The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare but powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s attacks on October 7 last year, where Hamas fighters killed 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds of Israelis and foreigners hostage, which also triggered a devastating war that killed over 45,000 Gazans.
Iran’s state Islamic body announced on November 12th that it will open a specialist mental health clinic in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to treat Iranian women who resist the regime’s mandatory hijab laws and refuse to wear headscarves.
Iran sets up mental health clinic to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear hijab. I’m sure these women will be treated just as well as they treat the gay community. pic.twitter.com/ZfTdPFw8u4
The Taliban carried out a shocking public execution of a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium in eastern Afghanistan, marking the sixth public execution carried out in the country after the Taliban seized power after the departure of US and NATO forces in 2021.
Libya is seeking to reintroduce the morality police to the streets of its capital, Tripoli, to reinforce its "society's traditions,” along with a rollout of a massive crackdown on individual freedoms and women’s rights, sparking criticisms and concerns among human rights advocates and ordinary Libyans.
A young Iranian woman was arrested for stripping off her clothes in protest outside her university after she was reportedly assaulted and harassed for improperly wearing her hijab, considered to be a violation of the Islamic Republic’s strict hijab laws.
Germany’s ruling coalition and main opposition parties agreed to pass a resolution in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, on antisemitism that will see the parliament describe Muslim antisemitism as a driver of the problem for the first time.
The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from allowing their voices to be heard by other women, further intensifying its repressive policies against Afghan women’s rights and raising concerns among human rights activists that such new laws could isolate them even further, preventing them from engaging in conversation or forming support networks.
An Iranian-born American imam accused “Zionists” of being “enemies of peace” who “love fighting” as well as war and blood, citing Quranic verses describing how Jews disobeyed Allah and killed their prophets.
A senior Iranian official and three other suspects linked to the Iranian regime were charged with planning to assassinate a prominent Iranian journalist and dissident.
US charges IRGC official, 3 others in plot to assassinate dissident journalist https://t.co/hJz0xrr6fQ
An American imam who also serves as the executive director of a state branch of a well-known American Muslim rights and advocacy group claimed during a sermon that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be solved if “enough” Americans become Muslim, adding that certain types and groups of people should be dealt with by calling them to convert to Islam.
