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Indonesian city bans women from straddling motorbikes
A city in Indonesia’s Islamic law stronghold of Aceh will ban women from straddling male drivers on motorbikes, its mayor said on Wednesday, dubbing the position “improper”. The move comes after leaders from the country’s only province ruled by strict sharia law drafted a series of new bills including banning…
Court: Oklahoma can’t enforce Sharia law ban
DENVER (Reuters) – A federal appeals court upheld an injunction against a voter-approved ban on Islamic law in Oklahoma on Tuesday, saying it likely violated the U.S. Constitution by discriminating against religion. A three-member panel of the Denver-based U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the rights of…
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