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11/9/2009 | News | Debra Saunders
There Is No Honor; There's Only Killing
Noor Almaleki, a 20-year-old Muslim in Texas was killed by her father in what is considered the latest "honor killing" in America.
10/29/2009 | News | Greg Sheridan
Uncontrolled Muslim Influx a Threat to the West
It is extremely difficult to talk honestly about Muslim immigration. All generalisations about it are subject to countless exceptions. Muslims are very different from each other. Most are reasonably successful. But a much bigger minority end up with social, political, extremist or other problems resulting from a lack of integration than is the case with any other cohort of immigrants in Western societies. A lack of honest discussion about this results in bad policy.
10/29/2009 | News |
Saudi female activist: I don't need a male guardian/Saudi princess: Oh yes, you do
In July 2009 a Saudi women's rights activist called for abolishing the mahram ("guardian") law, which requires women to obtain the approval of a male relative for nearly any move they make in their lives. The Saudi Princess shot back with her own campaign called "My Guardian Knows What's Best For Me." Omigosh! It's just a signed piece of paper every woman needs from the man in her life in order to walk out the front door of her house. What's the problem, girlfriend?
10/22/2009 | News | Ben Lerner
Let them meet the neighbors
As President Obama scrambles to meet a self-imposed deadline of January 2010 for closing down Gitmo, he has his eye on a maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan as a possible destination for transferring detainees. But local officials have been denied a request to visit Guantanamo to gather information about prisoners who may soon be calling Standish home.
10/15/2009 | News |
Tackling the other Taliban
Militants of the Mehsud tribes represent one of the most formidable of several tribally based Islamist gangs in north-west Pakistan. The army now vows to crush them.
10/9/2009 | News | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS,
Europe atom lab: physicist arrested on terror link
French police have arrested a nuclear physicist on suspicion that he had links to terrorist organizations in Algeria, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Friday.
9/24/2009 | News | Paul Armstrong
Taliban suspected of stockpiling 'missing' Afghan opium
There is growing evidence, according to the U.N., that the Taliban are becoming increasingly involved in the industry and could use money from opium to finance their activities.
9/23/2009 | News | PAUL SCHEMM and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI,
Al-Qaida predicts Obama's fall by Muslim nation
Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new video predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world. "America has come in a new, hypocritical face. Smiling at us, but stabbing us with the same dagger that Bush used," said Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri in the message.
9/7/2009 | News | AFP
Iran to Cleanse Universities of Western Thought
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Western teachings make students question religion. School texts to be revised. "If we teach a copy of what Westerners have said and written to our young people, then we are conveying to them both doubt and disbelief in Islamic principles and in our values," he said.
9/7/2009 | News | El Deeb
Pants-Wearing Woman Gets $200 Fine in Sudan
Punishment by flogging waived for her but others not so lucky. Lubna Hussein was among 13 women arrested July 3 in a raid by the public order police in Khartoum. Ten of the women were fined and flogged two days later.