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"The events of New Year's Eve were the girls' own fault . . . ."

Raising the marriage age to 18 would be "blasphemous."

It's the same thing that happened in Tahrir Square during the 2011 uprising.

Africa could collapse into Malthusian catastrophe.

Indonesian girl caned in public for showing affection to a man.

You may not rape two sisters at the same time; if you rape a mother you mustn't touch her daughter.

Basic lesson: "To force someone into sex is not permitted in Norway."

He used the bones for Santeria healing rituals.

A baroness speaks out against Muslim practices.

African priest: "These witches they eat human flesh, they drink human blood."

Fathers responsible for 27 percent of pregnancies of girls under age 14.

Not the first time stampede during "stone the devil" ritual led to hundreds of deaths.

TimesSays pederasty is "rife" in Afghanistan.

Adolescent girls go for $124.

Dare we call them "xenophobic"?

British Pakis: 3 percent of births; 30 percent of genetic disease.

Girl's mother kept silent for fear of a voodoo curse.

More than 10,000 dogs were eaten to celebrate summer solstice.

Demand for albino body parts increases in the run-up to elections.

Half a million women risk being "cut."

Traditional Islam comes to Libya.

Egypt banned the practice in 2008 but it is still popular.

All justified by traditional Islam.

Government: Witchdoctors are "holding back the development of our country."

"The death sentence was issued after his apostasy was proved."

Risk will increase "as politicians turn to witchcraft to enhance their prospects."

The whole country believes in spirits.

Number has doubled since 2000.

Three tons of cats in one truck.

Probably won't work in country where 93% of the population believes in witchcraft.

Saudi Arabia follows Shariah law.

She says "ISIS is real Muslim believers who like to follow the Quran."

This had long been suspected.

Some were pregnant.

Document says it's OK to have sex with pre-pubescent slave girls.

Women are bargained for livestock.

Their businesses depend on superstitious rumors.

He calls the "cellphone number for the ancestors" to cure Ebola.

It's supposed to ward off unwanted male attention.

Indians in Paraguay shot her with arrows and burned her.

Zimbabwe minister says contraceptives were invented to prevent black births.

Her father joins in.

And non-Muslims will have to ride horses side saddle.

The futility of trying to make things work in West Africa.

A neat way to avoid fornication and adultery.

Each year 500 "witches" are lynched in Tanzania.

Some cases have resulted in death.

The punishment is 15 to 20 years in prison.

Natives think Ebola was invented by whites to kill blacks.

Liberian professor says the US infects Africans through vaccines.

Marrying a dog supposed to rid her of evil spirits.

Poachers kill them for various reasons.

Club-wielding raiders yelled "there's no Ebola!"

The Bukusu people insist that strangers adopt Bukusu customs.

They believed reading the owl Bible passages would force it to turn into a woman.

New Kru Town has 50,000 people and almost no functioning toilets.

VICE shows how blacks' attitudes help spread Ebola.

Most were cut before they came but last year there were 1,300 cases in Britain.

Victims don't seek treatment because they think the disease is sorcery.

Museveni says his people can get along without aid if they "stop sleeping."

Disease has already killed 500 people.

Puerto Rican custom comes to America.

Asylum seekers bring their customs to Sweden.

“We need to unite, we must declare jihad.”

A Pakistani man living in Brooklyn wanted goat for dinner.

In the Central African Republic, 60 percent of the women in prison are convicted witches.

39 percent believe in "the evil eye."

Nigerians want to use their "spiritual hunting skills" to take on Boko Haram.

It's lawful to cut clitorises in Somliland. It is done with only local anesthetic.

There are an estimated 66,000 victims of the procedure living in Britain.

It was long assumed he drowned.

Primitive commerce on the shores of Lake Victoria.

They are told they must lose their virginity or they will get a skin disease.

A few people are waking up to the crisis.

He and his accomplices are all "Christian."