<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Then There Was Light... &#187; Stone Age</title>
	<atom:link href="http://thentherewaslight.com/category/arab-world/stone-age/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://thentherewaslight.com</link>
	<description>The shining light of reason in this dark lost world.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:13:05 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>8 year old Saudi girl not allowed to divorce her 47 year old husband</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/780_8-year-saudi-girl-allowed-divorce-47-year-husband/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/780_8-year-saudi-girl-allowed-divorce-47-year-husband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought in my life that the words &#8217;8 year old girl&#8217; and &#8216;divorce&#8217; would be in a headline together. From Al Arabiya: A Saudi judge refused for the second time to grant an eight-year-old girl a divorce from her 47-year-old husband, local press reported Saturday, in a decision the girl’s mother promised to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/780_8-year-saudi-girl-allowed-divorce-47-year-husband/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>&#8216;Islam is for progress&#8217;: Prince Khaled of Saudi Arabia</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/703_islam-progress-prince-khaled-saudi-arabia/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/703_islam-progress-prince-khaled-saudi-arabia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess the Mecca Governor&#8217;s definition of progress is quite different than mine. JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday denounced propaganda by certain westernized Muslims that Islam and Islamic values are the reason for the backwardness of the community. “Islam, on the contrary, is a religion of progress, civilization, justice, equality and freedom,” the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/703_islam-progress-prince-khaled-saudi-arabia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Turkish journalist fired for publishing story about Evolution</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/694_turkish-journalist-fired-publishing-story-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/694_turkish-journalist-fired-publishing-story-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In yet more signs of the Muslim world&#8217;s regression back into the Dark Ages, the editor-in-chief for the Science and Technology journal in Turkey &#8211; traditionally known as a very modern, secular state &#8211; has apparently been fired for daring to publish a cover story on Evolution. Der Spiegel has an interview with Cigdem Atakuman, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/694_turkish-journalist-fired-publishing-story-evolution/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Dubai arrests British woman for &#8216;honour crime&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/689_dubai-arrests-british-woman-honor-crime-adultery/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/689_dubai-arrests-british-woman-honor-crime-adultery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honour crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UAE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just days after Dubai announced its plans to crack down on couples holding hands, they&#8217;ve now jailed a British woman for three months for apparently committing adultery, an &#8216;honour crime&#8217; according to Dubai law. DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) A British woman faced losing her children after Dubai&#8217;s top court rejected her second appeal and sentenced her to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/689_dubai-arrests-british-woman-honor-crime-adultery/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Saudi intellectual criticized for fatherly kiss</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/684_saudi-intellectual-criticized-fatherly-kiss-learn/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/684_saudi-intellectual-criticized-fatherly-kiss-learn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Al Arabiya: DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) A Saudi intellectual is facing a strong wave of criticism for kissing a poet on the forehead in a literary seminar, local press reported Saturday. Khadeeja Najea, head of the women&#8217;s committee of the poetry forum in the southwestern city of Jizan, kissed septuagenarian poet Mohamed al-Ali on the forehead [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/684_saudi-intellectual-criticized-fatherly-kiss-learn/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>No holding hands in public in &#8216;progressive&#8217; Dubai</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/671_holding-hands-public-progressive-dubai/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/671_holding-hands-public-progressive-dubai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UAE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dancing or holding hands in public could now score you a prison sentence in the Arab world&#8217;s apparently most progressive and Western-friendly state. From my favourite, Arab News: DUBAI: Playing loud music, dancing, nudity, kissing and even holding hands in public is considered inappropriate behavior under new guidelines laid down by the authorities of Dubai, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/671_holding-hands-public-progressive-dubai/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Saudi couple caught in &#8216;illegal seclusion&#8217;, get into car accident trying to flee</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/667_saudi-couple-caught-illegal-seclusion-car-accident-flee/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/667_saudi-couple-caught-illegal-seclusion-car-accident-flee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So basically a couple in Apartheid Saudi Arabia was doing the inconceivable act of hanging out in their car together &#8211; a crime in Saudi Arabia. They saw the Saudi thought-police and got scared and tried to drive off but in their haste and panic got into an accident. The man now faces charges for [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/667_saudi-couple-caught-illegal-seclusion-car-accident-flee/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Morocco a bastion of human rights: locks up innocent American after crash landing</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/644_morocco-bastion-human-rights-locks-innocent-american-crash-landing/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/644_morocco-bastion-human-rights-locks-innocent-american-crash-landing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morocco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where&#8217;s the world outrage? And more importantly, where&#8217;s lover of the underdog and the oppressed, Obama? He&#8217;s so eager to free Gitmo terrorists, but actual American citizens, why should he care about them? It won&#8217;t move him up in the polls. A DesPlaines woman is begging the U.S. government to intervene to save her husband&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/644_morocco-bastion-human-rights-locks-innocent-american-crash-landing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Iranian hanged to death for adultery with teenager</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/372_iranian-hanged-death-adultery-teenager-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/372_iranian-hanged-death-adultery-teenager-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thentherewaslight.com/?p=372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little harsh, don&#8217;t you think? TEHRAN (AFP) — An Iranian man who was sentenced to death by stoning after he was found guilty of having illicit relations with a teenage girl has been hanged, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Abdullah Fareivar, a 50-year-old music teacher, was hanged on Thursday in a prison in the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://thentherewaslight.com/372_iranian-hanged-death-adultery-teenager-stone/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

