"These clerics are not democratically elected officials, nor legislators. There is no obligation for the state to legitimize their presence or support their activities with state funding."
A lecture by the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in Australia at Griffith University, Friday, 16 November, 2007 on the subject of "Fundamental Human Rights and Religious Apostasy".
Le centre de lutte contre le terrorisme de l’académie militaire de West Point aux Etats Unis a publié une étude sur le profil des recrus d’Al Qaida en Irak: « Al Qaida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar ».
En l’absence de toute autorité religieuse reconnue, chargée de valider les fatwas, chaque ouléma autoproclamé peut prétendre justifier ses décrets et les légitimer par ses propres interprétations du Coran ou de la Tradition.
News and commentary on a Hindu woman, Subashini, who launched an appeal after being told to go to the 'Syariah Court' in her dispute with her Muslim convert husband over her matrimonial and custodial rights.
Vigilantes kidnap reporter Muneeza Jahangir, daughter of leading Pakistani women's human rights activist, lawyer, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Asma Jahangir.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the attack who was not related to her, reported a Saudi newspaper.
