NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is rejecting a call to drop an anti-Shariah activist as his state chairman for Tennessee. Kevin Kookogey, a former chairman of the Williamson County GOP, once criticized Republican Gov. Bill Haslam over the role of a Muslim staffer and a council that has advised two state departments…
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Legislature approved federally mandated child support rules Monday, undoing a rejection that had jeopardized U.S. involvement in an international treaty and threatened to collapse the state’s payment system. Idaho’s rejection last month — by one vote on the last day of the legislative session over fears it could subject the…
The Law Society (a prestigious professional body for solicitors) reversed a guidance note to its members designed to help them formulate an Islamic will. The note recalled, for example, that in many circumstances a male relative can expect to receive twice as much as a female, and that non-Muslims cannot inherit at all.
Paris-Dauphine offers a Master’s degree in Islamic Finance, providing the legal framework to do business within Islam. Farid Abderrezak, who teaches at Paris-Dauphine, is a banking specialist with BNP Paribas Nahman in Bahrain and says he is able to continue his work despite such “constraints.” “Look, profitability remains the primary criterion for investors, which does…
Ayman Mazyek, chair of the central council of Muslims in Germany condemned the self-announced “Shariah Police” of Wuppertal. The strange actions of the Salafi activists would harm Islam being incompatible with Islamic values. The “Shariah Police” was created by the preacher and convert Sven Lau from Mönchengladbach. The “Shariah Police” has included Salafi activists, patrolling…
