Islamic World News: Saudi pregnant gang-rape victim gets 100 lashes for adultery
2. Yemen: New law moves to reduce child marriages, gives women greater legal protection Starting at Home, Iran's Women Fight for Rights by NAZILA FATHI 4. Somali Woman Rejects Islam with a Vengeance by Nick Gier 5. Al Qaeda & Taliban's threat to India & Pakistan by Satbir Singh Bedi 6. Twenty years on, Salman Rushdie still in shadow of fatwa 7. The Saudi Connection to the Mumbai Massacres: Strategic Implications for Israel by Col. (res.) Jonathan Fighel 8. Malaysia Again Stamps Mark In Islamic World by Yong Soo Heong 9. Conservatism and politics of fatwa by M. Syafi'i Anwar 10. Dutch anti-Islam filmmaker sent home by Stephanie Kennedy 11. Anti-Islam Dutch MP held at Heathrow airport in London Compiled by Syed Asadullah More.http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1191 Radical Islamism & Jihad Taliban and Al-Qaeda: Theological Tensions? Is this end of a beautiful friendship? The Taliban and Al-Qaeda have enjoyed a long alliance in Afghanistan. Their relationship, based on a seemingly shared brand of severe and militant Islam, even survived the U.S.-led toppling of the Taliban in 2001, which came after leader Mullah Omar famously refused to turn over to the Americans his Al-Qaeda ally, Osama bin Laden. this day, that relationship endures. But will it last? Rifts and tensions between the Taliban and Arab Al-Qaeda, as well as vastly different Islamic traditions, suggest that a basis for separation exists. Whether it occurs could determine whether peace negotiations between the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Taliban foes ever get off the ground.--- Jeffrey Donovan Deobandi Islam: The Religion of the Taliban A rejoinder to a series of booklets entitled "Johannesburg to Bareilley (DEOBANDI-ISM CAUGHT UP IN ITS OWN WEB) By Allamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi Rahm.Translated by S.G. Khawajah More.http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1186 Saudi Islam, misuse of Seerat-e-Nabwi allowed: No protection to young girls, some awful news stories Fifty-Something Saudi Refuses to Annul Marriage to his Eight-Year-Old Wife A Saudi man in his 50s has announced that he refuses to annul his year-and-a half-long marriage to an eight-year-old girl, because he claims never to have done anything forbidden by Islamic law. He said that Islamic law does not set a specific age for marriage, and that the Prophet Muhammad married 'Aisha when she was nine. Source: Al-Hayat, London, August 13, 2008 http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=815 Radical Islamism & Jihad Islam Attracting Many Survivors of Rwanda Genocide Jihad Is Taught as 'Struggle to Heal' RUHENGERI, Rwanda -- The villagers with their forest green head wraps and forest green Korans arrived at the mosque on a rainy Sunday afternoon for a lecture for new converts. There was one main topic: jihad. They found their seats and flipped to the right page. Hands flew in the air. People read passages aloud. And the word jihad -- holy struggle -- echoed again and again through the dark, leaky room. It wasn't the kind of jihad that has been in the news since Sept. 11, 2001. There were no references to Osama bin Laden, the World Trade Centre or suicide bombers. Instead there was only talk of April 6, 1994, the first day of the state-sponsored genocide in which ethnic Hutu extremists killed 800,000 minority Tutsis and Hutu moderates. "We have our own jihad, and that is our war against ignorance between Hutu and Tutsi. It is our struggle to heal," said Saleh Habimana, the head mufti of Rwanda. "Our jihad is to start respecting each other and living as Rwandans and as Muslims." -- Emily Wax More... http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1193 -- Syed M. Asadullah -- Syed M. Asadullah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. Wanna subscribe to this group, send email to [email protected] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ *********************************************************** The Official Website of Group is LAUNCHED, http://www.geocities.co -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
