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  • Co-education gains unlikely nod from Saudi religious police chief 14 Dec 2009 21:36 GMT
    ... Co-education gains unlikely nod from Saudi religious police chief Last Updated: December 14. 2009 10:29PM ... scholars and has a weak basis in Islam. The change came as a surprise to ...

  • Sorcery Charges On The Rise In Saudi Arabia 21 Dec 2009 20:17 GMT
    ... sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia last month. His charge? Sorcery. Ali ... Medina. His lawyer, May al-Khansa, says Saudi religious police recognized Sibat from his TV work and ... Saudi Arabia. But the strict form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia forbids people from ...

  • Fully veiled on Saudi TV 15 Dec 2009 15:24 GMT
    ... the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan TV it has now become the ... doing anything." Wahhabism, the strain of Sunni Islam that is officially practised in Saudi Arabia, ...

  • Poll underscores challenges to Saudi women grads 17 Dec 2009 14:30 GMT
    ... Poll underscores challenges to Saudi women grads Two women walk on campus ... than 4,400 university students also suggested that religious beliefs in the Muslim kingdom were not the ... as contrary to the ultra-strict version of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. Asked if this ...

  • Saudi women graduates facin... 20 Dec 2009 17:52 GMT
    ... Riyadh, December 20: Saudi female university students are ambitious and eager ... than 4,400 university students also suggested that religious beliefs in the Muslim kingdom were not the ... as contrary to the ultra-strict version of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. Asked if this ...

  • Saudi women graduates facing gender challenges 21 Dec 2009 09:14 GMT
    ... Riyadh, December 20: Saudi female university students are ambitious and eager ... than 4,400 university students also suggested that religious beliefs in the Muslim kingdom were not the ... as contrary to the ultra-strict version of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. Asked if this ...

  • Saudi Hollandi to test markets with bond sale 15 Dec 2009 15:00 GMT
    ... JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Hollandi ... Saudi Hollandi Bank 1040.SE plans to issue Islamic bonds in a deal "not much" larger ...

  • Islamic finance well positioned for GCC recovery 17 Dec 2009 11:58 GMT
    ... NCB Capital, the investment banking arm of National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia’s largest bank, believes that Islamic finance, an increasingly important element of the GCC financial sector, is well positioned to ...

  • Saudi Arabia to flog 75-year-old woman for flouting sex segregation rules 15 Dec 2009 09:11 GMT
    ... Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)/London, Dec.15 (ANI): Saudi Arabia is to ... Saudi Arabia enforces a strict version of Islamic sharia law and imposes corporal punishment for ...

  • Rights watchdog calls on Saudi Arabia to stay lashes on 75-year-old woman 15 Dec 2009 08:15 GMT
    ... Human rights watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia yesterday to stay a sentence of ... Saudi Arabia enforces a strict version of Islamic sharia law. ...

  • Saudi Arabia to flog 75-year-old for breaching sex segregation rules 15 Dec 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... of appeal had now been exhausted in Saudi courts against the trio's March conviction for ... Saudi Arabia enforces a strict version of Islamic sharia law and imposes corporal punishment for ...

  • Is Foreign Religion\Western Culture The Bane Of Africa's Mental Slavery? 23 Dec 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... our traditional African societies, more particularly when religion is involved, as they often invite curses, retribution, ... on others by proponents of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and others. We must stop being naive ... Arabs and some Africans. Ethiopian women in Saudi Arabia fall prey to enslavement, most black ...

  • Inter-religious dialogue is inevitable: Trend News Commentator 21 Dec 2009 11:15 GMT
    ... the modern world minimizes the role of religion in people's lives, events occurring in both the ... with whom to conduct it - with Saudi Arabia, trying to monopolize Islam, moderate Muslim ... of interfaith dialogue, particularly between Muslims and Christians, is to unite the Islamic world. But ...

  • Parliament of World's Religions Melbourne 2009 Act 4 18 Dec 2009 00:17 GMT
    ... day of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, without having given a review of the ... Inner Peace.” One negative aspect is that Catholic clergy and lay people were underrepresented, although ... Ramadan is not welcome in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Stay tuned . . . ...

  • State-funded schools must be separate from religions 17 Dec 2009 01:53 GMT
    ... THE ANNOUNCEMENT that the Saudi Arabian government will seek to open a ... focus problems inherent in the relationship between religious groups and our education system, writes Irish ... homophobia and suppression of religious freedom. If Catholics are free to establish State-funded schools, why ...


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