Charlotte Philby – Independent – Thursday, 30 May 2013 (originally published 26 May) Two former students from Pakistan are believed to have become the first Muslim lesbian couple to marry in a civil ceremony in Britain. Rehana Kausar, 34, and Sobia Kamar, 29, took their vows at a registry office in Leeds earlier this month […]
Dr. Julie Macfarlane – WNN Opinion (WNN/CGN) Kingsville, Ontario, CANADA: Recently, Florida’s House of Representatives passed a bill (which later died in the state Senate) to ban the use of “foreign law” in domestic courtrooms. Such a bill may seem innocuous but according to the Miami Herald, flyers have circulated in Senate offices describing sharia […]
Kashmir correspondent Aliya Bashir – WNN Features Journalist, Aliya Bashir, talks with families whose husbands, brothers and sons have disappeared during years of conflict in Kashmir. (WNN) Srinagar – Indian-Administered Kashmir: Twenty-eight year old Haleema (name changed) is a resident of the predominately Muslim Anantnag district of southern Kashmir. In a region where the literacy […]
