News:A Sudanese judge has sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, despite appeals by Western embassies for compassion and respect for religious freedom. The case, thought to be the first of its kind to be heard in Sudan, involves a woman whose Christian name is Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag. "We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam," Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told…

News The issue of hudud (punishments) is again raised in the Malaysian mainstream media. Actually, the issue on the implementation of hudud had been raised repeatedly, notably by Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), but now, the issue is raised with a little bit of a twist. UMNO, the main Malay Muslim component of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, reportedly agreed with PAS to set up a technical committee to discuss the…

Education Policy is for Building Aware Islamic Leaders, Not Lip-service Within a Two Stream Education Sector Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousaf said on Saturday 17 May that groundwork to introduce Arabic into the curriculum, as a compulsory language up to the senior secondary (SSC) level, has been completed. Speaking to the press at Wah Cantonment on Sunday 18 May, the minister added that the project would be…

News On 19th May 2014, many news agencies including AP, CBS and the Guardian reported that a top White House official has assured the deans of prominent U.S. public health schools that the CIA will no longer use vaccination programs as cover for spying operations. The agency used the ruse in targeting Osama bin Laden before the U.S. raid that killed him in 2011. Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama's top…