Health authorities in northern Iran released a new edict, ordering that women who don’t wear their hijab correctly or have no headscarf should be denied healthcare. This sparked strong reactions among Iranian netizens and prominent Iranian figures and activists.
The circulation of a letter to hospitals requiring strict hijab for medical services in northern Iran has sparked strong public reactions.https://t.co/n86skF65i6
When Reza Seqati, who works as a director for the regime’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in the northern province of Gilan, was exposed after a video of him having sex with a young man circulated on the Internet, the issue was widely discussed on Iranian social media.
A high-profile and notorious radical British preacher was arrested last July 17th and charged with leading a terrorist organization in the United Kingdom.
Since the Taliban seized power as a US-led coalition of foreign military forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, they imposed wide-sweeping restrictions against women based on their strict interpretation of Islam and Sharia law.
While protests in Iran have slowly subsided after Mahsa Amini died under the custody of the morality police in September 2022 for failing to wear her hijab correctly, the Iranian regime remains steadfast as ever in strictly enforcing its mandatory hijab law on Iranian women.
Iran is pursuing a new crackdown on women who violate strict dress codes https://t.co/QLFobGOt7e
An Iranian official in the northwestern province of Gilan was sacked after a sex tape involving him and a young man was leaked on social media.
Peyman Behboudi who recently published the sex tape of the Iranian hijab watchdog official on his Telegram channel, says the Islamic Republic's agents have arrested his sister and her children. https://t.co/sPze3vKp6x
After two separate incidents of Quran burning in Sweden and Denmark this July, emotions run extremely high in Iraq, where the Swedish embassy was torched down by protesters along with an attempt to storm the Danish diplomatic mission in the country’s capital Baghdad.
Video footage shows the Swedish embassy in Iraq on fire after hundreds of people stormed the complex in a protest against the planned burning of a Quran in Sweden pic.twitter.com/PAkccnCIz6
A 21-year-old Indian Muslim man suffered severe injuries and trauma after experiencing violent religious coercion in the district of Bhilwara in the northern state of Rajasthan on July 8th. This incident reflects the ongoing religious violence between the country’s Hindu and Muslim communities.
British-American social media personality Andrew Tate has long been controversial for his misogynistic commentary and when he was arrested along with his brother Tristan in Romania for human trafficking. Now, the former kickboxer and social media influencer stirred new controversy online after openly calling for the Islamization of the United Kingdom.
A new but controversial landmark case has been created in Malaysia after a woman filed a lawsuit contesting the conversion of her three children to Islam, sparking a tense situation in a country sharply divided along ethnic and religious lines.