Amidst mounting reports of sexual violence being inflicted on women and girls held in detention in Afghanistan, video evidence of a female Afghan human rights activist being tortured and sexually abused by armed members of the Taliban has surfaced, believed to be the first direct evidence of such crimes occurring in the country since the Taliban took over in 2021.
A new trend is growing among ethnic Albanians after Kosovo saw the emergence of a new movement calling Kosovars to abandon Islam, as a recent census affirms that Muslims are no longer the majority in Albania for the first time in over 200 years.
https://t.co/Ln6HFx9HSJ Albania’s Muslim population drops below 50% for first time in centuries
Despite warnings from the United Kingdom’s Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted), an independent faith school continues to segregate boys from girls, according to an inspection report.
An independent Islamic school has again been found to segregate girls age 11+ from boys despite this being unlawful. If schools continue to put religious dogma before the law and the welfare of pupils, they must be shut down.https://t.co/zVLpRnMKUo
Pakistan’s first-ever human milk bank, established in June, temporarily suspended operations after sparking criticism from religious organizations and scholars. The country’s Health Ministry announced it would seek further guidance from the Council of Islamic Ideology.
A white woman in Texas has been arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to drown a 3-year-old girl at a pool and making racist remarks towards her mother, with investigators asking for the case to be treated as a hate crime.
A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old Muslim child in possible hate crime incident https://t.co/Vw9ue56xmo
The Russian Republic of Dagestan in the country’s North Caucasus region is holding three days of mourning following an attack by Islamic militants in two cities that targeted Orthodox Christian and Jewish houses of worship as well as a traffic police post that killed 20 people, mostly police officers.
As many countries in Central and Western Asia, such as Iran and Afghanistan, have made it mandatory to wear hijab and other forms of Islamic headscarves, Tajikistan, where 96% of its population identifies as Muslim, took the opposite direction and passed a law banning the use of hijab, calling it an “alien garment” as the ex-Soviet country seeks to build a secular national identity.
More than 1,000 pilgrims have died during the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia this week as the yearly pilgrimage fell during a scorching summer in the Middle Eastern kingdom and amidst an ongoing heatwave in the northern hemispheres that affects cities and regions across four continents.
The Turkish government issued an arrest warrant against a popular YouTuber for his statements on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad during a recent interview on the platform, which sparked criticism and outrage for being “insulting.”
Russian special forces killed inmates suspected to be linked to the Islamic State (IS) group after the prisoners broke out of a cell in a Russian detention center and kidnapped two prison officers, holding them hostage.