Former Pakistani lawmaker and cleric Maulana Abdul Haleem recently issued a fatwa (Islamic degree) against secular education and justifying honor killings of women.[1]The fatwa was issued in a sermon during a weekly Friday prayer in Kohistan district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Haleem also threatened that women from secular NGOs who visit Kohistan district may
The man was named as Bonn-born Ahmed Mueller. He was reportedly arrested near Naivasha, north of Nairobi, Thursday's paper quoted a Kenyan police spokesman as saying. However neither the German police nor the foreign ministry made any comment. The news came days after Kenyan police arrested a Swedish national suspected to have links
Using money or consumer goods to buy votes has been forbidden by religion. The Fatwa has been issued by Darul Iftaa, the Egyptian authority has issued the fatwa on the eve of the first round of voting in the first post-Mubarak presidential elections. The first round will be held next week on 23 and 24.
Egypt’s ruling military has promised a return to the barracks once a new president is elected, but the army’s formidable political and economic weight means that such a withdrawal could be an illusion, analysts say. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), in charge of the country since a popular uprising ousted longtime
Russia is concerned about a shift in the positions of some countries that now favor a military attack on Iran, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Sunday. “We [Russia] are concerned that the opportunity to try to solve the problem [in Iran] by military means is still real. We get signals, public and
For the first time in almost 20 years, residents of Tel Dotan in Samaria (Shomron) and former soldiers who fought to liberate the area met to hold a memorial for the battles of 1967. The fighting in Tel Dotan was the opening battle between Israel and Jordan in a conflict that led to the liberation
The elections in France ousted from power one of the leading opponents of Turkish accession to the European Union- Nicolas Sarkozy. Although the new French President, Francois Hollande, ruled out the possibility of Turkey entering the European Union during his five-year term the Turks are optimistic enough to reopen their entry bid. There
At a ceremony honoring the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made some of his strongest statements to date regarding the right of the Jewish nation to sovereignty over its ancient capital of Jerusalem. "A lasting peace can only be made with a strong nation," Netanyahu asserted. "Without
Egypt's Coptic Christians fear they could face further persecution should an Islamist candidate win next week's presidential elections, as frontrunners vying for leadership stem from the Sharia-leaning Muslim Brotherhood. One of the major issues on their agenda is a controversial law that puts heavy restrictions on building and maintaining Christian houses of worship. The
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday of the need to prevent Israel from being swamped by “illegal infiltrators flooding the country,” Army Radio reported. "If we don't stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state," he
