Religion

Pakistani Student Sentenced To Death For "Blasphemy" Over WhatsApp Messages

A student in Pakistan was sentenced to death on blasphemy charges over Whatsapp messages, according to a report by the BBC on March 8th.

Iranian Cleric Creeps on Breastfeeding Mother: Gets Instant Karma

A video of a fight between a young woman and an Islamic cleric in Iran went viral on social media after she caught the cleric filming her holding her baby while her hijab was loose in a clinic.

This Indian State Just BANNED Muslim Child Marriage

Just weeks after the northern state of Uttarakhand in India passed a uniform civil code (UCC) that unified personal laws on marriage and divorce and banned certain practices such as polygamy and child marriage, another northern Indian state made an unprecedented move to repeal a colonial-era law on Muslim marriage and divorce to ban child marriage.

‘F*** Sharia’: Turkish Lawyer Arrested for Bold Tweet

A lawyer in Turkey was put in prison after she criticized Sharia law in one of her several posts on social media, including one where she said “f*** sharia” in response to a Persian poem. 

Why Hindu Nationalists are PISSED About the Name of a Lion

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.

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