Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen will face criminal charges in India after being accused of stirring up religious enmity.
The charges come after Nasreen was attacked at a publication party because of opposition to a translation of her latest book, Shodh, in Hyderabad last week. Several lawmakers and members of a conservative Muslim political party threw flowers and other items at her and called for her death.
Nasreen, author of Wild Wind and Shame, is an exile from her native Bangladesh because of a fatwa against her and a threat by the government to lay charges stemming from her writing. - Full story
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"Sharia rules are already being introduced every day. Islamic banking is now possible in every West European country. The pan-European aerospace company Airbus has established a Sharia-compliant subsidiary. A fatwa board of muftis has to approve all decisions."
Today, Udo Ulfkotte, one of the organizers of the anti-Sharia demonstration in Brussels on 11 September, was in the Belgian and European capital to confer with lawyers about legal steps to counter last week's decision by the mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, to ban the demonstration.
Tomorrow Hugo Coveliers, a member of the Belgian Senate, will initiate an appeal procedure on Ulfkotte's behalf against the mayor's decision before the Council of State, Belgium's highest administrative court. The CoS will have to issue its verdict before 11 September. According to Senator Coveliers it is "80% certain" that the CoS will overrule the mayor's ban and allow the demonstration to go ahead. ... Full story
