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...ASSASSINATED. AKHMAD KADYROV, 52, Chechnya's controversial pro-Moscow President; from injuries sustained in a bombing; in Grozny. A volatile leader, he was once a fearsome jihadi mufti, or interpreter of Shari'a law, who fought for Chechnyan independence. But in 1999 Kadyrov switched sides, saying the movement was getting too religiously radical. The murdered President once said, "There have been so many attempts on my life that I have lost count...
...Islam is our raison d'?tre." Abdul Hadi Awang, president of the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, calling for the nationwide implementation of Shari...
...Malaysia, it seems that getting away is as easy as 1-2-3. An Islamic judge in the predominantly Muslim country ruled in July that, under Shari'a law, a husband could end a marriage by text messaging "I divorce you" to his wife three times. Now text messaging is being used in the service of another (and more pleasant) kind of getaway. AirAsia, a domestic low-fares carrier with regional ambitions, recently implemented the world's first ever short-message-service (SMS) ticket-sales system. Using cell phones, customers dialogue with a computer, which, over an average of eight...
...crime for which she was sentenced to death by stoning; by an Islamic appeals court; in Katsina, Nigeria. Lawal, whose sentence provoked international criticism and heightened tensions between the country's Christians and Muslims, would have been the first woman to be stoned to death since 12 states adopted Shari'a, or strict Islamic law, starting...
...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...