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  • September 2008

    • Taliban Surges Back With New Battle Plan

      Washington Post  |  Sep 20, 08 3:46 PM CDT

      Taliban Surges Back With New Battle Plan

      (Newser) - Today’s Taliban bears little resemblance to the incompetent barefoot mullahs the US ousted 7 years ago. In the past year, the Taliban has reinvented itself as a confident, well-armed militia with a mighty propaganda machine, the Washington Post reports. “This is not the Taliban of Emirate times,” said one aide from the old regime. “They are more educated, and they don't punish people for having CDs or cassettes.” More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • Hamid Karzai  • Islamic law

  • 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

  • November 2007

    • Saudi Court to Review Rape Victim Sentence

      Associated Press  |  Nov 28, 07 11:46 AM CST

      Saudi Court to Review Rape Victim Sentence

      (Newser) - Courts will take another look at the sentence of a gang-rape victim, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said yesterday, following an international outcry when the 19-year-old was handed a six-month prison term and 200 lashes. “What is outraging about this case is that it is being used against the Saudi government and people,” said Prince Saud al-Faisal. More »

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      rape  • Saudi Arabia  • Annapolis  • Annapolis summit  • Saudi rape victim  • Islamic law

  • September 2007

    • Saudi Women Want to Drive

      BBC  |  Sep 18, 07 1:13 PM CDT

      Saudi Women Want to Drive

      (Newser) - A group of Saudi women is trying to regain a “stolen right”: driving. The group will deliver a petition to King Abdullah this week demanding the right to get behind the wheel. But prospects for lifting the world's only ban on female drivers are cloudy, the BBC reports, because of concerns about women mixing freely with men. More »

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      Saudi Arabia  • driving  • women's rights  • King Abdullah  • Islamic law

  • May 2007

    • Tolerant Swiss to Ban Minarets?

      BBC  |  May 28, 07 9:57 PM CDT

      Tolerant Swiss to Ban Minarets?

      (Newser) - The Swiss have gone NIMBY (not in my back yard) on minarets.  While Switzerland's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, a number of leading politicians want to ban them via a referendum this fall.  There are now exactly two minarets in all of Switzerland. More »

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      religion  • Islam  • Switzerland  • Islamic law

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