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Two separate gang-rape crimes and one specific charge of sorcery within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are being reported in a single article by the Persian Gulf-centered news portal Emirates 24/7 on Oct. 29, 2013. Life's a Witch... With Islamic sharia law being at the core of the Kingdom's legal and penal system, a yet to be identified Filipina has been picked up by the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (aka: "The Morality Police) on charges of being a sorceress. Identified only as being "a woman in her 40s," the accused practitioner of the...

A man who whipped a Muslim convert as a religious punishment for drinking alcohol was sentenced Friday to at least 16 months in jail. Wasim Fayad, 45, was convicted earlier this year of the 2011 attack on Christian Martinez. Sydney Central Local Court Magistrate Brian Maloney sentenced Fayad, who had been Martinez’s spiritual mentor, to a maximum of two years in jail for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. …

The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia by Tim Priest I BELIEVE that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen. In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB. I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin. I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Beaker Valley Heroin, markedly different from any heroin I had seen. Number Four...

Ahmed Resain has his back to the door, so he does not see the gunman alight from a car outside his rudimentary Al Pasha hairdressing salon, in Baghdad's dusty Al-Salam quarter. The assailant strides deliberately into the shop and coldly turns to face Ahmed. He presses a pistol to the stunned barber's lower lip, carefully angling the weapon to ensure that the bullet exits through his left jaw. Ahmed, 37, is still standing - but three shots to his legs as the gunman makes his getaway drop him to the floor in a pool of his own blood. His survival...

More than 200 people have died in riots that erupted last week, forcing the relocation of the contest from Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to London. Miss World President Julia Morley said the contest had been used as a "political football" and blamed the violence on a Nigerian newspaper article suggesting Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the pageant. Though Nigeria has a long history of Muslim-Christian hostility, she said it was not a mistake to choose the country as a site for the contest. "What was a mistake was a journalist making a remark he shouldn't have made," Morley...

Nobel's regrets on Peres awardMembers of the Norwegian committee that awards the annual Nobel Peace Prize have launched an unprecedented verbal assault on Israeli Foreign Minister and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres. Mr Peres accepted the peace prize jointly with the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israel's late prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, in 1994. Yes, I wish it was possible that we could recall the prize Nobel committee member Hanna Kvanmo In an interview with a Norwegian newspaper, committee members said they regretted that Mr Peres' prize could not be recalled because, as a member of the Israeli cabinet, he...

Bush must face truth about Arab terror against IsraelBy Norman Podhoretz (April 5) - More than half a century ago, the British writer George Orwell made a famous statement that can still serve as the beginning of wisdom for anyone trying to unravel the tangled relation between the war against terrorism being waged by the United States and the attitude of the Bush administration toward the war against terrorism being waged by Israel. What Orwell said was that political speech and writing had largely turned into the defense of the indefensible. In singling out the Bush administration here, I should...