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...landowners raised fears of a Zimbabwe-style land grab. Although nearly 1,500 white farmers have been murdered since 1991, the inquiry revealed that only 2% of the attacks were racially or politically motivated. Stoning Overturned NIGERIA A woman convicted for adultery and sentenced to death by stoning under Shari'a law won her second appeal at a court in the northern state of Katsina. The ruling brought relief to President Olusegun Obesanjo, who was under pressure from Western governments and the E.U. to stop the sentence being carried out. Amina Lawal would have been the first person...
...Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini into various visual presentations of Pekar. For the majority of the film, he is portrayed by Paul Giamatti, who pulls no punches in presenting the artist in all his ill-tempered glory. At other times, the actual Pekar appears in the form of footage from...
...shabby, multiethnic west London shopping mall, robed men sit placidly at a stall offering Islamist pamphlets and videos on Shari'a law or jihad in Chechnya. They hope a black Islamic flag and a display of postcard-size stickers advertising a conference on Sept. 11 will attract the curious. On closer inspection, it is clear the conference's message will be anything but passive. The stickers at the al-Muhajiroun group's stall depict THE MAGNIFICENT 19, a lineup of the 9/11 hijackers set against New York City's burning Twin Towers and a smiling Osama bin Laden...
...antipornography, the group, founded in London by Syrian-born Bakri, is patient in its approach but extremist in its long-term goals. It wants to see Islam's flag fly over Downing Street in a new caliphate in which Muslims are united in one great borderless state under Shari'a law. The highly active group stages meetings all around Britain on a daily basis and claims to have branches in 30 British cities and offices in 21 countries, including a presence...
Here in central Java, as in most of Indonesia, moderate and liberal Muslims are dominant. Islamists haven't made inroads in electoral politics, and recent attempts to codify Shari'a law in the country's constitution were soundly defeated. When puritanical Islamists in Solo conducted sweeps of the bars and nightclubs to shut them down for the holy days of Ramadan and trashed some establishments to make their point, Solo's drink purveyors and customers fought back with well-attended street demonstrations...