The Bangladeshi interim government, led by entrepreneur and Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, overturned a ban on a controversial Islamist political party imposed by former Prime Minister Sheik Hasina, who was ousted last August following massive nationwide protests against her authoritarian rule.
After Tajikistan banned the use of hijab last June, with the country’s president calling it an “alien garment,” the Muslim-majority, Central Asian nation is set to tighten its rules on Islam, with the ex-Soviet republic forbidding Tajik women from wearing “black clothes” and Tajik men from sporting long or bushy beards.
An organization representing Indian Muslim Americans canceled its participation and withdrew its float from the yearly India Day Parade held in New York City over the inclusion of a float that celebrates a highly controversial, recently built Hindu temple, which is being criticized for showing anti-Muslim bias and bigotry.
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Canada’s new human rights commissioner resigned before he could officially begin his role following an investigation into his appointment, controversies over past remarks on Israel and Palestine, and his failure to disclose his use of a second name.
The Iraqi parliament is proposing changes to the country’s family and marriage laws, which would reportedly give more power to Muslim clerics on family and marriage matters and would even open the doors to legalize marriage for children as young as nine years old, with women’s right activists and organizations saying the proposals would “legalize child rape.”
An Iranian man who was arrested during the 2022 anti-government protests for allegedly killing a senior IRGC intelligence official was executed on the morning of August 6th in the western province of Kermanshah.
An imam from California delivered a fiery speech during a Friday sermon, where he accused members of the LGBTQIA+ community of infiltrating pro-Palestine protests, describing them as “very sneakypeople” who employ the same victim mentality as Israelis do.
A group of young women in the city of Karaj in the northwestern province of Alborz were “identified and summoned” by Iranian authorities after they participated in an Ashura procession without hijabs.
More than a year after high-profile and notorious radical British Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary was arrested and accused of leading a terrorist organization, he was convicted of terrorism charges after a trial in London, according to the Metropolitan Police on July 23rd.
As France prepares to kick off and welcome the world to the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics Summer Games of 2024, which will take place from July 26th to August 11th, French secularism (also called laïcité in French) is in the spotlight once more after a human rights organization published a report condemning the French government's decision to bar its athletes from wearing the hijab while competing in the Olympics.
