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Pakistan president urges UN to criminalize blasphemy after cartoons furor
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf [official website, BBC profile] said Saturday he will lobby the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to make blasphemy an internationally-recognized criminal offense in the wake of contr (More) |
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Canada Muslim groups seek charges for Muhammad cartoons publication
The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC) has filed a complaint against the Canadian Western Standard magazine over its republication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Other Canadian media have refused to publish the cartoons, (More) |
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Muhammad cartoons banned in Malaysia as protests continue
The government of mainly-Muslim Malaysia has imposed a blanket ban on the controversial caricatures of Muhammad , making it an offense to publish, import, produce, manufacture, circulate, distribute or even possess the cartoons originally printed in (More) |
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Five killed protesting Muhammad cartoons in Afghanistan as furor goes global
At least five people protesting the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish and other European papers were killed in Afghanistan Monday when security forces and police opened fire on demonstrators as the cartoons furor setting (More) |
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Afghan journalist convicted of blasphemy released from jail
Afghan journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, the editor of the magazine Hoqooq-i-Zan, (translated as Women's Rights) who was convicted of blasphemy for publishing anti-Islamic articles, has been freed from jail , a senior Afghan judge said Thursday. Nas (More) |
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Afghan magazine editor sentenced to jail for anti-Islamic blasphemy
Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of the Afghanistan magazine Haqooq-i-Zan (translated as Women's Rights), was sentenced Sunday to two years in jail after being convicted of blasphemy for his publication of anti-Islamic articles. On Saturday, Kabul' (More) |
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Report of Koran desecration at Gitmo prompts Afghan riots; 4 killed
Riots erupted across Afghanistan Wednesday in response to a recent report by Newsweek magazine that in an effort to infuriate Muslim prisoners US troops at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran by placing copies on toilets and in one case had even (More) |
Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia
On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.
