The head of a controversial Islamic center in Germany, who allegedly serves as a representative for Iran’s Supreme Leader, appealed his deportation order after German authorities ordered him to leave the country after the center was shut down for promoting Islamist extremism.
An imam from Colorado claimed during a question and answer (Q&A) session that Muslims cannot align with or accommodate the LGBTQIA+ movement, further arguing that the LGBTQIA+ community wants Muslims to be indecisive on the subject, but Muslims cannot unite with them.
Just a month after the student protests in Bangladesh forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina out of power and the creation of an interim government under Muhammad Yunus, a new controversy emerged after a young Bangladeshi Hindu boy was claimed to have been beaten to death by an angry Islamist mob after he allegedly posted derogatory statements against an important religious figure.
A Pakistani Muslim religious leader was arrested and accused of calling for the murder of Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right Dutch political party that won the 2023 general elections in the Netherlands, where his party, the Party for Freedom (PVV), won 37 seats in the House of Representatives.
A Pakistani religious leader is tried in his absence for allegedly threatening Geert Wilders https://t.co/G9lM7AlwhX
Critics raised their concerns with the BBC after a presenter introduced a controversial British Islamic scholar and jurist as a “highly respected” religious figure, who also sparked outrage for several inflammatory statements in the past, including one where he supported the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel that killed 1,200 hostages and took hundreds hostage.
A brutal and shocking massacre occurred in a town in north-central Burkina Faso on August 24th after suspected jihadists opened fire on hundreds of its residents while they were digging trenches around their village to protect it from attacks.
As the United Kingdom faces a series of protests and counter-protesters, several Muslim preachers across the country have claimed during their Friday sermons that "Zionists” are to blame for the riots and unrest throughout the United Kingdom.
Two men would be put on trial in Sweden for setting the Quran on fire in a series of Quran-burning protests that stoked anger and outrage across the Muslim world and raised fears of jihadist attacks, prosecutors announced last August 28th.
Sweden will prosecute two men, Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem, for burning the Quran and agitating against Muslims.https://t.co/t3EQcysBdY
A deadly knife attack occurred at a crowded festival celebrating the anniversary of a city in western Germany, killing three people and wounding eight others. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the terrorist incident, while German authorities arrested a 15-year-old and a 26-year-old in connection to the incident.
After Tajikistan banned the use of hijab last June, with the country’s president calling it an “alien garment,” the Muslim-majority, Central Asian nation is set to tighten its rules on Islam, with the ex-Soviet republic forbidding Tajik women from wearing “black clothes” and Tajik men from sporting long or bushy beards.
