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First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 26 mins ago - 3 reports

Palestinian National Authority

Leftist Group: Government to Cede Homesh Land to PA

The leftist group Yesh Din told Agence France Presse, Sunday, that state attorneys informed the Supreme Court, last week, that the government would revoke a 1978 military seizure order relating to land belonging to the northern Samarian (Shomron) Palestinian ... [Published Israel National News - 26 mins ago]

Entities: Palestinian National Authority, Burqa, Jewish Community, Seizures, Israeli Supreme Court

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

BBC British Broadcasting Corp

Afghan Parliament Halts Debate On Women's Rights Bill

After protests from some MPs and after only about 15 minutes, the Afghan parliament halted debate Saturday on a bill aimed at curbing violence against women.As the BBC reports, the bill would have solidified a law passed by presidential decree in 2009, ... [Published NPR - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Rape, BBC British Broadcasting Corp, David Loyn, Shariah Law

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 7 reports

Afghans block law protecting women’s rights

Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law that aims to protect women’s freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The failure highlights how tenuous women’s ... [Published The Independent - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, Taliban, Rape, Religion, Khalil Ahmad

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Taliban

She Works: Standing Up And Speaking Out

For our series on the Changing Lives of Women, we're asking NPR women about their careers — and inviting you to join the conversation. This question goes to NPR's Rachel Martin, the host of Weekend Edition Sunday, who was a longtime foreign correspondent ... [Published NPR - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, Burqa, Rachel Martin, Taliban

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Hamid Karzai

Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive women's law (Reuters)

Reuters © An Afghan woman in a burqa walks along a road on a windy day on the outskirts of Kabul April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammad IsmailKABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe ... [Published West Australian - May 18 2013]

Entities: Hamid Karzai, Abdul Sattar Khawasi, Kabul, Amie Ferris-Rotman

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Afghan MPs oppose violence against women bill

Traditionalist MPs say Elimination of Violence against Women law is against Islamic teachings.KABUL (AFP) - The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that ... [Published Dunya News - May 18 2013]

Entities: Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Abdul Sattar Khawasi, Teaching, Shariah Law

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Rick Perry

Budget deal reached

And the crowd goes wild . Top House and Senate negotiators agreed to a two-year budget for the state of Texas Friday that restores about $4 billion of $5.4 billion in cuts to public education made in 2011. It also creates a path for lawmakers ... [Published Off the Kuff - May 18 2013]

Entities: David Dewhurst, Rick Perry, Infusion, Medicaid

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Lebanese cast to dub “Earth and Coral” into Arabic

TEHRAN -- Iranian filmmaker Masud Atyabi’s “Earth and Coral” is due to be dubbed into Arabic by a team of leading Lebanese actors at the Boudi Naoum Studio in Beirut next week.Diana Ibrahim will direct the cast, Atyabi told the Persian service of MNA ... [Published Tehran Times - May 17 2013]

Entities: Arabic, Ministry of Culture And Islamic Guidance, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Burqa

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

US: A meningitis stalking gay men

Via The New York Times, a worrying report: For Gay Men, a Fear That Feels Familiar. Excerpt:Then, in walks a skinny man in a black baseball cap, with soulful eyes and a nose that juts forward like the prow of a ship. He stops at a folding table set up ... [Published H5N1 - May 18 2013]

Entities: Gay, Meningitis, Stalking

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Sexy men in burqas?

a blog about women’s rights, human dignity, secularism and sexual freedom in the Arab worldThe news is truly hilarious and pathetic at the same time, not to say surreal. Apparently three UAE men have been recently ejected from an annual culture festival ... [Published NOW News - May 15 2013]

Entities: Burqa, Religious Police, Saudi Arabia

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Better Burqa than Crass Nudity

I always thought clothes were a mark of civilisation; one of the characteristics that distinguishes the human race from the animal kingdom. We conceal our private parts, engage in acts of intimacy with our spouse in privacy, and have ancient rules that ... [Published Meri News - May 13 2013]

Entities: Burqa, Domestic Violence, Rape

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Man in burqa arrested from ladies rest room

A 25-year-old man was arrested from the ladies rest room of a shopping mall on Sunday afternoon.The accused was wearing a burqa and carried red chilly powder, a knife and a pair of gloves in his hand bag. ... [Published Times of India - May 13 2013]

Entities: Burqa

Quotes

..."We know that the seizure order is going to be cancelled," Yesh Din spokeswoman Reut Mor told AFP. "It is a process (but) if the state says this to the court, it probably won't go back onon it" she said

Leftist Group: Government to Cede Homesh Land to PA [Published Israel National News - 26 mins ago]

"We know sadly from experience that even when Israel recognises private Palestinian ownership of land, it doesn't mean that will allow them access to their land."

Former settlement to return to Palestinian hands: NGO [Published Lebanon Daily Star - 3 hours ago]

"It's sad that so many years had to pass until the state decided to uphold the law and return the robbed land to its owners, " attorney Shlomo Zharia, who submitted the appeal on behalf of the Yesh Din advocacy group, told the Ha'aretz daily on Sunday

Israel to return settlement's land to Palestinian owners [Published Xinhua News Agency - 4 hours ago]

...We had a burqa in the car for an emergency, and I asked Barry if I should put it on and just stay mute. He said, "No. If you get caught, they will think you are a spy and it will end badly." Instead, I covered my head tightly with my scarf and averted my eyes when the man carrying the Kalashnikov rifle peered in the window and asked in Farsi...

She Works: Standing Up And Speaking Out [Published NPR - 11 hours ago]

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Leftist Group: Government to Cede Homesh Land t... [Published Israel National News - 26 mins ago]
Former settlement to return to Palestinian hand... [Published Lebanon Daily Star - 3 hours ago]
Israel to return settlement's land to Palestini... [Published Xinhua News Agency - 4 hours ago]
She Works: Standing Up And Speaking Out [Published NPR - 11 hours ago]
Mother's love reaches through hardship, danger ... [Published Chambersburg Public Opinion - 13 hours ago]
State to return Homesh land to Palestinian owners [Published Jerusalem Post - 15 hours ago]
Afghans block law protecting women’s rights [Published The Independent - 16 hours ago]
Lawmakers in Afghanistan block protections for ... [Published Detroit Free Press - 19 hours ago]
Bid to protect women’s rights ‘is against Islam... [Published National Post - Top Stories - 20 hours ago]
Afghan Parliament Halts Debate On Women's Right... [Published NPR - 23 hours ago]
Female politicians help block women's rights le... [Published Irish Examiner - 23 hours ago]
Afghan MPs oppose violence against women bill [Published Dunya News - May 18 2013]
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights [Published MSN News - May 18 2013]
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights [Published Kansas City Star - May 18 2013]
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights [Published seattlepi.com - May 18 2013]
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights [Published Fort Mills Times - May 18 2013]
Afghanistan lawmakers cite religion in blocking... [Published Deutsche Welle - May 18 2013]
Afghan conservative religious lawmakers block l... [Published FOXNews.com - May 18 2013]
Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive women'... [Published West Australian - May 18 2013]
Budget deal reached [Published Off the Kuff - May 18 2013]
Solid reasons make foreigners to visit hospital... [Published KeralaNext.com - May 18 2013]
65 Years of Palestinian Nakba [Published Arabic Media Internet Network - May 18 2013]
US: A meningitis stalking gay men [Published H5N1 - May 18 2013]
Steven Suskin: Aisle View: The New Group Attemp... [Published Huffington Post - May 17 2013]
International Traveler of Mystery: Istanbul [Published Fodors.com - May 17 2013]
Shock and gore [Published New Zealand Herald - May 17 2013]
Lebanese cast to dub “Earth and Coral” into Arabic [Published Tehran Times - May 17 2013]
[Perspectives] Running a school of life [Published Lancet - May 17 2013]
Broadway: Review - Bunty Berman Presents... [Published Broadway World - May 17 2013]
The sands of time [Published The Week - May 17 2013]

Blogs

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Budget deal reached [Published Off the Kuff - May 18 2013] And the crowd goes wild . Top House and Senate negotiators agreed to a two-year budget for the state of Texas Friday that restores about $4 billion of $5.4 billion in cuts to public education made in 2011. It also creates a path for lawmakers ...
US: A meningitis stalking gay men [Published H5N1 - May 18 2013] Via The New York Times, a worrying report: For Gay Men, a Fear That Feels Familiar. Excerpt:Then, in walks a skinny man in a black baseball cap, with soulful eyes and a nose that juts forward like the prow of a ship. He stops at a folding table set up ...
UK Imams promote Muslim sex slavery rings bruta... [Published Atlas Shrugs - May 16 2013] This is consistent with Islamic teachings -- the taking of infidel women as sex slaves is in accordance with Islamic law. And considering the sheer volume of rings -- hundreds of Muslim men -- of course the mosque and their religious clerics were involved. ...
‘Imams promote grooming rings’, Muslim leader c... [Published Solsticewitch13's BOS - May 16 2013] just NASTY!!! Thanks to TheReligionOFPeace for this religion of peace??? BULLSHITTT!!! ‘Imams promote grooming rings’, Muslim leader claims http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10061217/Imams-promote-grooming-rings-Muslim-leader-claims.html ...
UK Muslim leader says that imams promote sex sl... [Published Jihad Watch - May 16 2013] He says it is because they preach contempt for women and the concept of women as chattel, which (pace Hargey) is certainly found in Islam, with its polygamy (Qur'an 4:3), wife-beating (Qur'an 4:34), devaluing of a woman's testimony (Qur'an 2:282), etc. ...

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VIDEO: Burqa business in decline [Published BBC News Video - World - Feb 26 2013]

Press Releases

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McWilliams\|Ballard Sells Out the Townes of Shir... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Dec 12 2012]