Ziyara to … the Taliban
Some of them may have been fighting to get rid of this sort of thing, but as a brother on Deenport pointed out, this is where a number of the Taliban who were killed...
Category: Muslim world
Libya’s new Magdalen homes
On the *Guardian*’s website (but not in the print edition), [Brian Whitaker reports](http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1720032,00.html) on the prisons the Libyan state has set up for so-called fallen women – some of them rape victims, some of...
Who’s heard of Tajikistan?
Melanie Phillips [reproduces](http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001609.html) a press release from the [International Sephardic Leadership Council](http://www.sephardiccouncil.org/) regarding the [destruction of the only functioning synagogue](http://www.sephardiccouncil.org/press-taj2.html) in Tajikistan by the government. The régime is supposedly a progressive (most likely this...