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In a move that illustrates the fundamentalist Islamic culture's inability to embrace the notion of "self-restraint," the Russian-installed leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov (l), said women need to wear Islamic headscarves so men aren't "distracted."
Chechen Leader: Women Should
Be Covered to Prevent 'Distractions'

The Independent
Ramzan Kdyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, said this week that a local rule forcing women to wear headscarves was justified because the sight of female flesh prevents him from concentrating on his work. Mr. Kadyrov made the comments in a televised interview with Tina Kandelaki, a glamorous Russian television star who has posed for a number of men's magazines. "You are too provocatively dressed, so I'm trying not to look at you," Mr. Kadyrov told the television presenter. Ms Kandelaki was wearing a black jacket and a knee-length skirt with tights. "If women go to work half-naked, then men won't be able to work," the Chechen leader continued. "I'll look at you, and day and night I'll be thinking about how to say salaam alaikum [hello] to you. Work will be the last thing on my mind." Mr. Kadyrov has previously cited Chechen tradition and Islamic values as reasons why women should cover up, but this is the first time he has used this particular excuse. Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director of the Moscow Office of Human Rights Watch, said the campaign to promote headscarves has been gaining momentum in the southern Russian region...
HUD-Funded Wasted Money
on Sex Offenders, Deceased

The Center for Public Integrity
Even by Washington standards, $26 billion is a lot of money. That's the amount spent by taxpayers annually to provide housing for needy Americans. But there's significant evidence that some of the monies have been poorly spent for years. A joint investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity found that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has struggled to combat theft, corruption, and mismanagement in the more than 3,000 public housing agencies nationwide it funds, and particularly inside the 172 that HUD considers the most troubled. The problems are widespread, from an executive in New Orleans convicted of embezzling more than $900,000 in housing money around the time he bought a lavish Florida mansion to federal funds wrongly being spent to provide housing for sex offenders or to pay vouchers to residents long since dead.


Global Muslim Population Gains
Will Outstrip Non-Muslim Growth

The Washington Post
The world's Muslim population will grow at double the rate of non-Muslims over the next 20 years, according to a broad new demographic analysis that is likely to spark controversy in Europe and the United States. If current trends continue, the study found, the number of Muslims in the United States will more than double, from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030. The percentage of native-born Muslims in the U.S. is projected to rise from 35 percent today to 45 percent in 2030. The Future of the Global Muslim Population may be the first to attempt to map the Muslim population of most of the world's countries. Among its other projections: Muslim populations in some parts of Europe will reach the double digits, with France and Belgium at 10.3 percent by 2030; Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as the world's most populous Muslim nation...


Federal Judge Upholds Government Funding of Sharia-Compliant Financing
Thomas Moore Law Center
Last week, Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff, a federal district court judge in Michigan, dismissed a constitutional challenge to the US Government's bailout of AIG, which used over a hundred million dollars in federal tax money to support Islamic religious indoctrination through the funding and promotion of Sharia-compliant financing (SCF). SCF is financing that follows the dictates of Islamic law. The challenge was brought by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and co-counsel David Yerushalmi, on behalf of Kevin Murray, a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraqi War. TMLC filed a notice of appeal immediately after the ruling and will be seeking review of the decision in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.


Egypt Islamic Authority
Halts Dialogue with Vatican

Thomson-Reuters
Egypt's highest Islamic authority, al-Azhar, said on Thursday it was freezing all dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over what it called Pope Benedict's repeated insults towards Islam. Benedict this month condemned attacks on churches that killed dozens of people in Egypt, Iraq and Nigeria, saying they showed the need to adopt effective measures to protect religious minorities. His remarks followed a New Year bombing outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria that left 23 people dead and dozens injured and prompted demonstrations by both Christians and Muslims against sectarian violence. The pope urged Christian communities to persevere in a non-violent manner in the face of what he described as "a strategy of violence that has Christians as a target."


Man Tries to Kill Wife After Ultrasound Result
Source: Int'l Herald Tribune
A Pakistani man tried to kill his wife after ultrasound reports revealed that she was about to give birth to a baby girl, the couple's third daughter. The pregnant woman, who was beaten and maybe poisoned by her husband, gave birth in a car in route to the hospital. Kacha Kho resident, Aliya, was beaten by her husband after the couple returned from the doctor's offices on Tuesday afternoon. Aliya's husband, Muhammad Ali, was enraged after he discovered that he was about to have a third daughter. Muhammad Ali and his father, Allah Ditta, shackled Aliya with manacles to a door after they returned from the doctor's appointment. Ali tried to abort the child and tried to inject his wife with poison. Three hours after Ali had administered the injection, he started beating Aliya along with his father. Aliya began yelling out loud for help and her neighbors stormed into the house.


Somali Mother of Four Slaughtered for Her Faith
Source: Compass Direct
A mother of four was killed for her Christian faith on Jan. 7 on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia by Islamic extremists from al Shabaab militia, a relative said. The relative, who requested anonymity, said Asha Mberwa, 36, was killed at 5:15pm in Warbhigly village; the Islamic extremists from the insurgent group had arrested her outside her house the previous day at 8:30 a.m. She died when the militants cut her throat in front of villagers who came out of their homes as witnesses. She is survived by her children – ages 12, 8, 6 and 4 – and her husband, who was not home at the time she was apprehended. They had married in 1993. Al Shabaab insurgents control much of southern and central Somalia and have embarked on a campaign to rid the country of its hidden Christian population.


Experts: Christian Communities Battle for Survival in Middle East
Source: The Daily Caller
With attacks against Christians on the rise in majority-Muslim nations in the Middle East, experts say the future of Christianity in the region is gravely threatened. From the most restrictive countries to the more open ones, Christians are facing an uphill battle for survival in a majority of Middle Eastern countries. In the last ten years and especially in recent months, attacks against churches and Christian populations in Muslim lands have reached crisis proportions. In almost every majority-Muslim nation in the Middle East the situation of Christians is worsening, according to Paul Marshall, senior fellow at the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute. Those countries in which Christians are already significantly out-numbered will likely see their Christian population vanish unless the violence against them is brought to an end.


Killings of Newborn Babies on the Rise in Pakistan
Source: AFP/Yahoo! News
The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city's garbage dumps. "They can only have been one or two days old," says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity's morgue. In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise. More than 1,000 infants -- most of them girls -- were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.


Taliban Relent (for Now) on Education of Girls
Source:
Sydney Morning Herald

The Taliban are prepared to drop their ban on girls' schools, an influential Afghan cabinet minister says. The Education Minister, Farooq Wardak, says the movement has decided to scrap the ban on female education that helped earn it worldwide infamy in the 1990s. Mr. Wardak said the Taliban's leadership had undergone a profound change since losing power after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. "It is attitudinal change, it is behavioral change, it is cultural change...What I am hearing at the very upper policy level of the Taliban is that they are no more opposing education and also girls' education." The minister, one of the most trusted members of the Karzai inner circle, has a central role in official efforts to bring the Taliban to peace talks. The Taliban have never made any public statements that back up Mr. Wardak's claim.


Iran Rounds Up Christians in Crackdown
Source: AP/Yahoo! News
Iran has arrested about 70 Christians since Christmas in a crackdown that demonstrates the limits of religious tolerance by Islamic leaders who often boast they provide room for other faiths. The latest raids have targeted grass-roots Christian groups Iran describes as "hard-liners" who pose a threat to the Islamic state. Authorities increasingly view them with suspicions that range from trying to convert Muslims to being possible footholds for foreign influence. Christian activists claim their Iranian brethren are being persecuted simply for worshipping outside officially sanctioned mainstream churches. Caught in the middle is the small community of Iranian Christians who get together for prayer and Bible readings in private residences and out of sight of authorities.












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