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Islam-Online being decapitated?

published by You on 17 March, 2010 - 16:43

Well, this seems to be shocking news to me - IslamOnline is being decapitated by "new management" to give it a salafi outlook where existing staff members are being shut out/removed.

Islam Online goes offline

The abrupt takeover of Islam Online, the Muslim world's most widely read news and information website, speaks volumes about the inability of conservative power brokers to adapt to modernity, broader perspectives, and a more critical analysis of the world we live in.

Leeds-based Catholic charity wins gay adoption ruling

published by You on 17 March, 2010 - 12:35

A Catholic adoption society has won a High Court battle over laws forcing it to consider gay couples as parents.

Leeds-based Catholic Care had warned it would be forced to give up its work finding homes for children if it had to comply with the legislation.

Its plea to be allowed an exemption was opposed by the Charity Commission.

However, Mr Justice Briggs has allowed Catholic Care's appeal and ordered the commission to reconsider the case in the light of his judgement.

Read more @ BBC News

Is disproportionate gender power (and therefore abuse) a feature of any form of Islam?

published by Tread Softly on 15 March, 2010 - 14:06

You wrote:
If you have a situation where someone has disproportionate power over another (without oversight -be it comunal/family or legal), it is inevitable that someone will try to abuse it. Maybe even human nature?

I agree with this. But is it not the case that in any form of Islam the genders have disproportional power?

It would follow from what was quoted that any religion or ideology which does pronounce disproportionate power would inevitably lead to abuse.

My view is that this would not be a good thing and furthermore points to an error in the religion/ideology.

South Asian 'slave brides' causing concern in UK

published by You on 14 March, 2010 - 16:15

Hundreds of women who came to the UK from South Asia to marry say they have been treated as domestic slaves by their in-laws, the BBC has learned.

More than 500 who applied for residence in 2008-09 after their marriages broke down were deported because they could not prove any abuse had taken place.

Police and charities are concerned the incidents are not reported because of family pressure and fear of reprisals.

The UK Border Agency said measures were in place to try to prevent such abuse.

Read more @ BBC News

Taliban kill [more] Muslims, say it is warning to America.

published by You on 14 March, 2010 - 14:45

Nice going morons.

Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said "This was to sabotage the operation and to show we can strike anywhere, any time we want."

I think he just forgot that Islam forbids such things like indiscriminate mass murder. Oops.

Kandahar blasts were warning to US and Nato - Taliban

Saturday's bomb attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar were a warning to US and Nato forces, the Taliban say.

A Taliban spokesman said the attacks were in response to a planned major offensive by international forces against militants in the region.

At least 35 people were killed and some 57 injured in the blasts in Kandahar, Afghanistan's third largest city.

A beautiful women who wanted to get married..

published by the_truth on 14 March, 2010 - 02:09

A beautiful women who wanted to get married..

There was this beautiful woman, who wanted to get married, but she wanted a very pious husband, so she said that she’ll marry the man who recites the whole Quran every single day, fasts for the whole year and stays awake and worships Allah all throughout the night.

She was a very beautiful woman, and a lot of suitors wanted to marry her, but they knew they couldn’t fulfil the conditions she set. Until this one man stepped forward and said he could fulfil them. So the Imam got both of them married.

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