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Archives for 2012

Morocco: Pious Muslims stone and beat woman wearing dress they thought too revealing

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Wearing revealing clothing: haram. Assaulting a woman wearing revealing clothing, and stripping her naked in public: halal. “Rabat Salafists assault woman over dress,” by Mohamed Saadouni for Magharebia, May 11 (thanks to David): Intense debate on personal freedoms renewed recently in Morocco after a young woman wearing a short modern dress in a Rabat market […]

Uzbekistan cracks down on jihad groups home Bible studies

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Priorities. “Uzbekistan: An ‘unsanctioned meeting in a private home’ – with a bomb?,” by Mushfig Bayram for Forum 18 News Service, May 9 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Uzbekistan has continued to punish people exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief without state permission, Forum 18 News Service notes. Between February and […]

Pull my other leg: Pakistan’s PM denies Pakistani complicity in sheltering bin Laden

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There is no way he lived in that military neighborhood all those years without people knowing and approving at the highest levels of the Pakistani government. “Gilani says Pakistan not “˜complicit” of sheltering Osama bin Laden,” from APP, May 10 (thanks to Twostellas): pISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has insisted […]

Pre-dawn raids across France net 19 suspected misunderstanders of Islam

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It’s odd, isn’t it? We all know (on pain of charges of “Islamophobia”) that Islam is a Religion of Peace. Yet its glorious and unparalleled complexity renders it so susceptible of being misunderstood by its most devout adherents that they are constantly misunderstanding it, and — oddly enough! — always in exactly the same way. […]

Nigeria: Sunni jihadists misunderstand Islam, gun down Shi’ite leader

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Condoleezza Rice was referring to the Middle East when she said in January 2007: “There’s still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that.” But she isn’t having any better luck in Nigeria. “Suspected radical Islamist sect gunmen kill Shiite leader; military arrests […]

Democracy on the march in Iraq: Sunnis shun Arab League summit hosted by Shi’ites

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Condoleezza Rice said it in January 2007: “There’s still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that.” Five years and counting, Dr. Rice. But why listen to the likes of those who offer “amateurish, ideologically motivated scholarship” and who warned all along that […]

Always the victim: UK Muslim leaders warn of “Islamophobia” in wake of Muslim rape/prostitution gang case

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This is almost as obscene as the case itself. In light of the fact that forcing non-Muslim girls to be sex slaves is in accord with Islamic law, these Muslim leaders should not just be issuing empty condemnations, but instituting comprehensive programs in mosques and madrassas to teach against the beliefs and attitudes that lead […]

Saudi Muslim clerics misunderstand Islam, use social media to spread hate

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But remember: the real problem is “amateurish, ideologically motivated scholarship” about Islam and jihad. The real problem is “Islamophobia.” The real problem is hatred and bigotry, inciting to violence. Actually, the last one of those is true. And these Saudi clerics are guilty. “‘Saudi clerics use social media to spread hate,’” by Oren Kessler for […]

After getting physically attacked in Indonesia, Irshad Manji starts to realize that maybe it isn’t as “moderate” as she thought

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Hugh Fitzgerald said it back in 2008: “Irshad Manji has certainly created her own private Islam. She is the child of Asian refugees from Uganda. She has never lived in a Muslim society. She has always enjoyed the freedoms of the West. But she feels, out of filial piety, and perhaps for other reasons, that […]

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