Tag: Sharia

Malaysian court upholds right to convert from Islam

March 29, 2016 Malaysia 'Allah', Apostasy, Catholics, Kuching, Malaysia, Najib Razak, Sabah, Sarawak, Sharia

In a landmark ruling last week a Malaysian court upheld the rights of a Christian to convert from Islam. The judgment establishes a precedent in a country where religious conversions, particularly from Islam to Christianity, have been steeped in controversy. The verdict reaffirms the supremacy of the Federal Constitution, which . . . Read More

ISIS burns Christian books

March 14, 2016 Iraq Education, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Sharia

ISIS has released a video purporting to show its religious police burning hundreds of Christian books, according to . The video footage shows a militant throwing pamphlets, bearing a cross on the front cover, onto a bonfire. It was posted on 13 March by its news agency, Amaq, with the . . . Read More

Kuwait: MPs reject building new churches

January 28, 2016 Kuwait Churches, Islamic extremism, Kuwait, Sharia

Kuwait has backtracked on plans to build new churches, reports Christian Today. News that a number of sites had been allocated for church building was reported to the local press by Ahmad al-Manfoohi, general director of the Municipality. But after some Kuwaiti members of parliament announced they will reject the . . . Read More

Northern Nigerians ‘created Boko Haram’

December 2, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Islamic extremism, Nigeria, Sharia

A Nigerian bishop has accused northern Nigerian leaders of paving the way for Boko Haram. At a conference organised by the Islamic Welfare Foundation at the Fountain University in Osogbo, Osun State, the Catholic bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, said “a hypocritical elite … laid the foundation for what is . . . Read More

Church attack routs thousands of Indonesian Christians

October 20, 2015 Indonesia Aceh, Indonesia, Islamic Defenders Front, Papua, Sharia, Sumatra

Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh region have started to tear down churches following last week’s religious violence that left at least one person dead and forced thousands of Christians to flee. Clashes broke out after Islamic hardliners burned down a church in Aceh Singkil on 13 Oct. According to local church . . . Read More

DR Congo – Islamist militias threaten central Africa too

October 12, 2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Africa, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Beni, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eringeti, Islamic extremism, Oicha, Sharia

In Africa, it isn’t only in the west that Islamist insurgencies are posing a security threat. While attention has been focused on Nigeria’s radical Islamist group Boko Haram (whose attacks have spread to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger), a relatively unknown militant group has intensified attacks in the Democratic Republic . . . Read More

West doesn’t understand terrorist ideology

October 7, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Education, Islamic extremism, New York, Sharia, Terrorism, Tony Blair, UK, Women

Speaking at New York’s 9/11 museum yesterday, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has appealed to the West to understand how terrorists are driven by jihadist ideology. Delivering a speech published by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Blair said: “we have spent the years since 9/11 trying to make sense . . . Read More

Four years of bombings in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

September 2, 2015 Sudan Abyei, African Union, Blue Nile, Darfur, Khartoum, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N

A makeshift blackboard in the Nuba Mountains, where Open Doors International reports that ‘daily’ and ‘indiscriminate’ bombardment has led to the destruction of Christians’ homes, churches, schools, hospitals and crops.Courtesy Open Doors International The recent trial of nine young Christian women in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for wearing trousers . . . Read More

S Sudan pastors will face trial, judge rules

July 2, 2015 Sudan Bahri, Peter Yen, Sharia, Yat Michael

A Sudanese judge has decided enough evidence exists to require two South Sudanese Presbyterian pastors to face trial on espionage and other charges that could carry the death penalty, according to a US-based religious-freedom group. The American Center for Law & Justice reported late Thursday that the judge made the . . . Read More

A clash of courts in Malaysia

May 20, 2015 Malaysia Constitution, Islamic extremism, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Putrajaya, Sharia

A constitutional showdown over religion is taking shape in Malaysia, where the Federal Territories Islamic Religious Council has asked the courts to decide whether Islamic laws can be held up to the scrutiny of the country’s federal constitution. At the center of the case is a Christian lawyer, Victoria Jayaseele . . . Read More

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