A group of British Islamist journalists working for a popular Muslim news website expressed their admiration for the Taliban during a podcast episode where they marked the third anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from the country.
Jordan’s Islamist opposition party made significant gains in the country’s parliamentary elections on September 10th, winning one-fifth of the parliament’s seats amidst increasing anger and tensions with Israel over the war in Gaza.
Islamists score big in Jordanian election held in shadow of Gaza war https://t.co/c8CGA2McSh
September 16th marked the 2nd anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom protests, which began after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died under police custody after she was arrested for “improperly” wearing the hijab.
The head of a controversial Islamic center in Germany, who allegedly serves as a representative for Iran’s Supreme Leader, appealed his deportation order after German authorities ordered him to leave the country after the center was shut down for promoting Islamist extremism.
An imam from Colorado claimed during a question and answer (Q&A) session that Muslims cannot align with or accommodate the LGBTQIA+ movement, further arguing that the LGBTQIA+ community wants Muslims to be indecisive on the subject, but Muslims cannot unite with them.
Just a month after the student protests in Bangladesh forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina out of power and the creation of an interim government under Muhammad Yunus, a new controversy emerged after a young Bangladeshi Hindu boy was claimed to have been beaten to death by an angry Islamist mob after he allegedly posted derogatory statements against an important religious figure.
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.
