Officials announced on January 27 that the US Department of Justice charged three men after allegedly plotting to kill Iranian-American author and human rights activist Masih Alinejad, who has criticized the human rights abuses committed by Iran.

Thirty-four women were appointed to leadership positions by Saudi Arabia in the mosques of Mecca and Medina, widely considered to be the two holiest mosques in Saudi Arabia and in Islam as a whole.

A Turkish mufti (Muslim religious scholar) was under fire from Turkish Cypriots for suggesting that women should fulfill their duty to their husbands by accepting their “invitation to bed,” believing that his statement was a sign of imported encroachment of fundamentalist Islam in their secular community.

Mufti's talk of women's duties angers some Turkish Cypriots https://t.co/E2T8jnHp3z via @RNS

In 2021, the Taliban’s Ministry of Virtue and Vice ordered sellers in Afghanistan to remove mannequins from their shops or behead them. The decree was based on an Islamic doctrine forbidding statues and images in human form since they could be worshipped as idols.

A 2022 poll conducted by the Brookings Institution suggests that unfavorable views towards Muslims and Jews have flatlined and may even be declining.