The Iraqi man who provoked demonstrations across the world and outrage all over the Arab and Muslim world for staging protests where he burned copies of the Quran in public spaces was killed in Sweden.
Saudi Arabia is set to allow foreigners to invest in publicly traded companies that own real estate in two of Islam’s holiest cities, Mecca and Medina, as the ultraconservative, oil-rich Gulf kingdom looks to attract more foreign investment.
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A prominent journalist in Kuwait was imprisoned for her calls to normalize the country’s ties with Israel, underscoring a critical point in the Arab world’s contentious but changing relationship with Israel and the broader geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East.
A journalist from a UK-based, English-language Islamist media outlet said in an interview with a podcast that Arab countries normalizing ties with Israel is extremely unacceptable, adding that it must cease to exist no matter how long it would take.
A former doctor has been sentenced to five years and seven months in prison after a court heard that he used rusty medical instruments to carry out circumcisions on young boys and failed to provide them with enough pain relief.
An Iranian court has allegedly sentenced a famous Iranian singer and rapper to death on appeal for blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad, with the Iranian judiciary denying the reports made by local media.
A notorious, international pan-Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist organization canceled its yearly event in Canada following public criticism and fears of being banned and listed in Canada as a terrorist organization.
After Israel and Hamas reached an agreement to a ceasefire on January 15th, after more than a year of war and devastation that left over 40,000 Gazans dead and virtually all of Gaza reduced to rubble, Khalil Al-Hayya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, delivered a speech on Al-Jazeera, calling the war, which they called as “Al-Aqsa Flood war” a victory, adding that the October 7 attacks will continue to be a “source of pride” for Palestinians.
An imam from Dearborn, Michigan, said in a speech during a fundraising event for families in Lebanon who were displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah that it was a blessing to have "known" and been "attached with" slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and all the "martyrs" in Lebanon.
An ad campaign by an online investment company predominantly serving Muslims was banned by the United Kingdom’s advertising watchdog for featuring images of Euros and US dollars, as well as the words “The United States of America” in flames alongside calls to “join the money revolution.”
