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...buildings. "He could have sent his daughters to Tehran," notes a Western diplomat. "That says a lot." Erdogan's biggest challenge now is balancing the requirements of Turkey's secular establishment against the demands of the estimated 8% of Turks who would welcome the imposition of Islamic law, or Shari'a. The AK party also faces huge challenges once it takes office, including a December meeting in Copenhagen at which Turkey hopes to be granted a date to start negotiations to join the European Union. That may be difficult, given the comment of Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing, head...
...trick-or-treating and pet parades. Pet stores and online costume retailers--several of which have formidable animal sections--are seeing a surge this year in requests for such costumes as Superman, Giddyup Cowgirl, Top Dog Tuxedo, '60s Hippie and Hell's Angels Biker. Why the new market? Explains Shari Maxwell, owner of the online AnniesCostumes.com whose pet business doubled in the past year: "Now when parents go out to dress the family for trick-or-treating, they feel bad if they leave out the pooch." Usually ranging from $10 to $20, the getups are at least a little cheaper...
...Halloween trick or treating and pet parades. American pet stores and online costume retailers?several with formidable animal sections?are seeing a surge this year in requests for such costumes as Superman, Giddyup Cowgirl, Top Dog Tuxedo, 1960s Hippie, and Hell's Angels Biker. Why the new market? Explains Shari Maxwell, owner of the online AnniesCostumes.com, whose pet business doubled in the last year: "Now when parents go out to dress the family for trick or treat-ting, they feel bad if they leave out the pooch." Not only that, it's the only time of the year...
Muslims know it, but they don't want to admit that something is wrong with Islamic law, Shari'a. They fear that if they voiced their opinion, it would endanger Islam as a whole. How else to explain the support for the Shari'a court that sentenced Lawal to death by stoning as punishment for adultery and allowed the man she was involved with to walk free? As Jesus said, with regard to the woman caught in adultery, Any one of the executioners who has not sinned should be the first to cast a stone. BUNMI AKINSEMOLA Akure, Nigeria...
Pakistan adopted stoning when military dictator Zia ul-Haq introduced shari'a in 1979. While there are no confirmed cases of the punishment's being carried out, Pakistani women complain that rape victims are routinely charged with adultery, sentenced to death and then left to languish in jail. The penalty is newest in sub-Saharan Africa, where it has been introduced in Sudan and Somalia over the past decade, though in practice it is rarely used. In Nigeria, the introduction of shari'a is as much about politics as ideology. Worried that power was slipping to southern Christians, the northern...