The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, recently announced a new set of guidelines on August 29th for mosques, allowing them to ring out adhan, or the Muslim call to prayer, more freely.
Muslim call to prayer can now be broadcast publicly in New York City without a permit https://t.co/2p7FDBwpdY
Ahead of the upcoming return of students to their classrooms, France’s education minister announced that the country will ban pupils from wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, in state schools.
Move comes after months of debate over wearing of abayas in French schools, where women have long been banned from wearing hijab. https://t.co/zeLsyFvl9y
The Islamic Republic is ramping up its efforts to suppress dissent in Iran as the anniversary of the protests that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, with the arrest and imprisonment of at least 22 activists, mostly women, in less than a month, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
A woman was arrested and detained by authorities in Sweden on August 18th after attempting to stop another Quran-burning demonstration, this time outside the Iranian Embassy in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, by the notorious Iraqi protester and refugee Salwan Momika by spraying him with a fire extinguisher.
A spokesperson for a key ministry in Afghanistan’s Taliban government declared on August 17th that Afghan women would lose their value if men could see their faces uncovered in public. He also claimed that many religious scholars agree that women should cover their faces when outside their homes.
As one of the Five Pillars of Islam, every financially and physically capable Muslim must make at least one visit to Mecca, the holiest city in the religion, in a pilgrimage called the hajj. But for Muslims living in China, performing this trip is more difficult due to the watchful eyes of the Chinese government.
An anti-ISIS channel released what it claimed to be an internal document from the Islamic State’s Al-Karrar Office, part of the organization’s General Directorate of Provinces, containing information on handling wives and slaves infected with HIV/AIDS.
Al-Qaeda, the militant, Islamist, and terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, called upon its supporters and Muslims worldwide to carry out terror attacks in Sweden and Denmark to "take revenge" for the series of Quran-burning protests conducted in the two Nordic countries over the past few months.
Al-Qaeda Central Calls Muslims In Europe, Worldwide To Avenge Quran Burnings | MEMRI https://t.co/YwvFRTYcWb
A Muslim mob attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan after some members were accused of desecrating the Quran, resulting in churches, homes, and even a cemetery being vandalized and set on fire.
Pakistan continues its crackdown on what it sees as blasphemy against Islam by passing a new law that would increase the punishment for those found guilty of insulting or using derogatory remarks not just against the Prophet Muhammad but also members of his family, wives, companions, and the First Four Caliphs of Islam.
