Indonesia’s religious affairs minister resigned on May 26 after being accused of misusing funds that were intended to help Muslim pilgrims visit Mecca.
A controversial Muslim cleric who earlier backed a fatwa authorizing the killing of American soldiers in Iraq, was promoted by the State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau on May 23.
Twenty-seven-year old Sudanese doctor, Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for apostasy, gave birth to a baby girl named Maya in jail, while still in shackles.
Thirty-three year old financial manager Amal Farah, who lives in Britain, believes she would have been dead if she continued to reside in Somalia after renouncing her Islamic faith.
Six of the seven people, who were arrested in Iran for dancing to Pharrell Williams’ hit song Happy in a YouTube video that subsequently went viral, were freed on May 21.
Bread and Roses, a freethinking socio-political television magazine in English and Persian will be broadcasted across the world, including countries in the Middle East and Iran.
Social networking and microblogging website Twitter sent a notice to Atheist Republic asking it to block certain URLs that it had posted in commemoration of Everybody Draw Mohammad Day.
A teacher at one of the state schools in Birmingham illegally hacked into a pupil’s phone in an attempt to separate her from her boyfriend because they were in a “forbidden” relationship.
