Tag: Sharia

A foreign national accused of killing eight people with a truck in Manhattan spoke out in federal court Friday to defend his allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS).

NEW DELHI – One of India’s top women chess players has pulled out of an upcoming championship in Iran in protest at having to wear an Islamic headscarf.

A journalist has been allowed a rare glimpse into the workings of Britain’s secretive Sharia Courts, which can preside over business, marriage, and financial disputes in the Muslim community under the Arbitration Act of 1996.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested four women’s rights activists who campaigned for the lifting of a ban on women driving cars.

Turkey is expected to give an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as the al-Rahman Corps the police command of the Afrin region in Syria along with authority to impose Sharia, or strict Islamic laws, on the residents, which include members of the persecuted Yazidi and Christian minorities, a monitor group revealed over the weekend.

Iranian authorities in the conservative city of Mashhad arrested a Culture Ministry official on Thursday after news spread that men and women were dancing at an event accompanied by a singer in a public mall.

The first school for transgender people has opened in Lahore, Pakistan, in another surprising step for LGBT rights in the strictly Islamic country.

A startup in Dubai called OneGram has created a Bitcoin-style cryptocurrency that ostensibly complies with sharia law, making it an acceptable alternative for devout Muslims.

An estimated 770,000 people in the UK – almost 1.2 per cent of the population – cannot speak English, the government has admitted as it announces a new push to promote integration and reduce the power of Islamic Sharia law.

TEL AVIV — A Syrian civilian has been accused of “prostitution” and arrested by the Islamic State-affiliated Khaled Bin Waleed armed militia active in the triangle border area between Syria, Israel and Jordan, according to the jihadist group.

London Modest Fashion Week will “celebrate” the UK’s growing sharia-compliant fashion industry – less than two weeks after women living under Islamic fundamentalist regimes risked imprisonment when they burnt their hijabs on No Hijab Day.

The French government has been accused of following Islamic law, specifically one which designates guardianship of children, to determine housing benefits for Muslims.

An imam in Sheffield, Yorkshire, has allowed himself to be filmed performing an Islamic ‘ruqyah’ exorcism at his mosque.

Unbeknown to almost everybody until today, February 1st is apparently World Hijab Day. This is one of the latest creations of the liberal feminist swamp and has its very own hashtag: #StrongInHijab

An Indonesian bill proposing a ban on gay sex has received support from all ten political parties in the country.

Indonesia’s Sharia police shaved several transgender women’s heads and “paraded them in front of the public” as part of a recent “community sickness operation.”

A migrant who divorced his wife using Islamic Sharia law in Syria could have the ceremony recognised in Germany, the European Union’s (EU) top court has ruled. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said the issue was not covered by EU

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss President Trump’s decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the full reinstatement of Trump’s travel ban, and the thwarted terrorist plot to kill British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Imagine a college convening a panel to discuss “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice,” that features a woman who seeks the destruction of the Jewish state, and who publicly stands with and supports a Palestinian-Arab terrorist who was convicted of murdering Jewish college students.

TEL AVIV — Egypt and the world are still trying to comprehend the massacre on Friday committed by terrorists in a mosque in Sinai, an attack in which more than 305 worshippers were reportedly killed and dozens more wounded.

TEL AVIV — A Saudi academic stirred controversy recently with his call to allow academic lecturers to directly teach students without partitions.

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Tuesday’s terrorist attack in New York City.

A Shia Imam in California, who stated during a sermon that “ISIS is the production of the Israeli intelligence” and that Israel “finances, arms and trains” the so-called “Islamic State,” has apologized for his statements.

The perilous condition of free speech around the world is highlighted by a new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which found blasphemy laws have become “astoundingly widespread” across the world. Some of them specify shockingly severe penalties as well, including torture and death.

The United Arab Emirates has sentenced a transgender Singaporean and her friend to one year in prison “for dressing in a feminine way,” according to a report.

The Shia imam of a Muslim congregation in California has suggested that the so-called Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, of Daesh) “is the production of the Israeli intelligence.”

Breitbart London’s Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam appeared on MSNBC and told host Ari Melber that the West was at war with Sharia.

Hizb ut-Tahrir, one of the largest Islamist campaign groups operating in the West, has dismissed the threat of terrorism as “statistically irrelevant”

Breitbart London has profiled the quartet of North America-based Islamic preachers who serve on the advisory board of the Muslim Vibe; the online magazine and digital media network calling for Raheem Kassam’s book on No Go Zones to be banned.

Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy discussed examples of the clash between sharia law and Western society with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily, including California imam Ammar Shahin, who prayed at a sermon last week for Allah to “annihilate” Jews “down to the very last one.”

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss President Trump’s new sanctions on Iran even as it recertifies Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal and what Marlow described as the West’s underestimation of the “clear threat sharia poses to the rest of the world.”

Islamist gangs are using violence and intimidation to enforce Shariah law in parts of Germany, particularly against Chechen and Chechen-origin women in Berlin, according to reports.

On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton talked about the death of American student Otto Warmbier, recently released from more than a year of captivity in North Korea, most of which he spent in a coma. He also discussed what Warmbier’s death means for America’s North Korea policy moving forward. Bolton then looked at the one-year anniversary of the Brexit vote and U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Anni Cyrus, a former Muslim who works for the American Truth Project, gives a clear breakdown of what Sharia law is and how it impedes upon the lives of millions of people living in the United States.

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney appeared on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily and discussed with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam Wednesday’s attack on a Republican congressional baseball practice.