Afghanistan: Islamic law, weddings, and minority rights
Two separate stories this week examine Islamic law in Afghanistan. Bradley Klapper of the Associate Press writes in The Huffington Post that religious minorities in Afghanistan are being punished for...
View ArticleEgypt: “Jihadist” wants pyramids and sphinx destroyed
Cavan Sieczkowski at The Huffington Post reports that Murgan Salem al-Gohari, an Egyptian “jihadist,” has stated in an interview on Egyptian television last Saturday that the pyramid and sphinx should...
View ArticleYouTube ban is “shrugged off” in Afghanistan
Azam Ahmed at The New York Times reports that the government of Afghanistan “has yet to restore access to [YouTube],” after more than two months since banning the popular website to “prevent the...
View ArticleThe Afghan battle over a law to protect women
Sean Carberry at NPR reports that a 2009 decree banning violence against women in Afghanistan has yet to be passed as law, citing a “major disagreement on key provisions where Islamic and secular law...
View ArticleWhy so few Afghans use banks
In The Atlantic, Olga Khazan attempts to understand the ways in which “typical” Afghans think about money and financial institutions in hopes of uncovering why so few individuals in Afghanistan store...
View ArticleUS Commission: religious freedom in Afghanistan remains “exceedingly poor”
In an Associated Press article published for Fox News, Thomas Wagner writes that a Tuesday report released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) claims that “despite...
View ArticleWomen’s rights legislation in Afghanistan fails to pass, reignites debate
Talia Ralph at The Global Post reports that the Elimination of Violence Against Women Law, or EVAL, was blocked by Afghanistan’s parliament last week when religious-minded MPs objected to at least...
View ArticleAfghan women jailed for ‘moral crimes’ on the rise
According to an Associated Press article published for The Washington Post, the number of Afghan women and girls jailed for “moral crimes” has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, “raising...
View ArticleAfghans divided over proposed law to protect women
Pamela Constable at The Washington Post reports that a proposed law to protect Afghan women and children from abuses like child marriage, bride barter, and child abuse has “created a furor in the past...
View ArticleAdulterers may be stoned under new Afghan law, officials say
In a Reuters article published for the Chicago Tribune, Mirwais Harooni and Katharine Houreld report that senior officials in Afghanistan have announced that “death by stoning for convicted adulterers...
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