Religious Right

Religious Right

IDF’s New Offensive: Arrest Warrants for 1,126 Ultra-Orthodox Draft Dodgers

After Israel’s recently appointed defense minister, Israel Katz, issued 7,000 draft notices for the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jews to enlist them in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) last November 15th, the IDF has issued 1,126 “arrest warrants” to those who do not show up and enlist. 

Iran Opens 'Hijab Rehab Clinic': Treating Defiance as a Mental Illness

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. 

Libya’s Morality Police are Back: ‘Personal Freedom Does Not Exist Here’

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. 

From Allah to Arrests: The Unbelievable Fall of the United Nation of Islam

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.

Tajikistan's War on Islam

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.

Forced Marriage In Australia Leads to Daughter's Murder

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.

Israel Rocked With Protests as It Ends Ultra-Orthodox Exemption from IDF

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.

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