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Tag: Islamization

Posted inIndonesia

Pressure grows to be more Islamic in Indonesia

by John McBeth March 22, 2021March 25, 2021

JAKARTA – On the day Human Rights Watch Indonesia (HRW) produced an exhaustive study on abusive school dress codes, a Jakarta newspaper published a front-page picture of a Sulawesi mother taking three girls to school on her motorcycle. She wasn’t wearing a jilbab. They were. It seemed to highlight the fact that despite a new government […]

Posted inOpinion

Pakistan traveling back to the era of General Zia

by Imad Zafar July 29, 2020July 29, 2020
People hold a giant banner reading 'We are the people' during a march organized by the right-wing populist 'Pro Chemnitz' movement, on September 7, 2018, in Chemnitz, the flashpoint eastern city that saw protests marred by neo-Nazi violence. Photo: AFP  / John MacDougall
Posted inGermany, Middle East, Turkey, World

Why Germany is right to be wary of Turkish schools

by Faisal Al Yafai February 13, 2020February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia

Criminal code bill sparks a firestorm in Indonesia

by John McBeth September 24, 2019February 18, 2020
Imran Khan has been accused of bowing to religious extremists in Pakistan. Photo: AFP/Aamir Qureshi
Posted inPakistan, South Asia

Pakistan province bans males from all-girl schools

by FM Shakil October 31, 2018February 18, 2020
Posted inIran, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Nominees of terror groups plan to run in Pakistani election

by F.M. Shakil June 21, 2018February 18, 2020
Jono Simbolon (front), an Indonesian Christian, grimaces in pain as he is flogged in front of a crowd outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, on January 19, 2018. Photo: AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, China, Indonesia, Jordan, Middle East, South Asia, World

Draconian legislation could transform Indonesia

by John McBeth March 2, 2018February 18, 2020
Children from the"Orang Rimba" tribe -- whose name translates as "jungle people", who have been converted to Islam and given up their nomadic ways, wearing Islamic skullcaps and hijabs as they gather to recite the Koran, in the Batang Hari district of Jambi province.
Photo: AFP/Goh Chai Hin
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Turkey, World

What’s in a name in Indonesia?

by Aisyah Llewellyn February 6, 2018February 18, 2020
Indonesian students burn a  Golkar party flag in front of their campus in Jakarta in a file photo. Photo: AFP/Choo Youn-Kong
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Indonesia, Oceania

Hartarto: “We’ve already hit rock bottom”

by John McBeth January 18, 2018February 18, 2020
Supporters of opposition leader Imran Khan's PTI political party attend a celebration rally in Islamabad on July 30, 2017, after the Pakistani Supreme Court disqualified prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Reuters / Faisal Mahmood
Posted inAfghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia

Pakistan’s main opposition party allies with ‘Taliban seminary’

by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid January 11, 2018February 18, 2020
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak leaves a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 13, 2017. Photo: AFP/pool/Thomas Peter
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Malaysia, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia

Home and away, Najib has a China dilemma

by Nile Bowie September 20, 2017February 18, 2020
A flyer advertising a vigil for four missing religious activists in Malaysia. The sign's Bahasa language headline "Di Mana Mereka?" asks "Where Are They?" Photo: ENGAGE
Posted inAT Finance, China, Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, Thailand, World

‘Where are they?’: Malaysia’s disappearing religious activists

by Eli Meixler May 9, 2017February 18, 2020

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