An organization representing Indian Muslim Americans canceled its participation and withdrew its float from the yearly India Day Parade held in New York City over the inclusion of a float that celebrates a highly controversial, recently built Hindu temple, which is being criticized for showing anti-Muslim bias and bigotry.
Indian American Muslim Group Cancels Parade Participation Amid Float Controversyhttps://t.co/cO9IhQ7nQE
The Iraqi parliament is proposing changes to the country’s family and marriage laws, which would reportedly give more power to Muslim clerics on family and marriage matters and would even open the doors to legalize marriage for children as young as nine years old, with women’s right activists and organizations saying the proposals would “legalize child rape.”
Hundreds of Islamic face veils have been seized from female residents in a Somali city amid security fears that they can be used to conceal the identity of jihadists to carry out attacks.
For the first time in Australia’s history, a mother was jailed under the country’s forced marriage law after she allegedly coerced her daughter into a marriage that led to her murder.
An Afghan mother forced her daughter into marriage. Six weeks later the 21-year-old ended up dead https://t.co/OTiE7qiulp
A notorious Muslim scholar sparked controversy after reports claimed that he and his followers are planning to purchase a remote Scottish island to set up their community where they can practice Sharia law.
'ISLAMIC STATE' - Hate cleric ‘raises’ to buy Scots island & transform it into ‘Islamic homeland’ with military-style training camps
Sheikh Yasser al-Habib, 45 is in talks to buy the isle of Torsa, in Argyll for million.https://t.co/cQE9mX8ojG
Uzbekistan is planning to outlaw cousin marriages, blaming the phenomenon for rising birth defects among newborns in the Central Asian nation of 35 million people.
#Uzbekistan Set To Ban Cousin Marriages, Citing Birth Defects As Main Reason
Half the women in Pakistan are married to their cousins: Highest in the worldhttps://t.co/wlwpQPEjKR
A beach in Montenegro made history after announcing plans to open a beach exclusively for women who wear hijabs and burkinis. This would make it the first beach in the Adriatic Sea to cater exclusively to Muslim women.
Four Islamic charities in the United Kingdom were reported for recently hosting an extremist preacher who condones sexual slavery and advocates for the killing of “blasphemers.”
We’ve reported 4 charities to the regulator after they recently hosted a preacher who condones the killing of Ahmadi Muslims, apostates and ‘blasphemers’. It should be obvious that charities shouldn’t be used as a platform for harmful extremists.https://t.co/y2qxtsDwSi
An imam from California delivered a fiery speech during a Friday sermon, where he accused members of the LGBTQIA+ community of infiltrating pro-Palestine protests, describing them as “very sneakypeople” who employ the same victim mentality as Israelis do.
A group of young women in the city of Karaj in the northwestern province of Alborz were “identified and summoned” by Iranian authorities after they participated in an Ashura procession without hijabs.
