After Zarena Abdul Majid was arrested at her own wedding for marrying a non-Muslim, the government of Selangor, a state of Malaysia has ordered its Islamic authority to help Majid change her status from Muslim to Hindu.

Indonesia’s religious affairs minister resigned on May 26 after being accused of misusing funds that were intended to help Muslim pilgrims visit Mecca.

A controversial Muslim cleric who earlier backed a fatwa authorizing the killing of American soldiers in Iraq, was promoted by the State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau on May 23.

Thirty-three year old financial manager Amal Farah, who lives in Britain, believes she would have been dead if she continued to reside in Somalia after renouncing her Islamic faith.

Bread and Roses, a freethinking socio-political television magazine in English and Persian will be broadcasted across the world, including countries in the Middle East and Iran.