Posted on Sat, February 18, 2012 at 22:14 pm CET
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Manufacturing Heresy: How the Mildest Muslim Liberalism is Turned into a Capital Punishment Offense

Nageeb Kashgari is a young man in a lot of trouble… Continue reading

Topics: Human Rights • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Political Correctness • Religion • Salafism • Saudi Arabia • Sharia Law • Wahhabism 
Posted on Thu, February 16, 2012 at 20:34 pm CET
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Why We Need Words Like ‘Islamist’

Is the problem Islam or Islamism? Muslims or Islamists?… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • History • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Thu, January 19, 2012 at 17:09 pm CET
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Iran: After Posing Nude, Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani No Longer Welcome in her Home Country

The controversy sparked by Aliaa Magda ElMahdy after posting a nude photo she took of herself on her blog is followed by another controversial posting of a nude photograph… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Democracy • France • Human Rights • Iran • Religion • Sharia Law • Shi'ism 
Posted on Thu, January 12, 2012 at 20:44 pm CET
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Friedman Cheers as Egyptians Are Enslaved

Many in the West have so acted toward Egypt during the last year… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 23:20 pm CET
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Egyptian Coptic billionaire faces trial for contempt of Islam

A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Fri, December 16, 2011 at 19:46 pm CET
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Who’s the Leading Authority in Defining Islam? Ayatollah Western Media

The Washington Post has an article by Michael Gerson attacking Newt Gingrich’s warning that the imposition of Sharia law… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism • Sharia Law • The Media • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, December 3, 2011 at 20:46 pm CET
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French minister of Arab origin: “There is no such thing as moderate Islam”

A French junior minister said in an interview published Saturday there was no such thing as moderate Islam… Continue reading

Topics: Algeria • Arab Spring • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • France • Human Rights • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Multiculturalism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Mon, November 28, 2011 at 17:55 pm CET
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Iran: Next Target of Islamic Law Enforcement Campaign: Internet Cafés and Photography Shops

Tehran police recently launched an operation to shut down illegal photography shops and internet cafés… Continue reading

Topics: Human Rights • Iran • Sharia Law • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, November 20, 2011 at 15:38 pm CET
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Aliaa ElMahdy is not afraid of being a woman despite harassment in Egypt

Aliaa Magda ElMahdy, a blogger and female activist, sparked controversy and attracted both criticism and admiration in Egypt after… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Global Islam • Human Rights • Religion • Salafism • Sharia Law 
Posted on Thu, November 10, 2011 at 21:26 pm CET
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Libya Heading Towards Islamism

Islamism will be the dominant political force in Libya… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Libya • Sharia Law 
Posted on Wed, November 2, 2011 at 20:34 pm CET
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Sudan in Crisis

Three months after the birth of South Sudan, how is the northern neighbor of the world’s newest nation faring… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Sharia Law • South Sudan • Sudan 
Posted on Tue, October 25, 2011 at 01:11 am CEST
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Libya: A Sharia State?

Libya’s transitional leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil was quite clear about his intentions for liberated Libya… Continue reading

Topics: France • Germany • Libya • Libya War • NATO • Sharia Law • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, September 6, 2011 at 22:12 pm CEST
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Al-Shabaab Movement imposes strict form of Sharia Law across Somalia

The hard-line Islamist group al-Shabaab is imposing Islamic Law on the outskirts of Mogadishu and across Somalia… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • Jihadism • Sharia Law • Somalia 
Posted on Sun, August 21, 2011 at 20:21 pm CEST
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Iran: the fight for the veil

Former top advisor to President Ahmadinejad said in an interview that the chador (the long veil used in Iran) is inappropriate for Iranian women… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Sharia Law • Shi'ism 
Posted on Wed, June 8, 2011 at 20:25 pm CEST
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Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques

How great is the danger of extremist violence in the name of Islam in the United States… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Jihadism • Multiculturalism • Salafism • Sharia Law • United States of America 
Posted on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 00:01 am CEST
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Iran: Tougher Measures to Enforce the Islamic Dress Code

This week, the morality police chief has announced tougher measures to enforce the Islamic dress code in Iran… Continue reading

Topics: Human Rights • Iran • Sharia Law • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Thu, March 24, 2011 at 23:53 pm CET
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Muslim Brotherhood and Its Political Agenda: “Islam is the solution”

The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamic mass movement whose worldview is based on the belief that “Islam is the solution” and… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Sharia Law • The Middle East 
Posted on Mon, March 7, 2011 at 00:07 am CET
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Iran to Ban Keeping Pet Dogs, Considered a “Blind Imitation” of Western Culture

Keeping pet dogs, considered to be unclean (Najes) in Shi’ite law, is viewed as an expression of the corrupting influence of the West… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Sharia Law • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sat, February 26, 2011 at 19:15 pm CET
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Persecution of Christians Begins in “Democratic” Egypt

Once the revolution began, Egypt’s Christians knew precisely what to expect. It isn’t that the regime of Husni Mubarak protected them so well from… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Copts • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Global Jihad • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Sharia Law 
Posted on Mon, February 14, 2011 at 02:56 am CET
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Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

In the late summer 2007, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood released its long-awaited platform for its ‘political party’ and distributed the first draft to a group of… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Sharia Law • The Middle East 
Posted on Sun, February 13, 2011 at 02:03 am CET
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Egypt: The Reality of the Muslim Brotherhood

This analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood, written by Tarek Heggy, is one of the best written recently. This analysis might also reflect what Egypt’s… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Islam • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Sharia Law • Taqiyya • The Middle East 
Posted on Mon, January 24, 2011 at 02:22 am CET
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Religious Ruling Bans Use of “Islamic” Mobile Phones in Bathrooms

Top conservative cleric Ayatollah Ja’far Sobhani has recently ruled that religious law forbids the use of mobile phones containing Islamic contents in bathrooms… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Sharia Law • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Mon, November 29, 2010 at 12:42 pm CET
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Saudi Arabia: Rise In Domestic Abuse Cases

The Arabic newspaper, A-Sharq Al-Awsat, reported last Thursday that Saudi specialists and human rights activists have expressed concern about increasing cases of domestic violence in Saudi Arabia, recorded against women specifically, despite the fact… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Human Rights • Saudi Arabia • Sharia Law • Sunni Islam 
Posted on Sun, October 31, 2010 at 17:10 pm CET
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Wikifeqh, The Wikipedia For Islamic Religious Law

Seyyed Mehdi Khamoushi, the head of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, announced this week the coming launch of Wikifeqh, an online encyclopedia which is based on “wiki” technology and includes articles on Islamic religious law and the principles of Islam… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Islamic Fundamentalism • Sharia Law • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Fri, February 5, 2010 at 02:23 am CET
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Moslimvrouwen en Sharia Wetgeving

Als u het moeilijk vindt om te geloven dat een vrouw onlangs 40 zweepslagen kreeg in Soedan voor het dragen van broeken, lees dan over het leven van vrouwen onder de Shari’a (Islamitische religieuze) wetgeving. Gaza is bijna zover, maar de rest van de wereld is het doel… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamism • Nederlands • Sharia Law