Tag: Islam

This image released by Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as he is saluted by a female cadet at a military graduation in Cairo, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. President el-Sissi said Tuesday he will not interfere in court rulings, rebuffing calls from the United States and other Western governments that he pardon or commute the sentences of three Al-Jazeera journalists handed heavy prison terms a day earlier.(AP Photo/MENA)

Egypt president refuses pardon for journalists

SARAH EL DEEB · June 24, 2014 4:28 pm

Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to Martin, her 18-month-old son, holds her newborn baby girl in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan, in this file Image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File)

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Meriam Ibrahim has been rearrested

Ashe Schow · June 24, 2014 3:04 pm

FILE - In this file image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Al Fajer, a Sudanese nongovernmental organization, Meriam Ibrahim breastfeeds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail last week, as the NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. Sudan's official news agency, SUNA, said the Court of Cassation in Khartoum on Monday, June 23, canceled the death sentence against 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim after defense lawyers presented their case. The court ordered her release. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File)

Sudan frees woman on death row for apostasy

Mohamed Osman · June 23, 2014 7:27 pm

Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to Martin, her 18-month-old son, holds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File)

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Meriam Ibrahim has been freed from prison

Ashe Schow · June 23, 2014 3:39 pm

A Muslim man prays during a protest outside the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, June 23, 2014. The Federal Court on Monday refused to grant leave to hear the appeal by the Catholic church over the word Allah in its newspaper. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia court upholds ‘Allah’ ban for non-Muslims

Eileen Ng · June 23, 2014 3:24 pm

Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to Martin, her 18-month-old son, holds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File)

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Sudanese court orders release of woman sentenced to death for ‘leaving’ Islam

Ashe Schow · June 23, 2014 2:53 pm

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You may have heard that a Heritage Foundation panel reportedly ‘taunted’ a Muslim student: Watch the video and decide for yourself

Becket Adams · June 17, 2014 4:33 pm

Demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they carry al Qaeda flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (AP Photo)

We need a policy to fight Islamic extremism that works

Cal Thomas · June 16, 2014 8:43 pm

In this Image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Al Fajer, a Sudanese nongovernmental organization, Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to Martin, her 18-month-old son, holds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail last week, as the NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Al Fajer)

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Brother of Sudanese woman sentenced to death for leaving Islam says she ‘should be executed’

Ashe Schow · June 6, 2014 5:30 pm

The OIC went back to the drawing board and with the help of the U.S. Department of State under Secretary Hillary Clinton came up with a document -- Resolution 16/18 -- that spoke of protecting minority religions and dropped the offensive, criticism of religion, prohibition. (AP Photo)

Obama’s State Department has joined the Islamic assault on Western liberty

abraham-miller · June 2, 2014 2:42 pm

NIreland leader retreats from anti-Muslim remarks

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 29, 2014 3:41 pm

On July 3, 2013, the Egyptian military overthrew Morsi. But that did not heal Egypt. (AP Photo)

Egypt’s hard lesson in liberty

Terence Jeffrey · May 28, 2014 3:04 pm