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French police conduct raids in crackdown after teacher beheading
PARIS (Reuters) - French police on Monday raided Islamic associations and foreigners suspected of extremist religious beliefs, police sources said, three days after a suspected Islamist beheaded a school teacher.
Indonesian politician's anti-virus veil policy draws fire
LABUIHAN LOMBOK, Indonesia, July 10 (AFP): An Indonesian politician is under fire for ordering female civil servants to wear face veils once a week in what he defended as a bid to guard against the coronavirus.
Do more to protect children
From DATUK AMBIGA SREENEVASAN, Former Bar Council chairperson/ Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.
Up to states to amend marriage age
While federal laws may be amended to raise the minimum age of marriage for Muslim girls to 18, it is still up to the state to follow suit, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
SIS: Wan Azizah irresponsible for child sexual grooming comments
PETALING JAYA: Sisters in Islam (SIS) has described Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as “irresponsible” for her comments that no criminal element had been proven when it came to the issue of child marriage and the sexual grooming of children.
Seven states still against 18 as minimum marriage age for Muslim girls
KUALA LUMPUR: While Federal laws may be amended to raise the minimum age of marriage for Muslim girls to 18, it is still up to the state to follow suit, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Special day to say ‘I do’ in unison
AFTER being together for five years, chef Lim Jia Wei, 31, decided to make air stewardess Joey Loh Yen Jzu, 28, his wife.
Non-Muslim child marriages on the rise
PETALING JAYA: Although the debate on child marriages has often focused on Muslims, nuptials among non-Muslims below the age of 18 have gone up by about 20% annually in the past four years, with concerned groups blaming this on rising urban poverty and the lack of sex education.
Austrian Muslims to challenge school headscarf ban in court
VIENNA (Reuters) - The organisation representing Austria's Muslims said on Thursday it would ask the Constitutional Court to reverse a ban on headscarves in primary schools a day after it was passed in parliament.
‘It’s a sin to send her to school’
BUTTERWORTH: Malaysian law stopped an 11-year-old Rohingya girl from being married off here, but now that she has “come of age” by her community’s standards, she is no longer allowed to continue schooling.
