PAKISTAN: GIRL’S ACCOUNT RE-OPENS CUSTODY FIGHT FOR SISTERS
10-year-old says Muslim captors abused her and sister, forced them to convert to Islam.
Compass Direct News
Lawyers for two underage Christian sisters who were kidnapped plan to renew a custody fight for the older girl, a 13-year-old allegedly coerced into marrying her captor, based on new statements from her 10-year-old sister that they were raped and forced to convert to Islam.
Law lords say sharia is 'arbitrary and discriminatory'
Britain's highest court allows a Lebanese woman to stay in Britain rather than lose her son. But they stress that only 'flagrant' human rights breaches will come within the law.
Telegraph
The law lords ruled this morning ruled that it would be a “flagrant breach” of the European Convention on Human Rights for the government to remove a woman to Lebanon where she would automatically lose custody of her 12-year old son under Lebanon’s sharia family law.
A Muslim student who said a masked gunman assaulted her after he wrote anti-Muslim slurs in a women's restroom at Elmhurst College has been arrested for filing a false police report, officials said today.
A week after the incident roiled the small college, Elmhurst Police Chief Steve Neubauer said officers had cited Safia Z. Jilani, 19, of Oak Brook, on a single count of filing a false police report. Filing a false police report is a Class 4 felony, punishable by one to three years in prison.
A week after the incident roiled the small college, Elmhurst Police Chief Steve Neubauer said officers had cited Safia Z. Jilani, 19, of Oak Brook, on a single count of filing a false police report. Filing a false police report is a Class 4 felony, punishable by one to three years in prison.
Pakistan: A Christianman and his daughter arrested, almost lynched for blasphemy
Asia News: by Qaiser Felix
Rumours spread in a village near Faisalabad that a Christian girl ripped some pages from the Qur’an. But more than one version of the facts is making the rounds of the village. Anti-Christian intolerance is growing in the country and a Pakistani lawmaker says the “accusations are a fabrication” to persecute Christians.
Chak Jhumra (AsiaNews) – A Christian man, Gulsher Masih, and his daughter Sandal have been charged with blasphemy under Article 295 B of the Pakistan Penal Code for allegedly tearing some pages from the Qur’an last Thursday in the village of Tehsil Chak Jhumra, in Faisalabad district. Without police intervention they could have been lynched by an angry mob.
Some people fear for their livelihoods. Other people fear for their lives.
Of course, sometimes livelihood is life.
The world has a terrible record in salvaging either one if the threat to them is a mass phenomenon. Some threatened folk can't even get the attention of others.
British officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand last year was in fact a Pakistani military officer, according to highly placed Afghan officials.
The commander, targeted in a compound in the Sangin valley, was one of six killed in the past year by SAS and SBS forces. When the British soldiers entered the compound they discovered a Pakistani military ID on the body.
EGYPT: FATHER’S BRIEF CONVERSION TRAPS DAUGHTERS IN ISLAM
Two Christian sisters battle to regain religious identity following forgery charges.
ISTANBUL, October 10 (Compass Direct News) – An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to uphold her Islamic identity – an identity she didn’t know she had for over four decades.
Sisters Shadia and Bahia Nagy El-Sisi, both in their late 40s and residents of the small east Delta town Mit-Ghamr, were arrested and tried for claiming their official religious identity as Christian. Unknown to them, their religious identity officially changed 46 years ago due to their father’s brief conversion to Islam. Both are illiterate.
CAIRO/MINYA: The Sammallout Prosecution Office in Minya detained 18 Copts and 12 Muslims for four days pending investigation after sectarian clashes broke out in El-Tayaba village, in which one Copt was killed and four injured, including a Muslim.
Gen. Gamal Gad, Minya police chief, said clashes erupted late Friday when Muslim youths allegedly sexually harassed a Christian woman. In the course of the fighting, the Christians were using knives while the Muslims had firearms.
YouTube censors comedian's anti-Sharia video called 'Welcome to Saudi Britain'
A comedian has been censored by YouTube for making a film in which he condemned the existence of Sharia courts in Britain.
Telegraph
Pat Condell, an outspoken atheist and veteran stand-up comic, uploaded the clip called "Welcome to Saudi Britain" to the popular video-sharing website following claims that judgements made under Islamic law are now legally binding.
In the four-minute clip he denounces the "patriarchal bigotry" of Muslim men and the "corrupt" regime of Saudi Arabia.
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — A Kuwaiti official says authorities abruptly ended a music concert by an Egyptian singer in this conservative Muslim country when a young female fan jumped on stage, hugged the male singer and gave him a kiss.
A Christian man was killed in central Egypt on Saturday after sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims, security and medical sources said.
Nineteen-year-old Yeshua Gamal Nashed was shot dead when scores of villagers fought each other with guns, bricks and sticks in the village of al-Tayeba, near Minya, the sources said. Three Christians and a Muslim were wounded.
The terrorist threat in Britain is approaching critical as police and MI5 face an increase in activity by al-Qaeda militants, senior security officials have disclosed.
The terrorist threat in Britain has been considered severe since the arrest of the men allegedly plotting to attack transatlantic airliners in 2006Photo: REUTERS
Iranian Parliament provisionally approves death penalty for leaving Islam
The Iranian Parliament has given provisional approval, by a majority of 196 to seven, to a bill that mandates the death penalty for apostasy from Islam. Until now Iranian judges could impose the death penalty in such cases only on the basis of Islamic law and fatwas, not on the basis of Iranian law.
The bill prescribes a mandatory death sentence for any male Muslim who converts from Islam to another religion, and lifelong imprisonment for female converts from Islam. It also gives the Iranian secular courts authority to convict Iranians living outside the country of crimes relating to Iranian national security. It seems likely that this could be used against the many Iranian Christians who live outside Iran but are involved in evangelism within it. Apostasy from Islam is viewed by most Muslims as equivalent to treason.
Reports from the Somali key port town of Kismayu, 500 kilometers south of Mogadishu, say Islamists controlling the town on Tuesday destroyed a Roman Catholic church there.
The church that was built by Italians some 60 years ago, has in the past 18 years been occupied by at least 15 Somali displaced families, who have been ordered to move before the devastation begins on Tuesday.
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