Police in northern Nigeria have arrested a Muslim preacher who claims 86 wives and 107 children, charging him with breaking Islamic laws governing marriage.
Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world.
"Wafa Sultan: I receive death threats on a daily basis. I'm a well-known writer in the Arab world. My writings expose me to millions of devout Muslims who have nothing positive to prove but the sheer cruelty of their teachings.
Americans hear a lot about Islamist violence in general, and about Islamist repression of women in particular. Some Muslims do take the opposite tack...
"Londoners support the Swiss government's decision to ban minarets and mosques according to a new poll in The London Daily News, further highlighting the "sensitivities" and concerns in the capital at the growing influence of Islam.
Women appearing in television programs will not be allowed to wear make-up because it is against Islamic law, or sharia, media on Wednesday quoted the head of Iran's state television as saying.
The Siwss referendum to ban minarets, which passed 57% to 42%, was triggered when almost 115,000 signed a people's initiative handed to parliament last year in favour of a ban – 100,000 is enough to force a referendum in Switzerland.
Riyadh (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Saudi Arabia should overturn a death sentence imposed on a Lebanese national convicted of practicing witchcraft during a visit to the conservative kingdom, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report.
A rally was held in Central London on Saturday 21 November to show support for the people living under radical Islam in Iran, and to warn people in Britain of the dangers of Sharia law.
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- A Somali woman was stoned to death after being found guilty of adultery in breach of Islamic law.
What does it take to make Islam bashers mend their ways? Why don't these folks come to their senses and see Islam as a religion of peace and praise the God of Abraham for continuing his beneficence on humanity by sending Muhammad to guide and humanize us? Well, just a few probl …
"Nic Robertson reports on a radical Islamic fringe active in Europe and close to al Qaeda."
There is a division of the house. On one side are the politically correct in government, the leftist mainstream media, and a raft of Islamist apologists. One and all are tripping over each other in reassuring us that the mass murderers such as Maj.
The three were held after they strayed into Iran from northern Iraq at the end of July. More Articles
A network of militant Islamist groups stretches from India to the Iranian border, from the Hindu Kush to the Indian Ocean. These groups include Pashtuns and Punjabis, Arabs and Uzbeks and more. They have no common leader, vision, hierarchy, or goal.
It has also banned movies, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer in the areas under it control
A battle in the war against radical Islam in Detroit was briefly waged on October 28 when the FBI engaged in a deadly shootout with an extremist imam refusing to be arrested.
In South Waziristan, the Pakistani army is bracing itself for confrontation with what it says are "a large group of Uzbek extremists". So who are they and what are they doing in Pakistan? Sirojiddin Tolibov of the BBC's Uzbek service has this assessment.
"Women may soon be banned from wearing tight trousers in parts of an Indonesian province that practices strict Islamic law, and offenders could see their attire cut up.
Leading members of a group that wants to bring down the British state and replace it with a dictatorship under Islamic law have secured more than £100,000 of taxpayers' money for a chain of schools.
Germany's Muslims are finally getting a bank offering financial products that comply with Sharia law. It is a market worth billions, and one that many major banks around the world have long discovered.
"I am a democratically elected politician. My main message is that I have a problem with the Islamicisation of our societies ... I believe the more Islam we get in our free societies the less freedom we will get."
Again, an old interview back in 2004 with PBS. Lt.Hamid Gul was the head of the ISI pre-9/11 and shortly after. Don't know whether he was still head in 2004. I consider him a closet Taliban, always have. But his beliefs got reinforced thanks to the Iraq debacle.
A 15 year old in Denmark warning about the Islamization of his country = HATE SPEECH A major Swedish newspaper reviving the medieval anti-Jewish blood libel = FREE SPEECH Welcome to Europe...