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  • September 2008

    • Clerics Shake Up Islamic Finance

      Portfolio  |  Sep 24, 08 9:49 AM CDT

      Clerics Shake Up Islamic Finance

      (Newser) - Of the challenges facing Western financial markets, fear of divine intervention isn’t one. The Middle East’s booming debt market is considered one of the most stable in the world, but investors there are getting a taste of “religious interpretation risk,” Portfolio reports. Islamic scholars are declaring that some 85% of sukuks, or Islamic bonds, violate Koran rules against accepting interest. More »

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      Middle East  • debt  • Sharia law

    • Saudi Judge: Kill Offending Broadcasters

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 12, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      Saudi Judge: Kill Offending Broadcasters

      (Newser) - The highest judge in Saudi Arabia says “it is permissible” to murder owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast questionable material during Ramadan, the Guardian reports. When a caller to his radio show asked about channels featuring “bad programs,” Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan responded, “What does the owner of these networks think, when he provides seduction, obscenity and vulgarity? … Certainly it’s permissible to kill them.” More »

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      Saudi Arabia  • censorship  • Sharia law  • Ramadan  • satellite TV  • fatwa

  • June 2008

    • US Firm Calls for Islamic Law in Lawsuit

      News & Observer (Raleigh)  |  Jun 19, 08 7:51 AM CDT

      US Firm Calls for Islamic Law in Lawsuit

      (Newser) - An American firm blamed for the death of three US soldiers in a plane crash has asked a federal court to apply Islamic law to a lawsuit brought by their widows, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Presidential Airways, Blackwater's sister company, argues that since its plane crashed in Afghanistan, the case should be heard under Sharia law—which would dismiss the claims. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Blackwater  • court cases  • Sharia law  • Erik Prince  • Islamic law

  • February 2008

    • Fury After Head of Anglicans Condones Sharia in UK

      Times (UK)  |  Feb 8, 08 7:49 AM CST

      Fury After Head of Anglicans Condones Sharia in UK

      (Newser) - The Archbishop of Canterbury made the cover of almost every British newspaper today after condoning the application of sharia law in Muslim communities in Britain. Although Rowan Williams rejected the extreme versions of sharia practiced in parts of the Muslim world, he said in a lecture last night that the spread of the religious law in Britain was "inevitable" and that for settling some issues, such as marital disputes, he favored "constructive accommodation." More »

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      United Kingdom  • Gordon Brown  • Islam  • Sharia law  • Jacqui Smith  • Archbishop of Canterbury

  • January 2008

    • Turkey to Lift Head Scarf Ban at Universities

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 25, 08 4:54 PM CST

      Turkey to Lift Head Scarf Ban at Universities

      (Newser) - Turkey is expected to do away with a 2-decade-old ban on women wearing head scarves at the nation’s universities as early as next week. The prospect alarms the country’s secular elite, who see the country on a slippery slope to Islamist rule, Der Spiegel reports. “The logic is one of fear,” explains the director of a Turkish think tank. More »

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      Islam  • Turkey  • Muslim women  • Sharia law  • Islamic dress code  • AK Party

  • November 2007

    • Saudi Rulers: Rape Victim Caused Crime

      CNN  |  Nov 25, 07 7:23 AM CST

      Saudi Rulers: Rape Victim Caused Crime

      (Newser) - Under international fire for sentencing a gang-rape victim to 200 lashes, the Saudi government yesterday said the woman violated Islamic law and caused the crime to take place by having an "illegitimate relationship" with a man not her husband. The rapists allegedly found the woman "in a compromising situation" with a man on a beach, CNN reports. More »

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      rape  • Saudi Arabia  • adultery  • Sharia law  • Islamic Sharia law  • Saudi rape victim

    • Saudi Rape Victim Gets Jail for Appealing

      BBC  |  Nov 16, 07 7:36 PM CST

      Saudi Rape Victim Gets Jail for Appealing

      (Newser) - A Saudi woman who was gang-raped by 14 men has been sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison, the BBC reports. Her original crime was being in the car with a man unrelated to her, but her punishment was doubled and prison time added when she appealed the original sentence. Judges said she tried to use the media to influence them; her lawyer says the sentence violates both Sharia law and international conventions. More »

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      rape  • Saudi Arabia  • death sentence  • appeal  • Sharia law  • Islamic Sharia law  • Saudi rape victim

  • October 2007

    • Pakistani Cleric Calls Ceasefire

      Al Jazeera  |  Oct 29, 07 12:07 PM CDT

      Pakistani Cleric Calls Ceasefire

      (Newser) - Supporters of an extremist cleric who had declared a jihad against Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire today after fierce fighting this weekend claimed between 50 and 60 of their number, Al Jazeera reports. Pakistan had sent 2,500 paramilitary troops to Swat to head off Maulana Fazlullah, who wants to establish a Taliban-style state governed by Islamic law. More »

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      Pakistan  • Taliban  • militant  • jihad  • Sharia law  • cleric  • Swat  • Maulana Fazlullah

  • August 2007

    • Gay Nigerians Face Death by Stoning

      BBC  |  Aug 10, 07 6:41 PM CDT

      Gay Nigerians Face Death by Stoning

      (Newser) - Eighteen Nigerian men arrested on suspicion of sodomy face death by stoning under the nation’s Sharia law. Police found the men, reportedly dressed as women, in a hotel in the northern state of Bauchi, where they were allegedly celebrating a “gay wedding.” More »

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      gay rights  • homosexuality  • Nigeria  • Muslim  • Sharia law  • stoning

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