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Posted by Raymond - December 21, 2008 on 3:31 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
Now do I really look like a jihadist to you, hmmm?
He doesn't even have a beard -- of course he must have been "deluded" and is now on the "right track." Soon, he will even tell us "his story." Hey, he might even get a book deal and appear on Oprah out of all this. More on "his story", including how he deemed Osama bin Laden a "lovely man" and took orders from him.
"'Australian Taleban' fully free," from the BBC, December 21: An Australian former inmate of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is now a free man after Australian police lifted strict controls on his actions.
David Hicks spent more than five years at Guantanamo Bay without a trial before admitting to charges of providing material support to al-Qaeda.
In return, he was allowed in May 2007 to serve out the last nine months of his sentence in an Australian prison.
Hicks, a convert to Islam, was captured by US troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
The former kangaroo wrangler was the first "enemy combatant" held at Guantanamo to be convicted by a US military commission.
'Still recovering'
The control orders limiting his movements expired at midnight on Saturday.
Australian police said they would not seek to extend the measures after Hicks made a public appeal to be allowed to "get on with my life".
He was subject to a strict curfew and restrictions on his travel and had to report regularly to police.
His telephone and internet communications were also limited.
Hicks has admitted to training with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and meeting its leader, Osama Bin Laden.
The 33-year-old has said he is recovering still from his ordeal at Guantanamo Bay and is not ready yet to tell his story.
But he has said he will do so.
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"Peaceful protest"
After this protest, the leader assured that there would be no further protests, but rather that "they would 'wait and see' before deciding on the next course of action" -- an obvious threat of Islamist reprisal.
Sharia-Alert: No Dancing. "No Muslims for I-Dance contest," from AsiaOne News, December 20: Malaysia's PAS wants competition cancelled. -The Star
GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA: The I-Dance street dancing competition starting today can go on, but without Muslim participants.
State PAS Youth chief Mohamed Hafiz Mohamed Nordin said the movement remained firm in its stand that the competition should be cancelled.
"We do not raise objections blindly. We had surfed I-Dance related websites and found elements like shuffle dancing that can lead to social ills among youngsters," he said.
Mohamed Hafiz said this after leading more than 500 PAS members and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) representatives in a peaceful protest in front of Masjid Jamek Kampung Rawa in Sungai Pinang here yesterday.
The event, supported by the state youth and sports committee, will be held at the New World Park today and Queensbay Mall on Dec 27.
Mohamed Hafiz assured that there will be no protest while the competition is being held, adding that they would "wait and see" before deciding on the next course of action.
He said they had sent two letters, dated Dec 4, to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and state Youth and Sports Committee chairman Lydia Ong Kok Fooi but there had been no response.
Ong, when contacted, said the matter was a non-issue since she had already given her explanation to the state PAS top leaders in a recent meeting.
"We have agreed to the condition that Muslim male and female participants are not allowed to mingle with each other during the competition," she said.
Posted by Robert - December 21, 2008 on 9:02 am | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
She has to wait until puberty.
"Lawyer Jtili said he was going to appeal the verdict at the court of cassation, the supreme court in the ultra-conservative kingdom which applies Islamic Sharia law in its courts."
"Ultra-conservative kingdom." As if "conservatives," when they need money, regularly sell their daughters to men seven times their age.
Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "Saudi court rejects divorcing eight-year-old girl," from AFP, December 21 (thanks to JE):
RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi court has rejected a plea to divorce an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man who is 58, saying the case should wait until the girl reaches puberty, a lawyer involved told AFP.
"The judge has dismissed the plea (filed by the mother) because she does not have the right to file such a case, and ordered that the plea should be filed by the girl herself when she reaches puberty," lawyer Abdullah Jtili told AFP in a telephone interview after Saturday's court decision.
The divorce plea was filed in August by the girl's divorced mother with a court at Unayzah, 220 kilometres (135 miles) north of Riyadh just after the marriage contract was signed by the father and the groom.
"She doesn't know yet that she has been married," Jtili said then of the girl who was about to begin her fourth year at primary school.
Relatives who did not wish to be named told AFP that the marriage had not yet been consummated, and that the girl continued to live with her mother. They said that the father had set a verbal condition by which the marriage is not consummated for another 10 years, when the girl turns 18.
The father had agreed to marry off his daughter for an advance dowry of 30,000 riyals (8,000 dollars), as he was apparently facing financial problems, they said....
Lawyer Jtili said he was going to appeal the verdict at the court of cassation, the supreme court in the ultra-conservative kingdom which applies Islamic Sharia law in its courts.
Arranged marriages involving pre-adolescents are occasionally reported in the Arabian Peninsula, including in Saudi Arabia where the strict conservative Wahabi version of Sunni Islam holds sway and polygamy is common....
Posted by Robert - December 21, 2008 on 8:45 am | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
"There are increasingly tight links between the Bosniak nationalists and the Islamic community." But no worries. The Muslims in the Balkans are secular, moderate, and Westernized, and they love America -- right? Right?
(An unrelated note: there is, by the way, an oddly un-idiomatic usage of the word "infants" in this article, as if it were translated ineptly from French or some other language. Have non-native English speakers now taken over the editorial positions at the Guardian and Observer?
"Nationalists triumph as 'Grandfather Frost' banned in Sarajevo infant schools," by Peter Beaumont for The Observer, December 21 (thanks to Peter):
To Bosnia's Catholic Croats, he is known as Djed Boinjak (Father Christmas) and to Bosnian Serbs as Boic Bata, the Christmas Friend. To the Muslim Bosniak population, he is known as Deda Mraz, Grandfather Frost, the figure that for the past 50 years has been welcomed into infants' schools to distribute gifts at Christmas and new year.
But Deda Mraz will not be appearing in the largely Muslim state-run kindergartens of Sarajevo after being banned by the director of pre-school education on the grounds that he plays no part in Bosniak tradition.
The controversial attack on the close Bosnian equivalent of Santa Claus - a figure much in evidence in Sarajevo's shop windows and at private schools last week - is the culmination of a long history of unsuccessful efforts by nationalists with Islamist leanings to write him out of the country's history. The struggle first emerged in the aftermath of the Bosnian war when the wartime president, Alija Izetbegovic, attempted to declare Grandfather Frost a communist-era 'fabrication'.
While Izetbegovic's efforts were blocked after a public outcry, the moves this time by Arzija Mahmutovic, director of the Children of Sarajevo group of public nurseries, appear to have been successful as increasing ethnic and religious polarisation in schools reflects rhetoric in the country at large.
"A visit from Grandfather Frost was a tradition in my time," said Srecko Latal, who works with the NGO Balkan Insight. He believes the latest decree from the city's education department illustrates the way education - even for the very young - has become increasingly politicised and sectarian in Sarajevo. "The first row was over the decision to make infants study religion. Now she has caused uproar again by saying the children won't be having Grandfather Frost. Usually it is a play organised by the kids, or a company brought in with presents and singers and dancers. Originally it was Roman Catholic but it became part of the history of Sarajevo especially, and Bosnia more widely."
"I think ordinary people need to be asked what they want out of their public schools," says Valery Perry, deputy director for education with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which still has a role in monitoring the education system and has been concerned over a lack of transparency in how religious education has been introduced for infants.
Like Latal, Perry believes the battle over schools has come to reflect the deeper divisions and struggles within Bosnia's society: "There are increasingly tight links between the Bosniak nationalists and the Islamic community. The political atmosphere is divisive."...
Posted by Raymond - December 20, 2008 on 4:21 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
"[W]hile the stable will keep the Muslims' animals warm and dry, these 30 Christian families are now homeless."
"Officials Allow Muslims to Demolish 30 Christian Homes for Stable," by Jeremy Reynalds for ANS, December 19: WASHINGTON D.C. (ANS) -- A human rights group is reporting that a powerful Muslim village elder and his nephews evicted about 30 impoverished Christian families from their homes in order to make way for a stable for their livestock.
In a news release, the Washington-DC based International Christian Concern (ICC) said that while the stable will keep the Muslims' animals warm and dry, these 30 Christian families are now homeless in their village of Kotla Punjubaig in Sheikhupura district near Lahore, Pakistan.
In an interview with ICC, a local Christian elder of Kotla Punjubaig, Boota Masih, said,
Posted by Robert - December 20, 2008 on 10:24 am | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
Piety
Both Islamic and Christian shrines. The Islamic ones are manifestations of a cultural Islam that the Wahhabis of al-Shabab reject, deeming such shrines "un-Islamic." And the Christian ones of course are sites of infidel idolatry.
Sharia Alert: "Somali fighters destroying shrines," from Al-Jazeera, December 20 (thanks to W. D.):
Al-Shabab, an armed group fighting transitional government and Ethiopian forces in Somalia, is desecrating religious shrines in the south of the country, Al Jazeera has learned.
The ancient graves of clerics and other prominent people are among holy sites being targeted by the armed group in the port city of Kismayo.
Al-Shabab took control of Somalia's third-largest city about four months ago and quickly announced it would not tolerate anything it deemed un-Islamic.
Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Adow said Kismayo's Roman Catholic church was torn down just days after they seized power through bloody fighting.
"The 60-year-old church had not been used for nearly 20 years and not a single Christian lives in the city - but that was not a good enough reason for the militias to spare the building, he said."
"They are planning to replace it with a mosque."
The fighters then turned their hammers on graves, some of which contained the remains of followers of Sufi, a mystical form of Islam.
The sites have been revered for decades and are regularly visited by people paying homage to the dead, a practice al-Shabab has condemned as being akin to idolatry.
"We are a chosen lot by Allah to try and correct the mystics of the people and guide them," Hassan Yaqub, a spokesman for the Kismayo administration, told Al Jazeera.
"We have a responsibility to the people to guard the people against all evil deeds."
In Marka, another coastal town in the south of the country, Al Jazeera witnessed the public implementation of Sharia, or Islamic law.
Three men accused of smoking hashish were given a public flogging before the al-Shabab fighters set fire to the drugs that were purportedly found when the men were arrested.
Such practices have become more frequent as al-Shabab has increased its influence across southern and central Somalia, taking back many of the areas which were formerly controlled by the Islamic Courts Union until late 2006.
In October, a 13-year-old girl was reportedly stoned to death in Kismayo after she was found guilty of adultery.
The UN later said that she had been raped....
Posted by Robert - December 19, 2008 on 4:19 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
Want to send your brother-in-law in Iraq a Bible? An ikon? A kippah? Some joss sticks? Forget it. All that is "contrary to Islamic faith." Qur'ans and other Islamic articles only, please.
Sharia Alert from...the United States Postal Service: "Overseas Military Mail," from the U.S. Postal Service (thanks to Pamela):
Mail addressed to military post offices overseas is subject to certain conditions or restrictions of mailing regarding content, preparation, and handling. The APO/FPO table below outlines these conditions by APO/FPO ZIP Codes through the use of footnoted mailing restrictions codes (see the Restrictions page following the table). [...]
RESTRICTIONS
[...]
C. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are prohibited.
C1. Obscene articles, prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc., and horror comics and matrices are prohibited.
D. Coffee is prohibited.
E1. Medicines or vaccines not conforming to French laws are prohibited.
E2. Any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith or depicting nude or seminude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or nonauthorized political materials is prohibited. [...]
Posted by Robert - December 19, 2008 on 3:50 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
Charles Martel tried to head this off. But that was a long time ago.
Islamization of Europe Alert courtesy Supercargo over at Atlas Shrugs.
Posted by Robert - December 19, 2008 on 3:38 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
From our bulging Sharia Turns Women Into Commodities file comes this marvelous tidbit from glorious Eurabia. More on this story. "Parents drugged, bound and gagged doctor in forced marriage bid," by Chris Smyth in the Times, December 19 (thanks to all who sent this in):
An NHS doctor was imprisoned, drugged, bound and gagged before being forced into marriage in Bangladesh, it emerged today, as a British judge issued an order telling her parents not
Posted by Marisol - December 19, 2008 on 1:48 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
No effigy burnings, no raging "Christianist" mobs. Compare the reactions we have seen when someone even alleges that a non-believer damaged or showed disrespect toward the Qur'an.
"Islamic threats in church: bible burned, appeal to conversion," by Qaiser Felix for Asia News, December 19:
Faisalabad (AsiaNews) - Desecration at the church of St. Paul in the village
Posted by Robert - December 19, 2008 on 1:08 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
I discussed this on John Gambling's show in New York this morning:
1. "U.S. and UAE forge nuclear cooperation deal," by Borzou Daragahi for the Los Angeles Times, December 16:
The United States and the United Arab Emirates have hammered out a nuclear cooperation deal that would bring U.S. atomic technology and know-how to a site less than a hundred miles from Iran's shores, an envoy from the Persian Gulf monarchy confirmed Monday to state media....
2. "Raytheon gets UAE order worth up to $3.3 billion," by Michelle Donley for MarketWatch, December 18:
Raytheon Co. said Thursday that it has been awarded an order of up to $3.3 billion to provide advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates. The company said that it has worked with Lockheed Martin as well as the U.S. and UAE governments over the past year to develop this agreement.
3. "FM: UAE committed to maintaining good bilateral ties with Iran," from Xinhua, December 19:
ABU DHABI, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is committed to maintaining good bilateral relations with Iran, Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan said in a report published Friday on local newspaper Gulf News.
Iran is an important neighbor of the UAE and the two countries enjoy many important common interests and ties, Sheikh Abdullah said.
"On this basis, we hope that the establishment of the UAE-Iranian Ministerial Joint Committee will give a positive push to the existing relations between the two countries," a statement by Sheikh Abdullah to the Gulf News was quoted as saying.
The remarks were made in response to the issue of search procedures of Iranian visitors at UAE airports that raised concerns of Iranian authorities, according to the report.
The UAE thinks it is necessary and important that all issues potentially affecting bilateral relations with Iran must be resolved in a proper and timely manner. "There is no doubt that there is an urgent need for a solution to the issues," Sheikh Abdullah said.
"We asked the Iranians to task the UAE-Iranian Consular Joint Committee, due to meet later this month, with resolving the issue and ensuring that proper search procedures are followed. This is based on our belief that the interests of both countries make it necessary to contain any reasons for misunderstanding and resolve them," he added.
Reassuring!
Posted by Marisol - December 19, 2008 on 12:26 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
"[Finnish Islamic Party head Abdullah] Tami believes Sharia Law has gained a negative image, but says that it could prove beneficial for both Muslims and non-Muslims."
"Government knows best" meets "Allah knows best," and the latter knows no term limits. "Muslims find refuge in Finland," from Russia Today, December 19:
Although the thousands of those seeking refuge inthe country have only one official mosque to share, few complain about their new lives.
The history of the Muslim community of Finland dates back to the 19th century when the country was under Russian imperial rule. Tartar muslims from Russia were the first to make their home in the Nordic country.
Since that time the population has grown to fourty thousand, with most coming into the country seeking asylum.
Mohammed al-Hello, who moved to Finland twelve years ago from Baghdad, at first found it quite difficult getting used to his new home.
"What I miss about the lifestyle in Iraq is the communication between people," said al-Hello.
Even native Finns are embracing Islam. Abdullah Tami heads the Finnish Islamic Party and has hopes to gain a foothold in elections in 2011. His party's platform consists of more emphasis on social and green issues, not joining NATO and imposing Sharia Law, which is the legal framework of Islam.
Tami believes Sharia Law has gained a negative image, but says that it could prove beneficial for both Muslims and non-Muslims.
"We are explaining the fundamnetals [sic] of Sharia law and how it can work within the Finnish community - it is not about stoning and flogging solely - it's about simplifying - a Sharia law-led banking system, dealing with promiscuity, for instance as Finland has one of the highest rates of sex outside of marriage," said Tami.
Finland's one official Mosque equals the amount of Islamic teachers. However, according to the Finnish Islamic Council, more and more are undergoing training like Leban Yahye Ibrahim.
"I've seen many muslim youths, Arab, Somalis, Africans, who really need someone who is their age, who knows Islam well," said Ibrahim. "We need more people like me training up - I'm young and understand youth here."
Those who have just arrived here say they notice that life is quieter and very different to the country of their birth but say they have finally found peace here, and want to make it their home.
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This BBC report, not surprisingly, makes no mention of the Islamic sanction for slavery that allows this practice to continue relatively unhindered. "'Thousands made slaves' in Darfur," from the BBC, December 17 (thanks to Alan):
Strong evidence has emerged of children and adults being used as slaves in Sudan's Darfur region, a study says.
Kidnapped men have been forced to work on farmland controlled by Janjaweed militias, a coalition of African charities says.
Eyewitnesses also say the Sudanese army has been involved in abducting women and children to be sex slaves and domestic staff for troops in Khartoum.
But Khartoum said the report was "very naive" and called the authors ignorant.
"The government does not condone abductions and it is not government policy," a government spokesman told the BBC.
"We are working hard to stop such violations. The rebel factions are mostly to blame for abductions in Darfur."...
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Protection money. I.e., the madness of appeasement. Aethelred the Unready Alert: "Taleban tax: allied supply convoys pay their enemies for safe passage," by Tom Coghlan in the Times, December 12 (thanks to David):
The West is indirectly funding the insurgency in Afghanistan thanks to a system of payoffs to Taleban commanders who charge protection money to allow convoys of military supplies to reach Nato bases in the south of the country.
Contracts to supply British bases and those of other Western forces with fuel, supplies and equipment are held by multinational companies.
However, the business of moving supplies from the Pakistani port of Karachi to British, US and other military contingents in the country is largely subcontracted to local trucking companies. These must run the gauntlet of the increasingly dangerous roads south of Kabul in convoys protected by hired gunmen from Afghan security companies.
The Times has learnt that it is in the outsourcing of convoys that payoffs amounting to millions of pounds, including money from British taxpayers, are given to the Taleban....
Read it all.
Posted by Robert - December 17, 2008 on 5:18 am | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
At least in this case study from Absurd Britannia, the backtracking began almost immediately. "Mother told to take down her Christmas lights... in case they offend her non-Christian neighbours," from the Daily Mail, December 16 (thanks to James):
A woman has spoken of how she was told to remove her Christmas lights by a housing association worker - in case they offended her non-Christian neighbours.
Dorothy Glenn decorates her home in South Shields with hundreds of festive lights every year, including a giant tree and a 4ft Santa Claus.
But she was left stunned this year when a South Tyneside Homes worker called at her house to inform her that the decorations she was displaying might be offending her neighbours.
The association last night apologised to Mrs Glenn and insisted that removing Christmas lights was not part of their policy.
The 41-year-old mother-of-three said: 'I put the lights up in the first week of November and then recently a uniformed housing worker was outside, and it looked like he was counting my decorations.
'When I went outside he said that the lights were "offensive to the community". If I was offending anyone I could understand why he was telling me, but nobody has complained.
'My neighbours are Bengali and Chinese and I know that they love the lights - the children will always point them out when they walk past.'
Mrs Glenn, who has lived at the property for four years with son Owen, 19, and daughters Samira, 21, and Chelsea, 15, said she had a close relationship with her neighbours and enjoyed living in a community with people from different backgrounds.
She said: 'I told him that I am far from a racist and that I wouldn't be taking the lights down. I'm shocked, annoyed and upset. At the end of the day, it's the festive season and they're staying.' ...
In the balance of the article, the officials backtrack. As well they should.
Posted by Robert - December 17, 2008 on 5:01 am | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
Could it be that the rattle of the collecting tins is too bell-like? For the prohibition of bells is part of Islamic law for dhimmis: "Such non-Muslim subjects [of the Islamic state] are obliged to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and indemnity of life, reputation, and property. In addition, they...are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, (A: to ring church bells or display crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays..." -- 'Umdat al-Salik o11.5
"After 130 years of fundraising, Sally Army told to stop rattling collecting tins because it might 'offend other religions,'" by Paul Harris in the Daily Mail, December 15 (thanks to James):
For 130 years they have been part of Christmas, filling the air in towns across the land with music and carols.
But one thing is missing from the repertoire of Salvation Army bands this year - the percussion of rattling tins.
Members have been forbidden to shake their charity tins - even if it's done in time to the music - in case it harasses or intimidates people. One said she had been told it might also offend other religions.
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'I jokingly told them off for not shaking their tins,' said Mr Keywood, 78, a retired telecoms executive. 'They said they weren't allowed to do that in case it caused offence to other religions. They said they'd been told rattling a tin was considered to be intimidating.
'I don't know who makes up these rules but I suspect it will have something to do with human rights. I do feel Britain has lost its way on things like this.'...
You can say that again.
Posted by Raymond - December 16, 2008 on 9:08 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
Nothing new here. "Turkey: Regulations hobble Protestant churches, from Compass Direct News, December 15: ISTANBUL, December 15 (Compass Direct News)
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Eva Habil
Good luck! "Egypt's first woman mayor takes role in her stride," from AFP, December 15 (thanks to Janet): KOMBOHA, Egypt (AFP)
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Islamic-Intolerance Alert: "Muslim-Christian clashes erupt in Egypt," from the Media Line, December 14: Several people were wounded in renewed clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt over the past week.
Christians, also known as Copts, were on their way to a monastery to pray when children hurled stones at them, according to a report in the London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat.
Stones were also hurled at Christians in a separate incident in the north east of the country, in Minya Al-Qamh, as Christian worshipers made their way to a building set to be transformed into a church.
Coptic sources said thousands of Muslims surrounded the building in Kafr Farag Girgis to stop the Christian gathering.
Security forces were summoned to the area to ease tension between the parties.
In Luxor, several buses carrying Christians were attacked with stones, lightly wounding the travelers.
The monastery to which they were heading announced it would close its doors to visitors in the evenings, out of concern for the visitors, following the clashes last week.
Sectarian tensions are a recurring theme in Egypt. Christians make up around 10 percent of the country's 80 million inhabitants, constituting the largest Christian community in the Middle East.
Rights groups say the Copts in Egypt face discrimination and harassment from the Egyptian authorities. Copts complain of fewer rights than Muslims, and say they are refused positions of authority in some sectors of the government, the military and academia.
The relationship between the two communities is usually calm but there have been a few violent flashpoints in recent years.
Tension between Muslims and Christians throughout the Middle East tend to flare up ahead of Christmas.
Rights groups say the Egyptian government is failing to provide effective measures to eradicate sectarian violence. They say that perpetrators enjoy immunity and that the Coptic Church often pressures victims of sectarian violence not to complain so as not to ruffle the authorities' feathers.
Posted by Robert - December 16, 2008 on 6:04 pm | In Dhimmi Watch | No Comments
They said it. If I had done so, it would be "Islamophobic." As it is, it's multicultural, and everybody knows multiculturalism is da bomb.
"Concept of Gender Equality Against Islamic Principles: Panel," from PTI, December 16 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
ISLAMABAD, DEC 16 (PTI) Challenging the concept of gender equality, an influential religious panel in Pakistan has said it goes "against" Islamic principles.
The Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body that advises the legislature on whether laws are in line with Islamic principles, has recommended to the government that provisions referring to gender equality should be deleted from laws.
The body made the recommendations in the course of reviewing the working of the National Commission on the Status of Women, Dawn News channel reported today.
The council's recommendations questioned the concept of gender equality in Pakistani laws and described it as "impractical and against Islamic principles".
It also said gender equality is a "vague" term and should be replaced by "equity and justice"....
That is, Sharia.
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