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.
As part of sweeping changes to Germany’s citizenship law, German media and the country's federal interior ministry announced that individuals who like, comment, or post the pro-Palestinian slogan “From the River to the Sea” will be denied German citizenship.
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Two mosques in the United Kingdom were reported to the Charity Commission for recently hosting sermons where they said women should not refuse to have sex with their husbands, adding that a man can hit his wife if she refuses sex and that wives who refuse to have sex with their husbands have no right to receive financial support from their spouses.
A group of British Islamist journalists working for a popular Muslim news website expressed their admiration for the Taliban during a podcast episode where they marked the third anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from the country.
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.
As the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza entered its tenth month and left over 40,000 Gazans dead, one of the group’s prominent leaders renewed calls to continue its fight against Israel and even suggested the return of suicide attacks against Israelis.
French authorities have arrested a man suspected of setting fires and causing an explosion at a synagogue in a southern Mediterranean town on August 24th that injured a police officer in what officials suspect was a terrorist attack.
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.
A shocking new research on the prevalence of violence against women in Afghanistan reveals that the cases of more than 300 women being killed by men since the Taliban took over in 2021 following the withdrawal of the US-led military coalition from the country are just the “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the true scale of gender-based violence in Afghanistan.
