Cleric says polio vaccination ‘un-islamic’, warns of jihad against docs
A cleric in Pakistan’s Punjab province has warned that a jihad would be launched against polio vaccination teams at a time when the World Health Organisation has expressed concern at the emergence of new cases of the disease across the country.Maulvi Ibrahim Chisti of Muzaffargarh district declared the anti-polio campaign as “un-Islamic” and announced at [...]
Main – Malaysia – Publisher to challenge arrest, seizure and ban of lesbian author’s book @ Wed May 30 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 — ZI Publications will file a series of judicial reviews over the arrest of its owner Ezra Zaid and the ban and seizure of a book written by a lesbian author who professes to be a Muslim.The Selangor Islamic Religious Affairs Department Jais yesterday raided the publisher, which has courted controversy [...]
Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain: Scientific American
The article, “Religious factors and hippocampal atrophy in late life,” by Amy Owen and colleagues at Duke University represents an important advance in our growing understanding of the relationship between the brain and religion. The study, published March 30 in PLoS One, showed greater atrophy in the hippocampus in individuals who identify with specific religious [...]
The real face of the religion of peace.
Muslim man angry at protesters wearing burqas Ugly scenes erupted between a group of burqa-clad protesters and a Muslim man outside NSW State Parliament in Sydney today. The true face of islam: Intimidation and violence
Nigeria Christians hit by fresh Islamist attacks
Nigeria has been hit by a fresh wave of violence apparently targeting the country’s Christian communities.At least 17 people were killed in Mubi in Adamawa state as gunmen opened fire in a town hall where members of the Christian Igbo group were meeting.There were also reports of a deadly attack in Adamawa’s capital, Yola.The Islamist [...]
Love Jihad in India: Seducing and Converting of Hindu and Christian Girls to Islam
Muslim men’s use of love-trap for converting non-Muslim women to Islam for waging “Reproductive Jihad” against infidels.
Bangladesh muslim man admits cutting off wife’s fingers for wanting a higher education
Human rights groups in Bangladesh have demanded a severe punishment for the husband of a young wife who allegedly cut off most of her right hand. Police say Rafiqul Islam, 30, attacked her because she pursued higher education without his permission. They say Mr Islam, a migrant worker, admitted to the crime shortly after returning home [...]
Turkish Cartoonist Faces a Year in Prison for ‘Blasphemous’ Cartoon
This was the cartoon published by Turkish cartoonist Bahadır Baruter in the weekly humor magazine “Penguen”: The guy on the phone is talking to God, “asking to be pardoned from the last part of the prayer because he has errands to run.” More importantly, the part circled in red is a somewhat-hidden message that says “There [...]
Christian pastor faces execution in Iran for apostasy
The Foreign Secretary and the Archbishop of Canterbury intervened last night to try to save a Christian pastor in Iran who has refused to renounce his faith to escape a death sentence. An Iranian court gave Youcef Nadarkhani, 34, a third and final chance to avoid hanging, but he replied: “I am resolute in my [...]
Public prayer banned in France
Following its ban on Muslim women wearing the full-faced veil in public, a new French law came into effect on Friday that bans prayer in public spaces across the country. At a mosque too small to hold all the worshipers, a common practice among Muslims in northern Paris had been to spread out prayer mats in the surrounding streets. [...]
