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A wealthy Indonesian Muslim cleric faces accusations of having illegal sex with a minor after marrying a 12-year-old girl selected for him through a contest. Pujiono Cahyo Widianto, a 43-year-old owner of an Islamic boarding school, wed and likely slept with Lutfiana Ulfa in August after she won a contest to become Pujiono’s second wife judged by his first wife, 26, and followers, the Jakarta Post reported. Additionally, the commission intends to request an edict forbidding marriages to minors as Pujiono has declared plans to also marry a 7-year-old girl and 9-year-old girl, the Post reported.

She worked at the Red Lobster in Times Square and lived with her husband near Yankee Stadium. Yet one night, returning home from her job, Odine D. discovered that African custom, not American law, held sway over her marriage. A strange woman was sitting in the living room, and Ms. D.?s husband, a security guard born in Ghana, introduced her as his other wife. Devastated, Ms. D., a Guinean immigrant who insisted that her last name be withheld, said she protested: ?I can?t live with the woman in my house ? we have only two bedrooms.? Her husband cited Islamic...

5 years to 9/11/2001, a gloomy picture of the morality of Islamic leaders Five years after Islamists massacred (among thousahnds other attepmts), 3,000 innocent victims, mainly for the drive of hitting the non Muslim infidels, not onoy haven not the Muslim leaders improved, on the contrary, they only becaqme lore emboldened, a large share of their backbone is of course the radical left and mainstream European media. Thank you so much "anti war" warriors, no one like you is able to push reinforce them. The cowardice response in most Europer to the "cartoon Jihad", which was/is just a natural reaction...

MUSLIM protesters threatened more terrorist attacks as they converged in their hundreds outside the Danish Embassy in London yesterday for what organisers said was the start of a new holy war in Britain. Parading banners that called for the killing of newspaper editors and broadcasters from the BBC who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, they marched across the capital from the mosque in Regent’s Park after Friday prayers. There were sporadic clashes with passers-by over chants praising the four British-born suicide bombers who killed 52 passengers on three Underground trains and a London bus last July 7. People who...

Godwin’s Law says you’ve lost the argument the moment you invoke Hitler. Example: “I love my dog.” Response: “Well, so did Hitler.” Ergo you’re a Nazi. Godwinizing the debate should always be avoided, and no doubt eyes rolled when some commentators equated Hamas’ electoral victory with Hitler’s ascendance. Sure, they both have a thing about wiping out the Jews, but other than that, it’s just Godwinian over-simplification. One small problem: in the recent Palestinian elections, there was a candidate named . . . Hitler. And he won! As the New York Times put it: “The candidate's name is Jamal Abu...

An Aids crisis is threatening to overwhelm many predominantly Muslim countries but their leaders remain in a state of denial and are doing little to stem the deadly problem, a pioneering study says. In one of the most comprehensive reports on Aids covering the Muslim world, experts warned of serious repercussions if governments continued to sweep the problem under the carpet. A report released by the Seattle-based think tank, the National Bureau of Asian Research, says "if leaders continue to ignore the problem, Aids could debilitate or even destabilise some of these societies by killing large numbers of people in...

Lodi, San Joaquin County -- After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, angry people threw eggs and shouted insults at the Pak-Indian Spices Grocery store downtown. After the arrest here this week of two Pakistani American men and the detention of two Pakistani Muslim religious leaders, Mohammed Shoaib, 53, a shopkeeper, fears another backlash. "People don't know who's who and what's what," said Shoaib, who immigrated here as a child, following his father, who had followed his uncle, who arrived here in the 1930s. Many Pakistani Americans were shaken Wednesday, some convinced that the arrests were the result of a...

New York | May 29, 2005 1:22:37 PM IST A Pakistan Navy sailor was arrested in New York on Thursday after he allegedly sexually assaulted a US teenage girl in a public park. "They were talking in the park, he grabbed her, and he kissed her on the mouth. She struggled away and got help," The Nation quoted a New York Post report as saying. The Pakistan Embassy confirmed the sailor's arrest, the paper said adding that currently he is being held at a precinct station. "We have been informed of the arrest, and we are looking into the matter,"...

By Brian Whitaker The Saudi Arabian security forces have arrested 110 men at a "gay wedding" party in Jeddah, according to a Saudi online newspaper. Al-Wifaq, which has connections with the interior ministry, said the authorities had raided a wedding hall on Monday night after a tip-off and found the men - all Saudis - dancing and "behaving like women". Eighty men were later released, but 30 appeared in a Jeddah court on Wednesday to face charges, the paper said. Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia and is punished by flogging, jail or death. The raid was made a day...

This is from a Muslim website. The website explains Islam and answers questions for Muslims and potential new Muslims about their religion. Unlike Christianity, Islam is a religion and a political system. Shari'ah law is the Islamic law which replaces and supercedes the US law and the US Constitution. Faithful Muslims must be faithful to Shari'ah and seek implentation of Shari'ah over people of all faiths. Ask-Imam.com > Islamic Politics > Question 8471 from United States  To become a citizen of US one has to take an oath of allegiance. is it ok to take the oath. The oath of...

LONDON -- Thousands of Muslim men in Britain may have exploited a loophole in British law banning multiple marriages by holding religious marriage ceremonies in mosques, Islamic leaders said. Muslim men can contract a "nikah," or religious ceremony, in a mosque without going through a civil ceremony, allowing as many as 4,000 men in Britain to have multiple marriages, the leaders said in issuing guidelines warning against the practice. "We are concerned for the women -- the second wife or subsequent wives usually find they have no rights if the relationship breaks down," Mufti Barkatullah, a judge on Britain's Shariah...

They are not "seperatists", they are not "rebels" - the murderers are ISLAMIC TERRORISTS.BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding 1,200 hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. An official said the death toll could be significantly higher than 150. Hours after the midday assault, three of the separatist rebels were reportedly still blockaded in a school basement, trading fire with security forces. A Federal Security Service official said militants were still holding hostages - children among them. The school was largely...

At least 25 bodies of executed civilians and police have been found in the basement of a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtadr al Sadr, according to AFP news agency.      Some of the bodies had been mutilated or burned, according to the reports.The discovery comes after al Sadr officially handed over control of Najaf's Imam Ali shrine. A representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani confirmed the handover as militia loyal to al Sadr handed in their weapons after a peace deal to end the crisis in Najaf.     Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites have been marching to the shrine to show their support for Ayatollah al...

Lewiston official charged By Mark LaFlamme, Staff WriterThursday, August 19,2004 2003 Sun Journal file mug of Abdiaziz Ali Charge: Police say Ali offered rent cut for sexLEWISTON - A caseworker assigned to the city general assistance office has been charged with using the power of his office to solicit sex from a local woman. Abdiaziz Ali, 34, of 27 Flanders St., Auburn, was summoned on misdemeanor charges of engaging a prostitute and official oppression. Police say Ali, who also serves as a liaison for the Somali community, pressured a local woman to have sex with him by promising her...

Rejected by His Wife, He Cuts Off His Penis Mon Aug 9, 7:49 AM ET RABAT (Reuters) - A 70-year-old Moroccan cut off his penis in protest at his wife's long refusal to have sex with him, hospital sources said on Saturday. The unidentified man severed his organ on Monday in the southern town of Ait Ourir and was taken to a hospital in the nearby city of Marrakesh for treatment. "He didn't bring his penis with him. He has left the hospital well, but without his penis," a doctor from the Ibn Toufail hospital told Reuters.

Once I was the student of a very great shaikh. He taught me and the other students many things. May Allah bless him for teaching us so many things and accept his jihad of teaching. Once our teacher taught us about the rules of jihad. He said that every Muslim must first do jihad-i-nafs, the struggle against the desires of the lower self, for self-purification. Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him and his family) said that jihad-i-nafs is the great jihad. We should reflect upon this deep hadith. After performing jihad-i-nafs to a satisfactory level and committing oneself to lifelong...

I found this website by accident on Google. It's a very well organized Pro Islamic Jihad website in English with many articles and pictures including: An insiders look at the Iraqi Resistance A Rational for American Hegemony Bin Laden's Network Islam under Attack 9-11 Theories Many "newstories":Apr 01, 2004 US Military Vows Revenge For Attacks On American Civilians In Iraq Apr 01, 2004 Iraqi Resistance Sources: US Lost More Than 20 Soldiers In Fallujah Apr 01, 2004 Puppet Police Try To Win Over Iraqi Resistance In Fallujah Apr 01, 2004 Spain Names Madrid Bombing 'Mastermind' Apr 01, 2004 Taliban Kill...

In his hospital bed last week, 16-year-old Abid Tanoli sat listless and alone, half of his body covered by burns that all but destroyed both his eyes and left his face horribly disfigured. The teenager talked, with difficulty, of how his life had been destroyed since the fateful day in June 2002 when he refused to have sex with his teacher at a religious school in Pakistan. The boy was horrifically injured in an acid attack after he rebuffed the Muslim cleric's sexual advances. Now, he has alarmed Pakistan's powerful religious establishment by pressing charges against his alleged assailants. A...

KARACHI - The suicide bomb attack at the Muhaya residential compound in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on November 9 in which at least 17 people were killed - most of them foreign Arabs - was neither an episode of global jihadi terrorism nor part of a conspiracy to destabilize the House of Saud. A Pakistani undercover intelligence operator who recently returned from Riyadh told Asia Times Online that the attack was in fact the result of a deep divide within Saudi society between strict religious conservatives with little exposure to the outside world, and a more "liberal" element...

Five reserve soldiers who served in Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield filed suit this morning against Muhammad Bakri, the director of the controversial film "Jenin, Jenin," and against two theaters that screened it. The movie was banned by the military censor because of the way it portrayed the fighting in Jenin as an "Israeli massacre of innocent Arabs." Education Minister Limor Livnat called the movie a "severe blow to the memory of the fighters who fell." The five soldiers demand 2.5 million shekels because of the way the movie is full of "lies" and "slander" against them and their colleagues....

The Horrors and Changes of Islamic Sex (0) There are young sex doctors in the Islamic world nowadays. They are trying to find out with their European and American colleagues what Arab sex is like in the up-to-date world. There was recently a conference held in Lebanon that gathered graduates from Oxford, Colombia University, and the American university in Beirut. It was discovered after the first day of the conference that Islamic countries do not practice romantic sex, the description of which can be found in book of Shekherezade’s fairytales, “1001 Night." Instead of romance, Islamic sex characterized by...