Mariam Yahya Ibrahim had been charged with adultery for marrying a Christian man and been ordered by the court to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith to revert to Islam.
Fears for the fate of 223 Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish after the leader of the Islamist militant group that abducted them announced plans to sell them.
Brunei introduced a stringent Islamic penal code on May 1 that refers to Sharia punishments and includes the severing of limbs for theft and death by stoning for adulterers.
Ironically, Saudi Arabia has condemned Norway’s human rights record, saying the country has failed to protect its Muslim citizens by not restricting the criticism of Prophet Mohammed.
Schools in Birmingham have been segregating students illegally, discriminating against non-Muslims and limiting the GCSE syllabus so it complies with conservative Islamic teaching.
A Pakistani cleric, who runs an Islamic seminary for girls in Islamabad, has named the newly built library on his school premises in honour of Osama bin Laden.
