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.”
Hundreds of Islamic face veils have been seized from female residents in a Somali city amid security fears that they can be used to conceal the identity of jihadists to carry out attacks.
For the first time in Australia’s history, a mother was jailed under the country’s forced marriage law after she allegedly coerced her daughter into a marriage that led to her murder.
An Afghan mother forced her daughter into marriage. Six weeks later the 21-year-old ended up dead https://t.co/OTiE7qiulp
A notorious Muslim scholar sparked controversy after reports claimed that he and his followers are planning to purchase a remote Scottish island to set up their community where they can practice Sharia law.
'ISLAMIC STATE' - Hate cleric ‘raises’ to buy Scots island & transform it into ‘Islamic homeland’ with military-style training camps
Sheikh Yasser al-Habib, 45 is in talks to buy the isle of Torsa, in Argyll for million.https://t.co/cQE9mX8ojG
Uzbekistan is planning to outlaw cousin marriages, blaming the phenomenon for rising birth defects among newborns in the Central Asian nation of 35 million people.
#Uzbekistan Set To Ban Cousin Marriages, Citing Birth Defects As Main Reason
Half the women in Pakistan are married to their cousins: Highest in the worldhttps://t.co/wlwpQPEjKR