Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted party has been locked in a power struggle with secular groups supported by the military and other state institutions, including the judiciary.

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Hugh Hewitt hits it out of the park with this comment.

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MNF-I
Iraqi Army forces entered the Zayn Al-Abidin mosque in Tarmiyah and detained its leader overseeing the illegal religious court Sept. 8, while U.S. forces provided support.
Sources and local civilians reported that the mosque’s leader had acted as a judge for the Sharia Court in Tarmiyah.
Al Qaeda operatives often establish a Sharia court to [...]

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Yep, that’s what the headline in the Democrat & Chronicle reads.
Yusef Sharif’s dream is on display in the architectural renderings hanging on a wall of his restaurant — the masonry building, the gold-colored dome: a total of more than 31,000 square feet in which his congregation’s mosque would be a central piece.
Rochester’s Muslim population has [...]

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BBC
Dozens of young women from a religious school in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, have broken into an alleged brothel and kidnapped the owner.
The women, from the nearby Jamia Hafsa madrassa, burst in late on Tuesday, demanding the premises be shut down.
The women say they have a right to end immoral activity under Islamic law.
The BBC’s Navdip [...]

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Reuters
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - The leader of a messianic Muslim cult was killed with 200 or more followers during a day-long onslaught by U.S. and Iraqi forces on their camp near the holy city of Najaf, Iraqi officials said on Monday.
They accused him of making a claiming to be the Mahdi, a messiah-like figure in [...]

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MNF Iraq
Special Iraqi Army Forces and Iraqi National Police detained the Imam of the Al-Mahdi Mosque during operations Jan. 12 in Balad targeting suspected illegal armed group figures involved in kidnapping, murder and other violent crimes against Iraqi civilians.
Iraqi forces, with Coalition forces advisers, conducted the operation to capture illegal armed group leaders who are [...]

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ALa seems to agree with me. That’s nice.

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For some reason, there are people who want to disbelieve their eyes and ears. Dean is one.

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Aziz Poonawalla is Dean’s “Defender of Islam”. He accepts the Pope’s apology today.

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