Adhik Kadam's spiritual journey of service and suffering (Feature) - MSN India
24 May 2012, 11:12 am
Srinagar, May 24 (IANS) Both security forces and militants have picked him up on suspicion. He has also braved 'fatwas' from clerics. Yet the Hindu continues his spiritual journey undeterred in the Kashmir Valley. Adhik Kadam, 34, belongs to Maharashtra ...

Adhik Kadam’s spiritual journey of service and suffering - hillpost.in
24 May 2012, 7:37 am
Srinagar: Both security forces and militants have picked him up on suspicion. He has also braved ‘fatwas’ from clerics. Yet the Hindu continues his spiritual journey undeterred in the Kashmir Valley. Adhik Kadam, 34, belongs to Maharashtra ...

Laws needed to spur region bond markets - Gulf News
23 May 2012, 11:56 am
That includes finding a unified authority for legal fatwas on the national level, similar to Malaysia," Al Suwaidi said. "Law 685 provides for having a federal Sharia board, all we are doing is calling for its establishment so that the government has the ...

UAE needs unified Sharia board - central bank - ArabianBusiness.com
23 May 2012, 3:13 am
"This includes finding a unified body for the main fatwas (decrees) in the Islamic financial services domain, as is the case in Malaysia." At present the industry is governed by a patchwork of national regulators, Islamic standard-setting bodies and ...

Iranian rapper in hiding, but defiant after call for his death - FOX News
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
Najafi, whose song "Ay Naghi" brought two fatwas, or calls for his death, within days of its release on Facebook, will not be intimidated, though he knows he cannot perform live, according to Gunter Wallraff, a non-fiction writer who hid Najafi ...

Fatwa on Women | Cell Phone Use Punished by Acid in Face - Right Side News
20 May 2012, 12:57 pm
If you like this article, please subscribe to Right Side News Daily Both fatwas elicited no condemnation from the main Pakistani media. However, two Pakistani women – an author and a blogger –slammed the clerics' fatwas, arguing that there is an urgent ...

The Battle Raging Within Saudi Arabia Over Women's Rights - Atlantic Online
19 May 2012, 7:00 am
In the two weeks preceding his dismissal, Obeikan made several statements on his radio show "Fatawakum," or "Your fatwas," about proposed reforms to the Saudi judicial system and specifically, the role of women. (The title of the radio show was "The ...

Iranian rapper faces death threats and fatwa for 'blasphemous' song - The Guardian
14 May 2012, 1:40 pm
An Iranian rapper has become "the Salman Rushdie of music" after clerics in the Islamic republic issued fatwas calling him an apostate, which is considered punishable by death under the country's sharia law. Shahin Najafi, a Germany-based ...

A look at fatwas allowing bribery for restoring rights - Saudi Gazette
14 May 2012, 12:11 am
NOTHING is more dangerous than the fatwas that some scholars issue without much thought. Such fatwas can set back a people (Ummah) centuries. Perhaps one of the most infamous fatwas was the one given by the scholars of the Ottoman Empire some three ...

Saudi king sacks cleric who attacked social reform - YAHOO!
12 May 2012, 11:12 am
In 2010, King Abdullah also restricted the ability to pass fatwas, or religious edicts, to a small group of senior clerics, an important step in a country ruled by sharia, or Islamic law. However, the government and the ruling Al Saud family have to tread ...