Qatar

Saving girls from being cut

hd — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:12:59 -0400

A Salon article inspires legislation to put an end to the brutal practice of female genital mutilation * No one wants to read about female genital mutilation. You don't seek out an article about the brutal practice

Qatari diplomat sparks terrorist alert after 'joking' that he tried to light shoes

hd — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:52:46 -0400

Air marshals on board United Flight 663 wrestled the 27-year-old Qatari to the floor and two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the plane. President Barack Obama was alerted as the

Qatar Rejects Appeals to Respect Human Rights

hd — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:42:34 -0500

International Humanist and Ethical Union 15 February 2010
By Roy Brown

The appalling lack of human rights in even the most liberal of Islamic States was highlighted this week when Qatar rejected the following recommendations made by member states of the Human Rights Council. Those not entitled to the full enjoyment of their human rights in Qatar include women, the children of mixed marriages, and–of course–homosexuals.

Human Rights Situation in Arab World Getting Worse

hd — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:20:23 -0500

Efforts to improve the human rights situation in Arab countries have amounted to little more than broken promises since Sept. 11, according to the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies.

Al-Qaeda killing mostly Muslims: 85% of casualties non-Westerners, report says

hd — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:26 -0500

Most victims of al-Qaeda terrorist attacks are Muslims living in Muslim countries, says a new report from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The study, by the academy's Combatting Terrorism

Arab countries fail on human rights—report

hd — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:07:06 -0500

The INQUIRER 10 December 2009
By Samer al-Atrush

• Report Summary - EN
• Report Intro - EN
• Annual Report - Arabic

Human rights deteriorated across the Arab world in 2009 with torture widely practiced in several countries, an Arab watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday

CAIRO - The report by the independent Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies surveyed 12 countries and said that most of them repressed human rights activists, press freedoms, and discriminated against religious minorities. The state of human rights in the 12 countries—Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen—"has worsened compared to 2008," the report said.

Subduing Women's Sexuality

hd — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:01:56 -0500

My first encounter with Pakistan in 1993 took my innocence. I discovered a culture pervaded with sexuality – sexuality in a very negative sense.

Absolutely everything, from the most trivial day-to-day matters to the most earth-shaking issues, had to do with sex – at least where girls and women were concerned. The same fixation on sex has found its way to the West through immigration.

Kuwait parents reject music classes as un-Islamic, 'Satanic'

hd — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:30:26 -0500

Parents have protested against government-funded music classes outside a Kuwait city school, calling the courses "Satanic," a regional daily newspaper reported Monday. "Music is not part of our

France seeks to woo Islamic finance

pu — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:45:15 -0400

The French parliament this month has approved changes to legislation to allow Islamic "sukuk" bonds to be issued and the Qatar Islamic Bank has applied to be the first such bank to open in France.

Islamic Development Bank: $350mn aid for Somalia

mk — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:44:57 -0400

Doha, Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will offer $350mn for the displaced people in Somalia.
The two sides launched a humanitarian appeal last month to collect

Is Al Jazeera part of the Muslim Brothers' program?

hd — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:48:40 -0400

Could Qatar and Al Jazeera's satellite channel located there be secretly manipulated by the Muslim Brotherhood?

This is a question frequently asked by Arab media trying to puzzle out the high profile adopted by the ruler of the tiny desert country and the nationalistic and radical Islamic content of the channel he owns.

Slavery, Rape & Abuse - Modern Day Realities for Middle East Maids

hd — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:30:54 -0400

While browsing the web, yesterday, I viewed the Arab Times online site and came across several news articles about the rape and abuse of maids in Kuwait.

I was surprised at the cluster of cases so I searched the web for more information and was nearly knocked off my chair when I realized the enormous extent of the huge numbers of foreign maids suffering abuse at the hands of their Middle East "sponsors".

Al Jazeera and Qatar: The Muslim Brothers' Dark Empire?

hd — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:01:04 -0400

* There has been a significant presence of the Muslim Brothers (also known as the Muslim Brotherhood) in Qatar since the second half of the twentieth century. The first wave came from Egypt in 1954 after

Subscribing to Vodafone IPO ‘does not violate Shariah'

mk — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:12:22 -0400

Subscribing to the shares offered by the Vodafone telecom company will not contradict the Shariah, according to a fatwa jointly issued by Qatar’s prominent Islamic scholar Dr Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and

al-Qaradawi "Arabs must obtain weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, chemical, biological"

pu — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:33:42 -0400

Realize before you read this that although al-Qaradawi has long had one of the more prominent roles within the thought leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood

Swede’s Koran sticker shuts down popular Indian ski resort

pu — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:38:26 -0500

A Swedish man on a ski holiday in India caused hundreds of angry demonstrators to take to the streets demanding he be punished for putting a sticker with a verse from the Koran on his skis.

Khaled Meshaal in Qatar for Gaza crisis summit

pu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:44:39 -0500

The head of Hamas's Damascus-based leadership in exile, Khaled Meshaal, arrived in the Qatari capital Doha on Friday

Iran's Ahmadinejad joins Gaza crisis summit in Qatar

pu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:42:33 -0500

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left for Qatar on Friday to take part in a regional summit on the Gaza crisis

Qaradavi: God to not allow you (West, US) to support injustice

pu — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:49:59 -0500

A prominent Muslim cleric strongly criticised Israel over its "unjust" assault on Gaza and appealed to the United States to end its support for the Jewish state.

Qatar: Hardline cleric blames Jews for corruption

pu — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:44:07 -0500

Doha. Prominent Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has blamed the Jews for bringing 'corruption to the world'.