February 19, 2010
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Cleric Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif defends the marrying off of under-age girls in Saudi Arabia.

February 21, 2010
Yemen
A 12-year-old is unable to divorce her husband of two years: “I’d rather die than go back to him”.

February 22, 2010
Saudi Arabia
Prominent Saudi cleric ‘Abd Al-Rahman Al-Barrak published an article denouncing as apostates those who regard the mingling of men and women to be permissible, saying that they should be killed.

Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Pedophile Chronicles.

Pakistan
New details are suggesting that a 12-year-old Pakistani Christian who was raped, tortured and killed is one of many victims of child trafficking in that country.

USA
Women who protested at the Islamic Center of Washington, wanting to be able to worship in the main prayer hall with their male counterparts, were asked to leave by the police.

Jordan
A Jordanian on death row for the murder of his married sister who used her mobile too often in an apparent ‘honour killing’ has had his term commuted to 10 years.

Malaysia
Selangor mufti Mohd Tamyes Abdul Wahid has asked Muslims to respect the decision by the Shariah court which meted out caning sentences to three Muslim women recently for having illicit sex. More HERE. And HERE.

Saudi Arabia
Catholic migrant in Saudi Arabia worked three years without a day of rest and attending mass.

Germany
A Turkish kebab vendor stabbed his teenaged daughter 68 times in their home, but he denied the attack was an honour killing.

February 25
UK
The fact a seven-year-old girl was starved to death over a period of weeks shocked not only the community at the heart of the police inquiry but people across the country.

February 28, 2010
Saudi Arabia
A hospital in Jeddah has rejected the request of Safa police to hand over an Indonesian maid, who has been receiving treatment at the hospital, to her sponsor.

March 2, 2010
India
Violent protests are being played out in the streets of Shimoga and Hassan in Karnataka after a local newspaper published an article of controversial Bangladeshi authour Taslima Nasreen.

Switzerland
The University of Italian Switzerland, located in Lugano, organized an international meeting on the dire situation of Muslim women.

Afghanistan
Runaway wives are sentenced to public flogging by a warlord.

Pakistan
A 34-year-old Christian woman was accused of blasphemy on March 1, 2010 when she refused to sell her cosmetics shop to aspiring Muslim shop owners.

March 3, 2010
Bangladesh
Women are detained for not wearing veil in Bangladesh.

Gaza (translated from Arabic by translating-jihad.blogspot.com)
Muslim women are chided for imitating Western women for desiring personal freedom.

Saudi Arabia
A Saudi woman who filed harassment claims in Saudi Arabia without being accompanied by a male relative has been sentenced to 300 lashes and 18 months in jail.

Indonesia
“Polygamy in Islam doesn’t degrade women,”

March 7, 2010
UK
A secular Muslim woman councillor has been forced to dress more conservatively after receiving death threats and sexually harassing phone calls from members of her own community.

Produced by www.politicalislam.com
Publisher: Bill Warner; Editor: Asma Marwan
Permalink