of the couple will be kept confidential by order [...]

A threat letter from the Taliban reads: “We have warned you. If we now kill schoolgirls, you shouldn’t be surprised.” In a Taliban-controlled area in northern Afghanistan, civilians are faced with the prospect of going against the Taliban all by themselves should they dare to as Afghan police and military are afraid to go to these places. [...]

According to a complaint of Amnesty International (AI), women in Iraq suffer from systematic discrimination and violence directed against them specifically because of their gender. AI has also noted that Iraqi law allows ‘honorable motives’ in murder cases of women by their husbands, parents, and teachers. These result in exemption from criminal [...]

Somalia’s parliament has unanimously approved the application of Islamic law or Sharia in the country. This decision is but an endorsement of a resolution made more than a month ago by the cabinet, as well as a logical result of the election in late January of an Islamist as President of Somalia, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed. This does not come as [...]

It isn’t too hard to understand why a fight for the right to purchase lingerie is extremely difficult in a country that prohibits women from voting and driving. The mobilization of Saudi women against oppression in one of the most macho of Arab regimes may be prosaic. Saudi women have come together to demand their right to be able to buy lingerie [...]