Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
The article narrates the story of a former fundamentalist who used to ask a paper seller about pornographic magazines and books in order to overcome his sexual impotence. The article went into every detail of the fundamentalist sex life and strongly criticized their approach to sexual education,...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
The author opened fire on the extremist sheikhs and the Islamic fundamentalists for their obsession with sex and their open way of dealing with it in their sermons and meetings. He criticized their rejection of writers who dealt with sex in their publications and asked them to look at themselves...
Date of source: Friday, October 29, 1999
Universities are the place where secret marriages between university students are one of the problems that threatened the moral life of these students; especially because students in that phase of life are driven by the uncontrolled emotions of the youth. In 1997 a social researcher found 31...
Date of source: Monday, October 18, 1999
The article discusses female genital mutilation among Yemeni females. There is a wide difference between the actual teaching of Islam and what is externally practiced in various Islamic states by Muslims who have at time mixed up customs, traditions and secularism with Islamic teachings.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 29, 1999
The Cabinet decided to toughen the punishment against adulterers "to prevent people from committing adultery."
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
[Letter to the editor ]
Thanks to the courageous work of human rights activists and the ordinary Jordanian citizen, who consciously and persistently have spoken out and condemned the horrible injustices inflicted upon women in our society, the campaign against " crimes of honor " in Jordan is...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
His Majesty King Abdullah’s advisor on Islamic affairs called for amendments to the penal code which they believe encourages men to kill female relatives for involvement - real or suspected - in illicit relationships.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999 to Wednesday, September 15, 1999
It is often mentioned that Islam is a religion which establishes a complete code of serious morality. It wants its followers to maintain and operate that code in their own social life, so that their dealings and their ties are established on the basis of Islam. The seriousness of Islamic morality...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
A review of the book: "The Marriage Bed. Sexuality in Islam" by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba. Published in London by Saqi Books, 1998. In this book is one of the few attempts at dealing with the dimension of sexuality in the teachings of Islam and the way in which these teachings have become distorted by...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 1999
The Jordanian government intends to amend articles providing for honor crimes in the Jordanian Penal Code, most importantly Section 1 of Article 340. The author discusses the reasons for the inclusion of this section originally and concludes by saying, "Jordanians have an Arab conservative culture...