A Pakistani Muslim religious leader was arrested and accused of calling for the murder of Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right Dutch political party that won the 2023 general elections in the Netherlands, where his party, the Party for Freedom (PVV), won 37 seats in the House of Representatives.
A Pakistani religious leader is tried in his absence for allegedly threatening Geert Wilders https://t.co/G9lM7AlwhX
Critics raised their concerns with the BBC after a presenter introduced a controversial British Islamic scholar and jurist as a “highly respected” religious figure, who also sparked outrage for several inflammatory statements in the past, including one where he supported the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel that killed 1,200 hostages and took hundreds hostage.
A brutal and shocking massacre occurred in a town in north-central Burkina Faso on August 24th after suspected jihadists opened fire on hundreds of its residents while they were digging trenches around their village to protect it from attacks.
As the United Kingdom faces a series of protests and counter-protesters, several Muslim preachers across the country have claimed during their Friday sermons that "Zionists” are to blame for the riots and unrest throughout the United Kingdom.
Two men would be put on trial in Sweden for setting the Quran on fire in a series of Quran-burning protests that stoked anger and outrage across the Muslim world and raised fears of jihadist attacks, prosecutors announced last August 28th.
Sweden will prosecute two men, Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem, for burning the Quran and agitating against Muslims.https://t.co/t3EQcysBdY
A deadly knife attack occurred at a crowded festival celebrating the anniversary of a city in western Germany, killing three people and wounding eight others. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the terrorist incident, while German authorities arrested a 15-year-old and a 26-year-old in connection to the incident.
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.
A video emerged and went viral showing Russia’s President Vladimir Putin receiving and kissing a copy of the Quran during his visit to Chechnya as Ukraine continues its surprising incursion into Russian territory.
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.
Indian American Muslim Group Cancels Parade Participation Amid Float Controversyhttps://t.co/cO9IhQ7nQE
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.”
