Archive for October 13th, 2009

Aseel al-Awadhi and Rola Dashti (2nd & 3rd left), celebrate their election, May 2009

The MPs, who were among the first four women to be elected to the country’s National Assembly in May, have angered their Islamist colleagues, who say they say they are flouting sharia, or Islamic law.

One of the two is going further by demanding the scrapping of an amendment to electoral regulations that says they have to observe sharia in parliament.

“You can’t force a woman going to the mall to wear a hijab and you can’t force a woman going to work to wear the hijab,” the MP, Rola Dashti, told The Daily Telegraph. “This is not Iran or Saudi Arabia.” Read the rest of this entry »

Geert Wilders being detained by UK Border Officials at Heathrow, in February this year

Be sure to watch Wilders short film ‘Fitna’ at the end of this article:

Geert Wilders, the ‘far-right’ [our quote marks: Ed.] Dutch politician, today won his appeal against the government’s decision not to allow him into the UK.

Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, was originally refused entry in February after arriving in London. He had been due to show his 17-minute film Fitna, which criticises the Qu’ran as a “fascist book”, at the House of Lords, but was turned away at Heathrow airport. Read the rest of this entry »