Fundamentalisms

"Some reports said protesters had called for her to be shot. Her lawyer said she was later moved for her own safety."
The British Foreign Office demands an explanation from Sudan, where a British primary school teacher was charged yesterday with "insulting religion and inciting hatred" after allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
"L’écrivain bangladaise Taslima Nasreen, qui vit en exil en Inde, est chassée de ville en ville sous la pression de groupes islamistes qui veulent la faire expulser de ce pays, voire l’assassiner, pour ses blasphèmes supposés envers l’islam."
In his long and detailed plea for a secular Islamic Studies, Tilman Nagel calls on the discipline to emancipate itself from the Muslim understanding of Mohammed if it wants to get closer to historical reality.
"Quelque 60% des djihadistes étrangers combattant au sein de l'insurrection en Irak viennent d'Arabie Saoudite et de Libye, “deux pays alliés des États-Unis”, a écrit le New York Times, citant des responsables militaires américains."
"Saudi justice officials say a woman who was sentenced to prison and flogging after she was gang-raped has now 'confessed' to an extramarital affair."
The Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her 7-year-old pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad, said Sudanese officials.
La jeune et belle actrice égyptienne Abeer Sabri était sans doute loin d’imaginer qu’en décidant de ne plus porter le hidjab, elle allait subir la colère des islamistes.
Saudi woman punished for being alone with a man; Lawyer specialising in women's rights suspended
The chief of police in the southern Iraqi city of Basra has warned of a campaign of violence against women carried out by religious extremists.
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