Muslim rebels in Mali impose martial law, cut off hands, and forcibly impress children into combat roles. Qatar is entwined with the rebels, hoping to extend Islam and its own regional power.

Coptic Christians, who have been present in Egypt since apostolic times, are increasingly marginalized and frightened by Muslim violence.

Don't mess with Mohammad.

An altercation between Muhammad Boota and Asif Masih led to the accusations. The testimony of local landowners and residents end in the accused being released. The words of Chaudhary Khalid Cheema tipped the balance. For the latter, the charges against the Christian man were "repugnant."

Arming the women of Afghanistan, who have been raped and tortured by the Taliban, could go a long way in stemming violence in the country.

Catholic Archbishop Lukudu Loro of Juba says that the people of South Sudan do not want war. "This is an economic conflict for the control of oil," he says.

In Pakistan, there are 1,000 cases of forced conversions of Christian and Hindu girls and women to Islam each year.

Only drunks, druggies and adulterers, reject Sharia, says the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt's Coptic Christians beg to differ. What the Muslim Brotherhood says in English is quite different from what is said in Arabic for Muslim consumption.

A witch was beheaded in Yemen, and two murderers beheaded in the Oil Kingdom.

Both internal and external controls must be exerted to stem the tide of Islamist terrorism in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and world-class producer of oil.

A group of Ethiopians are arrested at the home of one of them. They are accused of “unlawful mingling” among unmarried people of the opposite sex. For Human Rights Watch, this is another violation of religious freedom.

A belief among some Muslims that women are chattel is blamed for the murder of 3 girls and a woman by a Muslim man over his offended 'honor.'

Christians and moderate Muslims are trying to stem the tide of Islamo-fascism in the heart of the former Yugoslavia.

Born in Iran, Gelareh Bagherzadeh was studying at Texas Medical Center in Houston. She was shot dead, and her purse untouched.

Law enforcement and social services in Tennessee are reluctant to investigate abuse of children out of fear of incurring the wrath of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Final sentence within days. Grand Mufti of the region claims the two men are guilty of forced conversions. Rev. Khanna: "I fear for my life." John Dayal of the All Indian Christian Council (AICC): "Islamic Court has no authority, India is a secular and democratic state".

The people of South Sudan have voted for democracy, and an end to underdevelopment and slavery. President Salva Kiir of South Sudan made his maiden foreign visit as head of state to Israel.

Joblessness among young people, and fears of modernity, provide the fodder for the growing Boko Haram movement in Nigeria.