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Adding to the shock in India, home to the world's third-largest Muslim population (approximately 150 million), is that some of the clerics apparently caught in the sting operation teach at important institutions - one belongs to India's most famous Islamic seminary, the Darul Uloom at Deoband. At least...
The "cash-for-fatwas" scandal has also led to a renewed debate on what constitutes a fatwa, and who has legitimate authority to issue one. Fatwas - like the one passed by Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini in 1989 against the novelist Salman Rushdie, or those issued by Osama bin Laden in...
• You've Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly
The mounting cache of Caesareans is a natural outgrowth of the surgery-obsessed culture that has emerged here since the Islamic Revolution. Forced to cover their bodies in Islamic dress, women focused on beautifying what remained visible: their faces. That turned Iran into the nose job capital of the world...
Whatever you want to say about George W. Bush, he certainly has the whole “vision thing” that his father so conspicuously lacked. On the issue of terrorism, Bush has tried to look ahead, but he has done so by neglecting the present.Unlike most people in...