Saudi Woman Arrested After Campaigning for Right to Drive
May 21, 2011 on Al-Jazeera English: A Saudi woman is held after mounting an internet campaign to get more females driving A woman has been detained in Saudi Arabia for defying the ban on driving. The kingdom is the only country in the world where women are discouraged from getting behind the wheel. Manal al [...]
UK Muslims Beat up Teacher for Teaching Muslim Girls Other Religions
Four UK Muslims identified as Simon Alam, 19, Azad Hussein, 27, Sheikh Rashid, 21, and Akmol Hussain are facing trial in the UK for beating up Gary Smith,37, head or religious studies at Central Foundation School for Girls in Bow, East London. Gary Smith’s offense, according to the The Telegraph, was that he was “mocking” Islam [...]
Saudi woman defies kingdom’s ban on women driving
A Saudi mother said Sunday she defied a ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom by getting behind the wheel for four days without being stopped. Najla al-Hariri, a housewife in her mid-30s, said she drove non-stop for four days in the streets of the Red Sea city of Jeddah “to defend her belief [...]
Egypt in crisis after Muslim mobs attack Christian churches
Egypt’s caretaker government has held crisis talks after attacks by Muslim mobs on Coptic Christian churches in Cairo left at least 12 people dead and drove the country’s growing religious tensions to the brink. The riots, in Imbaba, a poor, densely populated district in the city, have heightened fears that a power vacuum following Hosni [...]
Madonna and Muslim Toyboy Lover Separate over Religious Differences
Madonna’s nine month romance with a 24 year old hip-hop dancer Brahim Zaibat has hit the rocks when her toyboy lover’s family objected to his seeing the 52 year old queen of pop. Madonna is devoted to the Kabbalah and her boyfriend has been attending Kabbalah meetings with her in the nine months of their [...]
Two Muslim religious leaders asked to leave Delta flight
Two Muslim religious leaders say they were removed from a commercial airliner in Memphis on Friday and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. Masudur Rahman, who is also an adjunct instructor of Arabic at the University of Memphis, said by telephone from the terminal at Memphis International Airport [...]
Teacher tells 9th grade Muslim girl: ‘I bet you’re grieving’ for ‘uncle’ Osama
A ninth grade algebra teacher was suspended from a Texas school district after making offensive comments to a Muslim student in front of the entire class. “The teacher told the student that ‘I bet you’re grieving,’” the mother of a student in the same class told ABC13. “And she basically looked at him and said [...]
Protesters drive Koran-burning pastor out of Michigan
A controversial Florida pastor banned last week from protesting at a Detroit-area mosque on Friday cut short a demonstration at a city hall largely drowned out by counter-protesters. Terry Jones, 59, had vowed to return this week, saying that his ban on demonstrating in front of the landmark Islamic Center of America in heavily muslim [...]
Lara Logan Speaks Out About Assault In Egypt: ‘They Raped Me With Their Hands’
CBS correspondent Lara Logan is speaking out for the first time since her brutal sexual assault in Egypt. Logan was attacked by a mob near Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, the day that President Hosni Mubarak was finally driven from power. At the time, CBS News issued a statement saying that she “suffered a [...]
Muslim actress causes storm for posing naked for Playboy
A MUSLIM actress has caused a storm by posing naked for Playboy. Sila Sahin has been branded a “whore” and a “western slut” after appearing topless on the cover of the German edition of the men’s magazine. And Islamic fanatics have posted threatening internet messages. Sila, raised in Germany by conservative Turkish parents, says she [...]
