Saudi Arabia is set to allow foreigners to invest in publicly traded companies that own real estate in two of Islam’s holiest cities, Mecca and Medina, as the ultraconservative, oil-rich Gulf kingdom looks to attract more foreign investment.
Foreign companies will now be able to invest in Saudi companies operating in Mecca and Medina, overturning years of policy that may eventually open the door for non-Muslims pic.twitter.com/Y7HJMAXHAe
An Islamic charity in the United Kingdom is facing criticism for giving a teaching role to a young woman accused of extremism and for hosting a sermon saying men should force their wives to cover up.
After Israel’s recently appointed defense minister, Israel Katz, issued 7,000 draft notices for the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jews to enlist them in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) last November 15th, the IDF has issued 1,126 “arrest warrants” to those who do not show up and enlist.
IDF issued over 1,000 'arrest warrants' to ultra-Orthodox who ignored draft orders, says officerhttps://t.co/ySPthm2dCx
Iran’s state Islamic body announced on November 12th that it will open a specialist mental health clinic in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to treat Iranian women who resist the regime’s mandatory hijab laws and refuse to wear headscarves.
Iran sets up mental health clinic to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear hijab. I’m sure these women will be treated just as well as they treat the gay community. pic.twitter.com/ZfTdPFw8u4
Libya is seeking to reintroduce the morality police to the streets of its capital, Tripoli, to reinforce its "society's traditions,” along with a rollout of a massive crackdown on individual freedoms and women’s rights, sparking criticisms and concerns among human rights advocates and ordinary Libyans.
A self-proclaimed “Hamas operative” and a Jew who claims to see her fellow Jews as her “enemies” are accused of vandalizing synagogues and Jewish community centers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hamas sympathizers and antisemitism have no place in Pennsylvania or our country.
A jury in Kansas convicted six former members of a black Islamic American cult following a 26-day trial of conspiracy to commit forced labor, with sentencing set for February next year.
Six United Nations of Islam cult members convicted of making followers perform forced labor https://t.co/YwgOPCvPNc
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.
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
Protests and riots erupted in Israel after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the Israeli government to draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish men for military service, ending the exemption for ultra-Orthodox men to serve in the country’s military for the first time since the country was founded in 1948.
