http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/maldives-religious-political-battles-lead-to-competing-arrests/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/maldives-religious-political-battles-lead-to-competing-arrests/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:48:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123386 Religion Clause: Religious-political battles in the Maldives are intensifying. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/maldives-religious-political-battles-lead-to-competing-arrests/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/17/maldives-military-arrests-top-judge-spark-protest/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/17/maldives-military-arrests-top-judge-spark-protest/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:24:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123216 News from The Associated Press: The Maldives' military has arrested the chief justice of the country's criminal court after he released an opposition leader who had been detained without a warrant for allegedly defaming the government. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/17/maldives-military-arrests-top-judge-spark-protest/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/300-in-maldives-protest-un-human-rights-commissioners-speech/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/300-in-maldives-protest-un-human-rights-commissioners-speech/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:05:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119525 Religion Clause: The protesters, claiming that the United Nations is spreading anti-Islamic activities in the Maldives, objected to Pillay's speech before Parliament in which she said that the flogging of women found to have had sex outside marriage is "inhuman and degrading." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/300-in-maldives-protest-un-human-rights-commissioners-speech/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/23/maldives-government-shuts-down-sufi-blog/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/23/maldives-government-shuts-down-sufi-blog/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:15:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119369 Religion Clause: . . . the Islamic affairs ministry, shut down the blog of Ismail Khilath “Hilath” Rasheed because it contained anti-Islamic material. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/23/maldives-government-shuts-down-sufi-blog/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/19/maldives-promulgates-new-regulations-to-prevent-extremist-islamic-teachings/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/19/maldives-promulgates-new-regulations-to-prevent-extremist-islamic-teachings/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:10:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113848 Religion Clause: In the Maldives, the government has published new regulations (full text) under the 1994 Protection of Religious Unity Act in the country's official gazette. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/19/maldives-promulgates-new-regulations-to-prevent-extremist-islamic-teachings/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/05/islamic-countries-dominate-open-doors-2011-world-watch-list/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/05/islamic-countries-dominate-open-doors-2011-world-watch-list/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:11:40 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=89907 ChristianNewsWire: "Despite Communist North Korea topping the annual Open Doors World Watch List (WWL) for the ninth consecutive year, the most dangerous countries in which to practice Christianity are overwhelmingly Islamic ones." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/05/islamic-countries-dominate-open-doors-2011-world-watch-list/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/30/restaurants-christmas-promotion-leads-to-police-investigation-in-maldives/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/30/restaurants-christmas-promotion-leads-to-police-investigation-in-maldives/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:39:52 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=89048 Minivan News: "The offer was criticised as a Christmas celebration by religious groups like the Adhaalath Party and the Islamic Foundation of the Maldives (IFM), which have both praised local police for yesterday stopping the promotion at the café." Via Religion Clause. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/30/restaurants-christmas-promotion-leads-to-police-investigation-in-maldives/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/05/expat-christian-teacher-forced-to-flee-maldives/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/05/expat-christian-teacher-forced-to-flee-maldives/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:04:02 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=75106 Charisma Mag: "Authorities in the Maldives last week had to transport a Christian teacher from India off one of the Islamic nation's islands after Muslim parents of her students threatened to expel her for 'preaching Christianity.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/05/expat-christian-teacher-forced-to-flee-maldives/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/prospects-of-religious-freedom-appear-grim-in-islamic-maldives/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/prospects-of-religious-freedom-appear-grim-in-islamic-maldives/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:18:29 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68504 The Christian Post: "After Saudi Arabia, the Maldives is the only nation that claims a 100-percent Muslim population. The more than 300,000 people in the Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago featuring 1,192 islets 435 miles southwest of Sri Lanka, are all Sunnis. This South Asian nation, however, has more than 70,000 expatriate workers representing several non-Islamic religions, including Christianity." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/12/prospects-of-religious-freedom-appear-grim-in-islamic-maldives/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/01/maldivian-shocks-audience-by-annnouncing-he-is-not-muslim-some-call-for-death-sentence/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/01/maldivian-shocks-audience-by-annnouncing-he-is-not-muslim-some-call-for-death-sentence/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:11:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/01/maldivian-shocks-audience-by-annnouncing-he-is-not-muslim-some-call-for-death-sentence/ Religion Clause Blog:  "The Maldives Constitution, Sec. 9, limits citizenship to Muslims. Minivan News reported yesterday that 37-year old Mohamed Nazim shocked an audience during a question and answer period at a lecture Friday on "Misconceptions About Islam" delivered by a visiting Indian scholar . . . " ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/01/maldivian-shocks-audience-by-annnouncing-he-is-not-muslim-some-call-for-death-sentence/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/13/libya-thailand-elected-to-human-rights-council/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/13/libya-thailand-elected-to-human-rights-council/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:17 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=60704 ABC: "Libya and Thailand are among 14 countries elected as new members of the UN Human Rights Council in a vote that rights advocates have criticised as stripping the meaning from the body. Angola, Mauritania, Uganda, Maldives, Malaysia, Qatar, Moldova, Poland, Ecuador, Guatemala, Spain and Switzerland have also been elected by the General Assembly for three-year terms on the 47-nation council, which is based in Geneva." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/13/libya-thailand-elected-to-human-rights-council/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/11/maldives-religious-unity-regulations-contain-ambiguities-policy-issues-says-press-secretary/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/11/maldives-religious-unity-regulations-contain-ambiguities-policy-issues-says-press-secretary/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 20:59:10 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=60458 Minivan News: "The new regulations under the Religious Unity Act of 1994 drafted by the Islamic Ministry contain 'ambiguities' and provisions that could be in conflict with the government’s stated policies, said the President’s Press Secretary, Mohamed Zuhair. The President of the Human Rights Commission of Maldives, religious scholars, people from the entertainment industry and NGOs have expressed concern with the regulations, he said." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/11/maldives-religious-unity-regulations-contain-ambiguities-policy-issues-says-press-secretary/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/07/open-doors-top-ten-list-of-countries-persecuting-christians-dominated-by-islamic-governments/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/07/open-doors-top-ten-list-of-countries-persecuting-christians-dominated-by-islamic-governments/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:21:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=47373 Catholic Culture: "The list compiled by Open Doors was dominated by Islamic governments. Conspicuously absent from the 'top 10' list were China and Vietnam . . The top 10 persecutors on the Open Doors list were . . . 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