It was the brutal suppression of that fundamental right by Taliban militants in 2008 that prompted the young Swat Valley schoolgirl, at just 11 years old, to write a critical diary for the BBC about living under the Taliban.
Yesterday, thanks to the brutality of those same extremists, it was unclear whether she could ever return to her studies.
Less than 24 hours after Malala was shot point blank in the head by militants as she travelled home in a school van, [...]
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There was controversy, Wednesday, October 10, over the whereabouts of a mentally challenged Pakistani Christian girl who has been charged with “blasphemy against Islam”, after some Pakistani and Norwegian officials played down reports she had fled with family members to Norway.
In a statement the Norwegian Embassy in Islamabad said it had “become aware of stories in Pakistani media” that Rimsha Masih had arrived in the Scandinavian nation.
“The Embassy would like to inform that neither the Embassy, nor any other Norwegian authority has [...]
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We are Americans; we do not cower or reward barbarity and savagery. This was reaffirmed yet again on Friday, when a U.S. District Court judge ruled that my pro-freedom ads had to run in the Washington, D.C., subway system, despite attempts by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to suppress them for fear of what Islamic jihadist savages might do if they saw them. The “fears” of the WMATA validate the message and the necessity of our ads.
It was [...]
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The eleventh commemoration anniversary of 9/11 brings to the forefront the issue of “War on Terrorism”. This war had lasted more than a decade and claimed more than the victims’ count of September 11 attacks. Both George Bush and Barak Obama claimed that radical Muslims and their organizations such as Al Qaida were responsible for September 11 attacks.
Following the paths that U.S. has taken since the tragic attacks of September 11, in Afghanistan and Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere, one may [...]
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In his June 2009 Cairo speech to the Muslim world, President Obama declared that “it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit.” However, when it comes to Catholics and other persons of faith who object to being forced to pay for their employees’ birth control against their core religious convictions, Obama’s answer is that they are to practice their religion as he sees fit.
On the campaign trail, Obama proudly points [...]
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A group of Islamic extremists in Cardiff has been involved in trying to radicalise a young Muslim, a BBC Wales investigation has revealed.
For months, an undercover reporter for the Week In Week Out programme has been meeting with a member of a group called Supporters of Tawheed.
A man called Rofi attempted to radicalise the undercover reporter by directing him to extremist websites and videos that preach hate.
He denied radicalising the reporter.
The reporter said: “Going undercover has opened my eyes to [...]
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The United States military has secretly sent a task force of more than 150 planners and other specialists to Jordan to help the armed forces there to prepare for the possibility that Syria could lose control of its chemical weapons and be positioned should the turmoil in Syria expand into a wider conflict, a report published by the New York Times on Wednesday said.
The secret mission, led by a senior American officer, will also help in handling the estimated 180,000 [...]
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Members of Oldham’s religious communities will unite for a demonstration against a controversial film.
Members of the The Sunni Muslim Youth (TSMY) will be joined by members of the Christian, Hindu and Sikh communities, as they demonstrate peacefully against an anti-Islam film that has caused anger and violence around the world.
Shaid Shakoor, one of the founding members of the Coppice-based TSMY, explained that he set up the group after the Oldham riots to bring young communities back together.
Now he hopes they [...]
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Mike Mohamad Agemy, who drove his SUV at a group of Christian demonstrators in front of the Islamic Center of America on June 17, won’t be headed to trial.
Instead, he chose to enter a no-contest plea to two lesser charges during a preliminary examination of the evidence against him Monday before 19th District Judge Mark Somers.
It was a continuation of the hearing that started Aug. 3 and included two witnesses from the “Bible Believers,” who were protesting in front of [...]
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A Patriot surface-to-air missile battery was deployed in Haifa, three days after an unmanned aerial vehicle breached Israeli airspace from the west.
Israel Defense Forces officials said that the deployment was not an emergency measure, and such systems are deployed to the area from time to time.
Moreover, IDF officials refused to comment on the possible connection between the drone, which was intercepted on Saturday, and the Patriot missile system deployed to Haifa.
The Patriot missile system is a part of Israel’s air [...]
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A draft Egyptian constitution heavily influenced by Islamist conservatives contains articles that could pose a serious threat to basic human rights in post-Mubarak Egypt, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
A 100-strong panel picked in June and headed by senior judge Hossam al-Ghariani has been tasked with drafting the new constitution, after the old charter was suspended following the 2011 uprising which toppled Hosni Mubarak.
“The constituent assembly has a landmark opportunity to lay the groundwork for respecting human rights in tomorrow’s [...]
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The Muslim Council of Britain has warned Newcastle’s Muslim players that wearing shirts carrying Wonga’s sponsorship could infringe Sharia law.
Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, assistant secretary general of the MCB said:
“The idea is to protect the vulnerable and needy from exploitation by the rich and powerful.
“When they are lending and are charging large amounts of interest, it means the poor will have short-term benefit from the loan but long-term difficulty in paying it back.”
“The Islamic system is based on a non-interest-based system [...]
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Seized at dawn, forced to endure sexual abuse and to marry the young Muslim man who abducted her with the help of his family and convert to Islam. This is the dramatic story of Shumaila Bibi, a 24-year old Christian who worked in Nishatabad, a suburb of Faisalabad (Punjab, Pakistan), in a textile company.
The episode dates back to September 24, and for days she was subjected to a daily nightmare with her tormentor; on October 5, using a ruse, she [...]
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A total of 12 people were killed by insurgents in Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala and southern Songkhla in a series of attacks stretching over Monday and Tuesday.
Police said two rubber tappers were ambushed and killed on a local road at a rubber plantation in Pattani’s Khok Pho district early Tuesday morning.
They were identified as Phon Phetsorn, 66, and his wife Nid, 68, residents of Ban Kluay in tambon Na Pradu of Khok Pho district.
Witnesses told police the couple were travelling to work [...]
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The head of the Muslim Association of Greece says country’s secretary-general of religious affairs told him that the Greek government’s project to build a mosque in central Athens has been shelved indefinitely due to the country’s worsening financial crisis, in a meeting in Athens on Oct. 5.
“The Greek government will build the mosque in Athens sooner or later, but they cannot afford it now,” Secretary-General George Kalantzis said, “although the country’s Muslims’ continue to demand an imam and a mosque,” [...]
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Two Egyptian Christian boys detained over charges of blasphemy and insulting the Koran were released and their case was dropped on Wednesday, their defense lawyer said.
The brothers, Mina Nadi, 9, and Nabil Nadi, 10, were accused by locals in the village of Marco south of Cairo of tearing up a copy of the Koran and urinating on it.
They were placed in juvenile detention on October 3.
“The case has been closed … and today we knew that the charges were dropped [...]
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The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
The revelation came as new documents suggested internal disagreement over appropriate levels of security before the attack, which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the U.S.
Briefing [...]
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Rockets fired from Gaza exploded in the western Negev on Wednesday morning, with two rockets landing in Sderot and one in Netivot.
One rocket landed in an open area near Netivot’s cemetery. Another exploded in an open field near an adjacent settlement.
No one was injured and no damage was reported.
The latest rocket fire follows an air force strike on terrorist tunnels in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF Spokesman’s Office said late Tuesday night. The strike was in response to the [...]
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British police have arrested a man and a woman at London’s Heathrow airport as part of an investigation into travel to Syria in support of “alleged terrorist activity”, police said in a statement on Wednesday.
The pair, both 26 years old, were arrested on Tuesday evening after arriving on a flight to Heathrow and taken to a police station in central London where they remain in custody.
Police did not disclose the nationality of the two suspects. A spokesman declined to say [...]
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French anti-terrorist police have found bomb-making materials and weapons while investigating suspected radical Islamists across the country, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Wednesday.
Molins said a dozen suspects rounded up in raids over the weekend would be held for a further 24 hours after the discovery of chemicals used to make explosives at a garage in the Paris suburbs belonging to one of them.
“We are clearly confronted with an extremely dangerous terror network,” Molins said in a statement to the [...]
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Taliban gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against the militants, authorities said.
Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded, police said.
Yousufzai became famous for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban at a time when even the government seemed to be appeasing the hardline Islamists.
The [...]
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The group which plans to host a visit to Australia by controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders is being accused of distributing anti-Islamic leaflets to letterboxes in Victoria.
It is not the first time the Q Society has been accused of using letter drops to spread bigotry.
In big red lettering the leaflet warns “SAVE OUR SCHOOLS – BE AWARE the Australian Government is referencing and supporting Islamic faith, history and culture in schools”.
The flyer landed in letterboxes on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula earlier [...]
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A Minnesota man who spent two months with a terrorist group in his native Somalia told a jury Tuesday that another man on trial for allegedly helping funnel recruits to the group provided money to buy weapons for fighters.
Salah Osman Ahmed, 29, testified that while he was staying at an al-Shabaab safe house in Merca, Somalia, the defendant, Mahamud Said Omar, spent about five days there. He said Omar gave the woman who ran the house about $300 for expenses [...]
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