13 March 2003 India: potential temple-mosque trouble spots abound A court order to excavate and ascertain if a temple existed at the site of a razed mosque in Ayodhya... Read more
11 March 2003 Russia: Supreme Court supports ban on headscarves in document photos The Supreme Court on 4 March rejected an appeal by 10 Muslim women from Tatarstan who asked the court to... Read more
11 March 2003 Bangladesh: party wants enforcement of ‘fatwa’ A ruling coalition partner in Bangladesh has renewed calls for the enforcement of the 'fatwa', or religious decree, as law... Read more
11 March 2003 Kyrgyzstan: Hizb ut-Tahrir accused of increased militancy Over the past three years, reports of arrests in southern Kyrgyzstan of members of the banned Islamic Hizb ut-Tahrir party... Read more
11 March 2003 Chechnya: Amir Abu al-Walid and the Islamic component of the Chechen war Following the death of Amir Ibn al-Khattab last spring, there was speculation as to whether the foreign Islamist mujahidin would... Read more
27 February 2003 The Islamic Party of Russia Boasting 2,160,000 members and aspiring to five times that number, the recently organized Islamic Party of Russia (IPR) stands poised... Read more
11 February 2003 India: Hindutva is an all-encompassing vision Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his deputy L.K. Advani Tuesday made a strong pitch for Hindutva, justifying it as... Read more
07 February 2003 Africa: Christian retaliation increasing in Nigeria’s religious violence Seventeen Christians from various church denominations in Aba, a city in Nigeria’s southern Abia state, were arrested in late January... Read more
06 February 2003 India: Government under attack for moving court in Ayodhya tangle Hindu and Muslim leaders Thursday criticised the Indian government's move to seek the removal of a Supreme Court ban on... Read more
06 February 2003 Hizb-ut-Tahrir remains active in Central Asia Officials in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are resorting to repressive measures in an effort to... Read more