In a woman?s complaint cell, barefooted, but decked up like a bride, 11-year-old Nadia told The Express Tribune of how her father had bartered her off in ?marriage? to a boy almost twice her age.
Late on Wednesday, a woman came to the New Pind police station claiming that her husband had forced her daughter into marrying a 20-year-old boy.
She directed the police to a house in Islam Colony, from where they arrested her husband, Mohammad Yasin Shaikh, her new son-in-law, [...]
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Somali gunmen kidnapped a French woman from her home in a resort in northern Kenya early Saturday, near where a Briton was seized and her husband killed last month, authorities said.
The abductors were “10 heavily armed Somali bandits suspected to be Al-Shabaab operatives” from Ras Kiamboni, across the border in Somalia, Kenyan security minister George Saitoti said in a statement.
The gunmen seized the woman at about 3 a.m. from her home in Manda Island, near Lamu.
Security forces pursued the men [...]
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NATO captured a senior leader of the Al Qaeda- and Taliban-allied Haqqani network active inside Afghanistan, the alliance said Saturday, describing it as a “significant milestone” in disrupting the terror group’s operations.
NATO said Haji Mali Khan was seized Tuesday during an operation in eastern Paktia province’s Jani Khel district, which borders Pakistan. It was the most significant capture of a Haqqani leader in Afghanistan, and could dent the group’s ability to operate along the porous border with Pakistan’s lawless tribal [...]
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Protests have been made and threats issued over recent months against Christian-run shops that sell alcoholic beverages in the South of Lebanon, a ‘feudal’ territory ‘belonging’ to the Shiite Islamic Hezbollah movement and its militias.
In the latest case reported by the Marakaziya agency, a young tradesperson received anonymous threats in the post with a warning that they should close down their shop in Kferwe’, in the Nabatiyeh region.
A report in today’s edition of L’Orient le Jour states that the 24-year-old [...]
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At the Northern Virginia mosque where Anwar al-Aulaqi once preached, the news of his killing ripped open a wound that congregants wish would heal.
For a decade, Dar al-Hijrah has been haunted by its association with Aulaqi, who was the imam at the Falls Church mosque on Sept. 11, 2001, but had yet to publicly embrace the anti-American extremism that would make him a target of U.S. drones.
Tariq Nelson, an active member of the mosque, expressed weariness Friday at trying to [...]
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A banned extremist who made a mockery of Britain?s border controls is now likely to pocket ?5,000 ($7,800 USD) in compensation because immigration officials could not speak his language.
The High Court ruled yesterday that Sheikh Raed Salah, described as a ?virulent anti-Semite? in the Commons, could claim compensation for unlawful detention by immigration officers.
They had seized the pro-Palestine hardliner ? who should never have been allowed into Britain in the first place ? to have him deported.
But immigration staff failed [...]
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The Spanish government announced it would continue efforts to extradite Hassan Bakir from the Netherlands. The 44-year-old Moroccan has been sought since 1985 for alleged activities with Islamic terrorists in the Chabiba Islamiyya organisation.
Having lived in the Netherlands since 2005, and having receiving political asylum in 2007, Mr Bakir spoke to Radio Netherlands Worldwide about his disappointment at the lack of support he is getting from the Dutch authorities.
?The Dutch embassy has appointed me a lawyer and the Spanish authorities [...]
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A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday handed down death sentence to the police guard who assassinated Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer for calling for changes in the country’s controversial blasphemy law.
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the policeman who gunned down Taseer outside a
restaurant in the heart of Islamabad on January 4, was awarded two death sentences on two counts of murder and terrorism by Judge Parvez Ali Shah during in-camera proceedings at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, state-run PTV reported.
Qadri had confessed to [...]
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A Buddhist monk who claims he was beaten and persecuted by Muslim fundamentalists in Bangladesh has brought a legal challenge to the refusal by the Justice Minister to allow him stay in Ireland.
The asylum seeker who resides at the Kinsale Road Accommodation Centre claims he was denied his right to a public hearing.
The High Court was told the Buddhist monk arrived here last year on an Irish visa and subsequently applied for asylum on grounds of religious persecution in his [...]
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The Fifth International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada is set to kick off in Tehran, indicating Iran’s unshakable support for the Palestinian cause.
Head of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Friday that the conference would strengthen support for the Palestinian cause.
He added that the intifada conference would complement the Islamic Awakening conference which was held on September 17 and 18 in Tehran and which was attended by 700 scholars from 80 countries, IRNA [...]
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The U.S. State Department designates Hamas as a ?Foreign Terrorist Organization? and states that it ?was formed in late 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.? Hamas does not recognize Israel, and its founding charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. The group considers Israeli settlers and civilians legitimate military targets.
Samer Allawi, a Palestinian who ran Al-Jazeera?s Kabul, Afghanistan, bureau, was released, sentenced to time served, and agreed to pay a $1,400 fine. [...]
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According to eyewitnesses, tehsil Bhowana Adlana Japay resident Faiz sold his daughter Rani to his rival for five acres of land.
Eyewitnesses told police that Faiz had allegedly killed his cousin, the groom, Ahmed?s sister Anwar Bibi 8 years ago and it was decided that he would give his daughter to settle the blood debt.
After being released from jail last week Faiz wed Rani to his rival Ahmed, who said that he had also paid for the girl by giving land. [...]
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Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will be put to death for several charges of rape and extortion, charges that differ greatly from his original sentence of apostasy, Iran’s semi-official Fars News agency reported Friday.
Gholomali Rezvani, the deputy governor of Gilan province, where Nadarkhani was tried and convicted, accused Western media of twisting the real story, referring to him as a “rapist.” A previous report from the news agency claimed he had committed several violent crimes, including repeated rape and extortion.
“His crime [...]
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In a statement reacting to al-Awlaki’s death, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said:
“As we have stated repeatedly in the past, the American Muslim community firmly repudiated Anwar al-Awlaki’s incitement to violence, which occurred after he left the United States. While a voice of hate has been eliminated, we urge our nation’s leaders to address the constitutional issues raised by the assassination of American citizens without due process of law
In a past statement following a call by al-Awlaki for [...]
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A Petition with 3,000 signatures has been handed over to council bosses as residents stepped up their protest against an ?illegal? mosque.
Business owners on Waterloo Road, South Shore, believe the Noor A Madina Mosque is operating illegally as it was opened before planning permission was granted.
Owners of the site, which was formally a takeaway, have since applied for retrospective planning permission to change the use of the site.
But local people think the mosque will cause huge problems with parking around [...]
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Spread across the desert here off the Sirte-Waddan road sits one of the biggest threats to Western hopes for Libya: a massive, unguarded weapons depot that is being pillaged daily by anti-Gadhafi military units, hired work crews and any enterprising individual who has the right vehicle and chooses to make the trip.
In one of dozens of warehouses the size of a single-family home, Soviet-era guided missiles remain wrapped inside crates stacked to the 15-foot ceiling. In another, dusted with sand, [...]
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A car bomb ripped through a funeral procession near a mosque in central Iraq on Friday evening, killing at least 10 people, part of a nation-wide violence that left 14 dead.
The explosion occurred at around 5.30pm (10.30pm Singapore time) outside the Nabi Ayub Shiite mosque, just south of Hilla, the capital of Babil province, as mourners were gathering for the funeral of Abdelamir Jaffar al-Khafaji, a leader of the Al-Khafaja tribe who died of natural causes.
A doctor at Hilla’s main [...]
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A failed asylum seeker strangled and drowned a bakery worker who refused to marry him so he could stay in the UK.
Iranian-born Hossein Abdollahzadeh, 32, left Agnieszka Dziegielewska’s naked body in a bath full of water at her flat in Swinton, near Rotherham, just weeks after she kicked him out.
He later hanged himself in his prison cell while on remand charged with Dziegielewska’s murder, the inquest in Rotherham heard.
Agnieszka moved to the UK from Bialystok, Poland, in 2004 – the [...]
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One third of US aid to Palestinians has been frozen since August, ‘The Independent’ reports; move apparently in response to UN bid.
The United States Congress reportedly blocked the transfer of $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority in what a Palestinian official called “collective punishment” for the PA’s bid for membership in the United Nations, UK daily The Independent reported on Saturday.
The unconfirmed report says that an unpublicized block on the transfer of funds, less than one third of [...]
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Actor joins protesters in Tahrir Square to in call for transfer of power from military, end emergency laws; was invited by Egyptian actor.
Sean Penn joined activists in Egypt on Friday to push the country’s military leaders to transfer power to civilians more quickly.
The actor and activist joined protesters in Tahrir Square as part of a demonstration called “Reclaiming the Revolution,” according to Reuters.
“The world is inspired by the call for freedom by the courageous revolution of Egypt,? Penn told Ahram [...]
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A cab driver has sewn his mouth shut as a protest after being fired following his conviction for assaulting a woman passenger.
Hassan Hoviat-Doust, 43, has been staging a hunger strike outside Bristol Magistrates’ Court since 10am on Monday.
Hoviat-Doust – who cannot speak because of the thick cotton thread binding his lips together – wrote on a piece of paper: ‘I am a taxi driver who was wrongly convicted of common assault and I have lost my job.
‘I have been on [...]
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The Alachua County School Board did not violate the free-speech rights of members of Dove World Outreach Center when students from the church were sent home from school for wearing T-shirts bearing the words ?Islam is of the Devil,? a district court judge ruled Friday.
Senior District Judge Stephan Mickle wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently held that the First Amendment rights of students while they’re in school are not as broad as the rights of people in public [...]
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The Truth on the Encroachment of Global Islamism
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