08.05.2008 5:06 pm

Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Saudi Arabia’s religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes…

Tags: hypocrisy, Islam, religious police, religious schools, Saudi Arabia, shari'a law, Wahhabism

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07.09.2008 4:39 pm

Taliban establish official mini-state in Pakistan

By Alex Mayer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The situation in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), which borders Afghanistan, has been going steadily downhill since 2006, when the Taliban began their campaign against the provincial and national Pakistani governments there.

To make a long story short, Pervez Musharraf’s government responded with a schizophrenic policy,…

Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan, shari'a law, Taliban, terrorism

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