
In October last year, al-Shabab ordered a 13-year-old girl to be stoned to death in public in the southern city of Kismayo.
She was accused of adultery after reporting she had been raped by three men.
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Afghans die in attack on US convoy Source: AL JAZEERA
At least 10 people have been killed in an attack on a US convoy passing through a busy Afghan market.
Another 58 civilians were hurt in the attack in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday morning, officials said.
Anti-Sharia for CongressSource: frontpagemag.com
FP: What has made you make an anti-Sharia platform the central tenet of your campaign?
Cabbie refuses ride to guide dogSource: The Cincinnati Enquirer
For Annie McEachrin, her 4-year-old black Labrador, Jessica, is more than a companion. Blind since birth, Ms. McEachrin relies on Jessica for mobility, traveling everywhere with a hand on the dog guide's harness.
Enabling Hezbollah - New York Post Source: New York Post
May 14, 2008 -- AS Hezbollah's terror army dismantles Lebanon, the world whistles "Ain't That a Shame."
With its heavily funded proxies marching through an Arab democracy's ruins, Iran has arrived on the Mediterranean, outflanking Israel.
Europe or Eurabia?Source: Australian News Network
THE future of Europe is in play. Will it turn into "Eurabia", a part of the Muslim world? Will it remain the distinct cultural unit it has been for the past millennium? Or might there be some creative synthesis of the two?
Danes clash on web in Prophet rowSource: BBC News
The controversy in Denmark over the reprinting of one of the 12 cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad this week has triggered an unusual dialogue on social networking group Facebook, writes the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Frances Harrison.
David Horowitz, Feminist?Source: The Nation
Katha Pollitt column, which deconstruct's Horowitz's efforts to slur academic feminists as at least tacit supporters of "Islamofascism."
Fearing Fear Itself - New York TimesSource: The New York Times
In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror." But that was then.Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance of r …
Amnesty slams Fatah, Hamas clashesSource: JPost.com
Gunmen attacked from civilian apartment buildings and hospitals, targeting patients in their hospital beds.
Gunmen used crowded residential neighborhoods as war zones, firing mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and bullets from civilian buildings.
Embracing the empireSource: Haaretz
Bernard Kouchner, France's new foreign minister, has a long and distinguished record as an advocate of intervention in countries where human rights are abused.

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
by Mark Steyn
(Regnery Publishing, 2006)