Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a man to death in the port town of Marka for committing adultery, officials said."The 33-year-old man Abbas (Hussein Abdurahman) confessed his crime in front of the Islamic court, and today we have implemented his reward in front of the people in accordance with Islamic sharia," al-Shabaab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed told spectators at the execution...
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Mogadishu - The Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a man to death for committing adultery in the port town of Marka, officials said."The 33-year-old man Abbas [Hussein Abdurahman] confessed his crime in front of the Islamic court, and today we have implemented his reward in front of the people in accordance with Islamic sharia," al-Shabaab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed told spectators...
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Mogadishu, Nov 7 : Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a man to death in the port town of Marka for committing adultery, officials said."The 33-year-old man Abbas (Hussein Abdurahman) confessed his crime in front of the Islamic court, and today we have implemented his reward in front of the people in accordance with Islamic sharia," al-Shabaab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed told spectators...
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size="2"> Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 13: The caning sentence given by a Malaysian Sharia Islamic court to a Muslim woman who was sentenced for drinking beer is yet to be carried out due to absence of a female caner.
Pahang state Religious Affairs Committee chairman Mohammed Sahfri Ab Aziz said the country still did not have a female caner, national news agency Bernama said...
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KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a petition brought by four voters to declare invalid the election of two women MPs because they refuse to wear the hijab headscarf.The decision of the court, whose rulings are final, was announced to reporters by the chairman of the court, Yussef Ghanam al-Rashid.Two of the four women who became Kuwait's first female MPs in May refuse...
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size="2"> Kuwait City, Oct. 28: Kuwait’s constitutional court on Wednesday rejected an action brought by four voters to declare invalid the election of two women MPs because they refuse to wear the hijab.
The decision of the court, whose rulings are final, was announced to reporters by the chairman of the court, Yussef Ghanam al-Rashid. Two of the four women who were...
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Kuwait City: Kuwait's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a petition brought by four voters to declare invalid the election of two women MPs because they refuse to wear the hijab headscarf.The decision of the court, whose rulings are final, wasannounced to reporters by the chairman of the court, YussefGhanam al-Rashid.Two of the four women who became Kuwait's first femaleMPs in May refuse to...
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Iran has executed four men convicted of smuggling drugs, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday.Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and apostasy -- the renouncing of religion, in this case Islam -- are all punishable by death under Iranian sharia law practised since the 1979 Islamic revolution."They were hanged inside a prison in (the southeastern province of) Kerman...
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may soon be banned from wearingtight trousers in parts of an Indonesian province, and offenders could see theirattire cut up. Aceh is the only province in predominantly Muslim Indonesia touse Islamic sharia for its legal code. The previous government passed acontroversial law in September allowing adulterers to be stoned to death.Copyright © 2009 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. For...
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aide of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah has been arrested in the Swat region as the Pakistani Army continued with its offensive against the Taliban fighters.Ali Shah Khan, an aide of Maulana Fazlullah, was arrested during search operations in Charbagh area, Geo TV reported Monday.The former tourist destination of Swat has been reeling under Taliban violence since early 2007 when militants loyal to...
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