Malaysia High Court allows non-Muslims to use 'Allah' as translation for 'God'
The Malaysian High Court ruled Thursday that non-Muslims can use the word "Allah" as a translation for the word "God", overturning a three-year government ban on the practice. The case was brought by the Herald, a...
Somalia's imposition of Sharia law likely to bring violence and instability in its wake
Christopher Holton : "The imposition of Sharia in Somalia will not bring about stability, unless of course by stability one means the kind of "stability" that came about when the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that in the wake of the election of Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the President of...
Malaysia court accepts Catholic newspaper challenge to 'Allah' translation ban
The Malaysian High Court Monday accepted a challenge by Malay-Roman Catholic Herald newspaper to a government ban on using the word "Allah" as a synonym for "God," rejecting the government's argument that the lawsuit by the Kuala...
Pakistani authorities have released more than 3400 lawyers and political activists detained in the aftermath of President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule , Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Igbal Cheema told AFP Tuesday, adding...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern, Assistant Professor of Law at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY, discusses the evolution of rule of law challenges in Iraq post-2003 and proposes new criteria for achieving and assessing Iraq's status as a...
Saddam hanging shown on Web video recorded by camera phone at execution
An unofficial and grainy video of the entire execution of Saddam Hussein , including his actual hanging, was posted on the Web late Saturday. The official video, broadcast ...
Ali Khan : "The world will mourn today's brutal murder of Russian journalist and human rights advocate Anna Politkovaskay in Moscow. In writing my book, A Theory of International Terrorism (2006), I relied on Anna Politkovaskaya's reports about the...
Bangladesh court orders 7 Islamists executed for killing judges
A Bangladesh court in Dhaka Monday sentenced seven Islamic militants, including leaders Shayek Abdur Rahman of Jamaat-ul Mujahideen and Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh , to death for the murder of two...
