An online movement is gaining traction to celebrate December 2022 as the first-ever ExMuslim Month.
According to movement pioneer, HaramDoodles, December is a good choice to celebrate ExMuslim Month since it follows November, which is Islamophobia Awareness Month.
Protesters in Cologne, Germany, were met with aggressive heckling by a group of young Muslims. A video posted by Maryam Namazie, a London-based Iranian writer and activist, showed the counter-protesters shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
Two LGBTQ rights activists were sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly promoting homosexuality. Activists Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Chobdar were charged with “Corruption on Earth,” a vague yet lethal charge.
The Urmia Revolutionary Court handed the ruling in Urmia City, western Iran, close to its borders with Turkey.
Farangis Mazlum, Soheil Arabi’s mother, was brought to the Judgement Enforcement Unit of the Evin Prison in Iran on August 2, 2022. The 55-year-old Mazlum will serve an 18-month custodial sentence for speaking out against her son’s arrest.
In New South Wales, Australia, forty-eight-year-old defendant Hamdi Al-Qudsi appeared before the Supreme Court for his trial on July 18th. Al-Qudsi pleaded “not guilty” to charges that he intentionally directed a terrorist organization as he prepared toexecute attacks.
Tensions are rising in Iran as activists respond to the increasingly harsher implementation of hijab compliance. Brave and defiant women are posting videos of themselves not wearing hijab.
A tweet of a film poster that shows Hindu goddess Kali smoking a cigarette has sparked rage in India.
Leena Manimekalai, a Toronto-based director, tweeted the poster on Saturday, July 2. In the tweet, Manimekalai announced that her film Kaali would be released as part of the Aga Khan Museum's Rhythms of Canada Festival.