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Europe
September 19, 2009
UK
The Islamic Sharia Council wants to be recognized by the UK court system and have their decisions enforced by British courts. They also want the dowry to be accommodated by British law.

September 26, 2009
UK
This is a woman’s response to the above article. For Sharia judges to question a woman’s motives for divorce and pressure her to remain in an unfulfilling and possibly dangerous marriage is antiquated at best and deadly at worst.

September 30, 2009
UK
A special Government unit dedicated to stopping teenagers being married off by their families dealt with 300 cases in the first half of this year, up from 168 in the same period of 2007.

September 30, 2009
Denmark
Medical association calls on doctors to stop performing tests to prove virginity of young women.

September 30, 2009
UK
A man dragged his daughter into the house by the hair, threatened her and hit her after she said she was moving in with her boyfriend, a court heard.

October 1, 2009
UK
A 28-YEAR-old Accrington man punched his wife as she was feeding their baby and then hit her repeatedly with his shoe.

October 2, 2009
France
Former French justice minister Rachida Dati ‘brought shame on her strictly Muslim family’ by becoming a single mother, a scathing book by her own brother claims.

October 8, 2009
Norway (in Norweigan)
Children are facing forced marriages.

October 8, 2009
UK
A 15-year-old schoolgirl who vanished a decade ago was murdered by her father in a so-called honor killing after falling in love with the wrong man.

October 10, 2009
UK
A British Girl is raped by a Muslim gang and sexually assaulted with a liquor bottle.

October 10, 2009
UK
There have been demonstrations by women students in Cairo after a leading cleric backed moves to ban the wearing of full women’s veils, known as the niqab, in classrooms or dormitories. Here are both sides of the argument.

October 10, 2009
Germany
A German publishing company has pulled out from a novel based on ‘Islamic honour killings’ in order to avoid any violent protests from the Muslim community.

Middle East
September 25, 2009
Turkey
Women’s rights are fading away even in the more affluent areas of Turkey.

September 28, 2009
Egypt
A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.

October 1, 2009
Jordan
Three brothers stab and kill their sister in an honor killing due to her “bad reputation”.

October 1, 2009
Turkey
Demand is increasing for the “virginity restoration” procedure.

October 5, 2009
Egypt
The Egyptian police arrest a Christian father for attempting to free his kidnapped daughter.

October 5, 2009
UAE
A Moroccan woman who was charged with having premarital sex with an Emirati man retracted her guilty plea yesterday after being told she would receive 100 lashes and a prison sentence.

October 7, 2009
Gaza Strip
The Hamas government has banned women from riding motorcycles.

October 8, 2009
Lebanon
The Arab world hosts its first feminisms debate.

October 12, 2009
Turkey
Prosecutors have demanded life sentences without the possibility of parole for the honor killing of a woman from by her father and uncle.

Asia
September 27, 2009
Malaysia
The rise of a polygamy club in Malaysia to “help” elderly women and single mothers.

September 29, 2009
Tajikistan
Divorce by text messaging is becoming more popular.

September 30, 2009
Pakistan
A father shoots his daughter and a young man in the name of honor.

October 2, 2009
Iran
Twenty-one-year-old Maryam Sabri along with a man Ibrahim Sharifi, who were caught up in the waves of arrests that followed the disputed presidential elections in June have accused their captors of raping them.

October 4, 2009
Iran
A women’s rights activist and journalist has been sentenced to six months in jail by one of Iran’s Revolutionary Courts in Tehran for having ‘endangered state security’.

October 6, 2009
India
The High Court of Kerala has asked the state police and the Interior Minister in New Delhi to open an investigation into the so-called “Love Jihad” and “Romeo Jihad” operations planned by Muslim organizations that lure young girls with the promise of the soul mate and then force them to convert to Islam.

October 7, 2009
Pakistan
The bodies of a young man and a pregnant woman were found in a 200-feet deep well in Gadap Town. Police officials believe that their families might have killed them on the pretext of honor.

October 9, 2009
Malaysia
A female doctor invited an Arab man over for dinner and ended up being drugged and extorted for money.

October 11, 2009
Bangladesh
Muslim men are pretending to be Hindus to lure Hindu girls into marriage, then force them to accept Islam once they are married.

October 11, 2009
Pakistan
Free-will marriage couple seeks protection.

October 14, 2009
Indonesia
An Indonesian court has acquitted controversial Muslim cleric Pujiono Cahyo Widianto over child sexual molestation charges for marrying an underage girl, aged 12 last year. The girl is his second wife.

October 15, 2009
Iran
A cleric says that the appointment of women as governors is against sharia law and if they are appointed, then God’s fury will be unleashed on Iran.

October 15, 2009
India
An Indian Hindu man marries a Muslim woman who converts to Hinduism. Read how this love story ends.

North America
October 2, 2009
US
Female Genital Mutilation, Islam and Leftist Silence.

October 10, 2009
US
Dalia Mogahed, Barak Obama’s advisor on the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified” and the majority of women around the world associate it with “gender justice”.

October 14, 2009
US
A Florida judge rules that Rifqa Bary, the teenaged Christian convert from Islam, must go back to parents.

Africa
September 30, 2009
Chad
Women who fled violence in Sudan’s Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps in neighboring Chad.

October 8, 2009
Somalia
The Islamic administration officials have ordered the women in south Somalia to wear the veil or else they will be prosecuted according to sharia law by the jihadis.

October 16, 2009
Somalia
Women receive public whippings for wearing a “deceptive bra.”

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