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Written by Jeffrey Fleishman REPORTING FROM CAIRO — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia surprised his ultraconservative nation Sunday by announcing bold reforms that for the first time give women the right to vote, run for local office and serve on the Shura Council, the king’s advisory board. The measures by an aging monarch who has battled Islamic hard-liners for years will marginally improve the standing...
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Written by Richard Simmons Fit for a King! According to a new WikiLeaks release the King of Saudi Arabia is a regular user of the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra at the age of 92! A US State Department telegram published by WikiLeaks also shows that King Abdullah is considerably older than previously thought as it was estimated that he was between the ages of 82...
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Written by Blake Hounshell In February, when Libya erupted in spontaneous protests that quickly turned into an armed revolt, Muammar al-Qaddafi and his son Seif al-Islam had a ready response: This was an al Qaeda-backed uprising, a plot to install “Islamic emirates” paying homage to Osama bin Laden. The world scoffed (especially after the Qaddafis accused the revolutionaries of a lot more outlandish things, from...
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Written by Raymond Ibrahim Bio To what extent was Egypt’s Maspero massacre, wherein the military literally mowed down Christian Copts protesting the ongoing destruction of their churches, a product of anti-Christian sentiment? A video of Egypt’s grand mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa (or Gom’a), which began circulating weeks before the massacre, helps elucidate. While holding that Muslims may coexist with Christians (who, as dhimmis, have rights), Gomaa categorized...
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KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan police on Thursday fired shots in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to break into an American military base in the country’s east to vent their anger over this week’s Quran burnings incident. The fresh violence came one day after clashes between Afghan troops and protesters broke out in the capital and in three eastern provinces over the...
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Written by Christian Lowe (Reuters) – When night falls on the street outside Tripoli’s Abdullah Eshaab mosque, theological discussions often break out. Lately, they have taken place at the point of a gun. On three occasions this month, groups of ultra-purist Islamists have turned up at the mosque gates after dark, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, 106-mm anti-tank cannon and truck-mounted Grad rockets, according to a...
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Written by Alex Spillius Gunmen from the Islamist al-Shabaab militia have routinely abducted teenage girls to work as servants on the frontline and forced them to marry fighters, according to a new report documenting the abuse of children in Somalia’s civil war. The report by Human Rights Watch also found that as fighting has intensified over the past two years, al-Shabaab has increasingly targeted boys...
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Written by CATALINA BELEÑA MARTINEZ In 2008, supposedly following the events, which now turns out, as the court in Instruction No. 3 of Ibiza has to subpoena, as the accused, the prince of Saudi Arabia, Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al -Saud to respond on a complaint of sexual abuse in August 2008, a model who was 20 years, called Soraya. The events may...
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Written by FFI Editor BANGKOK (AP) — An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after an earlier blast shook his house in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India – an attack Israel blamed on Iran. Authorities say it’s unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked...
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Written by FFI Editor It is not unusual for Middle Eastern countries to block certain websites that authorities feel pose a political or moral danger. Now, Iran has gone one step further and cut off an entire swathe of the internet. When one of Iran’s 40 million internet users tries to access any website that uses the common https protocol – and that includes...
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