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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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stoning stories: 4 news summaries

(AP) - A group of some 1000 Afghans today swarmed a demonstration of 300 women in Kabul protesting a new conservative marriage law. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart. The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex from his... More »

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Afghanistan • Shiite • law • women's rights • stoning • protesters • marital rape


 Dutch Pol Posts
Anti-Islam Film Online 

Controversial movie slams Koran
as 'fascist text'

Mar 28, 08 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A controversial anti-Islamic movie interweaving graphic images of 9/11, a beheading and protests by extremists has been posted on a maverick internet site by the leader of a far-right Dutch political party. Dutch television refused to broadcast the 17-minute movie, Fitna, which has been slammed as anti-Muslim propaganda. It ends... More »

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Islam • Madrid bombings • Netherlands • September 11 • stoning • Amsterdam • beheading • Koran • London bombings • Geert Wilders • Freedom Party • LiveLeak • Fitna • Theo van Gogh

Gay Nigerians Face Death by Stoning

Suspects accused of violating Islamic law; parliament mulls ban on gay groups

Aug 10, 07 6:41 PM CDT
(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 • Nigeria • Islamic Sharia law • Muslim • homosexuality • stoning • Bauchi

Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect

Yazidis pulled from
bus and shot in
reprisal for stoning

Apr 22, 07 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus carrying workers home from a textile factory  today, identified 23 members of a tiny religious sect on board, and shot them to death. The bus was filled with Christians and Yazidis, a mostly Kurdish sect that worships an angel, the AP reports. More »

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Iraq • Islam • Bashika • religion • execution • Yazidi • stoning • car bomb • Mosul

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