The Iraqi man who provoked demonstrations across the world and outrage all over the Arab and Muslim world for staging protests where he burned copies of the Quran in public spaces was killed in Sweden.
An imam from Dearborn, Michigan, said in a speech during a fundraising event for families in Lebanon who were displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah that it was a blessing to have "known" and been "attached with" slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and all the "martyrs" in Lebanon.
Concerns have been raised in the United Kingdom after a member of parliament (MP) from the ruling Labour Party advocated for measures that would prohibit the desecration of religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions, which some critics considered a possible reintroduction of blasphemy laws in the country.
A man in northwestern Pakistan was arrested for allegedly insulting the Quran during a heated argument after police were alerted that an angry mob wanted to lynch the suspect.
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.
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.
Pakistan is seeing a rise in online blasphemy cases, where hundreds of young men are standing trial in court for allegedly making blasphemous statements or sharing blasphemous content online or on WhatsApp.
A controversial, fugitive Islamic preacher from India went viral on social media after a video of him having a heated exchange with a girl during his visit to Pakistan emerged where the girl asked the preacher a question about the existence of societal ills, including pedophilia, in Islamic societies.
Concerns have been raised over the Netherlands’ police force after reports emerged that some Dutch police officers are refusing to guard Jewish buildings and protect Jewish community events for ideological reasons.
