Posted on May 31, 2008 by islamoscope
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, May 30, 2008
In a story Wednesday on a jihadist attack on a wedding party and other jihad activity in Thailand, Agence France Presse added a concluding paragraph that was typical of mainstream media coverage of the Thai jihad and of jihad activity in general. For while AP, Reuters, AFP [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2008 by islamoscope
DHAKA: Members of the Hindu community have lost 26 lakh acres of land from 1965 to 2006, while an estimated one crore Hindus were forced to leave the country from 1964 to 2001 because of communal conflicts and deprivation caused by the Enemy (Vested) Property Act, according to a study reports the Daily Star, Dhaka.
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Posted on May 31, 2008 by islamoscope
A student of a religious seminary in Pakistan’s Punjab province has died after he was punished by his teacher, police say.
Atif, seven, was hung upside down from a ceiling fan by Maulvi Ziauddin for not memorising his Koran lessons, his fellow students told the police.
Atif’s condition deteriorated quickly and he died in the teacher’s [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by islamoscope
Secular Turks say the government’s religious authority has gone too far by advising women not to flirt with strangers or wear perfume outside their homes. The article is expected to further inflame a debate about the role of religion in the secular nation.
Is wearing perfume a sin? Or casting a flirtatious gaze at a man? [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by islamoscope
(ANSAmed) – ANKARA, MAY 29 – A Turkish court ruled today the closure of the only gay rights association in Turkey after the prosecutor had said it violated the family protection and public morality laws, Turkish agency Anadolu reported. The agency added that the ruling was issued by a [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2008 by islamoscope
An interesting documentary on Armenian genocide denial by Turkey.
If you’re not sure about what happened try checking out wikipedia, here
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Posted on May 29, 2008 by islamoscope
Tehran, 28 May (AKI) – Ten Iranians who converted from Islam to Christianity in recent months have been arrested in the southern city of Shiraz.
According to Goodarz, a spokesperson for the Iranian converts, more than 35 of them have been arrested since the beginning of the year. Goodarz himself has taken refuge in Dubai, in [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2008 by islamoscope
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by islamoscope
Tehran, 27 May (AKI) – A top Iranian cleric from the northeast, Ayatollah Ahmad Elmalhoda, has reportedly called feminists “whores and foreign spies”.
“These whores, clutching a piece of paper in their hands to gather signatures, are working for foreign powers and want to destabilise the Islamic Republic,” said Elmalhoda.
He is the highly influential prayer leader [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by islamoscope
TEHRAN (AFP) – A male defender of the feminist cause in Iran has been sentenced to a year in prison, the moderate Kargozaran newspaper reported on Monday.
Amir Yaqoubali is a supporter of the “One Million Signatures” petition campaign launched in June 2006. According to a feminist website, he was arrested as he collected signatures.
The [...]
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