Iran’s state Islamic body announced on November 12th that it will open a specialist mental health clinic in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to treat Iranian women who resist the regime’s mandatory hijab laws and refuse to wear headscarves.
Iran sets up mental health clinic to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear hijab. I’m sure these women will be treated just as well as they treat the gay community. pic.twitter.com/ZfTdPFw8u4
Libya is seeking to reintroduce the morality police to the streets of its capital, Tripoli, to reinforce its "society's traditions,” along with a rollout of a massive crackdown on individual freedoms and women’s rights, sparking criticisms and concerns among human rights advocates and ordinary Libyans.
A self-proclaimed “Hamas operative” and a Jew who claims to see her fellow Jews as her “enemies” are accused of vandalizing synagogues and Jewish community centers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hamas sympathizers and antisemitism have no place in Pennsylvania or our country.
A jury in Kansas convicted six former members of a black Islamic American cult following a 26-day trial of conspiracy to commit forced labor, with sentencing set for February next year.
Six United Nations of Islam cult members convicted of making followers perform forced labor https://t.co/YwgOPCvPNc
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.
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
Protests and riots erupted in Israel after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the Israeli government to draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish men for military service, ending the exemption for ultra-Orthodox men to serve in the country’s military for the first time since the country was founded in 1948.
An openly lesbian Lebanese stand-up comic and LGBTQIA+ rights activist is facing criminal charges from Lebanon’s Islamic religious authorities on May 9th after her sketch about Muslim Friday prayers went viral and sparked controversy online.
A well-known Hindu nationalist organization went to court to prevent two lions named after a 16th-century Mughal emperor and a Hindu deity from sharing a zoo enclosure in the state of West Bengal.
Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India https://t.co/EevKjGvU4i
Lawmakers in a small Indian state have voted to approve a landmark civil code that will unify personal laws for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption for Hindus, Muslims, and other religious communities, including legislation that will require couples living together to register with the government or face punishment.
