Trevor Blake: Islam in the News

21 October 2009 » islam, theocracy, trevorblake

BBC, Village ‘witches’ beaten in India:

Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India’s Jharkhand state. Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric.

BBC, Father collapses in murder trial:

A father accused of murdering his daughter in a so-called “honour killing” has collapsed during the trial at the Old Bailey. Mehmet Goren, 49, denies killing Tulay Goren, 15, from Woodford Green, north London, who went missing in 1999.

Mail Online, The Jihad fanatic peddling a message of hate to 11-year-old Londoners (funded by the taxpayer):

Anjem Choudary urges Britain to adopt public stonings, amputations for criminals and wants to see the flag of Islam over Downing Street.

Daily Express, Now Muslims demand full Sharia law:

Mr Choudary has said that under sharia law in Britain people who commit adultery would be stoned to death, adding that “anyone who becomes intoxicated by alcohol would be given 40 lashes in public”.

BBC, Defying the Taliban to get an education:

Girls are defying Taliban attempts to stop them going to school.

Rasmussen Reports, 48% Say American Muslims Should Speak Out Against Terrorist Attacks:

Just 15% of all adults say American Muslims already are speaking out enough against potential terrorist attacks on the United States. Forty-six percent (46%) say Muslims living in this country are not speaking out enough. Thirty-nine percent (39%) are not sure.

BBC, Teenage girl ‘murdered by father’:

Tulay Goren, 15, a Kurdish Turk from Woodford Green, north London, vanished in 1999 and her body has never been found.

BBC, Saudi court jails ‘sex boast’ man:

A Saudi Arabian man who boasted about his sex life on a TV talk show has been jailed for five years, his lawyer says. Mazen Abdul Jawad was also sentenced to 1,000 lashes by a Saudi court on charges relating to immoral behaviour.

DR News, Virginity tests worry social workers:

Concerns that an increasing number of young Muslim women are being sent to doctors to prove that they are virgins has social workers and doctors taking steps to help them.

Freethinker, Adulterers can be stoned, and gays jailed under new Islamic laws in Indonesia:

“We feel that it is time now for people to understand the real meaning of Sharia.”

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