சவுதி அரேபியாவில் ஒரு துருக்கிய நாவிதர் அல்லா மீது ஆணையிட்டதற்காக மரண தண்டனை விதிக்கப்பட உள்ளார்.
இவருக்கும் பக்கத்துவீட்டில் உள்ள எகிபதியருக்கும் சண்டை நடந்துள்ளது. ஆகையால் எகிப்தியர் இந்த துருக்கிய நாவிதர் அல்லா மீது ஆணை வைத்தார் என்று போலீஸில் புகார் செய்துள்ளார். அதனால், துருக்கியர் கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார். அல்லா மீது ஆணை வைத்தார் என்று தான் தோன்றித்தனமாக வழக்கம்போல சவுதி அரேபியா நீதிபதிகள் முடிவு செய்தால் இவருக்கு மரண தண்டனை நிச்சயம்.
Turkish Barber Detained Over Profane Remarks
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 17 April 2008 — Officials at the Jeddah General Court confirmed yesterday that they are dealing with the case of a Turkish barber who is allegedly facing the death penalty after being tried for swearing at God.
The officials said they were unable to provide specific details of the case yesterday and advised Arab News to contact President of the Jeddah General Court Sheikh Rashid Al-Hazza’a, who is on leave, on Saturday.
Hani Al-Hajri, head of press relations at the court, also said he would only be able to provide details on Saturday.
According to the Turkish press, the barber, Sabri Bogday, had an argument with a neighbor, an Egyptian tailor, and was arrested by police after the tailor filed a complaint that he had sworn at God. Bogday has reportedly been in prison for 13 months, while his accuser has disappeared.
Abdul Rahman Al-Lahem, a Riyadh-based lawyer, said rulings in such cases depend on judges’ own interpretations of the Islamic Shariah.
“Some judges consider it heresy and infidelity, and say that the accused cannot repent and so faces death penalty. Others consider the statement to be disbelief, thus allow the accused to retract what he has said and repent and then set him free,” said Al-Lahem.
He said according to Saudi law the testimony of an accuser would not be accepted if it were shown that he or she might have some ulterior motive. “If two people have an argument, the testimony of one of the two against the other cannot be legally accepted,” Al-Lahem said.
He added that the Investigation and Prosecution Board must have investigated the case before taking it to court and that Saudi courts rarely issue guilty verdicts in such cases.
“Sentences in these cases are limited and considered rare, because the judgment is not based on something that is written,” he said.
Hasan Al-Malki, a Saudi researcher in Islamic studies and history, said if a Muslim were to reject Islam and then later repent, the repentance would be valid. “Thus it seems logical that Muslims who make a joke or swear at Allah or the Prophet (peace be upon him) and then repent should be allowed to repent,” said Al-Malki.
According to the Turkish press, an appeals court is expected to look at the case within the next 10 days.
The case has attracted the attention of state leaders. Turkish President Abdullah Gul has written to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah requesting a pardon for Bogday, who moved to Jeddah from southeastern Turkey more than a decade ago. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also contacted Saudi officials on the barber’s behalf.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
பாகிஸ்தானில் இஸ்லாமிய நீதி உதயம்: தம்பதியினர் கல்லாலடித்து கொலை
ஷானோ என்ற பெண்ணும், தவுலத் கான் என்ற ஆணும் வீட்டை விட்டு ஓடிவிட்டார்கள். இது தவறு என்று பாகிஸ்தான் தாலிபான் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாத குழு அவர்களை இஸ்லாமிய முறைப்படி கல்லாலடித்து கொன்றுவிட்டது.
அந்த பெண்ணை அங்கேயே புதைத்துவிட்டு, அந்த ஆணின் சடலத்தை அவரது பெற்றோரிடம் ஒப்படைத்துள்ளனர்.
Couple stoned to death in Fata
By Our Correspondent
GHALANAI, April 1: A man and a woman were stoned to death by militants in Khwezai-Baezai area on Monday after a ‘qazi court’ found them guilty of adultery.
This is the first incident of Rajam (stoning to death) carried out in Fata. Earlier, couples found guilty of adultery by militants or tribesmen were executed by firing squads.
The woman, identified as Shano from Mohmand Agency, had allegedly eloped with Daulat Khan Malikdeenkhel of Bara on March 15.
Dr Asad, a spokesman for the militants, told Dawn that Shano was a married woman living in Peshawar’s Deen Bahar colony.
He said a complaint had been received from her family that she had been abducted by Daulat Khan. But later it was reported that she had eloped with him.
He said that some members of the Taliban movement captured them in Nowshera when they were returning from Karachi.
He said the qazi found the couple guilty of adultery and sentenced them to death by stoning and the sentence was carried out in Khwaezai-Baezai, about 40 kms west of the Mohmand Agency’s headquarters Ghalanai.
The body of the woman was laid to rest in the same area by some local people. The man’s body was taken to the hospital and handed over to his relatives.
அந்த பெண்ணை அங்கேயே புதைத்துவிட்டு, அந்த ஆணின் சடலத்தை அவரது பெற்றோரிடம் ஒப்படைத்துள்ளனர்.
Couple stoned to death in Fata
By Our Correspondent
GHALANAI, April 1: A man and a woman were stoned to death by militants in Khwezai-Baezai area on Monday after a ‘qazi court’ found them guilty of adultery.
This is the first incident of Rajam (stoning to death) carried out in Fata. Earlier, couples found guilty of adultery by militants or tribesmen were executed by firing squads.
The woman, identified as Shano from Mohmand Agency, had allegedly eloped with Daulat Khan Malikdeenkhel of Bara on March 15.
Dr Asad, a spokesman for the militants, told Dawn that Shano was a married woman living in Peshawar’s Deen Bahar colony.
He said a complaint had been received from her family that she had been abducted by Daulat Khan. But later it was reported that she had eloped with him.
He said that some members of the Taliban movement captured them in Nowshera when they were returning from Karachi.
He said the qazi found the couple guilty of adultery and sentenced them to death by stoning and the sentence was carried out in Khwaezai-Baezai, about 40 kms west of the Mohmand Agency’s headquarters Ghalanai.
The body of the woman was laid to rest in the same area by some local people. The man’s body was taken to the hospital and handed over to his relatives.
Friday, March 21, 2008
மற்ற மதங்களை மதிக்கமாட்டோம். ஆனால் இஸ்லாமை மட்டும் எல்லோரும் மதிக்கவேண்டும்- சவுதி அரேபியா அறிக்கை
சவுதி அரேபியாவும் மற்ற மதங்களை மதிக்கவேண்டும். அவர்களது மத சின்னங்கள், தலைவர்கள், கடவுள்களை இழிவு படுத்தக்கூடாது என்று சவுதி அரேபிய ஷூராவில் கொண்டுவந்த பிரேரணை பெரும்பான்மையால் தோற்கடிக்கப்பட்டது.
சவுதி அரேபியா மற்ற மதங்களை மதிக்காது. ஆனால், எல்லோரும் இஸ்லாமை மதிக்கவேண்டும் என்று கூறுகிறது சவுதி அரேபியா.
SAUDI ARABIA: PACT TO RESPECT ALL RELIGIONS REJECTED
(ANSAmed) - NAPLES, MARCH 20 - A resolution calling for the enactment of an international pact to forbid religions from being defamed or insulted as well as their symbols, leaders and prophets has been voted out by the Saudi Shoura (Consultative Council).
A total of 77 members opposed the recommendation while 33 voted in favour, online newspaper Gulf News reports.
According to the opponents, such a pact would force people to recognise religions, which advocate idol worship, and that "would be unacceptable." The rejected resolution stated that "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall work in coordination with Arab and Islamic groups and others at the United Nations to draft an international pact for respecting religions, their symbols and leaders." "This recommendation is creating 'much ado'", said Khaleel Al Khaleel, a member of the Shoura.
The recommendation would create a dangerous precedent that may produce a negative impact on Muslims rather than followers of other religions, he added.
"Some consider Buddhism and Qadianism as religions. Can we make it obligatory for Muslims to respect these faiths and avoid criticising them?," he asked.
Mohammad Al Quwaihes, who presented the resolution, told reporters that he had not expected that his move would be defeated in such a way as the overwhelming majority of members were in favour of introducing the resolution for deliberations. (ANSAmed).
சவுதி அரேபியா மற்ற மதங்களை மதிக்காது. ஆனால், எல்லோரும் இஸ்லாமை மதிக்கவேண்டும் என்று கூறுகிறது சவுதி அரேபியா.
SAUDI ARABIA: PACT TO RESPECT ALL RELIGIONS REJECTED
(ANSAmed) - NAPLES, MARCH 20 - A resolution calling for the enactment of an international pact to forbid religions from being defamed or insulted as well as their symbols, leaders and prophets has been voted out by the Saudi Shoura (Consultative Council).
A total of 77 members opposed the recommendation while 33 voted in favour, online newspaper Gulf News reports.
According to the opponents, such a pact would force people to recognise religions, which advocate idol worship, and that "would be unacceptable." The rejected resolution stated that "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall work in coordination with Arab and Islamic groups and others at the United Nations to draft an international pact for respecting religions, their symbols and leaders." "This recommendation is creating 'much ado'", said Khaleel Al Khaleel, a member of the Shoura.
The recommendation would create a dangerous precedent that may produce a negative impact on Muslims rather than followers of other religions, he added.
"Some consider Buddhism and Qadianism as religions. Can we make it obligatory for Muslims to respect these faiths and avoid criticising them?," he asked.
Mohammad Al Quwaihes, who presented the resolution, told reporters that he had not expected that his move would be defeated in such a way as the overwhelming majority of members were in favour of introducing the resolution for deliberations. (ANSAmed).
Thursday, March 20, 2008
பாகிஸ்தான் ஜின்னா அடக்கதலத்தில் பெண் கற்பழிப்பு!!!
பாகிஸ்தானில் புதியதாக திருமணம் செய்த பெண்மணி தன் கணவனுடன் ஜின்னா அடக்கதலத்துக்கு சென்றார். அங்கு அவர் துப்பாக்கிமுனையில் கற்பழிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.
பாவம் இந்த பெண். இந்த பெண்ணை கற்பழித்ததை நான்கு ஆண்கள் பார்த்து சாட்சி சொல்லவில்லை என்றால், இந்த பெண் திருமணத்துக்கு வெளியே தகாத உறவு கொண்டார் என்று பாகிஸ்தான் இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியா சட்டப்படி இவருக்கு கடும் தண்டனை வழங்கப்படும்..
இவருக்காக வருந்துவோம்.
Pakistani 'raped at Jinnah site'
The newly-wed victim was visiting the mausoleum
A woman has been raped in the complex containing the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder in Karachi city, police say.
The victim, who has not been identified, went missing two days ago on a visit to the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
She was visiting the city with her husband from the central province of Punjab, police say.
Karachi, Pakistan's only port and its largest city, has a high rate of crime, including kidnappings and rape.
"The rape took place in a room in the museum within the mausoleum compound," Superintendent of Police, Niaz Khoso, told the BBC.
"After she recorded her statement, we searched the premises."
"We found pieces of her clothing, bits of hair and other pieces of evidence," he said.
Gun-point
The woman recorded her statement with the police after a medical examination at a local hospital.
Trauma of rape victims
According to her statement and that of her husband and family members, she arrived in Karachi from the central Pakistani town of Lodhran three days ago.
The newly-wed 19-year-old victim said she was kidnapped at gunpoint by two men from the gate of the mausoleum on 15 March.
She told police she was drugged and then raped by her kidnappers and other men who later joined them.
In the meantime, her family reported her as missing to the local police.
On 17 March, the victim was found in a drugged state by paramilitary personnel on guard duty at the mausoleum.
She was handed over to the police, who got in touch with her family.
பாவம் இந்த பெண். இந்த பெண்ணை கற்பழித்ததை நான்கு ஆண்கள் பார்த்து சாட்சி சொல்லவில்லை என்றால், இந்த பெண் திருமணத்துக்கு வெளியே தகாத உறவு கொண்டார் என்று பாகிஸ்தான் இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியா சட்டப்படி இவருக்கு கடும் தண்டனை வழங்கப்படும்..
இவருக்காக வருந்துவோம்.
Pakistani 'raped at Jinnah site'
The newly-wed victim was visiting the mausoleum
A woman has been raped in the complex containing the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder in Karachi city, police say.
The victim, who has not been identified, went missing two days ago on a visit to the mausoleum of Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
She was visiting the city with her husband from the central province of Punjab, police say.
Karachi, Pakistan's only port and its largest city, has a high rate of crime, including kidnappings and rape.
"The rape took place in a room in the museum within the mausoleum compound," Superintendent of Police, Niaz Khoso, told the BBC.
"After she recorded her statement, we searched the premises."
"We found pieces of her clothing, bits of hair and other pieces of evidence," he said.
Gun-point
The woman recorded her statement with the police after a medical examination at a local hospital.
Trauma of rape victims
According to her statement and that of her husband and family members, she arrived in Karachi from the central Pakistani town of Lodhran three days ago.
The newly-wed 19-year-old victim said she was kidnapped at gunpoint by two men from the gate of the mausoleum on 15 March.
She told police she was drugged and then raped by her kidnappers and other men who later joined them.
In the meantime, her family reported her as missing to the local police.
On 17 March, the victim was found in a drugged state by paramilitary personnel on guard duty at the mausoleum.
She was handed over to the police, who got in touch with her family.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
50 வயதான சவுதி பெண் தனக்கு விவாகரத்து தரும்படி கெஞ்சல்
பெண்கள் தானாக விவாகரத்து செய்யமுடியாது போலிருக்கிறது. இவர் ஷாரியா கோர்ட்டில் தன்னை அடிக்கும் கணவனிடமிருந்து விடுவித்து தனக்கு விவாகரத்து தரும்படி கெஞ்சியிருக்கிறார்.
அந்த திருமணத்தின்போது கணவன் கொடுத்த பணத்தை திருப்பி தந்தால், விவாகரத்தாம். இந்த முதிய 50 வயதான பெண்ணிடம் எந்த பணமும் இல்லை.
அந்த நீதிமன்றம் மறுத்திவிட்டதால், கவர்னரிடம் கெஞ்சுகிறார்.
இந்த முஸ்லீம் பெண்களுக்காக வருந்துகிறேன்.
இந்தியாவில் இருக்கும் முஸ்லீம் பெண்களும் திருமணம் செய்யும் போது பார்த்து திருமணம் செய்வது நல்லது.
Woman Appeals to Governor for Help in Getting Her Divorce
Hayat Al-Ghamdi, Arab News
ABHA, 19 March 2008 — A woman in her 50s from the southern town of Khamis Mushayt is appealing to the region’s governor to intervene to break off her marriage to a man she says has abused her on numerous occasions.
“I have no option but to seek the mercy of the governor after the Shariah court rejected my plea for divorce from my husband who had been torturing me both mentally and physically,” Um Hassan told Arab News yesterday.
The woman claims the judge told her that her only option was “khula,” a form of divorce initiated by women that requires them to reimburse dowry paid to them by their husbands at the time of marriage.
But Um Hassan says that she has given the best years of her life to her husband and shouldn’t have to pay him anything now that he considers her past her prime.
“I told the judge ‘why should I return the dowry while my husband enjoyed all my youth and now that I am old he throws me away as a worn-out piece of cloth?’ It is my right that he protect me or divorce me honorably,” she said.
Um Hassan is currently living with her elderly mother and her husband has not allowed her to see her two daughters since she ran away from him eight months ago. The judge declined her request to see her girls, saying she’ll just have to wait until they’ve grown up and have been married. Um Hassan has a son, too, but she says he is also abusive.
Um Hassan claims that she fled because her husband would beat her. She claims that one of her daughters threatened suicide because of the domestic abuse erupting around her. When she went to the police, she was told that the police could do nothing because she was a woman coming to them without her mahram — her legal male guardian, who is the same person from whom she was seeking protection.
The police, she said, simply told her she had to go directly to the Board of Investigations and Prosecution, the Saudi equivalent of a district attorney’s office.
Hadi Al-Yami, a legal analyst for the governmental Human Rights Commission in Asir, said the commission could not help her until the system to which she is appealing fails to deliver her rights.
“We can help her only if the regulations are not implemented by the authorities or orders are violated,” he said.
Al-Yami said that under Saudi law a woman must complain within three days of the abuse for the case to be valid. He also said that she doesn’t have automatic custody rights because her girls are above seven. In custody disputes, Saudi family law heavily favors fathers once children are over seven years old.
Regarding the unwillingness by the police to help, Al-Yami told Arab News that the cops could not assist with women’s complaints without the women being accompanied by their official male guardian. And in the case where the problem arises with the guardian, the woman must go to higher ups to seek reprieve, which could involve a Shariah court taking custody of her, even in the case of a woman in her 50s.
அந்த திருமணத்தின்போது கணவன் கொடுத்த பணத்தை திருப்பி தந்தால், விவாகரத்தாம். இந்த முதிய 50 வயதான பெண்ணிடம் எந்த பணமும் இல்லை.
அந்த நீதிமன்றம் மறுத்திவிட்டதால், கவர்னரிடம் கெஞ்சுகிறார்.
இந்த முஸ்லீம் பெண்களுக்காக வருந்துகிறேன்.
இந்தியாவில் இருக்கும் முஸ்லீம் பெண்களும் திருமணம் செய்யும் போது பார்த்து திருமணம் செய்வது நல்லது.
Woman Appeals to Governor for Help in Getting Her Divorce
Hayat Al-Ghamdi, Arab News
ABHA, 19 March 2008 — A woman in her 50s from the southern town of Khamis Mushayt is appealing to the region’s governor to intervene to break off her marriage to a man she says has abused her on numerous occasions.
“I have no option but to seek the mercy of the governor after the Shariah court rejected my plea for divorce from my husband who had been torturing me both mentally and physically,” Um Hassan told Arab News yesterday.
The woman claims the judge told her that her only option was “khula,” a form of divorce initiated by women that requires them to reimburse dowry paid to them by their husbands at the time of marriage.
But Um Hassan says that she has given the best years of her life to her husband and shouldn’t have to pay him anything now that he considers her past her prime.
“I told the judge ‘why should I return the dowry while my husband enjoyed all my youth and now that I am old he throws me away as a worn-out piece of cloth?’ It is my right that he protect me or divorce me honorably,” she said.
Um Hassan is currently living with her elderly mother and her husband has not allowed her to see her two daughters since she ran away from him eight months ago. The judge declined her request to see her girls, saying she’ll just have to wait until they’ve grown up and have been married. Um Hassan has a son, too, but she says he is also abusive.
Um Hassan claims that she fled because her husband would beat her. She claims that one of her daughters threatened suicide because of the domestic abuse erupting around her. When she went to the police, she was told that the police could do nothing because she was a woman coming to them without her mahram — her legal male guardian, who is the same person from whom she was seeking protection.
The police, she said, simply told her she had to go directly to the Board of Investigations and Prosecution, the Saudi equivalent of a district attorney’s office.
Hadi Al-Yami, a legal analyst for the governmental Human Rights Commission in Asir, said the commission could not help her until the system to which she is appealing fails to deliver her rights.
“We can help her only if the regulations are not implemented by the authorities or orders are violated,” he said.
Al-Yami said that under Saudi law a woman must complain within three days of the abuse for the case to be valid. He also said that she doesn’t have automatic custody rights because her girls are above seven. In custody disputes, Saudi family law heavily favors fathers once children are over seven years old.
Regarding the unwillingness by the police to help, Al-Yami told Arab News that the cops could not assist with women’s complaints without the women being accompanied by their official male guardian. And in the case where the problem arises with the guardian, the woman must go to higher ups to seek reprieve, which could involve a Shariah court taking custody of her, even in the case of a woman in her 50s.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து வெளியேறியதற்காக மலேசிய பெண்ணுக்கு இரண்டு வருடம் கடுங்காவல் தண்டனை
இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து வெளியேறியதற்காக மலேசிய பெண்ணுக்கு இரண்டு வருடம் கடுங்காவல் தண்டனை
Malaysian sentenced to 2 years in jail for abandoning Islam to join banned sect
© AP
2008-03-04 05:36:25 -
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Muslim-born woman arrested for joining a banned sect was sentenced to two years in jail for renouncing her religion, her lawyer said Tuesday.
The case underscores growing concern about religious freedom in this mostly Muslim nation, where Islamic Shariah courts _ which govern the personal conduct and religious lives
of Muslims _ have invariably refused to sanction the conversion of people who try to leave Islam.
A Shariah High Court judge in eastern Terengganu state ruled Monday that Kamariah Ali is still a Muslim despite her declaration to the contrary.
«The court is not convinced that the accused has repented and is willing to abandon any teachings contrary to Islam,» news reports quoted Judge Muhammad Abdullah as saying. «I pray God will open the doors of your heart, Kamariah.
Court officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday, a state holiday.
Last month, Kamariah, 57, was convicted of declaring herself an apostate after she and 58 others were arrested in July 2005 for following the teachings of the banned Sky Kingdom, a local sect claiming to promote interfaith harmony.
Kamariah's lawyer, Sa'adiah Din, said her client, who started serving her sentence Tuesday, insists she is no longer a Muslim and has instructed her to appeal the conviction and verdict.
«She informed the court that she is not a Muslim,» Sa'adiah told The Associated Press. «She doesn't come under Shariah court anymore.
Kamariah has already been convicted of apostasy in a separate case in 1992, and served less than 20 months, Sa'adiah said.
«This has to stop. They can't be sending her again and again to prison for this,» Sa'adiah said, adding she had little hope in Kamariah's appeal.
Sa'adiah said Kamariah also is facing a second charge of joining a banned sect, which is punishable by up to two years in prison. Hearings are scheduled to begin in May with most of the other alleged sect members arrested in 2005.
Kamariah's case highlights a dilemma faced by those who want to leave Islam in Malaysia, where Muslims make up 60 percent of the population. In the past, Muslims who renounce Islam have been sent to religious re-education camps.
Kamariah filed an application in civil court in 1998 to declare herself an apostate, but a Federal Court ruled in 2004 that it had no jurisdiction in the case and sent Kamariah to Shariah court, which administers civil matters for Muslims, Sa'adiah said.
Malaysian sentenced to 2 years in jail for abandoning Islam to join banned sect
© AP
2008-03-04 05:36:25 -
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Muslim-born woman arrested for joining a banned sect was sentenced to two years in jail for renouncing her religion, her lawyer said Tuesday.
The case underscores growing concern about religious freedom in this mostly Muslim nation, where Islamic Shariah courts _ which govern the personal conduct and religious lives
of Muslims _ have invariably refused to sanction the conversion of people who try to leave Islam.
A Shariah High Court judge in eastern Terengganu state ruled Monday that Kamariah Ali is still a Muslim despite her declaration to the contrary.
«The court is not convinced that the accused has repented and is willing to abandon any teachings contrary to Islam,» news reports quoted Judge Muhammad Abdullah as saying. «I pray God will open the doors of your heart, Kamariah.
Court officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday, a state holiday.
Last month, Kamariah, 57, was convicted of declaring herself an apostate after she and 58 others were arrested in July 2005 for following the teachings of the banned Sky Kingdom, a local sect claiming to promote interfaith harmony.
Kamariah's lawyer, Sa'adiah Din, said her client, who started serving her sentence Tuesday, insists she is no longer a Muslim and has instructed her to appeal the conviction and verdict.
«She informed the court that she is not a Muslim,» Sa'adiah told The Associated Press. «She doesn't come under Shariah court anymore.
Kamariah has already been convicted of apostasy in a separate case in 1992, and served less than 20 months, Sa'adiah said.
«This has to stop. They can't be sending her again and again to prison for this,» Sa'adiah said, adding she had little hope in Kamariah's appeal.
Sa'adiah said Kamariah also is facing a second charge of joining a banned sect, which is punishable by up to two years in prison. Hearings are scheduled to begin in May with most of the other alleged sect members arrested in 2005.
Kamariah's case highlights a dilemma faced by those who want to leave Islam in Malaysia, where Muslims make up 60 percent of the population. In the past, Muslims who renounce Islam have been sent to religious re-education camps.
Kamariah filed an application in civil court in 1998 to declare herself an apostate, but a Federal Court ruled in 2004 that it had no jurisdiction in the case and sent Kamariah to Shariah court, which administers civil matters for Muslims, Sa'adiah said.
Monday, March 03, 2008
வேகமாக பெண்களை மொபைல் போனில் விவாகரத்து செய்ய சவுதி அரேபியா வசதி!
பெண்டாட்டிகளை பிடிக்காத ஆண்களும் ஏற்கெனவே இருக்கும் நான்குமனைவிகளில் ஒருவரை கழட்டிவிட்டு இன்னொருவரை விரைவில் திருமணம் செய்துகொள்ளவும் சவுதி அரேபியா அதிவேக மொபைல் போன் வசதி ஏற்படுத்தி தந்திருக்கிறது.
Divorces Get on Fast Track With E-Communication
Arab News
RIYADH, 2 March 2008 — Living in a high-tech world, many husbands have opted for new ways of divorcing their wives rather than confronting problems head on through discussion and dialogue.
Jawhara, a divorcee, said that she received a message on her mobile phone from her husband that read, “Pack your things and go to your family before I return, you’re divorced.”
Jawhara promptly telephoned her brother, asking him to pick her up. He, however, asked her to wait for her husband and ask him why he had divorced her. “I stayed and when he came he repeated what he said. I told him that I was off to my family and that he should keep his children,” she said.
A week later, Jawhara’s husband said he wanted to get back together and that he had made a mistake. “It took me time to accept but I did in the end after he admitted to a judge that he had made a mistake,” she said.
Munira Asaad was faced with a similar situation when her husband asked her, through an SMS message, to take their children and leave home. “At first I thought it was a joke. But when he came home he hit me and asked me to leave. I refused to leave the house saying it was mine and my children’s,” said Munira, adding that instead her husband left. A week later he returned and said he wanted to get back together.
“I refused. He made this decision based on wrong information, which he got from his sister-in-law. His actions show that he doesn’t trust me. Why should I take him back?” she said.
Suad woke up one morning to find a text message reading, “I divorce you. Go back to your family.” Suad was left shocked and could not believe what she saw. “There was no problem between us. I called him but he did not answer,” she said.
When her husband returned from his trip, he told her that he divorced her because one of his friends had not accepted an invitation to dinner. He had sworn that he would divorce his wife if his friend did not accept his invitation.
Suad said she went to her room, packed her stuff and left. “I asked my children to come with me. After two weeks he came back and urged me to return. He told me that he hadn’t registered the divorce in court,” said Saud, adding that she agreed to go back after her husband promised to be careful with such issues.
Commenting on the issue, Ahmed Al-Muhaimid, a lawyer, said in a report carried by the Al-Riyadh newspaper that text-message divorces take effect even if a husband does not verbally pronounce his intention. He added that such divorces take place even without the women knowing about it.
He urged couples to be careful while dealing with such a serious issue as divorce. He called on officials to question the conditions for such divorces, the causes and the real intentions who do them.
Al-Muhaimid also said that it was important to ensure messages are actually sent by husband and not by third parties.
Divorces Get on Fast Track With E-Communication
Arab News
RIYADH, 2 March 2008 — Living in a high-tech world, many husbands have opted for new ways of divorcing their wives rather than confronting problems head on through discussion and dialogue.
Jawhara, a divorcee, said that she received a message on her mobile phone from her husband that read, “Pack your things and go to your family before I return, you’re divorced.”
Jawhara promptly telephoned her brother, asking him to pick her up. He, however, asked her to wait for her husband and ask him why he had divorced her. “I stayed and when he came he repeated what he said. I told him that I was off to my family and that he should keep his children,” she said.
A week later, Jawhara’s husband said he wanted to get back together and that he had made a mistake. “It took me time to accept but I did in the end after he admitted to a judge that he had made a mistake,” she said.
Munira Asaad was faced with a similar situation when her husband asked her, through an SMS message, to take their children and leave home. “At first I thought it was a joke. But when he came home he hit me and asked me to leave. I refused to leave the house saying it was mine and my children’s,” said Munira, adding that instead her husband left. A week later he returned and said he wanted to get back together.
“I refused. He made this decision based on wrong information, which he got from his sister-in-law. His actions show that he doesn’t trust me. Why should I take him back?” she said.
Suad woke up one morning to find a text message reading, “I divorce you. Go back to your family.” Suad was left shocked and could not believe what she saw. “There was no problem between us. I called him but he did not answer,” she said.
When her husband returned from his trip, he told her that he divorced her because one of his friends had not accepted an invitation to dinner. He had sworn that he would divorce his wife if his friend did not accept his invitation.
Suad said she went to her room, packed her stuff and left. “I asked my children to come with me. After two weeks he came back and urged me to return. He told me that he hadn’t registered the divorce in court,” said Saud, adding that she agreed to go back after her husband promised to be careful with such issues.
Commenting on the issue, Ahmed Al-Muhaimid, a lawyer, said in a report carried by the Al-Riyadh newspaper that text-message divorces take effect even if a husband does not verbally pronounce his intention. He added that such divorces take place even without the women knowing about it.
He urged couples to be careful while dealing with such a serious issue as divorce. He called on officials to question the conditions for such divorces, the causes and the real intentions who do them.
Al-Muhaimid also said that it was important to ensure messages are actually sent by husband and not by third parties.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து மதம் மாற மலேசிய பள்ளி ஆசிரியைக்கு அனுமதி மறுப்பு
கமரையா அலி என்ற மலேசிய பள்ளி ஆசிரியை இஸ்ளாமை விட்டு விலகி ஆயா பின் என்ற மதத்தில் இணைவதாக கோரியிருந்தார்.
அதனை கோர்ட் நிராகரித்து, இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து யாரும் வெளியேற முடியாது என்று அறிவித்துள்ளது.
Ex-teacher still a Muslim, rules court
By : Sean Augustin
Kamariah Ali, who declared herself an apostate to avoid action, leaving the Syariah High Court in Kuala Terengganu yesterday following the ruling.
KUALA TERENGGANU: A former religious teacher was yesterday found guilty of having proclaimed herself an apostate to avoid action being taken against her under syariah.
In finding 57-year-old Kamariah Ali guilty, the Syariah High Court here ruled that she was still a Muslim.
This was because her earlier application at the Syariah High Court in Kelantan to leave the religion had been rejected.
Kamariah is a follower of Kamal Ariffin a.k.a Ayah Pin, whose teachings were considered to be deviant.
In passing judgment, judge Mohamad Abdullah said based on fiq (Islamic practices), a person is a Muslim until proven that he or she had left the religion but in Kamariah's case, there was no solid evidence to cast doubts on the prosecution's case.
Kamariah was charged under Section 7 of the Syariah Criminal Offence Enactment (Takzir) (Terengganu 2001) with declaring herself an apostate to avoid action being taken against her at the Syariah lower court in Besut.
She had been arrested together with 58 other followers of the Ayah Pin sect on July 21, 2005.
They were all charged under Section 10 of the Syariah Criminal Offence Enactment (Takzir) (Terengganu 2001) with not adhering to the state fatwa which had ruled Ayah Pin's teachings as deviant.
Mohamad said although Kamariah claimed she had left the religion in 1998, she was still teaching at an Islamic institution in 2000.
Furthermore, her declaration of leaving Islam was done in front of a commissioner of oaths instead of at the Syariah court.
Mohamad said he did not want to punish her as he would rather see her return to Islam.
"I want to give you a chance and hope you will have a change of heart and the sentence will then be based on the progress that you have made. I have seen some changes, but I still have some doubts."
Prosecutor Mustafar Hamzah, however, pressed for a deterrent sentence in view of the seriousness of the offence which could affect public order and the faith of Malaysian Muslims.
He said the defence could not argue that Kamariah had been influenced by others when declaring herself an apostate.
Mustafar said as an Al-Azhar University graduate, she was knowledgeable in religious matters and should not have committed such an act, adding that Kamariah had not shown any sign of remorse or repentance.
Later, after a stand down for about 30 minutes, Mohamad allowed Kamariah, who was represented by Sa'adiah Din, to plead for leniency.
At this point, Kamariah said she wished to repent.
Mohamad advised her that apart from repenting, she should never again follow the teachings of Ayah Pin or that of other deviant groups.
"I hope you not only realise your mistake but promise never to repeat it. Although, as you said earlier, your faith is between you and God, this particular case affects society. It is up to you to prove your sincerity."
Earlier, Kamariah had put up a defiant front, arguing with the judge on the concept of freedom of religion. She had also refused to utter the syahadah (proclamation of faith).
Muhamad fixed March 3 for sentencing.
அதனை கோர்ட் நிராகரித்து, இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து யாரும் வெளியேற முடியாது என்று அறிவித்துள்ளது.
Ex-teacher still a Muslim, rules court
By : Sean Augustin
Kamariah Ali, who declared herself an apostate to avoid action, leaving the Syariah High Court in Kuala Terengganu yesterday following the ruling.
KUALA TERENGGANU: A former religious teacher was yesterday found guilty of having proclaimed herself an apostate to avoid action being taken against her under syariah.
In finding 57-year-old Kamariah Ali guilty, the Syariah High Court here ruled that she was still a Muslim.
This was because her earlier application at the Syariah High Court in Kelantan to leave the religion had been rejected.
Kamariah is a follower of Kamal Ariffin a.k.a Ayah Pin, whose teachings were considered to be deviant.
In passing judgment, judge Mohamad Abdullah said based on fiq (Islamic practices), a person is a Muslim until proven that he or she had left the religion but in Kamariah's case, there was no solid evidence to cast doubts on the prosecution's case.
Kamariah was charged under Section 7 of the Syariah Criminal Offence Enactment (Takzir) (Terengganu 2001) with declaring herself an apostate to avoid action being taken against her at the Syariah lower court in Besut.
She had been arrested together with 58 other followers of the Ayah Pin sect on July 21, 2005.
They were all charged under Section 10 of the Syariah Criminal Offence Enactment (Takzir) (Terengganu 2001) with not adhering to the state fatwa which had ruled Ayah Pin's teachings as deviant.
Mohamad said although Kamariah claimed she had left the religion in 1998, she was still teaching at an Islamic institution in 2000.
Furthermore, her declaration of leaving Islam was done in front of a commissioner of oaths instead of at the Syariah court.
Mohamad said he did not want to punish her as he would rather see her return to Islam.
"I want to give you a chance and hope you will have a change of heart and the sentence will then be based on the progress that you have made. I have seen some changes, but I still have some doubts."
Prosecutor Mustafar Hamzah, however, pressed for a deterrent sentence in view of the seriousness of the offence which could affect public order and the faith of Malaysian Muslims.
He said the defence could not argue that Kamariah had been influenced by others when declaring herself an apostate.
Mustafar said as an Al-Azhar University graduate, she was knowledgeable in religious matters and should not have committed such an act, adding that Kamariah had not shown any sign of remorse or repentance.
Later, after a stand down for about 30 minutes, Mohamad allowed Kamariah, who was represented by Sa'adiah Din, to plead for leniency.
At this point, Kamariah said she wished to repent.
Mohamad advised her that apart from repenting, she should never again follow the teachings of Ayah Pin or that of other deviant groups.
"I hope you not only realise your mistake but promise never to repeat it. Although, as you said earlier, your faith is between you and God, this particular case affects society. It is up to you to prove your sincerity."
Earlier, Kamariah had put up a defiant front, arguing with the judge on the concept of freedom of religion. She had also refused to utter the syahadah (proclamation of faith).
Muhamad fixed March 3 for sentencing.
Friday, February 01, 2008
பெண்களுக்கும் குழந்தைகளுக்கும் உரிமைகளை மறுக்கிறது அரபு சார்ட்டர்- ஐநா குற்றச்சாட்டு
மனித உரிமைகள் அரபு சார்ட்டரில், குழந்தைகளுகும் பெண்களுக்கும் உரிமைகள் மறுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன என்று ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை குற்றம் சாட்டியுள்ளது
UN: Arab rights charter fails to meet global standards
New York, 31 Jan. (AKI) - The Arab charter on human rights contains provisions that do not meet international standards, to protect women and children, the United Nations human rights chief said.
UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour criticised the charter for upholding the application of the death penalty for children and equating of Zionism with racism.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour issued a statement saying her office “does not endorse these inconsistencies [and] we continue to work with all stakeholders in the region to ensure the implementation of universal human rights norms.”
The Arab charter was issued earlier this month after seven countries ratified the text.
Arbour said while human rights are universal, regional systems of promotion and protection can further help strengthen the enjoyment of human rights.
She said her office had concerns about the incompatibility of some provisions with international standards.
“These concerns included the approach to death penalty for children and the rights of women and non-citizens," Arbour said in a statement.
"Moreover, to the extent that it equates Zionism with racism, we reiterated that the Arab Charter is not in conformity with the general assembly resolution, which rejects that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
UN: Arab rights charter fails to meet global standards
New York, 31 Jan. (AKI) - The Arab charter on human rights contains provisions that do not meet international standards, to protect women and children, the United Nations human rights chief said.
UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour criticised the charter for upholding the application of the death penalty for children and equating of Zionism with racism.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour issued a statement saying her office “does not endorse these inconsistencies [and] we continue to work with all stakeholders in the region to ensure the implementation of universal human rights norms.”
The Arab charter was issued earlier this month after seven countries ratified the text.
Arbour said while human rights are universal, regional systems of promotion and protection can further help strengthen the enjoyment of human rights.
She said her office had concerns about the incompatibility of some provisions with international standards.
“These concerns included the approach to death penalty for children and the rights of women and non-citizens," Arbour said in a statement.
"Moreover, to the extent that it equates Zionism with racism, we reiterated that the Arab Charter is not in conformity with the general assembly resolution, which rejects that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
இஸ்லாமை விட்டு யாரும் வெளியேற முடியாது - எகிப்து தீர்ப்பு
இஸ்லாமை விட்டு வெளியேற முடியாது. இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியா நடைபெறும் நாட்டில், எந்த ஒரு முஸ்லீமும் ம்தம் மாற முடியாது என்று எகிப்து நீதிமன்றம் தீர்ப்பளித்துள்ளது.
TESTING THE FAITH
'No one leaves Islam,' judge rules
Egyptian court bans convert to Christianity from changing ID card
Posted: February 1, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
Egypt
No one ever leaves Islam, according to a judge in Egypt who has cited Islamic religious law in rejecting a request from a Muslim convert to Christianity to be allowed to change his religious affiliation on his national identification card.
In a decision that forecasts more and more decisions being based on Shari'a, Islam's religious law, Judge Muhammad Husseini has concluded it violates the law for a Muslim to leave Islam.
According to a report from Compass Direct News, the judge found that the convert, Muhammad Hegazy, "can believe whatever he wants in his heart, but on paper he can't convert."
The report said Husseini cited Article II of the Egyptian constitution, making Islamic religious law the "source" of Egyptian secular law, as the basis for his conclusion.
Since Islam is the "final" and "most complete" religion, Muslims already have full freedom of religion and are not allowed to return to the "less complete" Christianity or Judaism, the ruling said.
It's a new peak in the rise of Islam in Egypt, which The Middle East Review of International Affairs said began with Anwar Sadat's tenure in power.
"He then initiated what one could, in hindsight, term 'the Great Islamic Transformation' of Egypt. The first step was to stipulate in the Second Article of his new Constitution, promulgated in 1971 (long before Khomeini embarked on his Islamic revolutionary campaign), that the Principles of Islamic Shari'a were 'a main source' of legislation. In May 1981, the 'a' was replaced with 'the,' making Shari'a the term of reference for the entire constitution, meaning all other articles were to be interpreted in that light," the organization said.
"The curricula of public schools, established by the Ministry of Education, ignore the Coptic era in Egypt's history. Courses glorifying Islam (the 'Only True Religion') and its history, while vilifying the crusaders (i.e. Christians) and the Jews, are imposed on all students," the group said.
"In the case of a father of a Christian family converting to Islam, his minor children are forced to follow suit: The mother's custody rights – a well established legal principle – are ignored in this case, as children, according to typical court rulings, are supposed to follow the 'better (or 'more noble') of the two religions,'" the group said.
On the pro-freedom website called Sons of Apes and Pigs, a commentary noted that the Egyptian court decision "went on and issued a very explicit warning to Muhammad Hegazy, his wife and their lawyer, that going against the tide would provoke civil unrest and exacerbate emotions in the Egyptian society."
"Freedom of religion doesn't mean getting in and out of Islam to another religion, but only means that each person is free to practice his own religious rites, and not playing games with Islam or contradicting Shari'a law," the website said the judge concluded.
The website, which said it took its name from Quranic descriptions of Christians and Jews, said Westerners don't realize the significance of having a national ID card listing the carrier as Muslim.
"If you get caught going to a church while your religion on your ID is Muslim, that could get you arrested, questioned and tortured," the commentary said. "The latest victim was a 27-year-old woman, Mrs. Sherreen, mother of two children from Alexandria, Egypt. She died at the police station on Jan. 3, 2008, after five hours of torture for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and come back to Islam."
The website noted in Egypt, children of parents with Muslim IDs automatically are Muslims, and they are required to follow mandatory Islamic indoctrination classes, and Muslims cannot marry non-Muslims.
It also said to apply for any job, an applicant must provide the state-designated religious affiliation.
The website also noted according to multiple media reports, Hegazy's father issued a statement that, "when I'll meet my son, I will discuss with him the reasons and circumstances that 'forced' him to leave Islam, and will offer him the opportunity to come back to Islam, but in case he refuses, I will kill him immediately."
Press reports say Hegazy's case was the first time someone had sought to make a change from Islam in the religious designation on an official national ID card.
Hegazy has reported he was studying various religions, and found he was not consistent with Islam.
"The major issue for me was love. Islam wasn't promoting love as Christianity did," he said.
As a result of his conversion he's reported being arrested and tortured several times, but it's opened wide the eyes of observers, the Apes and Pigs website said.
"Muhammad Hegazy's case dynamited the Islamic mountain of lies, propaganda and false pride," the commentary said. "Not only in Egypt, but all over the Arab world. Exposed to the world [was] the deception of the Islamic governments, Egypt in particular … [of] 'no compulsion in religion.'"
According to the Compass Direct report, Gamal Eid, head of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, whose lawyers have been representing the convert, said that he was disappointed with the verdict.
"The judge didn't listen to our defense, and we didn't even have a chance to talk before the court,” Eid said.
Meanwhile, death threats have forced the couple, whose new daughter is only a month old, into hiding.
Compass also reported that at least partly because of the case, lawyers in Egypt now are trying to force the government to outlaw conversion from Islam in secular law as well as religious law.
WND previously has reported on a ruling from a U.S. federal court that an Egyptian Christian who had fled his home nation "most assuredly has a right not to be tortured." The ruling allowed the Egyptian Christian to remain in the United States.
The court pointedly concluded that "diplomatic assurances" of his religious rights "by a country known to have engaged in torture" weren't reassuring.
A report from the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights concluded Coptic Christians in Egypt have been harassed, tortured and killed by Muslims for 1,400 years.
"They have been subjected to all kinds of hate crimes including, the abduction of young Coptic girls, the killing of Coptic women and children and the destruction of their places of worship," the report said.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an agency created by Congress, also lists Egypt on its watch list of countries, noting it had "a poor overall human rights record."
In addition, Egyptian authorities have threatened two young boys who were ordered to take training to be Muslims, but refused, stating they are Christian.
TESTING THE FAITH
'No one leaves Islam,' judge rules
Egyptian court bans convert to Christianity from changing ID card
Posted: February 1, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
Egypt
No one ever leaves Islam, according to a judge in Egypt who has cited Islamic religious law in rejecting a request from a Muslim convert to Christianity to be allowed to change his religious affiliation on his national identification card.
In a decision that forecasts more and more decisions being based on Shari'a, Islam's religious law, Judge Muhammad Husseini has concluded it violates the law for a Muslim to leave Islam.
According to a report from Compass Direct News, the judge found that the convert, Muhammad Hegazy, "can believe whatever he wants in his heart, but on paper he can't convert."
The report said Husseini cited Article II of the Egyptian constitution, making Islamic religious law the "source" of Egyptian secular law, as the basis for his conclusion.
Since Islam is the "final" and "most complete" religion, Muslims already have full freedom of religion and are not allowed to return to the "less complete" Christianity or Judaism, the ruling said.
It's a new peak in the rise of Islam in Egypt, which The Middle East Review of International Affairs said began with Anwar Sadat's tenure in power.
"He then initiated what one could, in hindsight, term 'the Great Islamic Transformation' of Egypt. The first step was to stipulate in the Second Article of his new Constitution, promulgated in 1971 (long before Khomeini embarked on his Islamic revolutionary campaign), that the Principles of Islamic Shari'a were 'a main source' of legislation. In May 1981, the 'a' was replaced with 'the,' making Shari'a the term of reference for the entire constitution, meaning all other articles were to be interpreted in that light," the organization said.
"The curricula of public schools, established by the Ministry of Education, ignore the Coptic era in Egypt's history. Courses glorifying Islam (the 'Only True Religion') and its history, while vilifying the crusaders (i.e. Christians) and the Jews, are imposed on all students," the group said.
"In the case of a father of a Christian family converting to Islam, his minor children are forced to follow suit: The mother's custody rights – a well established legal principle – are ignored in this case, as children, according to typical court rulings, are supposed to follow the 'better (or 'more noble') of the two religions,'" the group said.
On the pro-freedom website called Sons of Apes and Pigs, a commentary noted that the Egyptian court decision "went on and issued a very explicit warning to Muhammad Hegazy, his wife and their lawyer, that going against the tide would provoke civil unrest and exacerbate emotions in the Egyptian society."
"Freedom of religion doesn't mean getting in and out of Islam to another religion, but only means that each person is free to practice his own religious rites, and not playing games with Islam or contradicting Shari'a law," the website said the judge concluded.
The website, which said it took its name from Quranic descriptions of Christians and Jews, said Westerners don't realize the significance of having a national ID card listing the carrier as Muslim.
"If you get caught going to a church while your religion on your ID is Muslim, that could get you arrested, questioned and tortured," the commentary said. "The latest victim was a 27-year-old woman, Mrs. Sherreen, mother of two children from Alexandria, Egypt. She died at the police station on Jan. 3, 2008, after five hours of torture for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and come back to Islam."
The website noted in Egypt, children of parents with Muslim IDs automatically are Muslims, and they are required to follow mandatory Islamic indoctrination classes, and Muslims cannot marry non-Muslims.
It also said to apply for any job, an applicant must provide the state-designated religious affiliation.
The website also noted according to multiple media reports, Hegazy's father issued a statement that, "when I'll meet my son, I will discuss with him the reasons and circumstances that 'forced' him to leave Islam, and will offer him the opportunity to come back to Islam, but in case he refuses, I will kill him immediately."
Press reports say Hegazy's case was the first time someone had sought to make a change from Islam in the religious designation on an official national ID card.
Hegazy has reported he was studying various religions, and found he was not consistent with Islam.
"The major issue for me was love. Islam wasn't promoting love as Christianity did," he said.
As a result of his conversion he's reported being arrested and tortured several times, but it's opened wide the eyes of observers, the Apes and Pigs website said.
"Muhammad Hegazy's case dynamited the Islamic mountain of lies, propaganda and false pride," the commentary said. "Not only in Egypt, but all over the Arab world. Exposed to the world [was] the deception of the Islamic governments, Egypt in particular … [of] 'no compulsion in religion.'"
According to the Compass Direct report, Gamal Eid, head of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, whose lawyers have been representing the convert, said that he was disappointed with the verdict.
"The judge didn't listen to our defense, and we didn't even have a chance to talk before the court,” Eid said.
Meanwhile, death threats have forced the couple, whose new daughter is only a month old, into hiding.
Compass also reported that at least partly because of the case, lawyers in Egypt now are trying to force the government to outlaw conversion from Islam in secular law as well as religious law.
WND previously has reported on a ruling from a U.S. federal court that an Egyptian Christian who had fled his home nation "most assuredly has a right not to be tortured." The ruling allowed the Egyptian Christian to remain in the United States.
The court pointedly concluded that "diplomatic assurances" of his religious rights "by a country known to have engaged in torture" weren't reassuring.
A report from the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights concluded Coptic Christians in Egypt have been harassed, tortured and killed by Muslims for 1,400 years.
"They have been subjected to all kinds of hate crimes including, the abduction of young Coptic girls, the killing of Coptic women and children and the destruction of their places of worship," the report said.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an agency created by Congress, also lists Egypt on its watch list of countries, noting it had "a poor overall human rights record."
In addition, Egyptian authorities have threatened two young boys who were ordered to take training to be Muslims, but refused, stating they are Christian.
மகன் முஸ்லீமானால், அவனது தாய் என்று சொந்தம் கொண்டாட முடியாது- மலேசியா தீர்ப்பு
ஒரு இந்து பெண்ணின் மகன் முஸ்லீமாக ஆனதால், அந்த மகன் இறந்த போது அந்த மகனது பெயரில் இருந்த இன்சூரன்ஸ் பணத்தை தாய் பெற முடியாதாம்.
அநீதி இழைக்கப்பட்ட இந்து தாய்க்கு நீதி மறுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது மலேசியாவில்
Hindu woman fights for dead Muslim son’s insurance
Associated PressPosted online: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 2326 hrs
KUALA LUMPUR, January 30: A Hindu woman has spurned an offer by Malaysia’s Islamic authorities to settle a dispute over her dead Muslim son’s insurance policy in a case that highlights growing conflicts over religious rights, a lawyer said on Wednesday.
The Federal Territory Islamic Council offered on Tuesday to give Rukumony Muthiah two-thirds of the 56,300 ringgit ($17,400) death insurance of her son, a Muslim convert who died in 2000, Rukumony’s lawyer Darshan Singh Khaira said.
In his insurance policy, Rukumony's son, Ragu Ellaiappan, whose Muslim name was Mohamed Redzuan Abdullah, named Rukumony as his beneficiary, Darshan said. But Islamic authorities have argued in court that under the country’s religious laws for Muslims, a non-Muslim cannot claim inheritance from a Muslim, he said.
“Our federal constitution guarantees equality so how can you say a non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim, but a Muslim can inherit from a non-Muslim?” Darshan said. Islamic council officials familiar with the case could not be reached.
The council’s lawyers made the offer in the High Court in northern Penang state on Tuesday, but Darshan said it was a “fairy tale offer” that was unacceptable.
Rukumony, a 61-year-old ethnic Indian widow, is willing to settle for 80 per cent of the total sum, Darshan said. The court scheduled to hear the case March 14.
His death certificate says he died of a brain infection at the age of 23, but the family believes there could be more suspicious causes linked to his stint as an army ranger because they have not been shown the post-mortem results, he said.
Malaysia’s non-Muslim minorities say a spate of court cases in recent years, involving disputes between Muslims and non-Muslims, have usually ended with the Muslim side winning.
அநீதி இழைக்கப்பட்ட இந்து தாய்க்கு நீதி மறுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது மலேசியாவில்
Hindu woman fights for dead Muslim son’s insurance
Associated PressPosted online: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 2326 hrs
KUALA LUMPUR, January 30: A Hindu woman has spurned an offer by Malaysia’s Islamic authorities to settle a dispute over her dead Muslim son’s insurance policy in a case that highlights growing conflicts over religious rights, a lawyer said on Wednesday.
The Federal Territory Islamic Council offered on Tuesday to give Rukumony Muthiah two-thirds of the 56,300 ringgit ($17,400) death insurance of her son, a Muslim convert who died in 2000, Rukumony’s lawyer Darshan Singh Khaira said.
In his insurance policy, Rukumony's son, Ragu Ellaiappan, whose Muslim name was Mohamed Redzuan Abdullah, named Rukumony as his beneficiary, Darshan said. But Islamic authorities have argued in court that under the country’s religious laws for Muslims, a non-Muslim cannot claim inheritance from a Muslim, he said.
“Our federal constitution guarantees equality so how can you say a non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim, but a Muslim can inherit from a non-Muslim?” Darshan said. Islamic council officials familiar with the case could not be reached.
The council’s lawyers made the offer in the High Court in northern Penang state on Tuesday, but Darshan said it was a “fairy tale offer” that was unacceptable.
Rukumony, a 61-year-old ethnic Indian widow, is willing to settle for 80 per cent of the total sum, Darshan said. The court scheduled to hear the case March 14.
His death certificate says he died of a brain infection at the age of 23, but the family believes there could be more suspicious causes linked to his stint as an army ranger because they have not been shown the post-mortem results, he said.
Malaysia’s non-Muslim minorities say a spate of court cases in recent years, involving disputes between Muslims and non-Muslims, have usually ended with the Muslim side winning.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
இஸ்லாம் பற்றிய 11 புத்தகங்களை மலேசியா தடை செய்துள்ளது
மலேசிய இஸ்லாமிய அரசாங்கம், இஸ்லாம் பற்றிய 11 ஆய்வு புத்தகங்களை தடை செய்துள்ளது.
January 29, 2008 17:07 PM
Ministry Bans 11 Books About Islam
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Bernama) -- The Internal Security Ministry has banned 11 books -- eight in English and three in Bahasa Malaysia -- about Islam whose contents have been found to be deviating from the teaching of the religion.
According to the ministry's Quran Publication Control and Text Division Secretary Che Din Yusoh, the ban order was gazetted on Jan 17 under Section 7(1) of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984.
The books banned are:
* Secrets Of The Koran: Revealing Insights Into Islam's Holy Book by Don Richardson (Regal Books From Gospel Light, Ventura, Calfornia, USA);
* Qur'an and Women Rereading the Secrets Text From Woman's Perspective by Amina Wadud (Oxford University Press, New York);
* The Two Faces Of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and It's Role in Terrorism by Stephen Schwartz (Anchor Books, New York);
* Woman In Islam by Margaret Speaker Yuan (Greenhaven Press Farmington Hills);
* Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About The World's Fastest-Growing Faith by Robert Spencer (Encounter Books Califonia);
* What Makes Me A Muslim by Catherine M. Petrini (KidHaven Press Farmington Hills);
* The Importance Of Muhammad by Marilyn Tower Oliver (Lucent Books, Farmington Hills);
* Faiths Islam Worship, Festival and Ceremonies From Around The World by Trevor Barnes (Kingfisher, Massachusets);
* Amalan Kemurahan Rezeki by Lifa Karimah (Jasmin Enterprise);
* Rahsia Jalan Yang Lurus (Al-Mustaqim, Johor Bahru); and
* Islam & Pluralisme by Al-Mustaqeem Mahmood Radhi (Middle Eastern Gruaduate Centre, Damansara Kuala Lumpur).
-- BERNAMA
January 29, 2008 17:07 PM
Ministry Bans 11 Books About Islam
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Bernama) -- The Internal Security Ministry has banned 11 books -- eight in English and three in Bahasa Malaysia -- about Islam whose contents have been found to be deviating from the teaching of the religion.
According to the ministry's Quran Publication Control and Text Division Secretary Che Din Yusoh, the ban order was gazetted on Jan 17 under Section 7(1) of the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984.
The books banned are:
* Secrets Of The Koran: Revealing Insights Into Islam's Holy Book by Don Richardson (Regal Books From Gospel Light, Ventura, Calfornia, USA);
* Qur'an and Women Rereading the Secrets Text From Woman's Perspective by Amina Wadud (Oxford University Press, New York);
* The Two Faces Of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and It's Role in Terrorism by Stephen Schwartz (Anchor Books, New York);
* Woman In Islam by Margaret Speaker Yuan (Greenhaven Press Farmington Hills);
* Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About The World's Fastest-Growing Faith by Robert Spencer (Encounter Books Califonia);
* What Makes Me A Muslim by Catherine M. Petrini (KidHaven Press Farmington Hills);
* The Importance Of Muhammad by Marilyn Tower Oliver (Lucent Books, Farmington Hills);
* Faiths Islam Worship, Festival and Ceremonies From Around The World by Trevor Barnes (Kingfisher, Massachusets);
* Amalan Kemurahan Rezeki by Lifa Karimah (Jasmin Enterprise);
* Rahsia Jalan Yang Lurus (Al-Mustaqim, Johor Bahru); and
* Islam & Pluralisme by Al-Mustaqeem Mahmood Radhi (Middle Eastern Gruaduate Centre, Damansara Kuala Lumpur).
-- BERNAMA
Monday, January 28, 2008
கென்யாவில் 800க்கும் மேற்பட்டவர்கள் இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியா சண்டையில் பலி
எதிர்கட்சி தலைவராக இருக்கும் ஒடிங்கா கென்யாவில் இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியாவை அறிமுகப்படுத்துவேன் என்று சொல்லி ஓட்டு சேகரித்தார். ஆனால், ஆளும் கட்சியை சேர்ந்தவரே வெற்றி பெற்றார். தோல்வியை ஒப்புக்கொள்ளமுடியாத எதிர்கட்சி ஆட்களும், விட்டுக்கொடுக்க விரும்பாத ஆளும்கட்சி ஆட்களும் கொலைவெறி கொண்டு ஒருவரை ஒருவர் அடித்துக்கொள்வதில் இதுவரை 800 பேர்கள் பலியாகி உள்ளனர்.
இது போன்றதொரு நிலை இந்தியாவுக்கும் தமிழகத்துக்கும் நடக்காமல் இருக்க இறையை இறைஞ்சுவோம்
KENYA: A Wrong Display of Anger, But Who is to Blame?
Saturday 12 January 2008 04:30. Printer-Friendly version Comments...
By Panther Alier
January 11, 2008 — On December 27th—I was waiting with great anxiety; the kind of feeling one has when waiting for a clean bill of health from a doctor, to see who won the Kenya’s presidential election. I had heard that the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, had promised Muslims in North Eastern Kenya a rule of their own belief: the Sharia law (religious law) in the region once elected president of Kenya. That just turned me right off. He was already bringing trouble to Kenya, since this meant a two competing laws in a country much smaller than its northern-bordering country: Sudan. Sudan has been a victim of this evil law for decades and I would hate to see the country I love, second to my country of birth, go down the same pass.
By now, you should know who I am on their side. So the tallying began and the results were disappointing; the then incumbent president Mwai Kibaki was trailing by about 400,000 votes and it was 75% reporting. At this stage I got naïve and thought no magic would do president Kibaki any good any more. I would like to give you some references, but the sensitivity of the issue has made it even harder to obtain hand-on staff so I hope you can just bear with me. Besides, I am sure many of you were all also watching and following the Kenya’s election so carefully.
But, the next thing you know was president Mwai Kibaki closing the gap and declared the winner and, in no time, was sworn in as the next president of Kenya. In fact, before these sequences of events, the presidents’ constituency was held back to save him from the grave he was about to enter in. At this point if you were “a political detective” you would have a genuine reason to file a report!
Few hours later, there were claims of votes rigging; followed by violence Kenya has never seen. No one anticipated the scale of this violence, not even the president himself. The guilt of having destroyed their beloved country can be inferred from the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya, Mr. Samuel Kivuitu, when he said "‘I wish to say I did not submit this report or authorise my name to be used for its publication. The use of my name is a falsification,’" http://allafrica.com/stories/200801101134.html
Nevertheless, things got to a point of no return. There were calls of ethnic cleansing by the media and the opposing parties were calling it genocide. The churchgoers where hellgoers at this point: always a good reason to keep God away from politics. The spirit of African communality was broken, not once, but many times. Kikuyus became Kikuyus and Luos became Luos and so many other uncounted tribes became them. But, my own analysis to the dead in Kenya does not spare Kenya’s police and the army. On what side were they? This is a question that only the Kenyans can answer. And this is a reason why I do not believe entirely on politics of tribalism being portrayed. I wish I have a courage to say what happened in Kenya was a right anger displayed wrongly and fell on wrong individuals victims, being Kikuyu or Luo or any other different ethnics people that go hurt by the aftermath of the Kenya’s election.
The author is a graduate student studying Masters’ degree in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University. He can be reached at pantheralier@gmail.com
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இது போன்றதொரு நிலை இந்தியாவுக்கும் தமிழகத்துக்கும் நடக்காமல் இருக்க இறையை இறைஞ்சுவோம்
KENYA: A Wrong Display of Anger, But Who is to Blame?
Saturday 12 January 2008 04:30. Printer-Friendly version Comments...
By Panther Alier
January 11, 2008 — On December 27th—I was waiting with great anxiety; the kind of feeling one has when waiting for a clean bill of health from a doctor, to see who won the Kenya’s presidential election. I had heard that the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, had promised Muslims in North Eastern Kenya a rule of their own belief: the Sharia law (religious law) in the region once elected president of Kenya. That just turned me right off. He was already bringing trouble to Kenya, since this meant a two competing laws in a country much smaller than its northern-bordering country: Sudan. Sudan has been a victim of this evil law for decades and I would hate to see the country I love, second to my country of birth, go down the same pass.
By now, you should know who I am on their side. So the tallying began and the results were disappointing; the then incumbent president Mwai Kibaki was trailing by about 400,000 votes and it was 75% reporting. At this stage I got naïve and thought no magic would do president Kibaki any good any more. I would like to give you some references, but the sensitivity of the issue has made it even harder to obtain hand-on staff so I hope you can just bear with me. Besides, I am sure many of you were all also watching and following the Kenya’s election so carefully.
But, the next thing you know was president Mwai Kibaki closing the gap and declared the winner and, in no time, was sworn in as the next president of Kenya. In fact, before these sequences of events, the presidents’ constituency was held back to save him from the grave he was about to enter in. At this point if you were “a political detective” you would have a genuine reason to file a report!
Few hours later, there were claims of votes rigging; followed by violence Kenya has never seen. No one anticipated the scale of this violence, not even the president himself. The guilt of having destroyed their beloved country can be inferred from the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya, Mr. Samuel Kivuitu, when he said "‘I wish to say I did not submit this report or authorise my name to be used for its publication. The use of my name is a falsification,’" http://allafrica.com/stories/200801101134.html
Nevertheless, things got to a point of no return. There were calls of ethnic cleansing by the media and the opposing parties were calling it genocide. The churchgoers where hellgoers at this point: always a good reason to keep God away from politics. The spirit of African communality was broken, not once, but many times. Kikuyus became Kikuyus and Luos became Luos and so many other uncounted tribes became them. But, my own analysis to the dead in Kenya does not spare Kenya’s police and the army. On what side were they? This is a question that only the Kenyans can answer. And this is a reason why I do not believe entirely on politics of tribalism being portrayed. I wish I have a courage to say what happened in Kenya was a right anger displayed wrongly and fell on wrong individuals victims, being Kikuyu or Luo or any other different ethnics people that go hurt by the aftermath of the Kenya’s election.
The author is a graduate student studying Masters’ degree in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University. He can be reached at pantheralier@gmail.com
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
சுப்ரீம்கோர்ட்டே சொன்னாலும் முஸ்லீம் திருமணத்தை பதிவு செய்யமுடியாது- இமாம்கள் மறுப்பு
முஸ்லீம் திருமணங்களாக இருந்தாலும் அனைத்தையும் அரசாங்க பதிவேடுகளில் பதிவு செய்யவேண்டும் என்று சுப்ரீம் கோர்ட் கூறியதை செய்யமுடியாது என்று இஸ்லாமிய இமாம்கள் மறுத்துள்ளார்கள்.
உண்மையில் குழந்தைகளை திருமணம் செய்வதை பதிவு செய்தால் பிரச்னையாகும் என்பதால் இஸ்லாமியர்கள் பதிவு செய்வதை எதிர்க்கிறார்கள் என்று கூறப்படுகிறது.
Marriage registration not Islamic, says Muslim board
January 24, 2008 00:14 IST
Opposing the recent Supreme Court order making marriage registration certificates mandatory, the New All-India Muslim Personal Law Board on Wednesday said the community would not accept the directive, as it was an infringement of the Muslim personal law.
Mohammed Hashmi Kanpuri, a member of the board, stated that each and every Muslim was bound with Shariat laws, given by Islam and guaranteed by the country's Constitution.
"Any marriage in Islam is certified by three people including a Kazi, and there is no need for any other certification," he said.
"Muslims are governed by their own rules which are different from the rules of other communities," said Mr Hashmi.
He stated that according to Shariat law, a girl can marry once she attains the age of 16 years, whereas the Constitution allows marriage only after the girl reaches the age of 18.
Taking a swipe at the government's anti-terrorism policies, another board member, Tauqeer Raza, said the community was being victimised in the name of curbing terrorism.
"Every time, a terrorist act takes place, Muslim youth are blamed and taken into custody on mere suspicion, whereas the real culprits are never caught," he said.
The board members were of the view that all the governments in power have adopted the policy of 'use and dump' whenever the issues relating to Muslims have come up.
UNI
உண்மையில் குழந்தைகளை திருமணம் செய்வதை பதிவு செய்தால் பிரச்னையாகும் என்பதால் இஸ்லாமியர்கள் பதிவு செய்வதை எதிர்க்கிறார்கள் என்று கூறப்படுகிறது.
Marriage registration not Islamic, says Muslim board
January 24, 2008 00:14 IST
Opposing the recent Supreme Court order making marriage registration certificates mandatory, the New All-India Muslim Personal Law Board on Wednesday said the community would not accept the directive, as it was an infringement of the Muslim personal law.
Mohammed Hashmi Kanpuri, a member of the board, stated that each and every Muslim was bound with Shariat laws, given by Islam and guaranteed by the country's Constitution.
"Any marriage in Islam is certified by three people including a Kazi, and there is no need for any other certification," he said.
"Muslims are governed by their own rules which are different from the rules of other communities," said Mr Hashmi.
He stated that according to Shariat law, a girl can marry once she attains the age of 16 years, whereas the Constitution allows marriage only after the girl reaches the age of 18.
Taking a swipe at the government's anti-terrorism policies, another board member, Tauqeer Raza, said the community was being victimised in the name of curbing terrorism.
"Every time, a terrorist act takes place, Muslim youth are blamed and taken into custody on mere suspicion, whereas the real culprits are never caught," he said.
The board members were of the view that all the governments in power have adopted the policy of 'use and dump' whenever the issues relating to Muslims have come up.
UNI
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
இஸ்லாமுக்கு எதிரான இணைய கட்டுரையை வினியோகித்ததற்காக ஆப்கானிய மாணவருக்கு மரணதண்டனை
இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியாவின் படி, இஸ்லாமுக்கு எதிராக கருத்துக்களை படிக்கவோ வினியோகிக்கவோ கூடாது என்று தெரிகிறது.
இஸ்லாமுக்கு எதிரான் கருத்துக்களை விமர்சிக்கவோ அல்லது கண்டிக்கவோ வேண்டுமென்றால்கூட அவற்றை படிக்கவேண்டுமே?
Afghan Student Sentenced to Death for Downloading Paper Against Islam
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh, where the trial took place. Wahab did not preside over the trial.
Kambaksh's family and the head of a journalists group denounced the verdict and said Kambaksh was not represented by a lawyer at trial. Members of a clerics council had been pushing for Kambaksh to be punished.
The case now goes to the first of two appeals courts, Wahab said. Kambaksh, who has been jailed since October, will remain in custody during appeal.
Wahab said he did not immediately have the details of the paper that Kambaksh circulated, other than that it was against Islam. Kambaksh discussed the paper with his teacher and classmates at Balkh University and several students complained to the government, Wahab said.
Kambaksh's brother, Yacoubi Brahimi, described Tuesday's proceeding as a "secret trial," saying the family did not know it had been scheduled. Some have accused Kambaksh of writing the paper in question, but Brahimi said that his brother printed it off the Internet.
"He told them he didn't write this article," said Brahimi. "It was written by an Iranian."
Wahab said that Kambaksh told the court that he could defend himself and did not need a lawyer. But Kambaksh's brother said his brother should have had an attorney.
Wahab said that only President Hamid Karzai can forgive Kambaksh because he had confessed to violating the tenets of Islam.
Rhimullah Samandar, the head of the Kabul-based National Journalists Union of Afghanistan, said Kambaksh had been sentenced to death under Article 130 of the Afghan constitution. That article says that if no law exists regarding an issue than a court's decision should be in accord with Hanafi jurisprudence.
Hanafi is an orthodox school of Sunni Muslim jurisprudence followed in southern and central Asia.
Samandar called for Karzai to intervene.
"We completely condemn this trial," Samandar said. "It goes against the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press."
Clerics in Balkh and Kunduz province arranged a demonstration in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif last week against Kambaksh, calling on the government not to release him.
Kambaksh also works as a journalist at the Jahan-i-Naw newspaper in Mazar-i-Sharif.
இஸ்லாமுக்கு எதிரான் கருத்துக்களை விமர்சிக்கவோ அல்லது கண்டிக்கவோ வேண்டுமென்றால்கூட அவற்றை படிக்கவேண்டுமே?
Afghan Student Sentenced to Death for Downloading Paper Against Islam
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh, where the trial took place. Wahab did not preside over the trial.
Kambaksh's family and the head of a journalists group denounced the verdict and said Kambaksh was not represented by a lawyer at trial. Members of a clerics council had been pushing for Kambaksh to be punished.
The case now goes to the first of two appeals courts, Wahab said. Kambaksh, who has been jailed since October, will remain in custody during appeal.
Wahab said he did not immediately have the details of the paper that Kambaksh circulated, other than that it was against Islam. Kambaksh discussed the paper with his teacher and classmates at Balkh University and several students complained to the government, Wahab said.
Kambaksh's brother, Yacoubi Brahimi, described Tuesday's proceeding as a "secret trial," saying the family did not know it had been scheduled. Some have accused Kambaksh of writing the paper in question, but Brahimi said that his brother printed it off the Internet.
"He told them he didn't write this article," said Brahimi. "It was written by an Iranian."
Wahab said that Kambaksh told the court that he could defend himself and did not need a lawyer. But Kambaksh's brother said his brother should have had an attorney.
Wahab said that only President Hamid Karzai can forgive Kambaksh because he had confessed to violating the tenets of Islam.
Rhimullah Samandar, the head of the Kabul-based National Journalists Union of Afghanistan, said Kambaksh had been sentenced to death under Article 130 of the Afghan constitution. That article says that if no law exists regarding an issue than a court's decision should be in accord with Hanafi jurisprudence.
Hanafi is an orthodox school of Sunni Muslim jurisprudence followed in southern and central Asia.
Samandar called for Karzai to intervene.
"We completely condemn this trial," Samandar said. "It goes against the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press."
Clerics in Balkh and Kunduz province arranged a demonstration in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif last week against Kambaksh, calling on the government not to release him.
Kambaksh also works as a journalist at the Jahan-i-Naw newspaper in Mazar-i-Sharif.
மெழுகுப்பொம்மைக்கு எதிராக இஸ்லாமிய பத்வா!
சல்மானுக்கு மேடம் டுஸ்ஸாட் காட்சியகத்தில் மெழுகுப்பொம்மை வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள். இது சல்மான் ருஷ்டி அல்ல சல்மான் கான். இந்திய திரைப்பட நடிகர்.
இவருக்கு மெழுகுப்பொம்மை வைத்தது இஸ்லாமிய இமாம்களின் கோபத்தை தூண்டியுள்ளது.
இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியாவின் படி, உருவச்சிலைகள் வைக்கக்கூடாதாம். அதனால், இந்த மெழுகுப்பொம்மைக்கு எதிராக பத்வா கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
ஷாருக்க்கானுக்கும் மேடம் டுஸ்ஸாடில் மெழுகுப்பொம்மை உள்ளது. அது தெரிந்திருந்தால், அதற்கும் பத்வா கொடுத்திருப்பேன் என்று கூறியுள்ளார் இந்த பட்வா மன்னர்.
Fatwa against Salman for Tussauds statue
Dehradun, January 22, 2008
First Published: 15:13 IST(22/1/2008)
Last Updated: 17:36 IST(22/1/2008)
Controversies and Salman Khan are never far apart. The Bollywood superstar who is known for his antics on and off the screen has found himself in another problem less than a week after unveiling his wax statue at Madame Tussaud's in London.
A fatwa has been issued against the actor by Dehradun-based Mufti Darul Ifta Salim Ahmad Kasmi for going against provisions of Shariat, which terms installation of statue of a living person as haram or forbidden.
The ruling was given on a query by Dehradun resident Dr Sakhawat Khan, who asked for directions whether Islamic laws, which forbids idol worship, allows creation of a statue of Salman and installing it for public viewing.
"I came to know about the wax statue of the actor at Madame Tussauds after seeing newspaper reports. As Islam doesn't allow idol worship, I wanted to know if Salman had done the right thing by agreeing to the London firm's offer," said Khan.
On Sunday, five days after the actor unveiled his statue, Mufti Kasmi issued the fatwa citing the Shariat and Hadis and clarified that Islam forbids construction and demonstration of statues or paintings of living beings.
It is worth noting that apart from Salman, the popular museum also has wax figures of other Bollywood biggies like his former girlfriend Aishwarya Rai, fellow Muslim Shahrukh Khan and superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
"I had no idea that Shahrukh Khan's statue is also present at Madame Tussauds. If I had known it, I would have also included his name along with Salman's in my query to the Mufti," said Dr Khan.
In September last year, Bareilly-based Darul Ifta Manzar-e-Islam had issued fatwa against Salman for attending a Ganesh puja at the Lalbaugcha Raja Mandal in Mumbai where singer Sonu Nigam had performed aarti.
The fatwa had said that unless Salman reads the kalmas all over again, he would not be considered Muslim. The kalmas are the Islamic credo, constituting a declaration of belief that God is one and Mohammed is his prophet.
இவருக்கு மெழுகுப்பொம்மை வைத்தது இஸ்லாமிய இமாம்களின் கோபத்தை தூண்டியுள்ளது.
இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியாவின் படி, உருவச்சிலைகள் வைக்கக்கூடாதாம். அதனால், இந்த மெழுகுப்பொம்மைக்கு எதிராக பத்வா கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
ஷாருக்க்கானுக்கும் மேடம் டுஸ்ஸாடில் மெழுகுப்பொம்மை உள்ளது. அது தெரிந்திருந்தால், அதற்கும் பத்வா கொடுத்திருப்பேன் என்று கூறியுள்ளார் இந்த பட்வா மன்னர்.
Fatwa against Salman for Tussauds statue
Dehradun, January 22, 2008
First Published: 15:13 IST(22/1/2008)
Last Updated: 17:36 IST(22/1/2008)
Controversies and Salman Khan are never far apart. The Bollywood superstar who is known for his antics on and off the screen has found himself in another problem less than a week after unveiling his wax statue at Madame Tussaud's in London.
A fatwa has been issued against the actor by Dehradun-based Mufti Darul Ifta Salim Ahmad Kasmi for going against provisions of Shariat, which terms installation of statue of a living person as haram or forbidden.
The ruling was given on a query by Dehradun resident Dr Sakhawat Khan, who asked for directions whether Islamic laws, which forbids idol worship, allows creation of a statue of Salman and installing it for public viewing.
"I came to know about the wax statue of the actor at Madame Tussauds after seeing newspaper reports. As Islam doesn't allow idol worship, I wanted to know if Salman had done the right thing by agreeing to the London firm's offer," said Khan.
On Sunday, five days after the actor unveiled his statue, Mufti Kasmi issued the fatwa citing the Shariat and Hadis and clarified that Islam forbids construction and demonstration of statues or paintings of living beings.
It is worth noting that apart from Salman, the popular museum also has wax figures of other Bollywood biggies like his former girlfriend Aishwarya Rai, fellow Muslim Shahrukh Khan and superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
"I had no idea that Shahrukh Khan's statue is also present at Madame Tussauds. If I had known it, I would have also included his name along with Salman's in my query to the Mufti," said Dr Khan.
In September last year, Bareilly-based Darul Ifta Manzar-e-Islam had issued fatwa against Salman for attending a Ganesh puja at the Lalbaugcha Raja Mandal in Mumbai where singer Sonu Nigam had performed aarti.
The fatwa had said that unless Salman reads the kalmas all over again, he would not be considered Muslim. The kalmas are the Islamic credo, constituting a declaration of belief that God is one and Mohammed is his prophet.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
கீழ்ஜாதி பையனை திருமணம் செய்ததற்காக கட்டாய விவாகரத்து!
பாத்திமா அல் திமானி என்ற பெண்மணி கீழ் ஜாதியான மன்சூர் அல் திமானியை திருமணம் செய்ததை தவறு என்று சொல்லி சவுதி அரேபிய ஷாரியா கோர்ட் விவாகரத்து செய்துவிட்டது தெரிந்ததே.
சவுதி அரேபிய மன்னர் தங்களை மன்னித்து மீண்டும் சேர்ந்துவாழ அனுமதிப்பார் என்று இன்னமும் நம்புவதாக பாத்திமா தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
BC-ME-GEN--Saudi-Forced Divorce,0941
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2008-01-20 14:12:07 -
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Two years ago, a knock on Fatima and Mansour al-Timani's door shattered the life they had built together.
It was the police, delivering news that a judge had annulled their marriage in absentia after some of Fatima's relatives sought the divorce on grounds she had married beneath her.
That was just
the beginning of an ordeal for a couple who _ under Saudi Arabia's strict segregation rules _ can no longer live together. They sued to reverse the ruling, publicized their story and sought help from a Saudi human rights group.
But the two remain apart and Fatima is considering suicide, she said, if her recent appeal to King Abdullah doesn't reunite her with the man she still considers her husband.
«Only the king can resolve my case,» Fatima told The Associated Press by telephone in a rare interview. «I want to return to my husband, but if that is not possible, I need to know so I can put an end to my life.
Fatima's case underscores shortcomings in the kingdom's Islamic legal system _ in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.
Those rules' most frequent _ and recently, most high-profile _ victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission.
Recently, the king did intervene and pardon another high-profile defendant _ a rape victim who was sentenced to lashes and jail time for being in a car with a man who was not her relative.
The two cases have brought Saudi human rights once again into the international spotlight _ revealing not only the weakness of the kingdom's justice system, but the scant rights Saudi women have here.
«When I heard that the (rape victim) was pardoned, I couldn't believe it. My case is so much simpler than hers, since my divorce is invalid,» Fatima said.
Fatima said her husband, a hospital administrator, followed Saudi tradition in asking her father for permission to marry her in 2003.
«My brother reported good things about him, so my dad accepted his proposal,» said Fatima, a computer specialist who was 29 when she married.
She said her father knew that Mansour came from a less prominent tribe than hers, but that he didn't mind because he «cared about the man himself.
A few months after the wedding, several of Fatima's relatives persuaded her father to give them power of attorney to file a lawsuit demanding an annulment, she said.
Then her father died, and Fatima said she'd hoped the case would be dropped.
But on Feb. 25, 2006, police knocked on the couple's door to serve Mansour with divorce papers _ which said his marriage had been annulled nine months earlier.
«We were shattered. How did this happen? Why?» Fatima asked.
Fatima took the couple's 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son to live with her mother, who had persuaded her to let Mansour deal with the legal issues on his own.
But after three months without her husband, Fatima and the children sneaked out of her mother's house and flew with Mansour to the western seaside city of Jiddah, where they sought to live in anonymity.
Saudi police soon discovered them and imprisoned the family for living together illegally.
«The police told me I either return to my (mother's) family or go to jail,» Fatima said. «I chose jail.
«My children and I were thrown in a cell with women sentenced for pushing drugs, practicing witchcraft and behaving immorally,» Fatima said. Authorities allowed her to send her daughter back to live with her father, but the infant stayed with Fatima in jail.
«He learned to speak in jail, he learned to walk in jail and his teeth came out in jail,» she said.
Meanwhile, Mansour went to court to appeal the divorce ruling, but a Riyadh appeals court upheld the decision in 2007.
Last September, the head of a prominent Saudi human rights group reportedly asked the kingdom's highest court to review the case.
Bandar al-Hajjar, head of the National Society of Human Rights, submitted two Islamic studies concluding that the divorce was invalid, according to the Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily.
The studies, conducted by Islamic researcher Adnan Al-Zahrani and Bassam Al-Bassam, a counselor at the Court of Cassation in Mecca, said that if a woman's legal guardian represented her at the original wedding, then other relatives have no right to object to the marriage based on compatibility.
Both studies concluded that Fatima married Mansour with her father's permission, and that only the wife can decide whether she wants her marriage annulled, the paper reported.
Despite their legal fight, Fatima and Mansour remain apart.
After nine months in jail, Fatima moved to an orphanage where she and her son share an apartment with several other women.
Fatima said she is holding out hope the king might pardon her, and recognize her as «married to Mansour, before God.
«I love him more than ever. He's the only one who has stood by me,» she said.
சவுதி அரேபிய மன்னர் தங்களை மன்னித்து மீண்டும் சேர்ந்துவாழ அனுமதிப்பார் என்று இன்னமும் நம்புவதாக பாத்திமா தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
BC-ME-GEN--Saudi-Forced Divorce,0941
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© AP
2008-01-20 14:12:07 -
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Two years ago, a knock on Fatima and Mansour al-Timani's door shattered the life they had built together.
It was the police, delivering news that a judge had annulled their marriage in absentia after some of Fatima's relatives sought the divorce on grounds she had married beneath her.
That was just
the beginning of an ordeal for a couple who _ under Saudi Arabia's strict segregation rules _ can no longer live together. They sued to reverse the ruling, publicized their story and sought help from a Saudi human rights group.
But the two remain apart and Fatima is considering suicide, she said, if her recent appeal to King Abdullah doesn't reunite her with the man she still considers her husband.
«Only the king can resolve my case,» Fatima told The Associated Press by telephone in a rare interview. «I want to return to my husband, but if that is not possible, I need to know so I can put an end to my life.
Fatima's case underscores shortcomings in the kingdom's Islamic legal system _ in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.
Those rules' most frequent _ and recently, most high-profile _ victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission.
Recently, the king did intervene and pardon another high-profile defendant _ a rape victim who was sentenced to lashes and jail time for being in a car with a man who was not her relative.
The two cases have brought Saudi human rights once again into the international spotlight _ revealing not only the weakness of the kingdom's justice system, but the scant rights Saudi women have here.
«When I heard that the (rape victim) was pardoned, I couldn't believe it. My case is so much simpler than hers, since my divorce is invalid,» Fatima said.
Fatima said her husband, a hospital administrator, followed Saudi tradition in asking her father for permission to marry her in 2003.
«My brother reported good things about him, so my dad accepted his proposal,» said Fatima, a computer specialist who was 29 when she married.
She said her father knew that Mansour came from a less prominent tribe than hers, but that he didn't mind because he «cared about the man himself.
A few months after the wedding, several of Fatima's relatives persuaded her father to give them power of attorney to file a lawsuit demanding an annulment, she said.
Then her father died, and Fatima said she'd hoped the case would be dropped.
But on Feb. 25, 2006, police knocked on the couple's door to serve Mansour with divorce papers _ which said his marriage had been annulled nine months earlier.
«We were shattered. How did this happen? Why?» Fatima asked.
Fatima took the couple's 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son to live with her mother, who had persuaded her to let Mansour deal with the legal issues on his own.
But after three months without her husband, Fatima and the children sneaked out of her mother's house and flew with Mansour to the western seaside city of Jiddah, where they sought to live in anonymity.
Saudi police soon discovered them and imprisoned the family for living together illegally.
«The police told me I either return to my (mother's) family or go to jail,» Fatima said. «I chose jail.
«My children and I were thrown in a cell with women sentenced for pushing drugs, practicing witchcraft and behaving immorally,» Fatima said. Authorities allowed her to send her daughter back to live with her father, but the infant stayed with Fatima in jail.
«He learned to speak in jail, he learned to walk in jail and his teeth came out in jail,» she said.
Meanwhile, Mansour went to court to appeal the divorce ruling, but a Riyadh appeals court upheld the decision in 2007.
Last September, the head of a prominent Saudi human rights group reportedly asked the kingdom's highest court to review the case.
Bandar al-Hajjar, head of the National Society of Human Rights, submitted two Islamic studies concluding that the divorce was invalid, according to the Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily.
The studies, conducted by Islamic researcher Adnan Al-Zahrani and Bassam Al-Bassam, a counselor at the Court of Cassation in Mecca, said that if a woman's legal guardian represented her at the original wedding, then other relatives have no right to object to the marriage based on compatibility.
Both studies concluded that Fatima married Mansour with her father's permission, and that only the wife can decide whether she wants her marriage annulled, the paper reported.
Despite their legal fight, Fatima and Mansour remain apart.
After nine months in jail, Fatima moved to an orphanage where she and her son share an apartment with several other women.
Fatima said she is holding out hope the king might pardon her, and recognize her as «married to Mansour, before God.
«I love him more than ever. He's the only one who has stood by me,» she said.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
பெண்கள் ஆட்சி செய்வது ஷாரியாவுக்கு எதிரானது- மாலத்தீவு இமாம் அறிக்கை
சென்ற திங்களன்று மஜ்லிஸ் என்னும் மாலத்தீவு பாராளுமன்றம் , பெண்களும் ஜனாதிபதி ஆகலாம் என்ற மாற்றத்தை அங்கீகரித்தது.
பெண்கள் ஆட்சி செய்யலாம் என்றவாறு மாலத்தீவு சட்டத்தை மாற்றும் முயற்சிக்கு இஸ்லாமிய தலைவர்கள் கடும் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.
Gender Bar Removal: Adhaalath Say Against Shari'ah
By Minivan News
January 16, 2008
The religious conservative Adhaalath party has said it condemns the move to allow women to be elected as Maldives' President.
The comments follow a Special Majlis vote to remove a gender bar on the Presidency, after an opposition MP proposed a constitutional amendment to retain it.
But the Adhaalath's President told Minivan News today it was "another step away from Sharia law."
The Vote
On Monday, the Special Majlis (constitutional assembly) voted in favour of giving women the right to compete for President.
Clause 34 of the current Maldives constitution, which lists the eligibility criteria for presidential candidates, states a person "shall be qualified to be elected" if "he is a male."
Forty Special Majlis members voted against a constitutional amendment proposed by opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) MP Hussain Ibrahim to ban women from standing.
Twenty-two members voted in favour of his amendment, while twenty-four abstained.
"The Prophet Said Women Should Not Rule The Country"– Adhaalath
Adhaalath President Mohamed Didi told Minivan News today they "condemn" the vote, which the Maldives' Foreign Minister has hailed as a "vital step towards…a modern democracy."
"Islamic Sharia does not allow for women to be head of state of a country," said Didi. "The Prophet said women should not rule the country."
"This is another step away from Shari'ah, which should be the framework for the constitution."
The issue of Shari'ah has recently threatened to derail the passage of the country's draft constitution. The conflict has boiled down to whether it can be codified or not, and if there can be consensus on shari'ah rulings.
The Special Majlis was divided over a recent proposal by a ruling Dhivehi Raiyyithunge Party (DRP) member for the bill of rights to be limited by "any act prohibited by Islamic shari'ah."
Meanwhile, Didi said that denying women the right to become President does not conflict with the pursuit of a liberal democracy.
"Anything forbidden by the creator is not an individual right," he said, adding that just because "we may want something does not make it a right."
"There is a trend towards women's liberation," he added. "An international and local pressure to please a greater proportion of women."
The Maldivian government has made women's participation in politics a plank of their reform agenda. In July, the country's first female judge was appointed, a move also criticised by the Adhaalath.
And the country is party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
But there have been concerns not enough Maldivian women stand for public office.
Aneesa Ahmed, one of only two women elected to the People's Majlis (national parliament), said recently women "carry the domestic burden. And even if they do stand, not many vote for them."
Few women stood for, or won places on the Island Development Committee (IDC) bodies, the only democratic institutions at local level in the Maldives.
பெண்கள் ஆட்சி செய்யலாம் என்றவாறு மாலத்தீவு சட்டத்தை மாற்றும் முயற்சிக்கு இஸ்லாமிய தலைவர்கள் கடும் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.
Gender Bar Removal: Adhaalath Say Against Shari'ah
By Minivan News
January 16, 2008
The religious conservative Adhaalath party has said it condemns the move to allow women to be elected as Maldives' President.
The comments follow a Special Majlis vote to remove a gender bar on the Presidency, after an opposition MP proposed a constitutional amendment to retain it.
But the Adhaalath's President told Minivan News today it was "another step away from Sharia law."
The Vote
On Monday, the Special Majlis (constitutional assembly) voted in favour of giving women the right to compete for President.
Clause 34 of the current Maldives constitution, which lists the eligibility criteria for presidential candidates, states a person "shall be qualified to be elected" if "he is a male."
Forty Special Majlis members voted against a constitutional amendment proposed by opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) MP Hussain Ibrahim to ban women from standing.
Twenty-two members voted in favour of his amendment, while twenty-four abstained.
"The Prophet Said Women Should Not Rule The Country"– Adhaalath
Adhaalath President Mohamed Didi told Minivan News today they "condemn" the vote, which the Maldives' Foreign Minister has hailed as a "vital step towards…a modern democracy."
"Islamic Sharia does not allow for women to be head of state of a country," said Didi. "The Prophet said women should not rule the country."
"This is another step away from Shari'ah, which should be the framework for the constitution."
The issue of Shari'ah has recently threatened to derail the passage of the country's draft constitution. The conflict has boiled down to whether it can be codified or not, and if there can be consensus on shari'ah rulings.
The Special Majlis was divided over a recent proposal by a ruling Dhivehi Raiyyithunge Party (DRP) member for the bill of rights to be limited by "any act prohibited by Islamic shari'ah."
Meanwhile, Didi said that denying women the right to become President does not conflict with the pursuit of a liberal democracy.
"Anything forbidden by the creator is not an individual right," he said, adding that just because "we may want something does not make it a right."
"There is a trend towards women's liberation," he added. "An international and local pressure to please a greater proportion of women."
The Maldivian government has made women's participation in politics a plank of their reform agenda. In July, the country's first female judge was appointed, a move also criticised by the Adhaalath.
And the country is party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
But there have been concerns not enough Maldivian women stand for public office.
Aneesa Ahmed, one of only two women elected to the People's Majlis (national parliament), said recently women "carry the domestic burden. And even if they do stand, not many vote for them."
Few women stood for, or won places on the Island Development Committee (IDC) bodies, the only democratic institutions at local level in the Maldives.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
கணவன் வேறுஜாதி என்பதால் விவாகரத்து செய்விக்கப்பட்ட பெண் தற்கொலை முயற்சி
கணவன் கீழ் ஜாதியை சேர்ந்தவர் என்பதால் மனைவியையும் குழந்தைகளையும் பிரித்து அவர்களுக்கு கட்டாய விவாகரத்து கொடுத்த சவுதி அரசாங்கத்தை பற்றியும், இந்த தம்பதியினர் அல்திமானியை பற்றியும் முன்னரே எழுதியிருந்தேன்.
இந்த பெண்மணி பாத்திமா அல்திமானி, குழந்தைகளையும் கணவனையும் பிரிந்து இருக்கும் சோகத்தில் தற்போது தற்கொலை புரிந்துகொள்ள முயற்சி செய்திருக்கிறார்
இப்படிப்பட்ட குரூரமான இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியாவை விட்டு, அமைதிமார்க்கமான இந்துமதம் வர அரபுக்களை அழைப்போம்.
Forcefully Divorced Fatima Threatens Suicide
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 22 December 2007 — Human rights activist Fawziya Al-Oyoni said that Fatima, the 34-year-old woman who was forcefully divorced from her husband by a judge in 2005 at the request of her half-brothers, called her in a state of panic threatening to commit suicide late Thursday night.
Fatima spent Eid in a women’s shelter in Dammam with her two-year-old son. Most of the staff at the shelter went home for the holidays.
“She told me ‘please come and take my child, I have to end my life tonight. I can’t take this anymore’,” said Al-Oyoni, recounting the phone conversation. She said Fatima asked her to pick up the boy, Suleiman, and deliver him to his father. “‘I’m tired,’ she said. ‘I’m just tired. Please come right away’.”
Al-Oyoni, who is based in the Eastern Province, said she fears that Fatima’s mental state is cracking under an ordeal that started when her father passed away. Objecting to what they considered her husband’s low tribal background, Fatima’s half-brothers asked a local court to divorce the couple even though they had been married for over two years and had children.
The judge agreed. The couple fled and were later arrested in Jeddah where they were seeking help from officials. Fatima and her children spent some time in a women’s prison and when she refused to go back to her family the state sent her to the women’s shelter.
“I was literally shaking when I received her call,” said Al-Oyoni yesterday in an interview with Arab News. “She’s had rough days before, but this time it was different; she sounded determined to kill herself. She was screaming.”
Al-Oyoni said she contacted an official at the governmental Human Rights Commission on Thursday night requesting that they provide Fatima with a psychiatrist. “They told me to try to calm her down and tell her that they’re working on the case,” she said.
Fatima’s 37-year-old husband said yesterday that he fears his wife (he still considers her his wife) is breaking down under the stress. “She was always the strong and very much stubborn in fighting for her rights,” he said. “She’s wearing out.”
Al-Oyoni has now sent a letter to a high official (Arab News is withholding this name due to the sensitivity of the case) explaining Fatima’s mental state and her current situation.
Al-Oyoni said she’s asking this official to present Fatima’s case to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah hoping he might intervene.
Hussein Al-Sharif, head of the National Society of Human Rights (NSHR) in the Western Province and a law professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, told Arab News last week that since the Court of Cassation upheld the lower court’s verdict in January reversing the decision would require royal intervention.
A study by the NSHR was presented to the king in September that concluded the divorce ruling is invalid based on Islamic law.
Fatima was not answering her phone yesterday. Speaking to Arab News last week she said life in the women’s shelter is much like a prison.
She is limited in how much she is allowed to venture out and is monitored. “The social workers say they fear my half brothers would see me outside,” she said.
Adding to the stress, Fatima has said that she receives hateful SMS messages from her half-siblings. She provided Arab News with one that read: “We are highly connected with officials. You’re not getting anywhere by what you are doing you (expletive). You have no choice but to come back to us. Forget about your husband, the slave.”
Al-Oyoni said she was able to contact Fatima yesterday. “She sounded a bit better today, but I’m still very much concerned about her safety and that of her child,” said Al-Oyoni.
இந்த பெண்மணி பாத்திமா அல்திமானி, குழந்தைகளையும் கணவனையும் பிரிந்து இருக்கும் சோகத்தில் தற்போது தற்கொலை புரிந்துகொள்ள முயற்சி செய்திருக்கிறார்
இப்படிப்பட்ட குரூரமான இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியாவை விட்டு, அமைதிமார்க்கமான இந்துமதம் வர அரபுக்களை அழைப்போம்.
Forcefully Divorced Fatima Threatens Suicide
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 22 December 2007 — Human rights activist Fawziya Al-Oyoni said that Fatima, the 34-year-old woman who was forcefully divorced from her husband by a judge in 2005 at the request of her half-brothers, called her in a state of panic threatening to commit suicide late Thursday night.
Fatima spent Eid in a women’s shelter in Dammam with her two-year-old son. Most of the staff at the shelter went home for the holidays.
“She told me ‘please come and take my child, I have to end my life tonight. I can’t take this anymore’,” said Al-Oyoni, recounting the phone conversation. She said Fatima asked her to pick up the boy, Suleiman, and deliver him to his father. “‘I’m tired,’ she said. ‘I’m just tired. Please come right away’.”
Al-Oyoni, who is based in the Eastern Province, said she fears that Fatima’s mental state is cracking under an ordeal that started when her father passed away. Objecting to what they considered her husband’s low tribal background, Fatima’s half-brothers asked a local court to divorce the couple even though they had been married for over two years and had children.
The judge agreed. The couple fled and were later arrested in Jeddah where they were seeking help from officials. Fatima and her children spent some time in a women’s prison and when she refused to go back to her family the state sent her to the women’s shelter.
“I was literally shaking when I received her call,” said Al-Oyoni yesterday in an interview with Arab News. “She’s had rough days before, but this time it was different; she sounded determined to kill herself. She was screaming.”
Al-Oyoni said she contacted an official at the governmental Human Rights Commission on Thursday night requesting that they provide Fatima with a psychiatrist. “They told me to try to calm her down and tell her that they’re working on the case,” she said.
Fatima’s 37-year-old husband said yesterday that he fears his wife (he still considers her his wife) is breaking down under the stress. “She was always the strong and very much stubborn in fighting for her rights,” he said. “She’s wearing out.”
Al-Oyoni has now sent a letter to a high official (Arab News is withholding this name due to the sensitivity of the case) explaining Fatima’s mental state and her current situation.
Al-Oyoni said she’s asking this official to present Fatima’s case to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah hoping he might intervene.
Hussein Al-Sharif, head of the National Society of Human Rights (NSHR) in the Western Province and a law professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, told Arab News last week that since the Court of Cassation upheld the lower court’s verdict in January reversing the decision would require royal intervention.
A study by the NSHR was presented to the king in September that concluded the divorce ruling is invalid based on Islamic law.
Fatima was not answering her phone yesterday. Speaking to Arab News last week she said life in the women’s shelter is much like a prison.
She is limited in how much she is allowed to venture out and is monitored. “The social workers say they fear my half brothers would see me outside,” she said.
Adding to the stress, Fatima has said that she receives hateful SMS messages from her half-siblings. She provided Arab News with one that read: “We are highly connected with officials. You’re not getting anywhere by what you are doing you (expletive). You have no choice but to come back to us. Forget about your husband, the slave.”
Al-Oyoni said she was able to contact Fatima yesterday. “She sounded a bit better today, but I’m still very much concerned about her safety and that of her child,” said Al-Oyoni.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
பர்தா போடாத பெண், பெண்ணின் கணவன், பெண்ணின் தந்தை எல்லோரும் கொல்லப்படவேண்டும்- இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் கட்டளை!
பர்தா போடாத பெண்களெல்லாம் கொல்லப்படவேண்டும் என்று தலைமை இஸ்லாமிய இமாம் ஹோஜோதோ இஸ்லாம் கொலாம் ரேஜா ஆணை பிறப்பித்துள்ளார்
ஹிஜாப் போடாத பெண்ணும் அவரது கணவனும் கொல்லப்படவேண்டியவர்கள் என்றும் அறிவித்துள்ளார்
அடுத்த வரியில் அந்த பெண்ணின் தந்தையையும் கொல்லவேண்டும் என்றும் அறிவித்துள்ளார்.
Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die
Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.
"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.
"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.
"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.
Hassani's statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.
It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran.
Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their "un-Islamic dress" such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.
ஹிஜாப் போடாத பெண்ணும் அவரது கணவனும் கொல்லப்படவேண்டியவர்கள் என்றும் அறிவித்துள்ளார்
அடுத்த வரியில் அந்த பெண்ணின் தந்தையையும் கொல்லவேண்டும் என்றும் அறிவித்துள்ளார்.
Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die
Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.
"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.
"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.
"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.
Hassani's statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.
It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran.
Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their "un-Islamic dress" such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves.
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