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Monday, May 21, 2007

Kuwait ends dinar-dollar link

And other things going on in the Middle East.
When Hugging Is a Crime
Posted on May 21, 2007 foxnews.com
Taking the plunge: In this “before” shot, Nilofar Bakhtiar prepares to skydive for a charity—an unlikely setting for a career-busting faux pas.

Nilofar Bakhtiar, Pakistan’s federal minister for tourism, is in hot water with clerics in her home country for hugging a skydiving instructor who guided her through a tandem parachute jump for charity last month. Now, after striking such an “obscene” pose, she’s had to resign from Pakistan’s Cabinet.

Chief Rabbinate Finalizes Ban on Christian Women's Conference

OPT: ‘Femicide’ on the rise in conflict zone
RAMALLAH, 7 March 2007 (IRIN) - Three Palestinian women were shot dead in the northern Gaza Strip last month – rumours say it had to do with ‘honour’.

Iraq: 'Honour Killing' of teenage girl condemned as abhorrent
Posted: 02 May 2007
17-year-old Kurdish girl stoned to death


Nice. What a neighborhood. What are we doing over there again? Oh yeah, oil.

We do not want this type in our neighborhood either.

Mother-In-Law 'Plotted Honour Killing'
Monday, 14th May 2007, 14:05
Category: Crime and Punishment

Husband of 'honour killing' teenager arrested on suspicion of murder
14.05.07

Update at 1:02 PM 5/23/2007:


'Troubling' views on suicide bombings
78% of U.S. Muslims opposed, but young adults are less sure

Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, Amr Emam, Chronicle Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
About 1 in 4 young adult American Muslims says suicide bombings against civilian targets "to defend Islam" can be justified rarely, sometimes or often, according to a new Pew Research Center poll -- a finding that disturbed American Muslim leaders and thinkers across the country...

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