religious law

Despite the tensions at the border in Jazan province, more than 17,000 pilgrims have entered the Kingdom at the Tuwal border crossing as of Friday evening. These pilgrims come from different countries apart from Yemen, including Indonesia, Egypt and Russia. Muhammad Ghulam, an Indonesian pilgrim, expressed his satisfaction at his opportunity to enter the Kingdom across the border and the warm welcome he received from Saudi officials.  

Doha Municipality has warned people against slaughtering sacrificial animals in unauthorised private places during Eid Al Adha. A senior official from the health affairs department of the city's civic body said people must desist from such practices as they could end up eating meat of ailing animals. "Bring all the animals for slaughter to abattoirs since veterinary doctors are on duty to check each animal which is sacrificed," said Mohamed Lahdan Al Kaabi. Al Kaabi, who is deputy director of Doha Mun  

The head of Russia's Orthodox Church warned on Friday against rushing to accuse "individuals or groups" for the murder of a priest in Moscow. Daniil Sysoyev, 34, was shot dead by a masked gunman in St. Thomas Church in southern Moscow on Thursday evening. Investigators said today their main theory is that religious hatred was behind the crime.  

Standing room only, Credit Suisse hosted an unusual seminar yesterday that could well be the platform for a fast growing and important new area of financial business for Gibraltar. Unusually the main contribution by Shaykh Haytham Tamim opened with a blessing in Arabic and a crash course on the intricate relationship between the text of the Koran and Islamic business. Typically Gibraltar, the seminar was opened by a leading Jewish financial expert James Lasry, Hassans, who chairs the Gibraltar Funds a  

Our rally for Rifqa generated yet another fallacious hit piece by the useful idiot and Islamic apologist Meredith Heagney over at The Columbus Dispatch, entitled 120 Rally for Rifqa outside courthouse (the police count was 220, mine was a bit higher but Heagney lowballs it in the headline, kabish?). And noticed how Heagney ignored that folks came from Michigan, New York, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Missouri, Louisiana. Heagney Nonie Darwish, apostate and speaker at the rally  

Our Constitution guarantees us freedom of religion. But that freedom does not mean the freedom to ignore our laws, and certainly not to betray our nation. The 9/11 terrorists were following fundamentalist Islamic law, hoping thereby to win Allah's favor and gain eternal life in the Islamic heaven.  

Chairman Ackerman and members of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, it is an honor to be here today to discuss religious freedom conditions in the Middle East and to share what the Obama Administration is doing to encourage progress on religious freedom in the region. I commend the work of the Subcommittee and I thank you for drawing attention to this important human right. As you know, in October the State Department released its 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom.  

Pack 132 from Polo traveled to St. Joseph on Saturday, November 7th to take part in the 10 Commandment Hike along with other packs in the Pony Express District. The weather was exceptional and 10 scouts with 8 adult volunteers from Polo attended this event and hiked nearly three miles. The scouts hiked to five different churches to learn about two of the commandments from each church.  

Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially, a ban on blasphemy. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Algeria and Pakistan have taken the lead in lobbying to bring the matter to a vote in the U.N. General Assembly. Such a ban would face great resistance in Western nations that enshrine freedom of expression as a fundamental right.  

And it is also clear that this verse is taken literally and seriously by all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. And so this imam is saying something that is only controversial to those who are ignorant (whether willfully so or not). "What's wrong with chopping off thieves' hands, Imam asks," by Christian Peregin for the Times of Malta , November 19 (thanks to Twostellas): Imam Mohamed El Sadi, the Muslim leader in Malta, believes chopping off the hands of thieves is a "deserving punishment".