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With 85 Sharia courts, UK becomes western capital for Islamic rulings

Britain is emerging as the "western capital" for sharia courts, with 85 Islamic councils across the country. The Islamic Sharia Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is based in Leyton, east London, and is a registered charity that provides nikah services, talaq and khula divorce procedures. 100,000 ISLAMIC MARRIAGES IN BRITAIN REMAIN UNREGISTERED These sharia courts in the UK …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Trinamool leader says 'Muslims can be bigger than majority', BJP fires back

India Today

Trinamool Congress leader and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim's call for Muslims to grow and outnumber the "majority" in the country has invited strong condemnation from the BJP, which questioned his "mindset". BJP STOKES 'SHARIA LAW' FEARS The BJP promptly went on the offensive, with Bengal unit chief and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar assailing Hakim for his remarks. Hakim envisions a …

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West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim Call For Muslim Empowerment BJP Alleges Hinting At Sharia Law TMC Defends Viral Video

ABP News

West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim has sparked a controversy with his remarks on the empowerment of the Muslim community. BJP Accuses West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim Of 'Hinting At Sharia Law' Amit Malviya, BJP's IT cell in-charge, criticised Firhad Hakim’s remarks, accusing him of implying a future Muslim majority in West Bengal and India. He has now claimed that West …

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1 month ago

'I just felt desperate to do something': Jennifer Lawrence and Malala on their film about the Afghan women fighting back

BBC

'I just felt desperate to do something': Jennifer Lawrence and Malala on their film about the Afghan women fighting back Getty Images Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence tell the BBC about their new documentary Bread & Roses, which highlights the stories and voices of Afghan women resisting the Taliban. Apple TV+ Bread & Roses is a mainly fly-on-the-wall documentary that …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Europe's Jews are living in fear, reveals SUE REID in a shocking dispatch from Amsterdam. Why locals say they dread Sharia law and baying mobs with 'no tolerance for Jews, women, gays or anyone but th

Daily Mail

On a Sunday in March this year, Amsterdam's Jews went to the opening of Holland's first National Holocaust Museum. 'Jews were deeply hurt that the demonstration was allowed by the Amsterdam authorities that day,' Robert Oudkerk, a leading light in the city's Jewish community and a former social democrat MP, said this week. It was sparked by a clash between …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

"I loaded all my guns": Vance tells Rogan he fled mini-golf to grab guns following Trump shooting

Salon

Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance told podcaster Joe Rogan on Thursday that he bugged out from a game of mini-golf after he heard of Donald Trump's assassination attempt. Elsewhere in the interview with Rogan, which comes a week after a similar sit-down with Trump, Vance smeared transgender people and worried that Muslim immigrants to the U.S. would “outbreed” non-Muslims and …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Iran amputates four fingers from the right hand of two thieves in rare use of Sharia law punishment

Daily Mail

Iranian authorities have amputated fingers from the hands of two men convicted of theft, rights groups have said, in a relatively rare use of a Sharia law punishment. The two brothers of Kurdish origin each had four fingers on their right hands amputated by a guillotine machine at the prison in the city of Urmia in northwest Iran on Tuesday, …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

How Taliban’s Draconian ‘Morality’ Law Targets Afghan Women, Who Are The Muhtasibs?

News 18

How miserable are women in Afghanistan can be understood from the fact that the Taliban have passed a new “morality” law — ‘Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ — which imposes its interpretation of sharia or Islamic law on people and bans women from showing any part of their bodies or faces in public. Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Bans Mixed Martial Arts in Afghanistan

News 18

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has banned mixed martial arts, believing it to be un-Islamic, its sports authority said in a statement on Wednesday. The order was passed down by Afghanistan’s morality police in the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice after an investigation into the sport’s compliance with Islamic law, or sharia, the statement and local …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Afghanistan bans MMA, finds many aspects ‘contradictory to the teachings of Islam’

The Hindu

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has banned mixed martial arts, believing it to be un-Islamic, its sports authority said in a statement on Wednesday. The order was passed down by Afghanistan’s morality police in the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice after an investigation into the sport’s compliance with Islamic law, or sharia, the statement and local …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Taliban codify morality laws requiring Afghan women to cover faces, men to grow beards

The Hindu

“Afghanistan’s Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music,” the Justice Ministry said. “The rules, promoted as in line with Islamic sharia law and to be enforced by the Morality Ministry, were based on a decree …

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4 months ago

New Taliban Law Rules For Women In Afghanistan More Restrictions Temptations Loud Voice Vice and Virtue Law

ABP News

New Taliban Law: In its latest diktat for the country's women, the Taliban government of Afghanistan has ordered that they must not talk in loud voices, because that will be considered "immodest". The new law governing the 'Ministry of Vice and Virtue' tightens the existing restrictions as it tells women to cover their faces entirely while in public, and not …

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4 months ago

Hefazat-e-Islam bats for Islamic Law in Bangladesh, read details

Op India

Vice President of the Islamist organisation Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Muhyiddin Rabbani, recently stoked controversy when he argued that the nation should adopt Islamic law as opposed to its current legal and constitutional structure, a long-standing objective of the outfit. I’ll strongly speak against it.” He once again voiced that matters including the Hijab would be subjected to consideration under the Sharia …

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4 months ago

'No Compromise With Sharia Law...,' AIMPLB Makes Major Announcement on Secular Civil Code | ABP News

ABP News

The discussion on the Secular Civil Code has been reignited following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech, in which he deemed the Secular Civil Code necessary and labeled religious personal laws as communal. This has sparked a strong reaction from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which has found the Prime Minister's remarks objectionable. The AIMPLB has stated …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Sharia rule is Taliban's 'lifelong responsibility': supreme leader

The Hindu

The supreme leader of the Taliban authorities said implementing Islamic law in Afghanistan was their "lifelong responsibility" in a speech marking the third anniversary of their return to power. Our responsibility of service to religion, ruling according to sharia, is our lifelong responsibility," leader Hibatullah Akhundzada told security personnel at an air base in southern Kandahar on Wednesday. "We will …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant, father of late Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, dies at 69

LA Times

Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, right, has a laugh with his father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, prior to participating in a pickup basketball game at Loyola Marymount on July 5, 2007. “Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant was a local basketball icon, whose legacy on the court transcended his journey across Bartram High School, La Salle University, and his first four NBA seasons with the 76ers …

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5 months, 1 week ago

‘Congress gave primacy to Sharia’: BJP invokes Shah Bano case in reaction to Supreme Court's ‘maintenance’ verdict

Hindustan Times

Reacting to the Supreme Court's judgment that Muslim women are entitled to seek maintenance from their husbands after divorce, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday invoked the controversial Shah Bano case in their attack on the Congress, saying the Rajiv Gandhi government gave primacy to Sharia over the Constitution. In 1985, the Supreme Court allowed Shah Bano's plea for alimony …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Will Sharia Law be Applied in West Bengal...': BJP Slams TMC MLA's 'Muslim Rashtra' Comment

News 18

West Bengal BJP on Monday slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress for its MLA’s “Muslim Rashtra” comment. “Has TMC declared West Bengal to be a Muslim Rashtra wherein the rule of Sharia will be applied?” After a chilling video of a couple being thrashed by a man surfaced from north Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district, Chopra MLA Hamidul Rahaman said: “In Our …

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7 months ago

HT interview: We’ll do exceptionally well in Bengal, Odisha, says Amit Shah

Hindustan Times

Amit Shah, Union minister of home affairs and cooperation, believes that the country’s citizens are mature and vote carefully, dismissing the theory that the Opposition has managed to get across the narrative that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s quest for 400-plus seats in the Lok Sabha is a means to do away with reservation benefits for backward castes and classes. People …

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7 months ago

Fact Check: Modi Claims He ‘Never Made Hindu-Muslim’ Remark. But He Has, In Multiple Speeches

ABP News

In a recent interview with Indian news channel News18 India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed surprise at the interpretation of his controversial remarks regarding “infiltrators” and “those with more children”, claiming that they were not intended to target the Muslim community. The prime minister was referring to a comment he made during an election rally held in the north …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Sharia law will be forced upon the Americans’, Congressman's chilling speech

Hindustan Times

Rep. Chip Roy voiced his concerns about the potential imposition of Sharia law on American society during a speech on the US House floor. "I've got some pretty strong concerns about Sharia law," Roy expressed, emphasizing his fears about its imposition on the American people. He drew parallels to what he described as a "massive Muslim takeover of the United …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

CNN wants India to be a Sharia state, its latest oped shows the Western media's antipathy for Hindus

Op India

As India is in the midst of general elections, the Western media has gone all out to influence the Indian voters against the incumbent Modi government. On the 1st of May, US-based media house CNN published an article titled: “Rising Hindu nationalism leaves Muslims fearful in India’s holy city”. PM Modi called Indian Muslims ‘infiltrators’: CNN parrots the lies peddled …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

SC seeks government’s response on non-believer’s plea to be governed by secular law, not Sharia

The Hindu

The Supreme Court on April 29 sought the Union Government’s response to a petition filed by a Kerala-based woman, who said she, though born a Muslim, is now a non-believer, and should be governed by the secular statutes rather than the Sharia law. Mr. Padmanabhan submitted that the Supreme Court has already underscored the “fundamental postulate of secularism which treats …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

After 'Sharia' dig, Yogi Adityanath launches 'right to eat beef' attack at Congress

Hindustan Times

The Congress party wants to provide minorities the right to eat beef, claimed Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath Addressing an election rally in Moradabad, Yogi Adityanath said the party wants to give minorities the liberty to eat food of their choice, which meant "they are talking about allowing cow slaughter". Yogi …

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With 85 Sharia courts, UK becomes western capital for Islamic rulings

Trinamool leader says 'Muslims can be bigger than majority', BJP fires back

West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim Call For Muslim Empowerment BJP Alleges Hinting At Sharia Law TMC Defends Viral Video

'I just felt desperate to do something': Jennifer Lawrence and Malala on their film about the Afghan women fighting back

Europe's Jews are living in fear, reveals SUE REID in a shocking dispatch from Amsterdam. Why locals say they dread Sharia law and baying mobs with 'no tolerance for Jews, women, gays or anyone but th

"I loaded all my guns": Vance tells Rogan he fled mini-golf to grab guns following Trump shooting

Iran amputates four fingers from the right hand of two thieves in rare use of Sharia law punishment

How Taliban’s Draconian ‘Morality’ Law Targets Afghan Women, Who Are The Muhtasibs?

Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Bans Mixed Martial Arts in Afghanistan

Afghanistan bans MMA, finds many aspects ‘contradictory to the teachings of Islam’

Taliban codify morality laws requiring Afghan women to cover faces, men to grow beards

New Taliban Law Rules For Women In Afghanistan More Restrictions Temptations Loud Voice Vice and Virtue Law

Hefazat-e-Islam bats for Islamic Law in Bangladesh, read details

'No Compromise With Sharia Law...,' AIMPLB Makes Major Announcement on Secular Civil Code | ABP News

Sharia rule is Taliban's 'lifelong responsibility': supreme leader

Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant, father of late Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, dies at 69

‘Congress gave primacy to Sharia’: BJP invokes Shah Bano case in reaction to Supreme Court's ‘maintenance’ verdict

'Will Sharia Law be Applied in West Bengal...': BJP Slams TMC MLA's 'Muslim Rashtra' Comment

HT interview: We’ll do exceptionally well in Bengal, Odisha, says Amit Shah

Fact Check: Modi Claims He ‘Never Made Hindu-Muslim’ Remark. But He Has, In Multiple Speeches

‘Sharia law will be forced upon the Americans’, Congressman's chilling speech

CNN wants India to be a Sharia state, its latest oped shows the Western media's antipathy for Hindus

SC seeks government’s response on non-believer’s plea to be governed by secular law, not Sharia

After 'Sharia' dig, Yogi Adityanath launches 'right to eat beef' attack at Congress