An American Muslim leader is under fire for his remarks after he expressed how “happy” he was to see those in Gaza “break the siege” on October 7, when thousands of Hamas terrorists burst through the enclave’s border with Israel, killing 1,200 Israelis and taking over 240 people hostage.
US Muslim leader: I was happy to see Gazans breaking the siege on Oct. 7 https://t.co/X8T9s3vSpM . Click to read
More than three years after a French secondary school teacher was killed and beheaded by a Chechen Muslim refugee for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad during a class, a court in France has convicted six teenagers connected with the 2020 murder of Samuel Paty.
Six French teenagers convicted in connection to beheading of school teacher https://t.co/28xo2bbswh
When she heard about the news of Deborah Yakubu, a Christian university student in Nigeria, being lynched by a mob of Muslim students over alleged blasphemy, Rhoda Ya’u Jatau shared a message among her co-workers that criticized the lynching via WhatsApp.
Nigerian woman jailed for ‘blasphemy’ for 18 months over WhatsApp message
A French man was arrested after stabbing a German tourist and injuring two others with a hammer in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower.
A man armed with a knife and a hammer killed a German tourist and left two people, including a British man, wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris in what President Emmanuel Macron called 'a terrorist attack' https://t.co/JaIInoH3CFpic.twitter.com/0C7H11n3lQ
A man in India’s most populous state was arrested after he hit a bus conductor with a cleaver after a dispute about bus fare, alleging that he assaulted the conductor because he allegedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
With the Israel-Hamas war continuing after the Islamist terrorist group attacked Israel on October 7th, the tide of public opinion among many young Americans, many of whom hold progressive views, shifted significantly in favor of Palestine.
Young Americans are picking up the Qur’an ‘to understand the resilience of Muslim Palestinians’ | Books | The Guardian https://t.co/lbmXdtxInf
More than 22 years after he unleashed one of the worst terrorist attacks in the world, where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed after a series of hijackings that destroyed the World Trade Center and parts of the Pentagon, Osama Bin Laden became viral again, this time after content creators posted videos on TikTok about a letter he allegedly wrote around a year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A television channel in Lebanon recently launched an ad campaign to decriminalize homosexuality in the country, sparking outrage among religious leaders.
Murr Television (MTV) released a video last September 2nd announcing its support for abolishing a provision in Lebanon’s Penal Code that makes "unnatural sexual intercourse,” often used to target members of the LGBTQIA+ community in the country, punishable by one year in prison.
Egypt has recently unveiled its decision to ban the niqab, a type of Islamic religious garment worn by women, at schools, sparking a debate in one of Africa’s largest Muslim-majority countries.
"Females always pull the short straw."
Egyptians talk to Al Jazeera about the recent government decision to prohibit students from wearing niqab https://t.co/OhPSgafG81
A 14-year-old girl was killed by her brother in Iran while seeking a divorce, reflecting the violent culture of honor killings in the Islamic Republic.
