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...Passion,” the Harvard cop asks: ‘How do you like them apples?’ This incident illustrates how tough Harvard cops can be, especially considering that the cop decided to enforce a strict medieval interpretation of Sharia law in Cambridge, for no apparent reason whatsoever, and that neither of the students was drinking.Azhar Usman is one of the only American Muslim comedians on the international comedy scene. He is perhaps most famous for “Allah Made Me Funny: The Official Muslim Comedy Tour,” which he co-founded...
...Amnesty International documents. The charges were widely seen as the result of a political battle with then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Ibrahim successfully appealed the sodomy charges and was released in 2004 after six years in prison. Last night, Ibrahim said he believes that the aim of Islamic sharia law has a distinctly “Jeffersonian” focus on freedoms of expression and property. But Ibrahim was frustrated by the state of many predominantly Muslim nations. He said that the challenges of instituting freedom of speech and the rule of law are not limited to Muslim countries...
...implication that human rights and the treatment of women are taken more lightly in Muslim-dominated cultures.Yet, can anyone tenably claim that human rights do not enjoy less respect in the Middle East, the traditional home of Islam? There, nine nations, all of them invoking Islam’s Sharia law, punish homosexuality with death; in many of the same states, apostates are still beheaded and women accused of adultery are still stoned to death, even if they have been victims of rape. In that same code of laws, a man may divorce a woman simply—by declaring...
...future of U.S. troops in Iraq could also become a point of contention, with UIA leaders suggesting that while they don't want them out right away, they want to see a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. Some UIA leaders are also pushing to make Islamic Sharia law the basis of personal-status law in the new Iraq, governing issues such as marriage, divorce and inheritance - a proposal that would leave the legal status of women far inferior to what it had been under Saddam Hussein. But the more Islamist leaders in the UIA may not be able to count...
...hand out glossy brochures in the gardens of his pesantren-cum-business headquarters while visitors sip on the celebrity preacher's own brand of soft drink? Will it be the dogma of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia - set up by accused terrorist leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to lobby for Islamic sharia law - whose members sell Osama bin Laden T shirts outside a shabby office in Yogyakarta? Or will it be the intellectual questing of the Liberal Islam Network, whose leader Ulil Abshar-Abdalla has sparked wide debate and death threats with his calls for reforms to Islam...